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Bringing business tools to the social enterprise field is a trend that Jacques Toureille has witnessed for some 30 years with the Aga Khan Foundation, a broad private network of development agencies founded some 50 years ago in Asia by Prince Aga Khan and now active throughout the Middle East, Syria, Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa with some 80,000 employees.
“We are a microfinance organisation,” says Toureille, the agency’s General Manager.