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The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress
The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…
- Foundation Strategy
Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders
Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.
Scaling Market-Based Sanitation
June 28, 2018Lack of access to water, sanitation, and hygiene is one of the most pressing issues of our time. According to the UN, 2.4 billion people lack access to basic s…
FSG’s Harvey Koh on What It Means to Create Inclusive Markets
January 17, 2018This blog was originally published on the Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business. Our teams in Mumbai have been working on the opportunity—and the challenge—o…
Logging on for Better Reproductive Health
May 31, 2017In a new article in India Development Review, “Logging on for Better Reproductive Health,” Chandrima Das discusses FSG’s research on the sexual health and repr…
Scaling Out
February 24, 2017In a new article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, “Scaling Out,” FSG Managing Director Harvey Koh discusses the impact of entrepreneurs who build on exist…
Notes from the Field: Ed-Tech for Early Childhood Education in India
February 23, 2017EdTech is the latest, favorite buzzword among education leaders and investors in India today. The education portfolios of many venture capital firms and impact…
Improving Living Conditions for India’s Informal Housing Residents
January 13, 2017Meenakshi lives in the Yerwada area in Pune, India with her husband, 3 children, and father-in-law. She works at a tailoring shop, and her husband drives a tax…
A Conversation on Improving Preschool Education in India
September 23, 201627.5 million low-income households in urban India spend a disproportionate amount of their income to send their children to private preschools, but many of the…
Turning the Tide of Youth Unemployment in South Africa
September 12, 2016Youth unemployment has reached crisis levels in South Africa, with only 1 in 3 youths of working age employed. The high level of youth unemployment has far-rea…
Catalysing Impact Investing in East Africa
June 17, 2016FSG’s newest office, located in Mumbai, houses our inclusive markets team, which works to develop and scale inclusive business models to create new opportuniti…
The Realty Debate: Developing Affordable Housing in India
June 10, 2016Does India have land for developing affordable houses where they are needed? Some argue that where there is affordable land, there is no demand for housing, an…