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Announcing the launch today of a new platform for scaling up innovative finance solutions to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the initiative can help in identifying and piloting innovative finance instruments that can drive investment and support well thought-out SDG interventions.
Ban Announces Launch of New Partnership Platform to Support Financing for Sustainable Development GoalsNews
At a session on defining the “next generation” of primary health care at the United Nations General Assembly, Tim Evans, senior director of health, population and nutrition at the World Bank Group, said the international development community is suffering from “pilotitis.”
Business and INGO Partnerships: Are We on the Same Planet?Blog Post
India’s digital identification system, Aadhaar, has registered nearly 80 percent of India’s 1.3 billion citizens. Just across the border, Pakistan's NADRA system has issued 120 million identities among the country's 180 million citizens. Both systems give citizens an ID and can give them access to both government and commercial services, yet they are radically different. Which approach provides the best model for other countries?
India vs. Pakistan: The Pros and Cons of Two Radically Different Digital ID SystemsCalendar Event
International Monetary Fund World Bank Group Annual MeetingNews
ImpactSpace, the open database for the impact investing marketplace, is bringing CSRHub’s environmental, social and governance ratings into the world of impact investing.
ImpactSpace and CSRHub Bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Ratings to Impact InvestmentsNews
Let us imagine this: Free, clean drinking water available for the masses, twenty four hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year. Statistics, reports and various articles are constant reminders of how the lack of clean drinking water is pervasive in Bangladesh. Thousands of lives are lost annually as a consequence of water borne diseases like diarrhea and cholera. In Dhaka, this densely populated capital city, hundreds and thousands of people belonging to lower income households have very little or no access to clean drinking water.
Clean Drinking Water for AllNews
Not many 25-year-olds can claim to get up at 4 am and work weekends to save the world from an impending Armageddon that could cost tens of millions of lives. But for the past three years, Shu Lam, a Malaysian PhD student at the University of Melbourne, has confined herself to a scientific laboratory to figure out how to kill superbugs that can no longer be treated with antibiotics.
Does this 25 year-old hold the key to winning the war against superbugs?News
On Wednesday 21st September 2016, the Selection Committee for the 7th European Microfinance Award, on “Microfinance and Access to Education”, composed of members of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) and Inclusive Finance Network Luxembourg (InFiNe.lu), chose the three finalists who will go on to compete for the €100,000 prize: Fundación Génesis Empresarial from Guatemala; Kashf Foundation from Pakistan; and Opportunity Bank of Uganda. This year, the Award recognises the role of microfinance in enabling access to education for children and/or skill-training for youth and adults to enhance their employment and self-employment opportunities.
Finalists Announced for 7th European Microfinance Award on Access to Education
