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Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation and International Development Research Centre Advance Solutions to Protect People’s Health from Climate Change Impacts in Senegal and Uganda
The $1.4M collaboration supports strengthening governance, evidence generation, and investment readiness of the two countries’ national health systems.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Spiro Raises $100 Million, the Largest-Ever Investment in Africa’s E-Mobility
Spiro says it plans to deploy more than 100,000 electric bikes across Africa by the end of 2025, a 400% year-over-year jump that underscores its ambition to dominate a category long considered too fragmented to scale.
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- Energy, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Finance Corporation Secures USD $100 Million Facility From Findev Canada, Marking Its Inaugural Transaction in the Canadian Market
The facility will strengthen AFC’s funding base and support a growing pipeline of renewable energy and low-carbon transport projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, further expanding the Corporation’s commitment to climate-resilient infrastructure development.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ampersand Lands New Funding Aims for 13,000 Electric Motorcycles and a Doubled Battery-Swap Network by 2026
"The fresh capital will fund a rapid roll-out of battery-swap stations and charging infrastructure aimed at cutting riders’ energy costs and shrinking urban emissions."
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- Energy, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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DHL Group Commits More Than €300 Million to Accelerate Trade Growth Across Africa
This investment underscores DHL’s commitment to Sub-Saharan Africa and supports AfCFTA’s goals to boost intra-African trade and strengthen Africa’s position in global markets.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TerraCycle Foundation Launches Green School Program to Help Thai Students Address Plastic Pollution in Their Communities
The TerraCycle Global Foundation is bringing environmental education into the classroom with the launch of its Green School program—an immersive initiative that gives Thai students living near some of the world’s most polluted waterways the tools, knowledge, and confidence to lead change in their own communities.
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- Education, Environment, WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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- hygiene, sanitation, waste, youth
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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
- Region
- Global
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Biodiversity Gets Its ISO Moment: Nature Accounting Arrives
By formalizing the emerging field of nature accounting, it could prove almost as consequential for corporate sustainability as the Paris Agreement was for climate, especially if it triggers the same kind of data-driven accountability shift.
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- Environment, Finance
- Region
- Global
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