Health
The Gift of the Body
Singapore has more legally permissive rules than Taiwan on organ donation consent, but Taiwan has greater donation rates because of the infrastructure of consent that its medical system has built.
Tag: Asia
Health
How to Build Digital Health Platforms in Emerging Markets
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
Leadership
Empowering Female Muslim Leaders
The Led By Foundation helps Indian Muslim women achieve their career goals in the face of discrimination.
Education
Her Library, Their Future
An Indian state's initiative to establish women-run community libraries is giving rural students—especially girls—a safe space to study and access career guidance.
Philanthropy & Funding
Tolon’s World
One Kyrgyz entrepreneur had an ambitious vision for transforming his country into a vital, independent nation free from its Soviet past. He reverse-engineered that vision into a stepping-stone strategy that is already having enormous impact in Kyrgyzstan and beyond.
Social Enterprise
Translating Social Enterprises
China took a pragmatic approach to adopting social enterprises as a new organizational form.
Environment
What the Anti-Slavery Movement Can Offer for a Livable Climate
Climate change and slavery form a vicious cycle. Collective action for a free and livable future is an opportunity to combat both at once.
Philanthropy & Funding
Asian Philanthropy Can and Must Lead From Within
How Asian philanthropists are embracing adaptive, blended, and locally informed approaches to transform the uncertainty of global aid into opportunity.
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Adapt and Innovate
Impact measurement evolves with changing times and circumstances. That dynamic offers opportunities to innovate, as the HKJC Charities Trust found.
Water & Sanitation
Waterborne Democracy for Rural India
For more than four decades, Gram Vikas has been delivering equitable water and sanitation systems to deprived villages in rural India by training and encouraging them to take ownership of their solutions.