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Press Release: Convergence and Global Asia Insurance Partnership (GAIP) Announce Partnership to Advance the Role of Insurance in Blended Finance
This partnership aims to encourage the mobilization of insurers into blended structures addressing the climate and health risks faced by marginalized and vulnerable communities in developing countries.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Global
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WDI Names Rajat Chabba Senior Director of Innovation, Partnerships
Our parent organization, the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI), has named Rajat Chabba as Senior Director of Innovation and Partnerships, a new position for the Institute.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
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- Global
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KOIS Appoints Impact Comms Expert Impact & Influence as Its Partner
I&I is a specialist communications consultancy, founded to focus on impact investing, and will advise on both the positioning and the delivery of KOIS Advisory.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- Global
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CreditAccess Grameen Raises 25 Million Euros From German Investment Corporation DEG
Blended finance tools like co-financing bring together development finance and private sector investments, helping to mobilise funds for sustainable development.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Catalytic Climate Finance Facility Awards USD 2 Million to New Cohort of Blended Finance Vehicles
The CC Facility will grant the selected five grantees USD 2 million to test, structure, launch, and expand solutions.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Subsidy and Synergy: How Philanthropy Can Complement Impact Investing More Effectively
The original goal of impact investing was to build out the funding spectrum between philanthropy and commercial investment. But according to Asad Mahmood at SIMA and Nanno Kleiterp, the arrival of private equity firms — promising scale and market-rate financial returns — has pulled all the sector's energy toward the commercial end of the spectrum. They explore the key role philanthropic subsidy has played in the development of emerging markets business, clarify some misconceptions about its role in impact investing, and propose some ways philanthropists and impact investors can better align their efforts.
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- Energy, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
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EAAIF Makes Anchor Investment of $28 Million in Africell
The Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund has invested in the African mobile operator’s $300m international public bond, the proceeds of which will strengthen mobile and data connectivity for subscribers in four countries.
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- Investing, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Camco Signs USD $50 Million Funded Activity Agreement With Green Climate Fund
The GCF’s investment in REPP 2 will be a cornerstone of the fund’s blended finance structure.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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