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The Business Proposition of Africa's Population Boom: Problem or Potential?

Originally published at www.afribiz.info. Shashank Bengali of McClatchey Newspapers wrote “Africa is gripped by one of the greatest population explosions ever recorded” in a recent article entitled, “Africa’s Perilous Baby Boom.” In fact, while it is widely reported that India’s population (1.6 billion projected) will surpass China’s population (1.4 billion projected) by 2050, Africa will beat both with a population close to two billion according to the Uni… Continue

Added by Lauri Elliott on December 16, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Policy Note: Business Innovation to Fight Climate Change and Poverty

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Added by Business Fights Poverty on December 4, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Business Innovation to Fight Climate Change and Poverty: Resource List, produced by the Overseas Development Institute

This resource list was prepared for the event "Business Innovation to Fight Climate Change and Poverty" by the Overseas Development Institute.

Recent publications

Briefing Paper on "Business Innovation to Fight Climate Chan

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Added by Business Fights Poverty on November 25, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Gearing Up for Growth - Reducing Poverty Part Two

African mobile operators certainly have paved the way for further business development across industries both at corporate and SME level, the infrastructure and services provided have clearly been successful in its own way, however have also provided opportunities for new and existing businesses to develop and transform the way business is conducted in both urban and rural areas. Some of the success stories are as follows: Rural Distribution model Celtel were empowering and making life better… Continue

Added by Lars Stork on November 13, 2009 at 1:29am — No Comments

African Infrastructure Research - Free Resources

Originally posted at www.afribiz.info. The results of the African Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) study was released by the World Bank today. It provides detailed data and analysis of the ICT, Power, Transport, Air Transport, Ports, Railways, Roads, Irrigation, Water Resources, Water Supply and Sanitation infrastructure sectors in 30 African countries. This research serves as a baseline for future infrastructure development in Afric… Continue

Added by Lauri Elliott on November 12, 2009 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments

Gearing Up for Growth - Reducing Poverty Part One

In 2008 The African continent was seeing its strongest economic growth since the 1970s. 15 African countries entered a second decade in which they posted strong annual economic growth rate of above 5%. Despite strong economic performance, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the only region not on track for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. In 2009 recession has hit Sub-Saharan Africa, export demand is collapsing and commodity prices- in particular those of oil and base metals-under pres… Continue

Added by Lars Stork on October 29, 2009 at 1:54am — No Comments

GAIN's Public-Private Partnerships

TSR, the Swiss Pulic TV reports on GAIN and its public-private partnerships. Watch the video. http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=500000&bcid=710265#vid=11398737 Continue

Added by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition on October 26, 2009 at 11:23am — No Comments

UNDP Request for Proposals (RFP) on Training on Partnership Facilitation and Development for Inclusive Market Development

Deadline: 27-Oct-2009 Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) is a programmatic framework for the field-level implementation of the private sector activities of UNDP. This initiative has been in operations for last six years and has accumulated a lot of experiences in developing and forging partnerships. With GSB’s growing popularity, the time has come to synthesize the internal and external experiences and the best practices on the subject matter. Therefore, this assignment is about developing a tr… Continue

Added by Juergen Nagler on October 19, 2009 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Business Action for Development -potential Triple Wins for businesses, governments and communities

Having attended the final session for this series, I commend the organisers and sponsors for initiating and providing the forum for various interests to discuss and explore the role of business in development. This series has provided examples showcasing how transnational businesses (TNs) make the case for Corporate Social Responsibility. The inclusive business approach has seen CSR moving from mere philanthropy to one that is closer to the Triple Bottom Line approach of addressing social, econo… Continue

Added by Veronica Broomes on October 14, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Africa - Exploring the Final Frontier

This post is an exerpt from my post on Beyond Profit, where I am a guest blogger. About four years ago I fell in love with Africa, specifically South Africa, after volunteering in a township called Umgababa, outside of Durban. I traveled there with Habitat For Humanity’s Global Village Program to build homes for families living in poverty. I can still remember the warmth with which we were received and the pride of the family whose h… Continue

Added by Jerryanne Heath on September 22, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Turning Challenges Into Opportunities - Part Three

Government’s responsibility Local African governments certainly also must review and transform their regulatory framework and work in closer partnership with the industry for affordability, and low cost solutions to network extension, in particular into remote areas; both are needed to ensure the poor can access mobile phones and benefit from services; The Economic crises must be a catalyst for change – Government and mobile operators must work together in transforming their partnership for red… Continue

Added by Lars Stork on August 17, 2009 at 1:54am — No Comments

Join the fight against malnutrition. Interview with Marie Konaté, CEO of a leading producer of fortified infant cereal products in Côte d’Ivoire

Marie Konaté is fighting malnutrition in Côte d’Ivoire in partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. Read our Interview. http://www.gainhealth.org/country-stories/interview-marie-konaté-ceo-leading-producer-fortified-infant-cereal-products-côte-d’ Continue

Added by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition on August 5, 2009 at 7:39am — 1 Comment

Turning Challenges Into Opportunities - Part Two

Transformation Crisis management requires well thought through transformation and a fundamental re-thinking on how operators, local governments and vendors work together. Turning the effects of the global financial crisis into a positive might seem far fetched however if businesses take the actions required fast with a very structured approach and not treating the current crisis as yet another firefighting project or business as usual, ending up with fixes normally just scratching the surface.… Continue

Added by Lars Stork on July 31, 2009 at 5:43am — No Comments

New Business Franchise fights poverty, improves community health profiles, and engages local stakeholders

Please visit the site for Rey Ramirez and view the ppt's and other information on the Healthy Families Make Healthy Communities and Healthy Communities are Good for Business. This program can be licensed and serviced from the Unites States so the local residents and stakeholders can more fully benefit from the enterprise not spend excessive funds for travel and hotels. Adjusting to the the world economy and helping local business is vital for value based business programming. for more informatio… Continue

Added by Rey Ramirez on July 19, 2009 at 5:37pm — No Comments

FUTURE | Families United Toward Universal Respect (www.womenforfuture.org) | -visit the FUTURE website today-

Greetings!

We are very thankful to contact you directly about our program that assists Iraqi women and their families. The purpose of this letter is to request financial support in bringing a delegation of 12-15 Iraqi women to visit three United States cities (South Carolina; Utah;… Continue

Added by Donna L. Quesinberry on July 12, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Together we can support entrepreneurs in Africa!

Hi Everyone Venture Capital and Private Equity in Africa (VC4Africa.com) is an initiative that seeks to connect investors and entrepreneurs. It is dedicated to building sustainable business in Africa. If you like the project please vote for it on Idea Blob - see below - it really doesn't take long at all. If the project wins, the money will be used to pay the salaries of young developers in Kampala, Uganda. These funds mean we can add new tools (Afridex.net) and improve the functionality of the… Continue

Added by Ben on July 9, 2009 at 11:34am — 3 Comments

DFID's New White Paper means business

DFID's new White Paper, launched yesterday by Secretary of State Douglas Alexander, commits the UK Government to strengthen partnerships with business to fight poverty. This is great news for us. In DFID, this work will be led by the Business Alliances Team, which leads DFID's work on the Business Call to Action and the Business Innovation Facility. Continue

Added by Sarah Lyons on July 7, 2009 at 12:04pm — No Comments

Added by Business Action for Africa on July 2, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

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