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Description:
Mission: Possible – Innovating for the World’s Most Marginalized examines social innovations at the intersection of technology, policy, and community action. Each episode features in-depth conversations with experts and innovators tackling systemic challenges in low-income and underserved contexts—from water access and financial inclusion to climate adaptation and digital public goods.
The podcast highlights not only what works, but why it works: unpacking business models, behavioral insights, design principles, and research evidence behind scalable social impact.
Designed for practitioners, researchers, students, and curious global citizens, this podcast translates complex development challenges into practical lessons for building a more equitable world.
Key content:
Innovation, Inclusion, Equity, Resilience, Poverty, Community, Empowerment, Impact, Justice, base of the pyramid, transformative services
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#71 From Screening to Sight: Scaling AI Eye Care in Tamil Nadu
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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#66 How Schneider Electric Powers Rural Microeconomies
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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#67 Phool’s Circular Social Enterprise - From Temple Flowers to Bio-Leather
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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#68 Building Trust at Scale: The Economics of SUNU’s Inclusive Insurance in Africa
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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#69 How YoLa Fresh Hit $1M Then Failed
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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#70 Charge & Own: How Carbon Credits & E-Bikes Are Powering Ghana’s Delivery Economy
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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#62 Electrifying Africa: How Ignite Energy Access Scales Clean Power Across the Continent
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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#63 The Ecobana Story: From Banana Waste to Menstrual Equity
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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#64 Upcycling the Cocoa Fruit: Inside Koa’s Impact-Driven Ghanaian–Swiss Business Model
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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#65 Scaling Smallholders: Inside Nigeria’s Babban Gona
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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#61 Project Maji: Pricing Water, Powering Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#60 Shenzhen Power Solution Replacing Kerosene Lamps with Solar Innovation
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#59 How AFEX is modernizing African Agriculture
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#58 Clean Water, Local Responsibility: Sustainable Water Solutions with Waterkiosk Foundation
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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#57 Wecyclers: Turning Trash into Cash in Lagos
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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#52 Sehat Kahani: How Two Women Doctors Rewrote Pakistan’s Healthcare Story
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#53 Honeysuckers of Bangalore: How Informal Innovation Filled an Urban Sanitation Gap
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#54 Off-Grid Water in Haiti: How Decentralized Solutions Are Quenching a Nation’s Thirst
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#55 SwissFreshWater: Franchising Safe Drinking Water Across Africa
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#56 Naandi Foundation: Scaling Social Innovation from Classrooms to Coffee Farms
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#50 How Bühler Group has been reinventing milling for a better world
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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#51 Logy.AI: Bringing AI-Powered Oral Health Screening to Everyone
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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#41 ChotuKool and the Power of Frugal Innovation
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#42 W.A.T.A.: Turning Everyday People into Clean Water Changemakers
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#43 Spring Health: Delivering Safe Water, One Village at a Time
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#44 Devergy: Rethinking Rural Power with Energy-as-a-Service
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#45 M-KOPA: Pay-As-You-Go Power and the Future of Inclusive Finance
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#46 SOIL: Reinventing Sanitation Through Dignity, Design, and Circular Systems
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#47 Project Shakti: How Unilever Built a Rural Distribution Network by Empowering Women
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#48 Hippo Roller: A Simple Idea That "Rolled" Into a Water Solution
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#49 How Coca-Cola’s Micro-Distribution Centers were cracking the Last Mile in Africa
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#36 Mobisol and the Promise—and Limits—of Pay-As-You-Go Solar
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#37 Esta Casa es Mía: How MIA Is Redefining Affordable Housing in Mexico
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#38 Cooking Without Smoke: How Eco Cookstoves Are Transforming Health, Homes, and the Climate
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#40 How Husk Power Is Electrifying Rural Communities
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#39 How LifeStraw Turned Clean Water into a Global Social Innovation
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#33 How Sanergy Is Redefining Urban Sanitation in Africa
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#34 From Motorbikes to a Super App: How GoJek Built an Inclusive Digital Economy
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#35 How Azuri Technologies Is Bringing Clean Energy to Off-Grid Africa
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#31 Toyola and the Clean Cooking Revolution: Saving Fuel, Health, and Forests
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#32 When Profit Isn’t the Point: Procter & Gamble's Pivot to Purpose”
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#29 Safe Water, One Village at a Time: The WaterHealth Model
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#30 Bankers to the Poor, Online: Inside Kiva’s Digital Lending Model
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#26 Hydrologic: Scaling Clean Water in Rural Cambodia Through Aspirational Design
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#27 Unilever and the Quest for Safe Water: The Pureit Innovation Story
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#28 How Grameen and Danone Took on Child Malnutrition
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#25 Bboxx: Powering Progress Through Next-Generation Distributed Utilities
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#24 Jayashree Industries - Decentralized Innovation for Menstrual Hygiene
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#20 The KickStart Story: Irrigation, Innovation, and Income
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#21 Waste Concern: Turning Urban Waste into Resource
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#22 Manila Water (Tubig Para sa Barangay): A Model for Inclusive Water Service
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#23 Farmerline: Cultivating Prosperity through African Agri-Tech Innovation
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#16 Sight for All: The Aravind Eye Care Revolution
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#17 Mobility, Motors & Markets: The MAX.ng Story
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#18 Grameen Bank: Reinventing Credit for the Rural Poor
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#19 Beyond Charity: BRAC’s Blueprint for Ending Poverty
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#11 Pilots Never Fail—but Also Never Scale
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#10 How Grameen America Scaled Microfinance in the U.S.
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#13 Worms, Waste & Wealth: Raj Organik’s Green Revolution
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#12 Drones, Data & Deliveries: Zipline’s Skybound Impact
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#14 How Peek Vision Is Transforming Eye Care
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#15 Patrimonio Hoy - Housing Innovation for the Poor
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#08 Clarity for All: How DotGlasses Makes Vision Affordable
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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#09 The Mumbai Dabbawalas: Masters of Precision
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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#06 Smart Farming, Shared Tractors: The Hello Tractor Story
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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#07 Watt by Watt: How Grameen Shakti Lit Up Rural Bangladesh
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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#04 Bright Ideas: d.light’s Solar Path to Empowerment
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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#05 Beyond Cash: How M-PESA Transformed Everyday Finance
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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#01 Reinventing Impact: Stories from the Base of the Pyramid
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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#03 mPharma’s Fight for Affordable Medicine
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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#02 Franchising Clean Water: Sarvajal’s Model for Rural Access
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Nov 14, 2025 |