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December 29, 2012
Social investment index piloted
EngagedX: The Index for Impact Investing, an index which promised to attract and involve more institutional investors and portfolio managers by helping them to recognize impact investment as an asset class has now been piloted. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
The ‘dangerous’ problem with impact inevsting
This post revives the old argument about how impact investment breeds the ‘dangerous’ problem of too much money and not enough deserving (by sometimes very narrow standards) social enterprises. This scenario ends up in making some of the investors invest even without ensured returns, resulting in damage to the investee […]
December 29, 2012
Empower financial advisors to increase impact
While impact investment may have a US$650 billion potential, hardly a small fraction of it has been realised. This may have a lot to do with a number of diverse factors that prevent it from scaled up-take, but this post argues for the case of empowering financial advisors as an […]
December 29, 2012
Democratizing impact investment
This post by Lisa Hall, the CEO of Calvert Foundation talks about how the foundation has been instrumental in facilitating the democratization the world social investment, enabling millions of poor and underserved across the world gain access to financial services, hence empowering them. It has also been involved in a […]
December 29, 2012
China helps South Sudan access clean water
Kator payam in Juba, the capital of South Sudan now has a water plant built by the Government of China. The capacity of this plant is about 60,000 litres and many citizens in the town of Juba are expected to have access to clean water due to this facility. Read […]
December 29, 2012
IFC announces partnership to scale sanitation access in East Africa
IFC will be receiving support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to catalyse the market support for adequate sanitation options in East Africa, through the Selling Sanitation initiative. This programme being piloted in Kenya will be supporting local manufacturing firms deliver low cost sanitation options in the consumer markets. […]
December 29, 2012
Tajikistan: Water among the most pressing challenges in the country, says UN
According to a report by UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), Tajikistan ranks low in terms of protecting and managing its water resources, despite at least two institutions in place that should cover better management of water sources under their operations. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
AfDB calls for water and sanitation availability in Zanzibar
The African Development Bank has recently approved the grant of US$21 million to finance Zanzibar’s Urban Water and Sanitation Project in Tanzania. The implementation for this project will start in 2013. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
India’s Sulabh to improve sanitation in 15 African countries
The Indian NGO Sulabh, renowned for its low cost sanitation market based model will now be extending its services to as many as 15 countries in Africa. Read more here.
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