Published yesterday in the Guardian as part of the 2011 International Development Journalism Competition, 'The "Avon" ladies of Bangladesh" looks at the Rural Sales…

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The UK Department for International Development (DFID) today announced the scale-up of the Business Innovation Facility with an additional £2.5 million in funding, bringing the total budget of the project to £5.5 million.  The news came at a breakfast event hosted by the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), where Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell pledged greater DFID support for the private sector in the context of the UK’s development…

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Multi-commodity exchange of India’s Gramin Suvidha Kendra Initiative

Thursday, 29 September, 2011 

9:00 am NY/2:00 pm London/3:00 pm Johannesburg/6:30 pm New Dehli

Webinar will last approximately one hour.

 

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As the Business Innovation Facility approached the end of its first year of operation, we reviewed our project portfolio so far to identify patterns and trends.



Projects supported with cost-sharing support:

So far, 18 projects have been approved by our independent Selection Committee to receive advisory support and facilitation on a cost-sharing basis. Seven projects from the earliest rounds have completed baselines and started implementation.…

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The Business Innovation Faciliy team is are currently recruiting for a London-based team member to join the Knowledge Exchange team in the following areas of work:

 

• Be responsible for regularly updating this Practitioner Hub, e.g. uploading new resources, generating and sending out regular updates to Hub members, generating blogs and assisting the wider team with making contributions…

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Five summaries of inclusive business projects supported by BIF have just been loaded, here. They add to the first to appear, Afri-Nut, building a peanut processing business in Malawi. Each introduces the inclusive business model and how the Facility will support development.

 

• Project 2: mKrishi…

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More than 150 international practitioners attended the launch of the Business Innovation Facility on 10 March 2010 in London and contributed to an inspiring event. Gareth Thomas MP, Minister of State for International Development, kicked off the event by highlighting the importance of DFID’s work in engaging the private sector in order to find collective solutions to global development challenges. His key note speech (watch the video… Continue