Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Responding to the fall-out: the impact of the global economic slowdown on private firms/enterprises, poverty reduction, and development -- Impact of NGOs on poverty alleviation in Southeast Asia: the case of microfinance -- The Need for PPP arrangements to make business pro-poor and green -- forging partnerships for nation building: the Gawad Kalinga way -- Working with Jatropha smallholders, green energy biomass, J.S.C -- Low cost housing for disaster relief, habitat for humanity, and world concern, Myanamar -- Habitat for Humanity Cambodia: building houses, improving lives -- Huong Hoa tapioca starch factory, Vietnam -- A Malaysian multi-party public-private partnership: Nestle's collaboration with MARDI, MOSTI, and Empire rice mills to commerciualize and grow red rice in Sarawak, Malaysia -- SCG small scale forestry, Thailand -- The National biodigester programme Cambodia: building capacity for delivery of clean energy to rural households -- Sompo Japan weather-index insurance, thailand -- Sumadi, a social entrepreneur and sanitarian: in service for better sanitation in East Java, Indonesia -- Sunlabob, Laos -- Solutions Using Renewable Energy (SURE) Inc. Rural energization project in Kalinga, Philippines -- The World Toilet Organization: using leverage to improve toilets and sanitarian worldwide -- A South-South public-private partnership: twinning Malaysia's ranhill utilities with Philippine's Davao City water distric to transfer technical knowledge in non-revenue water management -- Yamaha motor: clean and affordable drinking water for low income and poor households in Indonesian rural areas.