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Sanofi-aventis and WHO partner to fight sleeping sickness in Africa
Sanofi-aventis, the largest pharmaceutical company in Europe and the fourth-largest in the world, began a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001 to fight sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases affecting the world’s poorest people.
Danone Poland: Affordable Milk Porridge for Low-Income Families
In 2006 Danone Poland launched a breakfast product which has a high nutritional value for children and is affordable for low-income consumers. A milk porridge product based on semolina and milk. Milk Start is enriched with vitamins and minerals. To make the initiative financially sustainable,...
Amanco: Providing Irrigation Systems to the Rural Poor
For decades, small farmers in Latin America have faced a grim outlook: low productivity and inefficiency. That was the background for the decision of Amanco, a subsidiary of the conglomerate GrupoNueva, to develop a hybrid value chain model for serving low-income markets. As part of that plan, the...
PETSTAR: Adding Value to the Chain of Recycling While Improving the Scavengers’ Working Conditions
With about 85,000 tons of waste generated every day, Mexico is the 10th largest garbage producer in the world. At the same time, tens of thousands of scavengers, including children, are making a living by collecting saleable items from open-air dumps in very poor, informal conditions.
Strategic partnerships improve child health in Mali
Pésinet, devised in 2002 by Brussels-based Afrique Initiatives, is an early warning method for monitoring the health conditions of children from low-income families. Its concept is simple: mothers subscribe to Pésinet’s services for a nominal fee, and in return a local Pésinet representative weighs...
Vodafone and Safaricom Kenya: Extending the Range and Reliability of Financial Services to the Poor in Rural Kenya
Kenya has fewer than 2 million bank accounts serving 32 million people. To bridge the gap, Safaricom Kenya, one of two mobile service providers in Kenya, developed a technological solution in partnership with Vodafone. The result was MPESA, an electronic money transfer product to make financial...
Integrated Tamale Fruit Company: Organic Mangoes Improving Livelihoods for the Poor in Ghana
The Integrated Tamale Fruit Company—operating in the Savelugu-Nanton District in Ghana’s Northern Region, an area of widespread poverty—cultivates certified organic mangos for local and export markets. To boost its power in the export market with higher production volumes, the company established a...
Partnerships bring fuel services to northern Mozambique medical clinics
In a country with 500 doctors for almost 20 million people, initiatives that can expand the reach of health services to rural people are in critical demand but in short supply. In northern Mozambique, the big challenge for health clinics is the lack of reliable fuel to light medical operations and...
Sustainable Cashew Production in Guinea
Guinea grows about 5,000 tons of raw cashew nuts a year. Meanwhile, its much smaller neighbour Guinea-Bissau, with similar soil and climate, produces 80,000 tons. Encouraged by the growing consumer demand for cashews, Guinea has begun to focus on expanding cashew production—a good candidate for...
Smart Communications: Low-cost Money Transfers for Overseas Filipino Workers
A leading wireless telephone services provider in the Philippines, Smart Communications, Inc. recognized that at least 8 million Filipinos work and live abroad—about a quarter of the domestic labour force. In 2005, Filipino workers overseas sent $10.7 billion in remittances, with at least as much...
Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan - Creating Value for All: Community-Based Tourism
Tourism is a rapidly growing industry throughout the world. It can contribute to poverty alleviation through creating new jobs and providing entrepreneurial opportunities for people from a variety of backgrounds, skills and experiences. Community-based tourism - a type of tourism that is owned and...
The Brokering Guidebook - a guide to navigating effective sustainable development partnerships
The Brokering Guidebook, produced by IBLF in collaboration with Rio Tinto, UNDP and the UN System Staff College, illuminates the critical role played by brokers in a cross-sector partnership, and outlines the many tasks that a broker may have to carry out during the life of a partnership.
Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...
Scaling Up Inclusive Business: Advancing the Knowledge and Action Agenda
This is a report produced for the International Finance Corporation. It is based on 14 IFC client case studies and draws on other research undertaken by IFC and the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School on inclusive business, including recent research supported by the Bill & Melinda...
Business Models that Make a Difference
This is a publication produced by IFC (the International Finance Corporation) arguing that inclusive business models are good for business.
Restaurants Help Romanian Orphans
After the execution in 1989 of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and the corresponding fall of the communist government, the world’s press got its first look at the horrendous conditions that Romanian orphans had been living in. Lack of basic care and attention left many of the children...
Towards More Coherent United Nations System Support To Africa
A number of reports with a regional focus on the Millennium Development Goals have been issued by the United Nations Regional Commissions.
What is Global Hand?
Meet David, one of Global Hand's partners, who shares about the horrific experiences that led to his starting an NGO in northern Uganda. Discover how your company can get involved by giving time, funding, skills or resources to Global Hand partners like David, improving the lives of thousands...
Empower Women Youth and Children Project
The Empower Women, Youth and Children (EARN) Project is a Ugandan NGO that works on issues related to agriculture, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, environmental protection, gender and human rights advocacy. Target client groups are women and child-headed families in rural communities in Northern Uganda. ...
Association de Jeunes Visionnaires pour Developpement du Congo AJVDC
Association de Jeunes Visionnaires pour le Développement du Congo (AJVDC) is a youth civic engagement framework, formation initiative and exchange framework that aims to promote youth entrepreneurship and peace, reconciliation and community resiliency in Eastern of Congo. Investment in creating...