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South Africa: The Play Pump (Turning water into child's play)

In rural villages across South Africa, some 5 million people don't have access to clean drinking water. ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2005)

APOPO Case Study: A Case Study in Social Enterprise Development using the Four Lenses Approach

Using the Four Lenses Strategic Framework , this case study highlights APOPO’s many notable strengths, and illustrates potential implications of APOPO’s shift towards a social enterprise model, the challenges that lie ahead, and the lessons this case ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2009)

Florida's Brownfields Redevelopment Program

This presentation from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2011 Community Involvement Training Conference introduces Florida's Brownfields Redevelopment Programs, reviews the EPA's federal brownsfield programs, demonstrates program ...

(caselet/profile, presentation, 2011)

Urbanscape New Challenges Newer Solutions: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 18

In this issue of Beyond Profit we look at some key challenges that cities and their residents face, and potential solutions. In her cover story, Nisha Kumar Kulkarni addresses the problem of food security and the relatively new model of urban agriculture. ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

Winning with Social Enterprise: How the UK’s social enterprises can deliver world-class London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic contracts

London’s Olympic and Paralympic Games bid stood apart from others because of its ambitious environmental and social aspirations. In light of this, bringing social enterprises into the London 2012 supply chain represents an opportunity – an opportunity to ...

(tips/guidelines, document (pdf), 2011)

Beyond Pandemics: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Disaster Preparedness

"Beyond Pandemics" outlines the human, economic and societal benefit of increasing collaboration, planning and dialogue across the entire societal architecture. It demonstrates how forming partnerships with non-traditional partners in public ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2011)

Water Works: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 5

This issue of Beyond Profit looks at issues of water and how social enterprise is addressing this pressing matter: Taking Stock of Cultural Bias The Cost of Sanitation What To Do on World Toilet Day In Profile: 5 Organizations Tackling Sanitation Issues ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2010)

Wind, Water for Life (Du vent, de l’Eau pour la Vie, VEV)

The Italian NGO LVIA (Lay Volunteers International Association) had been working in Senegal since 1981 installing wind-powered community water pumps in rural villages. ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Appropriate Development, Architecture and Planning Technologies (ADAPT)

This case study looks at the urban planning strategies used by a local architecture consultancy firm called ADAPT (Appropriate Development, Architecture and Planning Technologies). It examines how they meet the opportunities of building, upgrading and ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Breaking Ground: Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects

WRI analyzed existing community engagement standards and guidance, as well as experiences in several high profile projects. Its analysis revealed that key gaps remain in the knowledge base and on-the-ground application of community engagement standards. ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings

New modeling by the WBCSD shows how energy use in buildings can be cut by 60 percent by 2050 – essential to meeting global climate change targets – but this will require immediate action to transform the building sector. This is the central message of the ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Global Food Security Response: West Africa Rice Value Chain Analysis

The Global Food Security Response (GFSR) framework, a response to the global food crisis, includes three components: i) an emergency humanitarian response; ii) urgent measures to address high food prices through agriculture and trade programs; and iii) a ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Legislative Innovations and Social Enterprise: Structural Lessons for Canada

Of the many lessons to be drawn from the tumultuous economic events of 2008, two are particularly striking. The first is the obvious lesson that Canada, like most other nations, has undergone, and continues to experience, dramatic and fundamental ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Beyond Carbon: Biodiversity and Water Markets

It is widely acknowledged that well-functioning ecosystems provide reliable and clean flows of water, productive soils, healthy and balanced biota and many other services for human well-being. It is also widely documented that today many ecosystems and the ...

(case/model, text, 2009)

Manila Water Company: Improving Water and Wastewater Services for the Urban Poor

Manila Water Company, Inc. (Manila Water) is a water and wastewater concessionaire operating in the east service zone of Metro Manila. Since assuming operations in 1997, Manila Water has connected over 140,000 low-income households to the piped water ...

(case/model, text, 2008)

Public Goods from Private Infrastructure Projects in Poor Neighborhoods of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region

A large proportion of the neighborhoods in the outer “second belt” of Buenos Aires’ metropolitan area suffer from high levels of poverty. This poverty conditions the relationship between the supply of resources (as represented by the state and private ...

(case/model, text, 2008)

Public Goods from Private Infrastructure Projects in Poor Neighborhoods of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region Presentation

The greater Buenos Aires area went through a process of fast expansion that began during the post-war era, between 1947 and 1960, the population of the localities bordering the city grew by more than two million inhabitants, but in a more or less chaotic ...

(case/model, presentation, 2008)

Empowering People: A Governance Analysis of Electricity; India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand

Based on experiences in India, Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand, this report makes the case for greater attention to how electricity sector decisions are made--and the need for greater public involvement and scrutiny. ...

(research/study, text, 2007)

Scaling Up Health Care in Rwanda

AIDS, malaria, and maternal mortality are some of the chronic public health issues that plague Africa. Invited to Stanford, Paul Farmer talks about how his Boston-based organization, Partners In Health, is spending donor dollars to bring the lessons ...

(caselet/profile, audio, 2007)

Delivering health to the poor (Uncommon Heroes: Blaise Judja-Sato)

Born in Cameroon, Blaise Judja-Sato was a successful U.S. businessman when a devastating flood in Mozambique prompted his return to Africa. While helping with relief efforts, he saw how difficult it was to get medicines across the "last mile" to ...

(caselet/profile, text, 2007)