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Analysis: Africa’s Climate Adaption: How Zimbabwe Is Reimagining Agriculture?
Climate change intensifies health risks, water shortages, and ecological threats, affecting livelihoods, wildlife and children.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AfDB’s Sustainable Energy Fund For Africa to Boost Electric Cooking Expansion
This programme makes clean cooking appliances more affordable and accessible by prefinancing induction cookers and recovering costs through carbon credit sales in the voluntary market.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tradeable Impact Credits Could Boost Social Funding, Report Says
Trading impact credits based on social outcomes is proving a success in some places and should be scaled up to offset constraints on social funding, according to a new report developed by the Schwab Foundation, South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies(CSES) and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: How Unlock Aid Built a $2+ Million Bridge Fund When Washington Froze Aid
Within one month of the U.S. foreign aid freeze, the Foreign Aid Bridge Fund made its first grant recommendations.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Africa to Be Hit Hard as UK Foreign Aid Cuts Revealed
A Foreign Office report and impact assessment show the biggest cuts this year will come in Africa, with less spent on women's health and water sanitation with increased risks, it says, of disease and death.
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- Finance, Health Care, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Swedfund Invests $10 Million to Support MSME Lending in East and Southern Africa
Swedfund, Sweden’s development finance institution, has signed a USD 10 million loan to Platcorp Holdings Limited to support lending to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC Announces $20 Million Equity Investment in Transvolt Mobility
The investment aims to promote electric vehicle adoption and job creation in India.
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- Technology, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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African Development Bank Approves Financing to Advance Rwanda’s Universal Energy Access
The RBF II program is anchored on Rwanda’s Energy Sector Strategic Plan and aims to improve the quality of life of residents, drive economic growth, and reduce poverty through targeted investments in the energy sector.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa