By Making It on 1 December, 2012
Maria Eitel, CEO of the Nike Foundation, talks about The Girl Effect campaign.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged adolescent girls, Adolescent Girls Initiative, Berhane Hewan, Binti Pamoja, developing world, early marriage, éducation, Ethiopia, Kibera, Liberia, maria eitel, Nike Foundation, poverty alleviation, Rahim Kanani, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Girl Effect, World Bank
By Making It on 5 September, 2012
Johanna Sorrell asks if large-scale sustainable production of palm oil is a viable option for the palm oil industry.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2degrees, Brazil, Cognis, Colombia, Friends of the Earth, GreenPalm, Greenpeace, IOI, Johanna Sorrell, Kit Kat, Liberia, Malaysia, monoculture, Nestlé, Nigeria, non-edibles, Oil Buyers Scorecard, palm oil, palm oil mill effluent, palm oil production, Palm Oil Promise, paraquat, rainforest, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm, RSPO, Sinar Mas, sustainability, sustainable industry, sustainable production, Thailand, The Forest Trust, uganda, Unilever Global, WWF
By Making It on 1 December, 2011
Women in poor countries need resources to tap their entrepreneurial potential and ease the path to taking small ventures and building them up, according to Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Afghanistan, Bloomberg, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bpeace, building better communities, business development, Centre for Women's Business, conflict, Council on Foreign Relations, development workers in the field, economic productivity, éducation, El Salvador, entrepreneurial potential, environment, female entrepreneurs, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, gender equality, Ghana, Global, Goldman Sachs 10000 Women, Industrial Development, International Centre for Research on Women, international monetary fund, issue 8, Liberia, Making It magazine, market opportunities, Mercy Corps, microfinance, Peace Dividend Trust, post-conflict, poverty, reduced mobility, Rwanda, small ventures, social and cultural constraints, social investment, technical skills, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, US Secretary Hillary Clinton, women
By Making It on 26 March, 2010
Marianne Osterkorn, Director General of REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership), tells Making It about some of the organization’s experience of 130 targeted projects over the past five years. REEEP is a global partnership that works to reduce the barriers limiting the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, with a primary focus [...]
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Cape Town, China, development, Ecuador, EEC, Energy Efficiency Coalition, energy efficient technologies, Fiji, India, Issue 2, Liberia, Mexico, policy, power plants, REEEP, regulation, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, South Africa, SWH, targeted project, technology, UNDP
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