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Affordable Housing Solutions
| Country: | Mexico |
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| One of the largest cement companies in the World, CEMEX, was awarded the Habitat Business Award in 2009 for the Community Blockers and ‘Patrimonio Hoy’ initiatives for innovative steps to empower the poor to build their homes. The two outstanding initiatives are innovative business models that demonstrate the social and economic returns at the bottom of the pyramid in the housing sector. http://www.cemexmexico.com/ |
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Crime reduction and enhancing road safety
| Country: | Kenya |
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| Adopt a Light, a private-public partnership project to light-up the streets and slums of Nairobi, Kenya, was awarded the Habitat Business Award in 2009 for its unique business model that allows the financing of installation and maintenance of efficient public lighting infrastructure in slums, streets and other public areas to reduce crime, enhance road safety and improve the urban environment. http://www.adopt-a-light.com |
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Designing and building energy efficient buildings
| Country: | India |
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| The Indian IT giant, WIPRO Ltd., won the Habitat Business award in 2009 for its initiative to design and build energy efficient buildings. The objective is to reduce energy and water conservation, and to manage pre- and post-construction waste for all its new facilities across India.
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Fast, secure, efficient and cost effective money transfer
| Country: | Kenya |
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| Safaricom was awarded the Habitat Business Award in 2009 for its M-Pesa Money Transfer Service, a state-of-the-art mobile phone based service that enables customers, especially the unbanked population, to transfer funds amongst each other and to their families in the rural areas in a fast, secure, efficient and cost effective manner. The initiative boots urban entrepreneurship and clearly demonstrates the role and impact of innovative IT solutions for sustainable urbanization. http://www.safaricom.co.ke |
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