The thesis focuses on various aspects of Hydrologic’s innovative business model and the different elements and difficulties in relation to Cambodia’s water sector. The author identifies strategies to scale up the company in another country and provides helpful, praxis-oriented insights into the development, the needs, the challenges and potentials of the company in the scaling process.
KOHLER, S. (2016): Going to Scale with Safe Water: Analyzing the Business Model of Hydrologic Social Enterprise in Cambodia. St.Gallen: University of St.Gallen URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFLibrary
This guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector.
CATLEY, A. BURNS, J. ABEBE, D. SUJI, O. (2008): Participatory Impact Assessment. A Guide for Practitioners. Tufts University URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]Tom Wright describes in his article what the 6 important steps are to implement a successfully defined strategy and what aspects are key in managing a small- or medium-size business.
WRIGHT, T. (2016): The Definitive 6-Step Guide to Strategy Implementation. URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]This discussion paper provides a framework for country-level discussion, setting out key considerations for countries as they undertake financial planning for efforts to meet the SDGs. This paper covers the following aspects: (i) Estimating the costs and benefits associated with the SDG targets for WASH; (ii) Using existing financial resources more effectively; (iii) Accessing new resources; and (iv) Taking action to close the SDG financing gap.
WORLD BANK UNICEF (2017): Sanitation and Water for All : How Can the Financing Gap Be Filled?. Washington: World Bank URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFThe WASH toolkit specifically focuses on setting up and integrating project monitoring and evaluation for water and sanitation projects in schools. The tool can be useful in setting up new M&E measures but also to reflect and improve on existing instruments already in place.
WATER AND SANITATION PROGRAMME (2012): WASH Toolkit. Washington: Water and Sanitation Programme URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]The study conducted among the information technology users in business organizations in Delhi and NCR, addressed the issues of service quality and its impact on long-term customer satisfaction from an interaction approach and relationship marketing perspective in the medium size B2B sector.
RAYCHAUDHURI, P.S. and FAROOQI, R. (2013): A Study on the Effects of Dimensions of Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction in the Indian IT Hardware Industry with Special Emphasis on Medium Size B2B Sector. In: Global Business Review: Volume 14 Issue 3, 507-527. URL [Accessed: 16.04.2018]BoP Innovation Center is a Dutch non-profit foundation that accelerates the impact of market-driven innovative welfare strategies in low-wage markets, the ‘Base of the Pyramid’
This paper presents the interesting results of the Roundtable Dialogue in Brazil in 2008 that brought together approximately 40 corporate business linkage practitioners and selected operational partners from civil society and the international development community to discuss supply, distribution, and sales models that foster entrepreneurship and enterprise development among those currently living in conditions of poverty.
JENKINS, B. ET AL. (2008): Business Linkages: Supporting Entrepreneurship at the Base of the Pyramid. Report of a Roundtable Dialogue June 10-12, 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Washington DC: International Finance Corporation, International Business Leaders Forum, and the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School URL [Accessed: 16.04.2018]