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Having just finished its first season, the ClimateReady Podcast features interviews and segments on emerging trends in the intersection of climate and water. Experts in policy, engineering, finance, and other sectors will provide cutting-edge perspectives and narratives on climate adaptation challenges and opportunities. The podcast is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, and directly through the knowledge platform site.
Andrea Bruce’s prize-winning images from India, Haiti and Vietnam document the deeply sensitive issue of open defecation, which affects 1.1 billion of the world’s poorest people.
iDE was established in 1982 as an NGO, with the idea to create income and livelihood opportunities for poor, rural households. Today iDE is a global effort that spans offices in 14 countries, encompassing 4 social enterprises, employing nearly 1,000 people directly, and indirectly enabling many more through our market-based approaches in agriculture; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and finance.
IDE GLOBAL (2018): About iDE. URL [Accessed: 28.03.2018]This report discusses the newest developments of entrepreneurial pioneers implementing market-based innovations to serve the global poor. These ambitious entrepreneurs are taking great risks for little potential financial reward, but for tremendous potential social value. Such ideas have elicited a rush to the new field of ‘impact investing’. But the field is young and many investors report that they are struggling to find good opportunities in which to invest for impact.
KOH, H. KARAMCHANDANI, A. KATZ, R. (2012): From Blueprint to Scale: The case for philanthropy in impact investing. Arlington, VA: Monitor Group URL [Accessed: 07.03.2018] PDFThis publication provides the key definitions and concepts needed to understand low-income groups (referred to as the Base of the Pyramid) and partnerships with inclusive business.
PPPLAB (2015): Partnerships for Inclusive Business Development. URL [Accessed: 07.03.2018]This website provides background information about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and updates on the recent developments regarding progress of the different objectives.
United Nations (UN) (2015): Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. United Nations URL [Accessed: 07.03.2018]