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P&G reaches a milestone with its Save One Life Every Hour

Save One Life Every Hour was an initiative launched by P&G to provide clean drinking water to poor and disadvantaged communities throughout the developing world, through their P&G Purifier of Water Technology. They announced the achievement of milestone in this effort as it recently completed delivering 5 billion litres of […]

October 1, 2012

Non-profits, entrepreneurs pair up for clean toilet microloans in Kenya

In Nairobi, as much as 90 per cent of the waste is dumped into rivers, creating a public health risk of massive proportions. Kenyan slums have no way of disposing off their filth as they only have two options – the infamous ‘flying toilet’, or spending on toilets which were […]

October 1, 2012

Pakistan: Poor sanitation costs the country PKR 243 billion annually

Pakistan, like many other developing countries loses a sizeable amount of its funds to healthcare and environmental costs of bad sanitation. It is estimated that the nation loses as much as PKR 243 billion on the same. Read more here. Apparently, more than half the country lacks basic sanitation, and […]

October 1, 2012

The next UN goals must tackle open defecation, says expert

A number of experts have tentatively grafted a document on what the next set of UN goals should be, come 2015. A report by the WHO details that as many as 15 per cent of the global population openly defecates in open fields, forests, bushes and water bodies, putting the […]

October 1, 2012

Former UNICEF official discusses water issues

Clarissa Brocklehurst, former chief of water, sanitation and hygiene for UNICEF recently delivered a lecture in UNC (University of North Carolina) wherein she touched upon most of the existent conditions prevalent in water and sanitation access in the developing world today. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

Levels & Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2012

This UN report consists of estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, and includes statistics related the decrease in child mortality due to preventable diseases globally. While notable differences have been shown statistically, there is still not much of an effort if achievement of MDGs (Millennium […]

October 1, 2012

Global Access to Clean Drinking Water and Sanitation: U.S. and International Programs

This report by the Congressional Research Service lists down the international programmes, projects and aids active in the world in the access to water and sanitation sector. Recently released, this report enlists the access rates to water and sanitation, amounts of international spending directed towards scaling it, and the US’s […]

October 1, 2012

GIZ helps to establish social investment awareness in India

While globally, there is a potential of as much as US$4 billion being pumped into impact and social investment scenario, the scene has also been active in India, with investors having invested US$600 million in the sector already. GIZ (Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeits) will now be setting up a new […]

October 1, 2012

OECD and G8 look to make social investments

Impact investment is filling out the gap left by the limitations of NGOs and public bodies by financing projects single-handedly as well as through PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships). Given this background the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and G8 countries are aggressively restructuring their aid patterns. Read more here.