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By Making It on 4 February, 2013
A snapshot of the founder of Skydrop Enterprises, a Kenyan company producing low-cost, purified drinking water.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Anzisha Prize, bottled water, drinking water, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Joel Mwale, Kenya, Skydrop Enterprises
By Making It on 3 February, 2013
A snapshot of the founder of one of Malaysia’s leading solution providers for the treatment and processing of oil palm biomass.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, global green synergy, innovation, JCI, Joseph Lim, Junior Chamber International, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, oil palm biomass, palm kernel-shell char, palm oil industry, renewable energy, technology, value-added biomass products
By Making It on 5 September, 2012
Approximately 1.3 billion young people in the world today are between the ages of 15 and 24. That’s a quarter of the world’s population of working age. However, young people are disproportionately affected by unemployment, underemployment and vulnerable employment. Even during periods of economic growth, many economies have been unable to absorb large youth populations [...]
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By Making It on 1 November, 2011
Carolina Guerra is a pioneering eco-entrepreneur from Colombia who turns hazardous waste into useful products. In October 2011, she won the prestigious Cartier Women’s Initiative Award for Latin America
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aluminium recycling, Asia-Pacific, business, Carolina Guerra, Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, Colombia, competition, development, entrepreneur, environmental authorities, ethical solutions, Europe, gender, gender discrimination, green industry, hazardous waste, Industrial Development Organization, Ingerecuperar, INSEAD business school, international business, issue 8, latin america, Making It, McKinsey & Company, Middle East, Ministry of Environment, North Africa, poverty alleviation, prize, Regional Autonomous Corporations, small business ideas, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNIDO, United Nations, women entrepreneurs, Women's Forum
By Making It on 14 September, 2011
Katherine Lucey introduces a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro-businesses
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aid, air quality, Avon-style business, clean energy, distribution of clean energy, economic opportunity, empowerment, energy, energy poverty, energy technology, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, family income, global climate change, hazardous, household, Industrial Development, inefficient, innovative market-based approach, insufficient, issue 7, Katherine Lucey, kerosene lanterns, LED lighting technology, light, Making It, micro-consignment business model, Mpigi, population, poverty reduction, rural women in Africa, social enterprise, solar micro-business, Solar Sister, solar technology, training and support, uganda, UN, UNIDO, women, women's social networks
By Making It on 14 June, 2011
Rapid growth in the reach of supermarkets, locally and globally, is changing agribusiness. Kanayo Nwanze argues that smallholder farmers must have opportunities to be entrepreneurs, rather than bystanders.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2011, agribusiness, agricultural markets, agro-processors, Cairo, challenge, change, development, donor, economy, Egypt, employment, entrepreneur, evolving, food, fundamental, Global, globalization, government, hunger, IFAD, improvement, Industrial Development Organization, international fund for agricultural development, issue 6, jobs, Kanayo Nwanze, keynote, local, Making It magazine, marginalization, MDG, Millennium Development Goal, modern, opportunity, partnership, poor, population, poverty, private sector, products, profit, progress, rapid growth, resources, rural, Rural Poverty Report, smallholder farmer, solution, supermarkets, supplier, systems, UNIDO, United Nations, value chains, work
By Making It on 1 February, 2011
How making industrial processes energy- and water-efficient, resilient, and sustainable, is essential to meet the industrial objectives of tomorrow
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged adaptation, Africa, AREED, Asia, Canadá, capacity, Centre for Electronic Governance, change, Chavuma, China, clean energy, competitiveness, design, development, dialogue, Egypt, energy, enterprise, Enterprise Europe Network, entrepreneur, EU, Europe, experience, finance, industrial, industry, information, innovation, institutional practices, International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, International Institute for Software Technology, knowledge, local banks, Lynn Mytelka, Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre, Macao SAR, microfinance, microsoft, network, organizational structure, process of learning, Republic of Korea, research, SMEs, sustainable, technology, the Netherlands, UK, UN Asia Pacific Center for ICT Development, UNDP, UNEP, United Nations, university, UNU Joint Activities Fund, UNU-IIST, UNU-MERIT, US, water-efficient, Zambia
By Making It on 14 April, 2010
David Maauad is a Mexican businessman who runs two garment production companies in Pachuca, Hidalgo State, Mexico. He has been involved in the textile business for over 30 years. His two companies employ 350 workers engaged in the design, cut, assembly, and finishing of industrial uniforms and shirts for men and boys.
Posted in All Posts, Extra!, Global Forum | Tagged assembly, David Maauad, design, development, diana corona, entrepreneur, environment, import-export, insurance, investment and technology promotion office, labour-intensive, merchandising, Mexico, permit, production methods, recession, security, social security, taxes, textile industry, UNIDO, uniforms, United Nations