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February 18, 2023
Five Lessons from Ten Corporate-Charity Partnerships
At CARE Laurie Lee worked with ten of the UK’s largest FTSE100 companies, here he reflects on all of those experiences and distils the key lessons for companies to have a positive impact on poverty and the environment
February 18, 2023
How Storytelling Can Paint a Full Picture of Impact for Businesses
Across the globe, inclusive businesses are making differences in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable – from empowering rural women to improving access to education. However, plain numbers struggle to capture the breadth of important work they are doing to investors
February 18, 2023
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) signs MOU for developing a National Interactive Digital Platform to strengthen extension system
The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding in New Delhi today with Digital Green under public private partnership framework to build a national level digital extension platform
February 18, 2023
How philanthropy can unlock action on climate and nature this decade
It was the American scientist Eunice Newton Foote who in 1856 first documented in a short scientific paper the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide to absorb heat
February 18, 2023
Just Useful… Or Truly Catalytic? How Entrepreneurs Really View Catalytic Capital – And What Impact Investors Can Do About It
In recent years, much of the attention in the impact finance sector has gone to the stewards of capital – investors, foundations and other funders – with stakeholders across the industry wondering what drives them most and which approaches work best
February 18, 2023
How Did Bancolombia Create a Successful Rural Agent Network at Scale?
Rural agent business models can play a critical role in expanding financial inclusion. As part of CGAP’s Agent Networks at the Last Mile initiative, we’ve identified providers across the world that have been successful in developing such models at scale
February 18, 2023
Seafood’s Social Justice Problem: How to Better Share the Benefits of Aquatic Foods
The pursuit of profit has left the global fish and seafood sector – the world’s fastest growing food-producing industry – in disarray. Facing unsustainable growth and undermined social justice
February 18, 2023
Mangroves protect coastal communities, accountability in governance is need of the hour
Efforts should be directed towards addressing a lack of accountability in governing mangrove marine protection areas (MPA), experts said at the ongoing fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress in Canada
February 18, 2023
Lessons in Resilience: What an Impact Investor Learned from an Entrepreneur Who Refused to Give Up
Entrepreneurship is a long game, and identifying the right product, service, model or market is just the beginning of the process. Even if you have a great product and a promising market, success is never guaranteed
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GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..