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Navigating India’s Waste Management Transition: New Rules Move Towards Digital Traceability and Stronger Compliance Systems
The rules introduce a centralised digital portal for registration, reporting and tracking waste flows across the country.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- regulations, waste
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Proparco Commits $15 Million to AIIM’s African Transition Acceleration Fund
The pan-African fund targets a $200 million raise and will back early-stage project developers.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First Africa Climate-Health Desk is Launched
The Africa Climate-Health Desk will help close the long-standing gap between climate science and public health decision-making.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda’s Zigoti Secures $1 Million Funding From Sahel Capital to Support Smallholder Farmers
Zigoti sources its coffee beans from a network of more than 4,000 smallholder farmers, providing not only a stable market for their harvests but also offering a range of extension services, training programmes, and value-added support aimed at improving crop quality and farmer livelihoods.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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DriveWealth Powers Ualá’s Launch of U.S. Stock Investing in Mexico
The launch marks another step forward in expanding access to global capital markets for a broader population of investors.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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Research: A Plan to Maneuver Female Leadership in Ghana’s Renewable Energy Sector
The country is experience a profound paper-to-practice divide with agencies operating in silos and treating gender as a tangential social issue rather than core economic requirement.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South African AI Startup Yazi Secures First Institutional Funding at $1.6 Million Valuation
Founded in 2022 by CEO Timothy Treagus and CTO Mzwandile Sotsaka, Yazi is attempting to disrupt the $153 billion global market research industry by moving away from traditional email-based surveys and towards the world’s most used messaging platform: WhatsApp.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Who Pays for Dignity? Rethinking India’s Waste Economy
Despite the essential role that waste workers perform in any functioning city, they are often severely underpaid and denied the dignity, security, and recognition they deserve.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
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