Social Capital Ventures: Water for life in the Cambodian countryside - Anne-Valerie OHLSSON-CORBOZ and Philip C. ZERRILLO (2014)

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[...] empowerment of the locals and ensuring they can take over water management by themselves, on the one hand. On the other hand, the farmers and their communities expected SCVD to run water filters the way a government agency would, that is, with little involvement on their part. What does SCVD do? Describe SCVD's business model Given its peculiar form of social enterprise, SCVD has a business model unlike those frequently used by regular companies. In order to describe accurately its missions, we report below SCVD's business model using a Business Canvas, generated via Business Model Fiddle[1]. [...]

[...] The unofficial number of 8,000 organizations illustrates the diversity and wealth of private initiatives on that issue. However, the sheer number of actors means that there is intense competition over finite sources of funding. The Cambodian government recently stepped in, in order to regulate NGO work and funding, but the effects are unknown. As a social enterprise, SCVD is also deals with same issues regular companies face: it needs to by the water filters at optimal cost. They are supported by Hyflux, a Singapore-based company that manufactures devices needed for water management and provides environmental solutions. [...]

[...] Social Capital Ventures: Water for life in the Cambodian countryside - Anne-Valerie OHLSSON-CORBOZ and Philip C. ZERRILLO (2014) Write a small introduction describing the case and the main problematic Social Capital Ventures Development (SCVD) equips Cambodian rural and farming communes with water-filtering devices. Co-founders Christopher Wilson and Khov Boun Chhay are trying to figure out how a large number of Cambodians seem to be unable to get out of the poverty trap. SCVD pinpoints health as the issue where they expect to have the most significant impact. [...]