The Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation
Sauder School of Business
UBC
Development
Marginalized populations in developing countries are extremely vulnerable. These communities face increasing instability as a result of climate change, economic hardship, conflict, and the rapid spread of infectious diseases. Despite the challenges, there are great opportunities for growth if we can find innovative solutions and promote sustainable development.
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The development of a project in northern Uganda is helping to establish a locally driven framework that connects war-affected youth with local youth leaders to play soccer and to discuss important community issues, such as, post-conflict healing and gender...
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Sawa Global
Sawa Global is a non-profit organization that works to empower exceptional unsung grassroots leaders from the world’s poorest countries that have found innovative local solutions to extreme poverty. Sawa then builds local media capacity and empowers these unknown leaders...
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Social Entrepreneurship 101
Social Entrepreneurship 101: Africa is one part of the African Initiative of the Sauder School of Business. SE101 started delivering a business plan training program to youth living in Africa in the summer of 2006. Most of...
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Open Health Initiative
In the last decade a number of large foundations have invested heavily in tackling neglected diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people in the developing world. While the Big Three—TB, HIV/AIDS and Malaria—have received a great deal of...
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