NextBillion brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.
This post is part of a series that introduces iuMAP, a web-based social enterprise directory developed by Ayllu and launched in media partnership with NextBillion. It analyzes the "business in a bag" model of microfranchise, used by several social enterprises to expand their operations.
Cartels engage in price fixing, which can become a hindrance to any business. It becomes a challenging task to then engage in marketing while ensuring the security of your stakeholders as well as expanding the business. In the Stories from Sarvajal series, Rishabh describes his experience working at Sarvajal, a for profit water enterprise.
There is a curious phenomenon in international development-one that has been a taboo subject for many years. It eludes the calculations of economists, confounds private sector growth, and interferes with the proper functioning of public services. And it helps explain the following facts:
Its that time of the year again; until October 5th 2010, the Lemelson-MIT program is accepting nominations for their 2011 Award for Sustainability.
Operation ASHA is an example of a health market innovation, a program that is helping to improve the way health markets operate so that more of the transactions between consumers and private health care providers actually lead to better health and financial protection for the poor. CHMI has launched a new site to track health market innovations.
In the previous posts we introduced the iuMAP and discussed the challenges of scaling. For the next few weeks we will focus on microfranchising because it is a model used increasingly by social enterprises as they scale.
The Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) recently celebrated its second anniversary in a congratulatory mood. It has committed has committed $8M in equity, quasi-equity, debt, grant financing and technical assistance in its 25 investments covering 10 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and reaching almost half a million direct beneficiaries.
This post is part of a series that introduces iuMAP, a web-based social enterprise directory developed byAyllu and launched in media partnership with NextBillion. The purpose of the series is gathering feedback from the NextBillion community as the map unfolds, and share some of the information available on the tool.
Having grown up vacillating between the Congo and Rwanda (and having completed his medical training in the latter), Dr. Sebisaho has obtained a pulse on the medical needs of the under-served Island of Idjwi as well as an acute understanding of the cultural and economic subtleties critical in treating its ails.
If you're in Washington, there's a couple of events you should surely not miss: the event later this week at SAIS examining SME finance in Africa, and the Design for the Other 90% Exhibition that is currently at the National Geographic Museum. I went this weekend, and it's fantastic.
