Location: Khartoum Closing Date: Friday 19^th August (at midnight GMT)

Practical Action is an international NGO working to alleviate poverty through the development and use of appropriate technologies by communities.

As Deputy Country Director for Sudan you will be expected to undertake the overall management and delivery of contracts and the provision…

BFP: What do you do?

PD: I am a Research Fellow in the Private Sector and Markets programme at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).  Whereas ODI’s focus has historically been on “traditional” development, working mainly with donors and other large-scale funders, our team concentrates…

By Susan Olsen, Lead Specialist, Opportunities for the Majority Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank.

The IDB’s Opportunities for the Majority Initiative (OMJ) recently held its first international event on Business at the Base of the Pyramid. …

Blog by Peter Davis, private sector and markets team at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).  Blog first appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business.  Reproduced with permission from ODI.

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Blog Post by Neville Isdell, Chairman of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa, originally published by the Financial Times.  Reproduced with permission.

The significant reform of many of the commercial justice systems in Africa means that …

Happy summer time! Check out Social Enterprise Associates' Summer newsletter to see what social entrepreneurs and communities have leveraged the power of the marketplace for betterment in May and June. Get inspired & get to work!

Many ColaLife supporters will be itching to see the culmination of our work over the last 3…

“My family and my factory survived the violence, no one was hurt and nothing was damaged,” reflects Marie Konaté, CEO of a GAIN partner company in Côte d’Ivoire. “Yet the apartments above and below where I live caught fire and bullets ripped through them - these have been difficult times for me, the company and our country.”

Despite the recent violence and unstable political situation, the CEO stood by her employees and continued to run her cereal…

“Resolved ... and ongoing!’’ This is what one of my colleagues said last week in Oxford when we were summarising the outcomes of a meeting that The Partnering Initiative organised for its associates to discuss current issues of multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Experienced professionals from North America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Russia and the UK spent three days looking into specific areas of partnerships between all society sectors in a wide range of development issues, such as…

BFP: What do you do?

EK: I work as coordinator for cooperation with the private sector in Africa within GIZ, the German development agency. At GIZ, we believe that collaboration between the public and private sector and civil society is a precondition for achieving…

The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK Government's fight against world poverty and sees private investment and business playing a central role in this endeavour.

DFID is recruiting for the Head, Infrastructure, Energy & Basic Services Team / Deputy Head of the Private…

This is an excerpt from the introduction of an article on poverty in the United states (full article here):

"In 2009, the Census Bureau counted over 43 million people living in poverty in the United States. And the idea is that this makes US recovery all the more difficult because the more poverty there is, the more it affects the economy and the…

Below is the press release for a non-profit called Kourage that I've built over the last 3-years.  Back in 2008, I was a PhD candidate studying comparative political economy, specifically the economic and political…

The recommended central goal for economic reform and development must be to create a strong, dynamic and balanced economy in Zambia that should:

• Plan to achieve a GDP growth rate of 10% per year from the first year of Government and single digit inflation below 5% from the second year;
• Immediately reduce the size of Government by reducing the number of Ministries to only 17 each supported by a professional Permanent Secretary plus a cabinet level Chief of Staff at State…

Location: Accra, Ghana Closing date: 12^th August 2011 (at midnight GMT)

If you are unsure whether you fit VSO’s selection criteria and/or would like further information about this job, please contact VSO’s executive search consultant, Michael Wills, at vso-ghana@oxfordhr.co.uk with a copy of your CV.

VSO believes that people are the best agents of change. The Country Director will lead their…

EXPERT CONSULTANT - SUPPLIERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (SDP)

Apply at: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=24432

Location : Home-based with travel to Mexico and Johannesburg

Application Deadline :22-Jul-11

Type of Contract :Individual Contract

Post Level :International Consultant …

On 11 July, the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, gave an excellent speech at the London Business School on "Growth in Africa".  …