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Public-Private Partnership for Low - Cost Housing Investments

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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...

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IBLF launches anti-corruption programme in India

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With a two-decade track record of running pioneering anti-corruption programmes for companies in Russia, UK, China and Vietnam, IBLF has launched a programme in India - "Business Standards for Smart Growth" - to help companies curb corruption. The programme has a steering group of senior executives...

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Mobilink Turns Billboards to Bags

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The Mobilink Foundation, the non-profit arm of Mobilink, Pakistan’s leading cellular and Blackberry service providers, is turning plastic billboard skins into school bags for underprivileged children. The bags are distributed free of charge. This initiative is part of Mobilink’s environmental...

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Business and Decent Work In Conflict Zones: A "Why?" and "How?" Guide

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This short guide is intended to support companies operating or envisaging operations in areas ridden by tensions and conflict. It offers practical tips on how to build up a more peaceful and productive environment within the company itself and in its surrounding context, based on the ILO's "Decent...

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Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth, UN technical paper

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The Private Sector Toolkit for Working with Youth is part of a series of technical papers aimed both at strengthening youth participation at all levels through cooperation among various stakeholders, as well as at highlighting the role of youth as agents of development. Building on Youth...

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Bellagio Initiative Summit

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The Bellagio Initiative aims to contribute to the development of a new framework for philanthropic and international development collaboration in pursuit of human wellbeing in the 21st century. Following a summit held in Italy, the Initiative published an aide memoire capturing the three key...

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A discussion paper on social intrapreneurship

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This paper produced by the Doughty Centre at the Cranfield University examines the potential value of social intrapreneurship, and provisionally defines a social intrapreneur as "a person within a large corporation who takes direct initiative for innovation which addresses social or environmental...

Full Gospel of Yoido Church

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Full Gospel of Yoido Church is a faith-based organisation, helping the needy and suffering people (such as orphans, widows, Aids-victims and the elderly population) by providing humanitarian aid.

Isiolo Youth Against Aids and Poverty

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This organisation is involved and interested in HIV and AIDS activities in Kenya, specially concerning orphans and youth and helps them to fight the poverty.

Murera AIDS Prevention and Support Group

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Murera AIDS Prevention and Support Group focuses mostly on education, prevention and the support of those affected/infected by the disease, creating a sound and pro-active atmosphere which aims at helping the community in understanding those people who have been infected by HIV/aids. At the same...