The Balanced Scorecard Institute, a Strategy Management Group company, helps organizations succeed through improved strategic focus and performance. It contains descriptions of many creativity tools.
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Microcredit lender that is active in over 30 countries in the Global South
http://www.visionfund.org/ [Accessed: 18.04.2018]This article discusses sustainability in the context of strategic management of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Sustainability is not only good for the planet, but also financially rewarding. But frameworks describing how organizations can successfully manage the change towards sustainability are needed. Building upon the existing models, this paper proposes a pathway for empirical research leading to the alignment and adjustment of these models to the needs of SMEs.
SLOAN, K. ; KLINGENBERG, B. ; RIDER, C (2013): Towards Sustainability: Examining the Drivers and Change Process within SMEs. In: Journal of Management and Sustainability: Volume 3 , 19-30. URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDF
This paper showcases innovative microfinance approaches to bring affordable safe water to the poor. In Kenya, a collaborative program is bringing together community-based organizations and micro-lenders to provide better water services to poor people and generates lessons for similar initiatives.
MEHTA, M. VIRIEE, K NJOROGE, S. (2007): Helping a New Breed of Private Water Operators Access Infrastructure Finance: Microfinance for Community Water Schemes in Kenya. (= 25 ). Washington: World Bank URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFThis paper examines how monitoring and evaluation has been strengthened rural water supply programmes in Uganda in recent years and what various challenges are still remaining, considering their implications for realising the human right to water.
QUIN, A. BALFORS, B. KIELLÉN, M. (2016): Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Water Supply in Uganda: Implications for Achieving the Human Right to Water. In: Riedel, E. ; Rothen, P. (2006): The Human Right to Water. 33-54. URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]A broad collection of impact measurement tools and indicators designed to consolidate otherwise fragmented impact measurement and management (IMM) resources and direct users to those that are best tailored to their needs.
GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTORS NETWORK (2018): Impact toolkit. URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]