Job creation and enterprise development

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Public-Private Partnership for Low - Cost Housing Investments

2012-01-28_1428

Thousands of Salvadorans with no credit history can access loans now to make home improvements and expand their home businesses. El Salvador has developed a unique and sustainable financial business model that enables low-income consumers to improve and expand their homes by mobilizing...

The Global Partnership Social Investment Fund seeks investments in Latin America

2012-01-28_1411

The NGO Global Partnerships is redefining microfinance and moving beyond the concept of microloans as working capital. It aims to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by combining these loans with affordable social investments, such as health services, training and low-cost pensions and...

Ecotact's Ikotoilet concept -- Sustainable sanitation services in Kenya

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Ecotact is a Nairobi-based company established in 2008 to improve the urban landscape for low-income communities through environmentally responsible projects in sanitation and housing. Under the Ikotoilet project, Ecotact builds and operates high-quality, public pay-per-use toilet and shower...

PriceWaterhouseCoopers provides mentors on Big Brothers, Big Sisters programme

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This video features a news item about a workplace volunteer mentoring programme in which PwC employees work with the Big Brothers Big Sisters NGO in New York City.

Making Private Standards Work for You

2011-09-07_1717

The United Nations agency tasked with promoting industrial development has launched a new guidebook on private standards for exporters in developing countries working in the garments, footwear and furniture sectors to help them access global production and supply chains.

VisionSpring creates a new method of distributing reading glasses in India and other developing countries

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This video introduces VisionSpring, a project jointly implemented by the SCOJO Foundation, Goldman Sachs, and various other groups in the private sector.

Social Enterprise: The Next Level

2010-07-09_1530

Setting up shop in the developing world