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The Alliance between the WBCSD and SNV Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) has published a 10-minute video on its work in brokering new and inclusive business opportunities, i.e. sustainable business opportunities that are good business and benefit low-income communities, across Latin America. The video introduces the Alliance's vision, presents two inclusive business initiatives being implemented in Peru and Ecuador, and features the advocacy work being pursued to improve framework conditions for this type of inclusive business. A Spanish version of this video will be available by mid-May 2008.

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Since 2006, Allianz Life Indonesia has been insuring low earners -- for many, the first insurance of their lives. See how a microinsurance police helped small business owner Ida Rosina cope with the tragic death of her daughter. More information about Microfinance on the Allianz Knowledge Partnersite.

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M-PESA is a new Safaricom service enabling money transfer using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first country in the world to use this service, which is offered in partnership between Safaricom and Vodafone.

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( the WBCSD's statement follows the introduction by the chair of the hearing)

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More than 1 million people still lack access to clean water and an estimated 2.2 million children die each year because of preventable diarrheal diseases. With its new water purifying product, PUR, Procter & Gamble is helping turn dirty contaminated water into safe drinking water at the point of use, where water treatment facilities are not available, thereby providing immediate relief to disaster-stricken areas and vulnerable populations.

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Energy is a pre-requisite to development. Not only does it have a direct impact on people’s quality of life, but it is also a catalyst for the growth of small businesses in low-income communities. Through these short video clips, find out how EDF is striving to improve access to electricity in remote rural areas – and how this has transformed the lives of local people.

Part 1: Hear the testimonies of isolated communities in rural Morocco
Part 2: Interview of EDF's Access Program Manager

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Julio Moura, CEO of GrupoNueva, shares the challenges faced by his and other Latin American companies in implementing sustainable livelihoods businesses including, shifting mindset to think of the poor as part of the solution instead of victims; negotiating unfavorable framework conditions and the battle against big scale corruption

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Investment analysts are increasingly aware of social investment issues, says Alan Harper, VodafoneGroup Strategy Director. They are also very conscious of 'growth', which is beginning to come from new developing markets.

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By redesigning its corporate business model to a community-centric focus, Mondi has created a win-win situation for the company and the community. Not only has it reduced high overheads and created a solid supply of raw materials for its paper business, but it has empowered its supply chain by offering employees the opportunity to become entrepreneurs and earn higher income.

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Jean-Pierre Tardieu, Managing Director of the Institute Veolia Environment sums up Veolia's drive to provide low-income communities with proper water services and how this not only benefits the company, but is good for development.

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Axel Wenblad, Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Skanska AB, and Bart Jan Krouwel, Managing Director Sustainability & Social Innovation at Rabobank Group, shed some light on how their companies’ strategies for creating sustainable livelihoods business are different from philanthropy.

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Lloyd Timberlake, Director of Special Projects for GrupoNueva S.A., and Peter Woicke, Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation, give their views on whether sustainable livelihoods business can be profitable.

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Yves-Thibault de Silguy, Senior Executive Vice President of Suez, speaks of the company’s commitment to providing water and sanitation for everyone focusing on the necessity to find long-term solutions and integrated systems to expand delivery of such services to the poor.

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Alberto Alemán Zubieta, Administrator of the Panamá Canal Authority, explains the importance of community involvement in the management of the canal.

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In this short and catchy clip, Holliday – a past WBCSD Chairman – argues that companies must “take actionable first steps” toward creating sustainable livelihoods, or risk extinction.

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Jonathan Lash, President of the World Resources Institute, offers an NGO perspective on sustainable livelihoods business and insight on what businesses can achieve by creating new markets.

John Manzoni, Chief Executive of Refining and Marketing at BP, touches on the company’s experiences with growing sustainable business in emerging markets like Trinidad and India.

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Bertrand Collomb, Chairman of Lafarge, comments on the benefits to engaging in sustainable livelihoods projects while laying out some of the obstacles business faces when doing so.

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Ian Johnson, Vice-President of Sustainable Development at the World Bank, emphasizes to business leaders how good business means good quality development in developing countries and good development policy means good business opportunities for the private sector.

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Vivian Vasquez, Empresa de Narino (Colombian coffee roasters), explains the importance of investing in the livelihoods of the Narino region's coffee growers and why this makes good business sense.

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