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WHO, UNICEF Update Country Tracker on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Health-Care Facilities, Showing Progress Across 107 Countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have released an updated country progress tracker that shows how countries are advancing efforts to improve water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and waste services in health-care facilities.
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- Health Care, WASH
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- Global
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Press Release: Goodwell and Alitheia invest in Hinckley E-Waste Recycling Ltd.
Goodwell and Alitheia invested in Hinckley through uMunthu II, a fund providing smart equity to early growth stage companies throughout Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, recycling, waste
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WHO, UNICEF Update Country Tracker on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Health-Care Facilities, Showing Progress Across 107 Countries
The updated tracker comes ahead of a global webinar on 29 July, hosted by WHO and UNICEF, which will share country experiences and highlight what more is needed to meet the targets set in the 2023 UN Resolution.
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- Health Care, WASH
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- Global
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- public health, sanitation, waste, water
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Sierra Leone Launches Landmark $180 Million Water Security and Wash Access Project
Structured in three progressive phases, the initiative provides a clear roadmap for achieving nationwide water security and sanitation access.
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- WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- development finance, employment, sanitation, SDGs, water
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Bringing Digital Transformation to the Water Sector: How New Technologies Can Boost Water Access in LMICs
Digital technologies have the potential to revolutionize the management and distribution of clean water in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). But according to Ellie Gabel, an environmental science writer at Revolutionized, many countries don't have access to these technologies, or lack the capacity to implement them. She explores this challenge in the context of Kenya, and discusses five essential factors that may aid or hamper digital transformation in the water sector across LMICs.
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- Technology, WASH
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To Truly Innovate, WASH Funders Need to Get Their Hands Dirty: Key Learnings from Five Years of Pioneering Impact-Linked Finance in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
The water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector faces a funding gap of around US $138 billion per year if it hopes to reach SDG 6’s goal of universal WASH access by 2030. According to Arnaud Alt and Annemarie Mastenbroek at Aqua for All, and Christina Moehrle, to address this shortfall, funders need to develop more hands-on financing approaches, working closely with entrepreneurs and organizations to better understand their context, challenges and needs. They explain why Impact-Linked Finance (ILF) represents one such approach, and share two key lessons from Aqua for All's "ILF for WASH" program.
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Press Release: Kumulus Water Raises $3.5mln to Redefine Clean Water Access With Off-Grid Tech in MENA and Europe
"Backed by Bpifrance, PlusVC, Flat6labs, Khalys Venture and Spadel, Kumulus to scale Atmospheric Water Generators (AWS) that extract safe drinking water from air without infrastructure."
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- Environment, Technology, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Making Waves in the Regenerative and Sustainable Ocean Economy
"The World Economic Forum, the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, Builders Vision and Katapult Ocean have collaborated to showcase the diversity, maturity, and bankability of investment opportunities within the regenerative and sustainable ocean economy in a new report, Making Waves in the Regenerative & Sustainable Ocean Economy: Transformative Ocean Investment Opportunities."
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- Environment, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa