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What is Market-Based Solutions?

Market-based solutions use business models to address social and environmental challenges, enabling sustainable, scalable, and impactful innovations that balance financial viability with social equity.
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Proximatepedia brings together two essentials every mission-driven.

Network Mapping

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Movement Building

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Diverse group united for social and political change

Last-Mile Distribution Networks

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Delivery methods connecting remote communities with essential goods

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

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Social Innovation

Definitions focused on work to improve life for people and planet.

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Field Mapping / Field Scans

Field mapping or field scans systematically assess a specific domain, compiling data and trends to guide social innovation, investments, and collective understanding in development fields.
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Mixed-Methods Research

Mixed-methods research combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide comprehensive insights, enhancing evidence credibility and actionable outcomes in social innovation and development.
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Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice foster collective learning, strengthen capacity, and accelerate innovation by enabling collaboration, peer learning, and knowledge exchange among individuals and organizations with shared interests.
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Sustainable Development

Terms associated with development policy, funding, and delivery systems.

Social Innovation

Social innovation creates new, collaborative solutions to social challenges like inequality and climate change, emphasizing...

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Systems Change

Systems change focuses on transforming root causes of social and environmental challenges by altering policies,...

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Launch Process

The launch process is crucial for scaling innovations beyond pilots, involving readiness assessment, resource mobilization,...

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International Development

International development aims to reduce poverty and improve quality of life globally through cooperation, capacity...

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Global cooperation for social and economic development

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Action Research Adaptive Leadership Adaptive Management Advocacy Agile Execution Applied Research Balanced Score Card Basic Research Beneficiary / Community Monitoring Business Entrepreneurship Capacity Building Causal Loop Mapping Change Agent Co-Creation Coalition Building Collaborative Leadership Collective Impact Collective Leadership Communities of Practice Community Champions Community Organizing Community-Based Delivery Community-Based Leadership Compliance Monitoring Context Monitoring Cost-Effectiveness / Economic Evaluation Cross-Subsidization Demonstration Model Diffusion of Innovations Digital Platforms Direct Service Disruptive Innovation Ecosystem Mapping Ecosystem Strengthening Evidence Building Experimental Research External / Independent Monitoring Fee-for-Service Field Building Field Catalyst Field Mapping / Field Scans Formative Evaluation Franchise Model Government Adoption Grassroots Agency Growth Trajectory Hub-and-Spoke Model Impact at Scale Impact Evaluation Insider-Outsider Leadership Institution Building Institutional Leadership Institutionalization Internal Monitoring International Development Last-Mile Distribution Networks Launch Process Localization / Localization 2.0 LogFrame Logic Model Long-Term Sustainability Longitudinal Research Mainstreaming Market-Based Solutions Mixed-Methods Research Movement Building Multi-Stakeholder Delivery Narrative Change Network Mapping Non-Experimental Research OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) Outcome Evaluation Outsourced / Contracted Delivery Paradigm Shift Participatory Action Research Participatory Leadership Participatory Monitoring Performance Dashboards / KPIs Philanthropic Stewardship Pilot Projects Policy Leadership Policy Reform Power Mapping Problem Discovery Problem Tree / Solution Tree Mapping Process / Implementation Evaluation Process Monitoring Proximate Leadership Public Provision Public-Private Partnerships Qualitative Research Quantitative Research Quasi-Experimental Research Real-Time Monitoring Replication Resilience Results Monitoring Results-Based Management Scaling Pathways Scenerio Planning Sector Mapping Sector Transformation Servant Leadership Shared (Lived) Experience Shared Proximity Shared Trust Shared Value Six Conditions of Systems Change Social Advantage Social Enterprise Delivery Social Entrepreneurship Social Goods Social Impact Social Innovation Social Return on Investment Social Systems Stakeholder Mapping Summative Evaluation Sustainability at Scale Sustainable Development Systems Change Systems Leadership Systems Mapping Theory of Change Thought Leadership Transactional Research Transformational Leadership Transformative Scale Triple Bottom Line Validation Cycle Value Chain Mapping Volunteer-Led Models Voucher / Subsidy Models
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