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Investing in Dignified Jobs for All
Upaya has invested in 42 companies (and exited 10 investments) creating 51,222 dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty in India. Upaya is on a mission to create 300,000 jobs by 2030 through its PRG model.
Pescadata - an app for small scale fishing communities
A logbook and expenses app for small-scale fishers and fishing communities.
ThermoBoo
African Bamboo’s ThermoBoo process uses biomass dust to thermally modify bamboo—no chemicals, no waste. It eliminates decay and pests, creating strong, durable panels for local and global markets. A first for Ethiopia, this pilot could scale across the region.
SunBell multifunctional solar lantern and mobile charger
SunBell is a smart solar lamp with mobile charging capabilities. More than 2.4 million SunBells have been distributed worldwide since 2014.
Sustainable Sanitation in Nepal
A social enterprise model for public toilets piloted in Nepal that incorporates additional revenue streams with waste-to-value technology (biogas), bundled services (shops), gender-inclusive design, and a cleaning compliance program.
World Social Capital Monitor
For the first time in history, in order to accelerate the SDGs people can score on eight crucial local social goods by open access and in 46 languages yet.
Equity Capital for BIPOC Entrepreneurs in CPG
Propeller Impact Fund II offers technical assistance to BIPOC entrepreneurs seeking equity financing for their CPG ventures.
Healthy Entrepreneurs
Healthy Entrepreneurs delivers effective and affordable health products and services to the last mile, hard-to-reach populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, through a network of 5,000 Community Health Entrepreneurs in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Burundi.
End-to-end Shrimp Farming Solution
Jala helps shrimp farmer manage their water quality to boost the yield and create a sustainable farm.
Clean water from ocean waves - Wave2O
An innovative solution to harness ocean wave energy for seawater desalination.
Upcycled Plastic Prosthetics
Accessible Recycled Material prosthetics innovation enables the manufacture of artificial limbs using recycled yarns made from plastic bottles. This prosthetic limb costing £10 per unit to make- thousands of dollars cheaper than carbon fibre sockets.
Xenom Energy
A transformative start-up building a cutting-edge B2B platform for easy access to petroleum products in Africa. By connecting independent fuel station owners to Oil Marketers through our tech-enabled and operations driven marketplace.
Mobile AgriTech
Mobile AgriTech provides customized, timely, on-demand agricultural information to smallholder farmers through cell phone technology.
Amrue
Over 145 million trees are used annually to print paper receipts yet 75% of receipts end up in the bin. Amrue has developed an intelligent receipt that allows customers to view their receipt directly in their banking app, thus doing away with paper.
Biofit Feeds
Clean animal feeds from invasive water hyacinth
BloodyFast mobile app - Global app for local safety
A personal safety app to save humanity worldwide by converting mobile phones into powerful life-saving devices.
Build up Nepal - Building the way out of poverty
Breaking the poverty cycle in rural Nepal through safe housing and jobs for poor families
Civic Dinners
Civic Dinners is a civic engagement platform that uses technology to bring diverse voices to the table over food for conversations that matter and drive individual and collective action around the big issues of our time.
Coastal villages in Bangladesh are Brightened by the Solar Energy
Most of the coastal people in Bangladesh live in darkness at night due to a lack of electricity and the high price of kerosene. The Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) has implemented comprehensive initiatives to address these challenges without harming the ecosystem.
CodePhil
Digital Literacy in Rural Philippines for Sustainable Livelihoods & Community Resilience
E Rain Gates (Automatically Smart Gates for Storm Water Inlets with Electronic Maintenance)
Deliver Innovative Solutions for Complex Storm Water Problems and flooding on the roads and the Role of Environmental Technology Invention in Smart infrastructure Cities (Green Management Invention)
E-waste Application turning Trash to Cash
In China, UNDP partnered with the private sector to develop a business model for e-waste recycling. Based on big data analysis, an app for customers was co-created with end-users. The app connects consumers with legal recycling companies for the safe disposal of e-waste.
ERTH (E-waste Recycling Through Heroes)
ERTH🌏 is a digital platform that provides a free/on-demand electronic waste recycling service to individuals and businesses, and pays them in cash.
Fundación Paraguaya - Poverty Stoplight
During the COVID-19 pandemic, FP is developing new ways to deliver microfinance loans to those who are extremely poor and vulnerable and has been able to reach more than 3,500 village banks and 70,000 microenterprises.