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IRC and GiveWell Partner to Deliver Safe Water to 1.7 Million People in Chad, Nigeria, and Somalia With Cost-Effective Approach
This 18-month pilot will introduce a cost-effective approach to water treatment across refugee camps, displacement settlements, and vulnerable host communities.
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- Social Enterprise, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Are Impact Investors Really Listening?: Why Capturing Stakeholder Insights is Key to Impactful Investment Strategies
Collecting data is easy for impact investors; acting on it is harder. As Taanya Khare at Acumen explains, most impact investment firms turn data-driven insights into action through intentional spaces like investment committees or portfolio review sessions. But she argues that listening is about more than surveys or feedback loops — it requires investors to sit down with company teams to make sense of customer insights, identify blind spots and co-create better solutions and impact strategies. She shares what Acumen has learned from embedding listening and impact management into every stage of its investment process.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Global Partnerships Announces Maturity of 6th Impact Investment Fund
The 10-year Social Investment Fund 6.0 demonstrated the power of impact-first investing strategies for addressing poverty in Africa and Latin America
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Report: Reimagining the Future of Entrepreneurship Support in East Africa
A new report from WDI, "Reimagining the Future of ESOs in East Africa," integrates insights from accelerators, incubators, investors, ESO donors and intermediaries in the East African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
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- Global
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Consultants at a Crossroads in Global Development: New Research Reveals their Challenges — And Highlights Strategies for Navigating the Current Disruption
The dismantling of USAID earlier this year has had many ripple effects, including over 238,000 global jobs lost at the agency and its implementing partners. But according to development consultants Alethia Wong and Lorenz Wild, the plight of independent consultants working in global development — who are often not represented in workforce statistics — hasn't received much attention. To better understand these impacts on the consulting ecosystem, they launched a survey of independent consultants earlier this year: They share the results in this article, exploring how development consultants are pivoting to earn income and how contracting companies can support them — and sharing advice from job recruiters for consultants looking for full-time roles.
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- Social Enterprise
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Jacqueline Novogratz and Acumen Raise $300 Million For Off-Grid Solar In Africa
Backers include Green Climate Fund, IFC, Shinhan Bank, Nordic Development Fund and Soros Economic Development Fund.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: We Tested AI Impact Assessments. Here’s What We Learned.
Can generative AI speed up and strengthen impact-performance assessment of venture investments?
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- Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Kenya’s SunCulture Raises USD $5 Million to Scale Solar-Powered Irrigation in Africa
SunCulture offers solar-powered irrigation pumps, providing smallholder farmers with a sustainable and affordable alternative to diesel or manual systems.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa