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Global Poverty Measurement is A Mess, And it’s Holding Back the World’s Anti-Poverty Efforts
A recent Stanford University study on the impact of poverty measurement found vast differences between four common approaches, affecting both how anti-poverty programs define and measure poverty — and who qualifies for assistance. As Martin Burt at Fundación Paraguaya argues, this lack of coordination is hindering global poverty alleviation efforts. He proposes a different approach to poverty measurement: one based on listening to the perspectives of the people who are experiencing poverty, and providing them with customized strategies to address the specific challenges they face.
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- Social Enterprise
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Sierra Leone Receives a $26.8 Million Investment to Strengthen Climate Resilience
Working with local partners, this five-year project will focus on improving food and water security.
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- climate change, food security, NGOs, water
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AfDB, IEA, and CCA Join Forces to Help African Governments Deliver Clean Cooking for All
The African Development Bank (AfDB), International Energy Agency (IEA), and Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) announced their intention to form an Africa Clean Cooking Consortium (ACCC).
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- clean cooking, climate change, NGOs, partnerships, SDGs
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Press Release: USAID Announces New $37 Million Contract to Strengthen the Capacity of Local Health Entities, Prioritize Critical Health Security Gaps
The Localize Global Health Security project will help advance the second localization goal by issuing grants to local organizations for interventions to address critical gaps in the country’s health security.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Exploring NextBillion’s New Features and Updated Design, As We Approach Our Third Decade Online
Yesterday, NextBillion launched the latest phase of our ongoing site redesign. Since this redesign represents one of the most significant shifts of the site’s features and functionality in our almost 20-year history, we wanted to explain the thinking behind these changes, and explore how our new design reflects both NextBillion’s ongoing evolution, and the evolution of the broader “impact media” space.
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- Social Enterprise
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Analysis: Philanthropy’s Great Convergence
Philanthropy funds nurture innovative ideas for social good; CSR funds help roll out projects, and impact investments help ventures scale up for a change in society.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: The Rockefeller Foundation Invests $5 Million in Mombak’s “The Amazon Reforestation Fund”
The Rockefeller Foundation’s $5 million investment in Mombak alongside several blue chip investors represents the latest effort to strengthen the marketplace for carbon credits.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Latin America
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Yunus Was Wrong — Savings, Not Credit, is a Human Right: Here’s How the Financial Inclusion Sector Can Shift its Focus
After playing a key role in the early development of the microfinance sector, Jeffrey Ashe went to Bosnia in the mid-1990s to consult on a new microfinance project. In those days, microcredit was widely viewed as a silver bullet that could end poverty, but while working in Bosnia, he learned that informal savings groups were already providing an effective alternative to formal loans in the local community. Ashe has spent the subsequent decades studying and supporting savings groups in countries around the world. He shares research that illuminates these groups' vast global impact, and argues that they could achieve far more if the financial inclusion sector supported them.
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- Finance