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MFIs in India: Need Social Impact Monitoring
The pandemic has necessitated the need to re-look at the tenets of MFI lending
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- Education, Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Avoiding Information Overload: Four Lessons From a Performance Manager on How To Use Data To Drive Development Outcomes
Development impact bonds (DIBs) are a popular way to drive successful social outcomes – but assessing a program's effectiveness requires a lot of data. Dayoung Lee and Dia Banerjee at Dalberg Advisors share lessons they've learned from managing the performance of the world’s largest education DIB, showing how data can improve outcomes without causing undue burdens on the organizations that should be benefiting from it.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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GoDaddy Partners With EduSkills To Help Boost Digital Skills Development in India
GoDaddy, the company empowering everyday entrepreneurs, today announced a partnership with EduSkills, a non-profit social enterprise designed to help boost entrepreneurship and digital skills development in India.
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- Education
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- Asia Pacific
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COVID-19 and Higher Education: How Universities Are Leading the Recovery in Emerging Economies
Universities in emerging economies have shown they have a key role to play in the response to the coronavirus crisis, through both cutting-edge research and development (R&D) and pioneering approaches to teaching and studying.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Health Care
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Press Release: 40,000 Young Women and Men in Nigeria Will Be Equipped Annually With Entrepreneurial Skills Through EDC Partnership With the Mastercard Foundation
The Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) announced a partnership with the Mastercard Foundation to launch the Transforming Nigerian Youths program.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AirAsia Teams up With Google Cloud To Drive Digital Skills Training in Malaysia
Redbeat Academy aims to up-skill AirAsia employees; corporate and SME customers; government agencies, universities and public individuals.
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- South Asia
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Gender Gap, a Major Hindrance To Nigeria’s Financial Inclusion Target – Report
"The focus of efforts to boost women’s financial inclusion should shift beyond product innovation to address the underlying drivers of gender gaps."
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: In Times of COVID-19, the Future of Education Depends on the Provision of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) have emerged as an issue of particular concern when considering schools reopening.
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- Coronavirus, Education, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- global development, hygiene, sanitation, water, youth