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Digital Platforms: The Virtual Classrooms That Transform India’s Youth into Productive Workers
India is one of the youngest societies in the world, with people aged 15-24 making up a third of the population. That's why the country's economic growth will depend on youth becoming productive workers, says Sreelakshmi Ramachandran at Ola Mobility Institute. As we celebrate World Youth Skills Day, she explores how digital platforms are upskilling young workers and easing their transition to employment.
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- Education, Technology
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From Cauliflower to Unicorns: Five Lessons from Five Years as a Startup
As the Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI) celebrates its fifth birthday, it recently announced that it's merging with CGAP’s Gateway Academy to form a "stronger, more refined new identity at the frontier of capacity building." DFI's co-founder and CEO, Gavin Krugel, discusses five lessons the organization has learned about running a social enterprise startup.
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- Education, Finance, Social Enterprise
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Press Release: Gateway Academy Merges with Digital Frontiers to Strengthen Capacity Building Initiatives
Gateway Academy, the digital learning platform for financial inclusion incubated by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), is merging with Digital Frontiers, a globally recognized non-profit that focuses on capacity building for the development community.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Money Experience Named as Hybrid Learning Resource for Impact Global Education’s Flexible Higher Education Solution
Impact Global Education's new program, Domain, marries experiential, place-based and online learning to add value to higher education
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- Education, Technology
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- edtech, impact investing
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Africa’s Student Housing Crisis: An Overlooked Need Offers a Major Opportunity for Impact Investors
As COVID-19 spreads across Africa, universities are shutting their doors in unprecedented numbers. But for many African students, home is not an ideal learning environment. According to Abayomi Onasanya at Student Accomod8, that's one reason impact investors should focus on a long-overlooked goal: student housing. He explores how campus housing can make higher education more accessible to millions of young Africans.
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- housing, impact investing, youth
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For Billions Without Clean Water, ‘Wash Your Hands’ Is Complicated
Conservation News spoke with the director of Conservation International’s WASH in Watersheds program, Colleen Sorto, about how when it comes to water and human health, where your water comes from can be just as important as how you use it.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Environment, Health Care, Investing, WASH
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- infrastructure
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Small Business and WASH in the Age of Coronavirus
Since the coronavirus began spreading throughout the world, few things have been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our activities to develop markets for WASH products and services are no exception.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Health Care, WASH
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- NGOs
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Press Release: BRAC Receives $60 Million as 2020 Audacious Project to Lift 21 Million People From Extreme Poverty by 2026
Over the next six years, BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative will work with governments in countries with the greatest potential to scale BRAC's Graduation approach to help millions more people to lift themselves from extreme poverty.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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