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SNV receives Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy

admin@snvla.org (SNV Admin) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:25:00 +0100

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.

The Vietnamese biogas programme is one of the seven domestic biogas programmes SNV supports in Asia. Since 1992, this resulted in 300,000 constructed biogas plants, improving the quality of life of 1.8 million people.

Articles and photo from: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/snv-netherlands-development-organisation/news/article/2010/07/snv-among-ashden-awards-prize-winners

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SNV contributes to New Study by the Rockefeller Foundation and Monitor’s Global Business Network

admin@snvla.org (SNV Admin) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:05:00 +0100

San Francisco--(Business Wire)-- The new study on how technology’s power can transform the lives of the poor has been recently published. W. Robert de Jongh, Regional Director of SNV in Latin America, was one of the experts invited to contribute to the one year-long project.

While it’s understood that technology will shape and possibly revolutionize the futures of developing nations in the years to come, inevitably there will be many new and unforeseen paths and turns throughout the journey. But, without a clearly defined destination, how can organizations devoted to improving living standards and livelihoods throughout the developing world position themselves to identify and spread technologies that improve lives in poor communities?

That is the question that the Rockefeller Foundation asked Global Business Network (GBN), a member of the Monitor Group, to help it explore using scenario planning. On May 25, the results of this year-long collaboration were published in a joint report, titled, “The Future of Technology and International Development.”

Read all press release here.

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Statement by the Managing Director of SNV in Latin America, on the passing of CK Prahalad

admin@snvla.org (SNV Admin) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:33:00 +0100

Statement by W. Robert de Jongh, Managing Director, SNV in Latin America, on the passing of Coimbatore Krishnarao (known as CK) Prahalad, the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School and a longstanding and outstanding member of WRI’s Board of Directors.

“CK Prahalad was an inspiring thinker and visionary committed to innovative solutions that had the potential to transform the practice of business — relentlessly pursuing that “next practice” through which business could do well by doing good. As one of the father’s of “inclusive business,” Prahalad embodied the wisdom, patience, and intelligence required to catalyse a movement that we as SNV and in his honour, are proud to continue to embrace, advance, strengthen and scale in Latin America and around the world. He will be missed, but his legacy will continue.”

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New page in SNV in LA's website: Inclusive Public Policies

admin@snvla.org (SNV Admin) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:37:00 +0100

We have just launched a new webpage on Inclusive Public Policies on SNV in LA's website:
http://www.snvla.org/en/Products/inclusivepublicpolicy.html

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SNV in LA receives grant from Ford Foundation

admin@snvla.org (SNV Admin) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:24:00 +0100

SNV in LA secures US$ 400,000 from Ford Foundation for the initiative called "Learning, Systematizing & Scaling the Lessons From Inclusive Business in Latin America" that includes the "Inclusive Business Accelerator" and will start implementing it on April 1, 2010.

The "Inclusive Business Accelerator" will contribute to improving the livelihoods of at least 50,000 low-income people and foster a sustainable Inclusive Business community of practice of at least five hundred active stakeholders in two years through the:

1) Formulation/Implementation of no more than five inclusive public policies in Andean countries;

2) Development of an evidence-based Inclusive Business publication that will review and systematize the critical approaches, lessons learned, and standards from practice;

3) Sharing knowledge and information on www.inclusivebusiness.org .

For more information, please contact: Reintje van Haeringen, Director of SNV's Knowledge Institute, Email: rvanhaeringen@snvworld.org

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Initiatives with potential to create innovative businesses

rjones@snvla.org (Richard Jones) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:39:00 +0100

The IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain, this month published a paper entitled ‘Inclusive Business: Creating value for companies and the low-income segment’, making reference to the concept of Inclusive Business and its benefits. Some practical examples are presented, including the case of the SNV-CEDES Alliance and the dairy producer Delizia in Bolivia. This project assists small producers with access to the latest technology in their production process at minimal cost.

Download full PDF (in Spanish)

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Send us your feedback!

admin@snvla.org (SNV Admin) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:09:00 +0100

We hope you enjoy our new SNV in Latin America website and we’d love to hear from you, our readers, with feedback. If you’d like to drop us a line, write to latinamerica@snvla.org

You can also follow SNV_LA on twitter.com (www.twitter.com/SNV_LA) where we were recently ranked by twitter.grader.com as the #6 user account in Latin America, keeping our ‘followers’ informed with the latest news, views, and events from around the region.

For more information, contact Richard Jones: rjones@snvworld.org

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SNV launches Social Investment Fund

admin@snvla.org (SNV Admin) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:07:00 +0100

The iVentures investment fund that will launch operations next year will promote economic inclusion through the development of Base of the Pyramid (BoP) capacities to implement successful Inclusive Businesses (IB).

An important business strategy when incorporating the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) within company value chains is to build capacity in the low-income sector. To achieve this objective, SNV has designed the iVentures investment fund as a mechanism through which to create financial incentives that allow financing for the development of local capacities, so that the BoP can establish sustainable commercial relationships with businesses.

For more information, contact Richard Jones: rjones@snvworld.org

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Press Release: SNV unveil International Advisory Board

rjones@snvla.org (Richard Jones) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:04:00 +0100

SNV establishes International Advisory Board

The Hague, 8 July 2009 - SNV today announced the formation of its new International Advisory Board. The Board’s members include social, political and academic leaders from around the world. Each member has professed a keen interest in engaging with SNV to promote its mission to eliminate poverty and inequity in emerging markets worldwide. Download full Press Release...

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New website for SNV in Latin America!

lfaendrich@snvla.org (Laura Fähndrich) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:05:00 +0100

Welcome to our new website!

We recommend you visit our 'Latest news' section, where you can find SNV's recent news and press releases.

Don't miss 'SNV in the Media' where you can download press clippings and read what others say about SNV.

Let us know what you think by writing to: suggestions@snvla.org

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