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African Countries Focus on Microfinance: Twelve African Nations Engaged in the International Year of Microcredit to Date
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| Half of the population in Africa lives on less than one dollar a day. More than half the population has no access to safe drinking water. More than two million infants die annually before reaching their first birthday.[1] Such is the harsh reality of the scale of poverty in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals and the objective to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 has driven a number of regional and national initiatives focused on poverty eradication in Africa based on local needs and priorities. |
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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Job Plans
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| However, most countries have not yet incorporated job creation plans into their national development frameworks. The national strategies include anti-poverty programmes, commonly based on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). These are documents developed with assistance from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to set national priorities, direct spending of debt-relief funds and coordinate donor programmes.
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African Countries Focus on Microfinance: Twelve African Nations Engaged in the International Year of Microcredit to Date
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| Half of the population in Africa lives on less than one dollar a day. More than half the population has no access to safe drinking water. More than two million infants die annually before reaching their first birthday.[1] Such is the harsh reality of the scale of poverty in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals and the objective to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 has driven a number of regional and national initiatives focused on poverty eradication in Africa based on local needs and priorities. |
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VI. Module III: National, Regional, and International Support
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| Microfinance initiatives are more likely to succeed in a supportive national, regional, and
international environment. Applying a systems’ perceptive, poverty eradication is recognized as
a multi-scale endeavor with different partners participating at the local, national, regional, and
international levels. Whereas the foregoing discussion has focused on microfinance lessons for
the local level, this section will broaden the scope with lessons that scale up through the state to
the global community. |
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National PR for a Local Story
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| Don’t be afraid to shoot for national coverage, think of national media as being local media with a huge spillover. |
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Herd Mentality
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| Booths featuring products and services related to employee engagement, web-based delivery, global performance, and talent management were overflowing with conference attendees as I walked the trade show at a national conference where I was speaking. Just a few years ago the magnets were initiatives like total quality management, six sigma, diversity, work-life-balance, and customer driven. |
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Making Lean Part of the Business Strategy
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| With the best of intentions, many companies fail to secure the desired results for lean manufacturing initiatives. Why? Because the lean initiatives are not part of the overall business strategy. |
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Return on Investment from Coaching – Measuring Success!
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| Aligning HR strategy with business strategy is critical, however it is insufficient to make this strategic linkage at concept level and then embark on HR initiatives without a conscious intention to measure the return on investment (ROI) of these initiatives
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U.S. Education: Beyond the Tipping Point – On the Way to Oblivion
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| U.S. education, once the envy of the world is on a downward spiral. Rest assured… America education is madly rushing past the critical tipping point.In spite of many national, state and local initiatives, schools have failed their students for years with little or no improvement in achievement. |
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Metropolitics: Why Local Government is the Solution to Preserve American Democracy (and Society)
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| It's quite unfortunate that American national elections are perceived as a Partisan Death Match through which 51% of the nation gets to impose its personal beliefs on the hapless 49% minority. America's Culture War (Kulturkampf for you Germans out there) is still raging, and is increasingly being fought over national social policy. |
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Prioritize your Strategic Initiatives
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| Strategic planning is a great way to identify which initiatives can add the most value to your organization. The next step is to prioritize initiatives with a systematic method. Use our downloadable Priority Index Tool to guide you through the prioritization process, and help you drill down on the value added for each proposed initiative. |
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