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Innovating Around the Nutrition Challenge Is Not Just About Food
India is a world leader on many fronts; unfortunately malnutrition is one. “Home to one-third of the world’s undernourished children,” India has some of the highest global incidences of stunting, wasting, and underweight children. Though the country has made great strides towards improving nutrition through innovations in micro-nutrient fortification and food processing to combat hidden hunger, nutrition is a socioeconomically complex issue requiring an equally well designed solution. Research suggests that the “first 1,000 days following conception” are the most critical developmental phase, and “poor maternal
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Boats, Buses & Technology: The Many Routes of Innovative Healthcare Delivery
For innovators, India’s massive population is the strongest motivation to keep innovating. However, success doesn’t come without challenges as “India lives in its villages.” More than 70% of India’s population is scattered across 6 lakh villages nestled among the mountains, forests, and river beds that shape the surface of the world’s 7th largest country, a 3,287,240 sq. km subcontinent. With a potential market of 1.2 billion people, social entrepreneurs can bank on volume to turn profit without sacrificing affordability, but they must first find a way
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Accion: Dialogue on Business – Acceleration Program 2013
ORGANIZATION OBJECTIVE Accion’s objective is to train Rural and Semi Urban women entrepreneurs in India to manage business of their own through their training model “Dialogue on Business Program” that uses interactive games and role-playing to help micro entrepreneurs solve real-life business challenges. Accion India was registered in 2006 as a Section 25 Company. It currently has a strength of 17 staff members and trainers who work in the space of Livelihood and Education. CURRENT IMPACT Dialogue on business program has benefitted more than 35,000 entrepreneurs
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