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Billion dollar funding package agreed for universal health coverage in Africa
The World Bank and the Global Fund will invest $24bn in Africa over the next three to five years in order to accelerate universal health coverage across the continent. The bank and the fund, which works to tackle AIDS, TB and malaria, announced the funding at a Japanese-backed conference on African development in Kenya last week.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Markets-Based Approach Can Help Solve Global Water Scarcity
As cities grow and farms expand, many rivers and lakes are being dried up by water diversions.The Nature Conservancy is now working with environmentally-minded investors to buy back some water for nature. That story is told in a new report released today titled “Water Share: Using water markets and impact investing to drive sustainability.”
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Good Business: How Social Enterprises Are Changing Southeast Asia
Within a vast inner-city Melbourne shopping centre, Koky Saly is standing inside his pop-up shop, a stylish cube of glass and steel, telling customers his story. Charming and gregarious, his enthusiasm is palpable as he extols the virtues of his merchandise to a couple browsing.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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Zuckerberg Sells $95 Million In Facebook Stock For Philanthropic Organization
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just sold a huge chunk of stock to fund his recently launched philanthropic initiative, according to a new regulatory filing on Wednesday.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- North America
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77 million women added to India’s banking system in 1 year
As many as 358 million Indian women (61 per cent) have bank accounts, up from 281 million (48 per cent) in 2014, the biggest jump for “banked” women among eight South Asian and African countries surveyed by Intermedia, a global consultancy.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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Nonprofits Are Seeking Profits
The International Non-Governmental Impact Investing Network has released a report showing how not-for-profit organizations are actually chasing profits by embracing the concept and process of impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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How Fortune’s ‘Change the World’ Companies Profit From Doing Good
Few companies today can claim to be entering their fourthcentury in business. GlaxoSmithKline GSK -1.15% , the $37-billion-in-revenue pharmaceutical giant, is one of them, tracing its roots—by way of various corporate iterations, mergers, and rechristenings—to a London apothecary called Plough Court Pharmacy, established in 1715.
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- Impact Assessment
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Press Release: Investors Generate Business Value by Analyzing Social and Environmental Performance Data
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) today published a new report, The Business Value of Impact Measurement, which outlines how impact measurement and management can generate business value for impact investors and their investee companies.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- North America
- Tags
- impact investing
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