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Press Release: UNDP to Support Seven Innovative Financial Solutions for Clean Energy in East Africa
The seven solutions are the winners of the UNDP Climate Aggregation Platform Financial Innovation Challenge which aims to crowdsource innovative financial aggregation solutions for clean energy assets in East Africa.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google, Others Say Uganda Anti-LGBTQ Bill Bad for Business
A business group in Uganda including corporate giants such as Google says it opposes the country's anti-LGBTQ legislation.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can Pay-As-You-Go Help Clean Up Clean Cooking?
Since 2015, the global focus on clean cooking has grown substantially, bringing more funding, research and attention from policymakers to the sector. But according to Tash Perros at the University of Liverpool, Iwona Bisaga at Loughborough University and Julia Tomei at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, progress remains slow, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They examine some of the reasons behind the inertia that is plaguing clean cooking access, and explore whether pay-as-you-go business models could catalyze progress.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Microsoft Begins Wave of African Layoffs in Kenya
While the layoffs have mostly been concentrated in Seattle, Washington, where Microsoft’s operations are based, other countries have not been spared—Kenya being the first in Africa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Oxfam Novib and Goodwell Target East African Startups With €20 Million Pepea Fund
The fund will provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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JP Morgan Has Opened an Office in Kenya, Making It Present in All Four of Africa’s Biggest Technological Hubs
JP Morgan, the biggest bank in the United States and the world based on market capitalization, now had a regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Outgrowing the Flower Pot: Why Just Selling Productive Equipment to Smallholder Farmers is Not Enough
A new wave of companies are bringing equipment powered by renewable, decentralized energy to smallholders, and these devices can significantly boost farmers' yields and product quality. But as Daniel Waldron, Christopher Emmott, Priyanka Dudeja, Paraag Sabhlok and Chris Wayne at Acumen explain, just like a tree growing in a flower pot, this new growth can become a burden if it has nowhere to go. They argue that productive equipment must be combined with market access interventions to truly benefit smallholders, and highlight two innovative companies that are demonstrating the impact of this approach.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Switzerland Pledges 15 Million Francs to the Bamboo-UNCDF Initiative for the Least Developed Fund
The BUILD Fund is a unique investment fund in support of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in least developed and lower middle income countries (LDCs and LMICs).
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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