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  Unhealthy Environment a Factor in Millions of Deaths Worldwide

  Living or working in an unhealthy environment caused almost one-quarter of all deaths worldwide in 2012, a report made public Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) found.

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  This Is a Great time to Be a Woman Entrepreneur, Says Activist

  Having spent 35 years of her career in the field of communication, publishing and digital media, Melanie Hawken decided to take a different path altogether—harnessing her communications experience to pull the audience of African women entrepreneurs. She founded a women entrepreneurs’ think-tank, ‘Lionesses of Africa’. Within a year, the organisation has managed to reach over 100,000 inspirational women entrepreneurs from across the continent. The target is to assist one million African women entrepreneurs to unlock their business potentials by 2018. During the recent Global Women’s summit in Kigali, Hawken talked to The New Times’ Athan Tashobya about her ambitions to share, inspire and connect women entrepreneurs across Africa and also weighed in on what Rwanda’s women empowerment policies mean to the continent.

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  How Should We Measure Access to Health Care?

  Nearly 300 civil society organizations working in global health are lobbying United Nations member states to undo proposed changes in the measurement of universal health coverage as part of the newly approved Sustainable Development Goals.

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  PWC to Liquidate Troubled Microfinance Company DKM’s Assets to Pay Back Depositors in Ghana

  PriceWaterhouse Coopers is to liquidate the assets of troubled microfinance company, DKM, to raise money to payback depositors whose monies were locked up with the company, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana said Tuesday.

• Blog Post
  Evaluation that Creates Value for Participants: A Client-Centric Approach

  Too often, the process of collecting data to evaluate impact, regardless of the intent, feels extractive to the research participants. Extractive industries are those that obtain natural resources from the earth without provision for the potential negative consequences of extraction. Similarly, some evaluations extract data from disadvantaged communities without providing any benefit in return. How Root Capital has taken a more client-centric approach.

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  Powering Up International Women’s Day – The Skilled Girl Effect

  Women are relatively new entrants to the formal workforce in Bangladesh, and most are the first in their families to have a job. As the trend of greater female employment spreads across the country, women are increasingly taking up leadership positions as well, which has tremendous implications for the country’s workforce. BRAC discusses these changes, and its efforts to support them through skills training.

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  Turning Global Targets into Action

  For the first time, the global health community is being called to act against the rise of NCDs, the root cause of 38 million of the 56 million deaths in 2012. What may come as a shock, given that NCDs are generally thought of as diseases of affluence, is that Africa as a whole is poised to bear the bulk of the NCD burden in the coming years.