In this blog, the LGT Venture Philanthropy teams and LGT Impact Fellows post on trends and challenges in the impact investing sector, social entrepreneurship as well as their experiences as LGT Impact Fellows. Enjoy the read!
Haiti has a special way of making a week feel like a month and perceiving progress happening in reverse. Trying to describe Haiti to someone that has never been here…more
This week I started the user acceptance training (UAT) for one of the largest rollouts of mHealth to date at mothers2mothers. The system will capture information through a smart phone…more
Dear future applicant to the 2013 iCats fellowship program, If you are reading this blog you might be asking yourself whether it is worth to make a “pause” in you…more
“Treading heavily on each other’s toes, bickering violently amongst themselves and competing in sometimes unseemly ways for ascendancy…” - Graham Hancock, Lords of Poverty In last few months of the fellowship,…more
Three months into my iCats Fellowship, I can say: "congratulations to myself for resigning from my traditional banking job in London and taking the step to enter the classroom of…more
The power of the iCats fellowship hit me right away. My first assignment – literally – was to conduct site visits with members of the streetfootballworld network in Nairobi, Kenya.…more
mHealth is defined as "Mobile eHealth or mHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care delivery…more
The article is first in 'Social Enterprise Replication' series for Center for Health Market Innovations. Original post appeared here. Imagine a village of 1000 people who don’t have the access to…more
The blogosphere is filled with numerous articles of how to create a successful non-government (NGO) organisation but what is missing is a review of the most common death traps. In…more
Author's Note: This is the first post in series of two blog posts on floating centers of OpASHA in Cambodia Long ago, Cambodia was under water, except for a small…more
One of the great things working as an iCat in new countries, cities, and continents are the endless options for exploration. This last week I jumped on a plane and…more