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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

This is one in a series of articles featuring NextBillion's 2012 Content Partners in which leaders offer their views on important trends impacting their work and new initiatives to alleviate poverty through market-based solutions. Today we hear from Simon Winter, TechnoServe's senior vice president for development, who answers questions about TechnoServe's direction in 2012.

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Supranational and Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Best Idea of 2011

By Daniel Gonzalez — AVINA

Although many countries across Latin America are developing monitoring systems for populations living in extreme poverty using mobile technology, the voices of voices and solutions of these communities aren't always heard. 2011 also saw the birth of collaborative acceleration

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Exploring a Global 'Local' Approach to Impact Investment as a ProInspire Fellow

By Brint Markle

After three great years as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, I decided to explore opportunities in impact investing. Last summer, I learned about the ProInspire Fellowship and discovered it would be a perfect way to increase my impact and develop as a socially-minded business leader.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Case Study: SC Johnson and Community Cleaning Services, Sustainable Sanitation in Kenya

By Joseph Njenga

In recent years, we have witnessed heightened interest in “reinventing the toilet," or the development of new affordable toilet technologies for low-income urban populations. But often new technology and infrastructure is employed without planning for how to maintain sanitation. As the General Manager of Kenyan social micro franchise Community Cleaning Services (CCS), this case study explores our model.

Monday, February 06, 2012

NexThought Monday: Land Rights for Women - a Ripple Effect

By Deborah Espinosa

Many developing countries, from Liberia to India, are rife with women without land rights, who upon the death of their husbands are thrown off of their land and left with no way to support themselves or their children. National economies continue to suffer from the effects of these children, who are robbed of an education and a future. From 2002 through 2009, Landesa partnered with the Rwandan government to help ensure Rwandans would have secure rights to land and receive land titles.