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October 1, 2012
Accelerating Impact: Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry
This report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation is a part of a third-party evaluation of Rockefeller Foundation’s impact initiatives, and is also a repository of most recent and comprehensive global scans of impact investment industry. The research is based on insights from more than 100 impact investing leaders from 11 […]
October 1, 2012
Sharing Risks and Returns: Social Impact Investment to Scale Up Effective Programmes
This report by the Finance Project discusses the risks associated with investment in social projects, the ease or difficulty in securing such funding, and generating and measuring tangible social results. Read it here.
October 1, 2012
India: Housing units built and handed over
In Chandigarh, Punjab, some 600 flats were handed over to the poor recently. These flats were constructed by the Chandigarh Housing Board. Read more here. In Uttar Pradesh, another 1000 houses will be constructed under the Central Government’s IAY or Indira Awas Yojana. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
India: Rental Act to be amended to better the urban housing conditions
Exacerbating housing conditions for the poor in the urban parts of India has mobilised the Government of India to look at alternative ways of combating this challenge. Now, it has also planned to start a nationwide support campaign to urge municipalities to build rental homes, mainly for the EWS (Economically […]
October 1, 2012
Iraq: Housing units built for the poor
Administrators in the Wasit Province of Iraq signed a contract with Al-Radhwan State Company to make as many as 24,000 housing units for the region’s poor, widows and orphans. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
Grameen Koota interested in foraying into housing microfinance
Grameen Financial Services (Grameen Koota) is formulating a business plan to cater to the underserved sector of housing microfinance in India, especially that in the rural parts of the country. The company is said to be researching the commercial viability of establishing a standalone company solely for this purpose, and […]
October 1, 2012
India: ‘Unthinking’ housing for the urban poor
This study explores the link between adequate housing and a healthier, more productive and progressive environment for the development of the poor. It is based on the study of houses in ‘Resettlement Colony’, Savda Ghevra, Delhi, India. Read more here.
October 1, 2012
India: Shanty prices rise unreasonably higher, conditions remain sub-human
Given a fair comparison of the standard of living, a low-wage earner like a housecleaner in India pays more as rent for her house than the more privileged do. The rental prices of these shanties are increasing without any governmental intervention, while the houses lack all basic amenities like toilets, […]
October 1, 2012
Zambia’s National Housing Policy: Does it work?
This post evaluates the current stance of the National Housing Policy in Zambia, recognizing the backdraws of the housing sector despite the laws in place and examines the best way forward for the country where most of the approved houses had inadequate sanitation facilities. Read more here.
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