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The Pitch provides podcasts about business pitches and background information for entrepreneurs. Each episode takes you behind closed doors to the critical moment when aspiring entrepreneurs put it all on the line. The Pitch delivers on the high-stakes promise of a live pitch without shying away from the nitty gritty details of what happens after everyone shakes hands and walks out of the room.
THE PITCH (EDITOR) Listen as Start-ups Pitch investors for funding. URL [Accessed: 20.04.2018]This report assesses the status of national Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) policies and regulations and progress towards the global policy targets. The report details responses from a survey – amongst others in many Sub-Saharan Africa countries - and categorises countries into three tiers of readiness to scale-up HWTS.
WHO (EDITOR) (2012): Status of National Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Policies in Selected Countries. Results of global survey and policy readiness for scaling up. Geneva: World Health Organisation (WHO) URL [Accessed: 20.04.2018]For women and men throughout the developing world, the chance to start and run a business or get a good job is the surest hope for a way out of poverty. This publication discusses gender-based discrimination and efforts for economic inclusion for all and its implications for the law.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION (EDITOR) (2012): Women, Business and the Law 2012: Removing Barriers to Economic Inclusion. Washington: World Bank URL [Accessed: 20.04.2018] PDFThis publication discusses different blended finance approaches and investigates the developments of private sector investments as a result of blended finance. In addition are recommendations given how to foster use and implementation of blended finance instruments and measures in practice.
TEW, R. CAIO, C. (2016): Blended finance: Understanding its potential for Agenda 2030. Bristol : Development Initiatives URL [Accessed: 20.04.2018] PDFThis study suggests a social business format, founded on social entrepreneurship for the water sector, which appears suitable in Bangladesh. The paper provides an overview of a successful social business format composed from the nine cases of social business enterprises and the eight non-profit social enterprises in the water sector. Similarities between the social businesses’ formats indicated by the social business enterprises’ cross-case analysis include business mission, market exploitation, direct relationship dynamics and the basis for differentiation.
HOQUE, M. ; NAHID, K. (2015): Business Format in Social Entrepreneurships for Bangladesh’s Water Sector. In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : Volume 5 URL [Accessed: 20.04.2018] PDF