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Environment

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Agri-business Climat Industry and manufacturing sector

Is industry compatible with climate?

  • Gilles David
11 December 2020
©Chris Isherwood
The industrial sector is a major consumer of fossil fuels and the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), however there are not as many energy efficiency projects – the key […]Continue Reading
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Agri-business Environment Gender Corporate governance

Geographical indications and quality brands: An effective tool to promote industrial SMEs’ market access

  • Fabio Russo Senior Officer UNIDO
19 November 2020
©John McPake
Agri-food production remains at the core of African industry, representing up to 18% and 30% of the industrial revenues in countries like Tunisia and Morocco. Demand for local products has […]Continue Reading
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Climat Environment Gender

Gender and climate: levers for sustainable development

  • Ouafae Sananes Experte genre AFD
10 June 2020
©Sean Sprague, CARITAS
Women are first in line when it comes to tackling climate change. Whether they are involved in producing and managing resources or in climate negotiations, women are fully-fledged stakeholders in […]Continue Reading
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Kigali amendment: concrete progress on climate change and opportunity for the private sector

  • Laura Verdier Independant Consultant LVR Consulting
10 November 2016
Nyamirambo à Kigali © Flickr - huguesn
Focus on an historic climate agreement that has gone almost unnoticed on the margins of COP22: the amendment adopted in Kigali in October 2016 aims to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs […]Continue Reading
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Environment Social business

A few lessons from the DFID impact fund experience

  • Gurmeet Kaur Directrice des investissements CDC
  • Ross Masood Investment and finance advisorDFID DFID
14 July 2016
© Sanergy
While poor people in developing countries are more than willing to pay for basic goods and services, the existing private sector solutions in place so far do not allow them […]Continue Reading
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The point of view of an impact investor – redefining the concepts of risk and retour

  • Tracy Barba Responsable de communication Bamboo
  • Jean-Philippe de Schrevel Fondateur et Directeur Général Bamboo
14 July 2016
© Bamboo Finance
The notion of a trade-off between financial, social and environmental returns has dominated the impact investing debateuptonow. Bamboo Finance views these components in terms of a total return that needs […]Continue Reading
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Environment Social business

Low-cost private schools scalable solution to a massive gap?

  • Steve Beck Co-fondateur et Directeur associé Novastar
  • Shannon May (Français) Co-fondatrice et directrice du développement Bridge
07 July 2016
© Bridge
To provide low-cost nursery and primary school education in poor neighbourhoods, Bridge International Academies has developed a vertically-integrated system. It includes operational tools and systems, curriculum Continue Reading
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Social business: the challenge of scaling up

  • Robin Bonsey Consultant HYSTRA
  • Olivier Kayser Fondateur et directeur exécutif HYSTRA
30 May 2016
© Hystra
Entrepreneurship can meet the needs of “base-of-the-pyramid” populations, provided the business in question has reached the critical size needed for profitability and sustainability. Examples of “inclusive Continue Reading
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Palmis Enèji: from NGO to enterprise – the story of a social business in Haiti

  • Alexandre Borme Development officer Entrepreneurs du Monde
23 May 2016
© Entrepreneurs du Monde
In 2012, the French NGO EDM launched a programme to distribute Palmis Enèji cooking and lighting appliances to meet energy demand among the poorest sections of the Haitian population. Two […]Continue Reading
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The diversity of social business: the case of Madagascar

  • Nicolas Vincent Research Officer AFD
16 May 2016
© Entrepreneurs du monde
Despite a troubled macroeconomic and political environment, Madagascar possesses a fairly diversified, dynamic economic fabric in comparison to other countries with a similar level of development. This national Continue Reading
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