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Impact investment for all of us
Everyday people acting in collaboration and solidarity to lend their support to courageous impact enterprises worldwide, helping to unlock their positive potential and benefit communities.
Actionable Impact Management Guidebooks
Assessing the risk and impact of you investments, grants and social business is complex and time consuming. Often feedback from capital deployment to outcome created, and learnings are not properly aligned. Having an outcome lifecycle platform from defining the impact strategy, metrics selection, result data collection, analysis, insight, and reporting can bring necessary accountability that impact space demands.
fair, inclusive, and sustainable value chains
The current accessible markets for many small-scale farmers encourage them to cultivate using only conventional i.e chemical farming methods and crops. The problem we seek to solve is low incomes, unsustainable farming methods, high food waste and negative impact on health. These problems are compounded by uncertain markets, fluctuating market prices and competition from neighboring countries. These problems have yet to be solved as there is a lack of knowledge at a government and institutional level, there is a lack of technical know-how and alternatives for individuals, and the development sector, although pockets of good examples still promote conventional farming methods.
Fostering the Triple Bottom Line
The current accessible markets for many small-scale farmers encourage them to cultivate using only conventional i.e chemical farming methods and crops. The problem we seek to solve is low incomes, unsustainable farming methods, high food waste and negative impact on health. These problems are compounded by uncertain markets, fluctuating market prices and competition from neighboring countries. These problems have yet to be solved as there is a lack of knowledge at a government and institutional level, there is a lack of technical know-how and alternatives for individuals, and the development sector, although pockets of good examples still promote conventional farming methods.
Design Thinking
The current accessible markets for many small-scale farmers encourage them to cultivate using only conventional i.e chemical farming methods and crops. The problem we seek to solve is low incomes, unsustainable farming methods, high food waste and negative impact on health. These problems are compounded by uncertain markets, fluctuating market prices and competition from neighboring countries. These problems have yet to be solved as there is a lack of knowledge at a government and institutional level, there is a lack of technical know-how and alternatives for individuals, and the development sector, although pockets of good examples still promote conventional farming methods.
Fostering a Digital Marketplace
When it comes to harvest time many farmers start looking for a buyer for their produce. It can take weeks - farmers message their friends and family to ask if they know anyone, they visit the local market and talk to brokers. Unfortunately all too often produce is sold at below market prices or not sold at all.
Mobile Applications
When it comes to harvest time many farmers start looking for a buyer for their produce. It can take weeks - farmers message their friends and family to ask if they know anyone, they visit the local market and talk to brokers. Unfortunately all too often produce is sold at below market prices or not sold at all.
Design Thinking
When it comes to harvest time many farmers start looking for a buyer for their produce. It can take weeks - farmers message their friends and family to ask if they know anyone, they visit the local market and talk to brokers. Unfortunately all too often produce is sold at below market prices or not sold at all.
resilience.io
By 2030 5 billion people will need housing, infrastructure, services, food, healthcare, education, decent jobs and natural resources, with growing threats to society from climate change, water/food insecurity and ecological destruction. There is consensus among UN agencies and national governments to tackle these challenges and sufficient investment capital is available but not released due to lack of city region capacity and investment mechanisms. Computing and communications technology, geospatial data volumes and modelling skills have now improved significantly to enable integrated planning & investment decision making at the city community level to release this capital into the right projects. Our 2030 Roadmap action plan shows how $100 million core funding can create open-source software tools and facilitate release of $3.5 trillion/year of risk informed capital into city regions to enable 5 billion people by 2030 to live safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, fulfilling lives.
Permaculture expansion crash test
This solution emerged from discussions between an expert in business models and a couple of permaculturists. Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered on simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. It has many branches that include but are not limited to ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, construction and integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, and regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems. It holds an enormous potential for solving many of our and our environment problems (pluri-SDG!). However, it is surprisingly slow in getting known more widely. A co-creator of the Business Model Crash Test and a couple of permaculturists are willing to invite G3iD participants to brainstorm on ways to make the permaculture approach spread faster than ever!
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Crafting the Narrative
To educate children about the SDGs.
Road crossings serving as sand dams
Globally, the annual investment in road infrastructure is $1-2 trillion with 40% in developing countries and 70,000 kilometers of new road being constructed in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, in addition to considerable rehabilitation and maintenance on existing roads. With relatively small or zero additional investment, roads can add value by helping to harvest water, improving flood resilience, and even contributing to the control of sand dune formation.
Farmers harvesting road water
Globally, the annual investment in road infrastructure is $1-2 trillion with 40% in developing countries and 70,000 kilometers of new road being constructed in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, in addition to considerable rehabilitation and maintenance on existing roads. With relatively small or zero additional investment, roads can add value by helping to harvest water, improving flood resilience, and even contributing to the control of sand dune formation.
Technical training and motivational events
Globally, the annual investment in road infrastructure is $1-2 trillion with 40% in developing countries and 70,000 kilometers of new road being constructed in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, in addition to considerable rehabilitation and maintenance on existing roads. With relatively small or zero additional investment, roads can add value by helping to harvest water, improving flood resilience, and even contributing to the control of sand dune formation.
Linking road infrastructure projects with existing development programs
Globally, the annual investment in road infrastructure is $1-2 trillion with 40% in developing countries and 70,000 kilometers of new road being constructed in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, in addition to considerable rehabilitation and maintenance on existing roads. With relatively small or zero additional investment, roads can add value by helping to harvest water, improving flood resilience, and even contributing to the control of sand dune formation.
Energy and waste efficiency
We will expand access to green space and strengthen our built and human infrastructure.
Institutionalizing resilience-building protocols
We will expand access to green space and strengthen our built and human infrastructure.
Disaster recovery planning
We will expand access to green space and strengthen our built and human infrastructure.
Tree planting and park additions
We will expand access to green space and strengthen our built and human infrastructure.
LED public lighting with smart grid
We will expand access to green space and strengthen our built and human infrastructure.
Consistent access to safe drinking water
We will adapt to climate change, reduce and reuse, and restore bodies of water to allow for drinking water and recreation. Like many coastal cities, Rio is defined by its relationship with water. Rising sea levels and intensification of storm surges resulting from climate change pose a constant threat. Meanwhile, insufficient drainage of rainwater leads to chronic flooding and landslides.
Climate Risk Mapping
We will adapt to climate change, reduce and reuse, and restore bodies of water to allow for drinking water and recreation. Like many coastal cities, Rio is defined by its relationship with water. Rising sea levels and intensification of storm surges resulting from climate change pose a constant threat. Meanwhile, insufficient drainage of rainwater leads to chronic flooding and landslides.
Climate Change Panel formation
We will adapt to climate change, reduce and reuse, and restore bodies of water to allow for drinking water and recreation. Like many coastal cities, Rio is defined by its relationship with water. Rising sea levels and intensification of storm surges resulting from climate change pose a constant threat. Meanwhile, insufficient drainage of rainwater leads to chronic flooding and landslides.
Collaborate at the Systems Level
We live in a world of problems that are so complex, so tangled up with other problems, so non-linear, ambiguous, and volatile — that they defy solutions and cannot be effectively addressed by any one organization or even by any one sector. Lasting change and the resolution of these systemic issues requires effective collaboration across silos, across organizations, and across sectors, in ways that serve both the self-interests of the participants and the shared interests of the collective. The effectiveness of any network or collaborative effort primarily depends on constantly managing a few basic activities: 1) Clarify Purpose, 2) Convene the Right People, 3) Cultivate Trust, 4) Coordinate Existing Actions, and 5) Collaborate at the Systems Level. See the building blocks below for more details.