Business in Box: A social Innovation to Take SDGs to Every Household
By Dr Abdur Rehman Cheema & Majida Malik
Named “business-in-box” (BiB), a project in rural Pakistan aims to reduce maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate by increasing awareness and contraceptive prevalence rate.
‘COVID-19 Threatens Decades of Progress on Gender Equality’
Decades of progress on gender equality is under threat from the COVID-19 pandemic, says aid organisation CARE.
A report released by CARE today exposes the...
Student returns to South Sudan with a UK degree, starts a vegetable farm that...
He set up a new cooperative vegetable farm that is estimated to benefit over 15,000 beneficiaries. Mr. Barsabas also started working for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and trained over 300 women in conflict management.
Nepal: time to take entrepreneurial spirit to the local level
If the government takes serious actions to promote local and community entrepreneurship, this will not only diversify and uplift Nepal’s overall economy, but also provide enormous employment opportunities to Nepal’s jobless youths who have very few options for employment at the moment–apart from lying up in manpower agencies and heading for ill-paid foreign employment in the Gulf countries.
Why Microenterprise Still Works for Poverty Reduction?
A series of impact studies showed that microfinance had mixed results. Charging affordable interest rates and offering training as well as loans simply wasn’t profitable – and profitable microfinance did not have the full effect of economic gains that was intended. A course correction was needed.
Building Financial Resilience: How Savings and Loan Associations are Changing Lives in Rural Malawi
Living in extreme poverty with limited access to financial services and basic amenities like electricity and plumbing, Chifundo's life changes when she participates in a meeting organized by the American organization Villages in Partnership (VIP).
