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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
- Region
- 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.
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, MSMEs
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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
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- global development, hygiene, sanitation, water, youth
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Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) Announces Hosting by UNICEF, Global Expansion To Tackle Learning Crisis
The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) announces today that it is moving to operate as an independent trust fund hosted by UNICEF.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, scale
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Beyond the ‘Public vs. Private’ Debate in Global Education: Helping the Schools That Serve the World’s Neediest Children Survive COVID-19
COVID-19 is preventing low-fee private schools from serving the estimated 258 million children who lack access to education. And according to Irene D. Pritzker at IDP Foundation, these “mom and pop” schools lack access to the resources that could help them survive the pandemic. She urges the development sector to support them – and in the process, to move past outdated debates about public versus private schools in emerging countries.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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- COVID-19, governance
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