Personal microcredit: a springboard to paid employment Unlike its “professional” counterpart, the “personal” microcredit does not have a purpose directly linked to employment as it does not finance business creation. In France, the law states that it must finance...
In April 2018, 73 people in Sindhupalchowk, Nepal, received 583,000 Nepali Rupees (approximately 5,500 dollars) using Sikka, an application funded and created by World Vision’s Nepal Innovation Lab. This was like any other cash transfer in a disaster-striken...
SDG 11 : Tomorrow's cities The world demographic explosion, the world population increased from 225 million in 1820 to 7.5 billion today, has led to a total reorganization of urban areas. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion people are expected to live in cities. In...
Youth We Can ! Evening show La jeunesse qui bouge ! “You can’t reach new destinations with old roads (…) build and follow new roads”. As he usually does, it was with an elegant and accurate expression that Professor Muhammad Yunus began...
Media Evening Impact Journalism To fight exclusion, address climate change and reduce poverty, it is now essential to bring together a wide range of actors around a shared vision and a common agenda. And in particular the media. Media companies talk about...
Tribunal for Future Generations L’aide publique au développement est-elle une arnaque ? Future generations are never legally represented. And for good reason: they do not exist yet! With the Future Generations Tribunal, an event designed by Usbek &...