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Following the media roundtable at the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, Kate Druschel Griffin of Grameen Foundation's Solutions for the Poorest program discusses issues Grameen faced at the start of their program.

During the media roundtable at the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, Rosita Najmi of Financial Acces @ Birth discussed this social and economic innovation that seeks financial inclusion for newborns in the developing world.

SEEP published a paper that highlights key themes important to industry leaders and will help form the learning agenda for a initiative called STEP UP: Strengthening The Economic Potential of the Ultra Poor.

Two main objectives of the NAFAKA program are to improve the competitiveness and productivity of maize and rice value chains and to expand the benefits from the growth of the maize and rice subsectors, especially to women and youth.

Breakfast Seminar #70 focused on leveraging the value chain approach to facilitate increased mariculture competitiveness while also stimulating opportunities for the very poor to participate in, benefit from, and contribute to that growth.

This blog post by Daisy Ouya of CGIAR's World Agroforestry Centre reviews the new manual titled "5Capitals: A Tool for Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Value Chain Development."

Pro Mujer surpassed its 2009-2013 CGI “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty” Commitment to reach 350,000 – one year ahead of schedule. This video showcases their Commitment in action.

Global and national policymakers have made it a priority to advance financial inclusion. To make real progress, CGAP believes the field has 10 priorities over the next 5 years.

Guest blogger Brenda Schuster (Youth and HIV Technical Advisor for Catholic Relief Services) reports back on the Making Cents Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference’s final morning plenary session, “Youth Economic Opportunity in the MENA Region.” This session included Brandee McHale, COO of Citi Foundation, Svava Bjarnason, IFC Senior Education Specialist, Jamie McAuliffe, President and CEO of the Education for Employment Foundation, and Awais Sufi, Vice President for Work Programs at the International Youth Foundation.

On May 17, 2011, The U.S. Department of State, The United States Agency for International Development, United States Trade and Development Agency, and Migration Policy Institute convened to launch the International diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA) at the Secretary's Global Diaspora Forum.

Tweet Roundup from Breakast Seminar #58

The SEEP Network co-host the Social Enterprise Case Profile Competition with Beyond Profit this fall, collecting stories of international social enterprises about growth, scale, and transition to highlight organizational successes and challenges.

Last night, the panel of speakers at USAID’s Microfinance Learning and Innovations After Hours Seminar #46 offered three important perspectives on financial inclusion.

This blog post by Aude de Montesquiou was originally posted on the CGAP Microfinance Blog. Aude, along with William Abrams of Trickle Up, will be presenting at the USAID After Hours Seminar on December 8, 2010.

Mercy Corps has utilized a participatory, youth-led approach in several countries to enhance youth employment programming.

A partnership with USAID, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, and the Visa Foundation aims to address barriers that women entrepreneurs face by building supportive entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging markets.

USAID/Mozambique engaged in programming, assessing, and leading critical climate change technical assistance activities that support low-emission development strategies (LEDS), building climate change resilience, and strengthening local capacity.

The ILO Toolkit is a practical resource for organisations and projects to support small and medium enterprises (SME) decide what aspects of SME performance (productivity, working conditions, etc.) to measure, as well as how to measure them.

Power Africa teamed up with USAID INVEST to increase access to solar home systems and mini-grids across Kenya. Through Azuri Technology's pay-as-you-go-model, they are projected to provide 390,000 new connections and 6,000 upgraded connections across the country.

Using a decentralized water treatment and distribution system, Jim Chu, the founder and CEO of dloHaiti, is bringing safe, affordable water to thousands on the island. Chu recently participated in diaspora engagement roadshows hosted by USAID INVEST, which encouraged members of the Haitian diaspora to invest in the country’s private sector. Jim Chu loves flying. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor began paragliding in 1993. Over the last two decades, he’s participated in the sport all around the world.

Nearly 75% of the Guatemalan population is employed through small- and medium enterprises, yet local laws restrict credit unions' abilities to provide loans to SMEs.

Feed the Future, a USAID program that invests in private-sector partnerships to commercialize agricultural innovations in smallholder markets, conducted a study in 2016 that distilled lessons learned on commercializing seed in smallholder markets in sub-Saharan Africa

A constraint to raising agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of commercial availability of high-quality seed of improved modern crop varieties. Stakeholders have made a great effort to develop regional variety catalogs to increase the supply of high-quality seed.

CIAT supports the development of seed systems uniting actors along the value chain to create sustainable seed systems and spur links with formal seed producers.

At the 2019 SEEP Annual Conference, five finalists delivered seven-minute pitches sharing new approaches to solve a problem and build resilience. The audience voted and selected one winner. Find out which project was selected to win a hypothetical million dollars.