CONSULTING
Peru: SNV selected by Agrobanco
Agrobanco has selected SNV to provide technical assistance & training programmes to promote productive chains in what is one of Peru´s most important staples, the potato. Read more...
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KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE
SNV's Knowledge Institute receives grant from Ford Foundation
SNV in Latin America secures US$ 400,000 from Ford Foundation for the “Inclusive Business Accelerator” initiative and will begin working on April 1, 2010. Read all article...
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SOCIAL INVESTMENT
The iVentures investment fund will promote economic inclusion through the development of Base of the Pyramid capacities to implement successful Inclusive Businesses. Read full article...More on iVentures...
NEWS
The new study on how technology’s power can transform the lives of the poor has been recently published. W. R. de Jongh, Regional Director of SNV-LA, contributed to the project.More on Study...
SNV receives Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy
SNV is one of the six international prize winners at the prestigious Ashden Awards ceremony in London today. More than 150 project contributions were sent in for these awards.
SNV Vietnam was rewarded for its innovation in tackling the twin problem of dangerous cooking practices and untreated animal waste. In partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, SNV launched a programme to convert the waste into energy via biogas digesters. The digesters provide clean, reliable energy for cooking and heating. They also reduce the health and environmental hazards associated with wood fuels, not to mention, the animal waste. Since 2003, over 80,000 systems have been installed, benefitting more than 400,000 people, with CO2 savings of around 167,000 tonnes per year.
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