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Regional Leaders Launch Blended Finance Initiative to Expand Surgical Care Across Latin America and the Caribbean
An estimated 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care, with disproportionate impact in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Bayer Foundation and UNCDF Announce Inaugural Investments of the Food Systems Innovation Finance Facility in Agri-Businesses Omia and SokoFresh
As concessional resources contract, the need to mobilize additional capital into high-impact sectors such as food systems has become increasingly urgent.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Global
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FinDev Canada Proposes $33 Million Investment in BlueOrchard Initiative
BOCAMF is structured as a 12‑year private debt blended‑finance fund designed to channel capital into climate‑focused interventions across low‑ and middle‑income countries.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Innovation Under Constraint in the Global South
For the impact economy, the central challenge is not replication but responsibility. If scale reshapes power, then impact-aligned capital must take responsibility for how that power is structured and where value ultimately accrues.
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- Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond
Productive use of renewable energy (PURE) technologies such as solar irrigation, cold storage and agro-processing can have a transformative impact in Africa and other emerging markets. But though the potential of these technologies is undeniable, the scale isn’t. As Daniel Waldron, Chris Emmott and Kristi Chon at Acumen, and Duda Slawek at Open Capital explain, few agricultural companies are delivering PURE solutions, and fewer still are growing fast enough to meet the scope of the problems they are trying to solve. They share new research and analysis that illuminate the challenges that are holding the sector back, and propose three ways forward.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Mirova Invests $19 Million in Kenya’s Cold Solutions Kiambu to Scale Climate-Smart Cold Chain in East Africa
The funding comes through the Mirova Gigaton Fund, a blended finance debt vehicle focused on scaling clean energy and climate solutions in emerging markets.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: CrossBoundary Access and Anka Close a Landmark Acquisition in Madagascar, Reinforcing Momentum Toward Investment in Mini-Grids for Energy Access Across Sub Saharan Africa
This acquisition marks the first exit of early-stage investors from an operational mini-grid platform in Madagascar, demonstrating the growing bankability of the mini-grid asset class and developers.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AllianzGI Launches $1 Billion Emerging Markets Climate Finance Fund
The fund will focus on emerging markets globally including Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Asia Pacific.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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