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August 27, 2012
Digital Marketing Yearbook 2012
This report gives an overview of internet penetration and effectiveness of internet marketing for marketers in the Asia Pacific region. [wpdm_file id=5]
August 27, 2012
Establishment and Expansion of Islamic Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Africa
This report by the Oxford Microfinance Initiative examines the potential of expanding Farz Foundation’s model of Islamic Microfinance in select African countries like Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Morocco, and Sudan, and the challenges the Foundation has faced so far in its efforts to scale. [wpdm_file id=4]
August 27, 2012
Sustainable Water Services and the Poor in Small Towns
The poor in small towns in Africa, this brief by SNV finds, can and do benefit from commercialised water services. In Kenya, SNV’s programme helped a company reduce unaccounted for water while increasing profits. [wpdm_file id=2]
August 24, 2012
Ghana: National strategy for community participation in WASH programme launched
In Ghana, about 51 per cent of the people live in urban areas, and of these, about 62 per cent do not have access to improved water supply. Now, the National Strategy for Community Participation in Urban WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Services is being launched on a national scale […]
August 24, 2012
Haiti: National Sanitation Campaign begins
Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe recently launched the National Sanitation Campaign in Haiti. Adequate amounts of money are already being disbursed in several sections of the machinery to ensure smooth execution of this programme. Read more here.
August 24, 2012
WASH United uses football to further its goals
WASH United has brought together famous football players like Didier Drogba, Solomon Kalou and Michael Ballack in its campaign to improve sanitation and health in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more about this campaign here.
August 24, 2012
UN helps launch recycling and composting pilots in Pakistani cities
UN-Habitat and UNESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) recently launched a solid waste management pilot in select cities of Mardan, Islamabad, Karachi and Rawalpindi. The use of IRRCs (Integrated Resource Recovery Centres) will be made which will be low cost and will require community […]
August 24, 2012
East meets West to bring improved sanitation in Vietnam and Cambodia
The East meets West Foundation received US$10.9 million as a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve sanitation services and hygiene practices for the rural poor in Vietnam and Cambodia. In these countries, open defecation and inadequate sanitation practices lead to about 17000 deaths per annum. Read […]
August 24, 2012
Bill Gates organizes toilet fair in Seattle
Bill Gates is committed to the cause of sanitation, one that could save about 1.5 million lives around the world. That is why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted a sanitation fair in Seattle, offering engineers US$7 million to come up with a sanitation service with does not require […]
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