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‘Moonshot’ Education Finance Facility Aims to Turn $1 Into $7 in LMICs
The International Finance Facility for Education is finally up and running — and it’s “a smart aid approach,” according to its first CEO, Karthik Krishnan.
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- Global
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Scaling Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Developing Local Ecosystems
Across Africa, governments and development actors are investing in youth entrepreneurship, with funders and international NGOs increasingly partnering with local non-profits to develop better support ecosystems for young entrepreneurs. But as Grégory Valadié and Juan Carlos Thomas at TechnoServe explain, many of these local organizations face limitations in capacity, systems and tools. They explore four ways to maximize these partnerships’ impact by complementing their direct implementation work with systems-level solutions, and leveraging institutions that already reach young people at scale.
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- Education
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Introducing the OpenAI Learning Accelerator in India
According to OpenAI, the OpenAI Learning Accelerator is designed to ensure AI strengthens learning, supports teachers, and addresses the unique needs of India’s education system.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- edtech, skill development, youth
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Boehringer Ingelheim Invests in Kasha Global to Expand Women’s Health Access in Africa
Kasha Global operates a distribution model designed to reach underserved populations where 52% of Africans lack access to necessary healthcare.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TechnoServe Will Create Enterprise Development Academy to Boost Small Business Growth and Job Creation Around the World
The initiative to strengthen local enterprise support organizations is expected to benefit at least 50,000 businesses across Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Report: UNICEF and Partners Bring Child-Lens Investing to the Forefront of Global Financial Inclusion
The four organizations, along with a cohort of impact investors and financial services companies, have collaborated to embed the child-lens impact assessment approach into the 2025 Microfinance Index (MFI Index), the world's largest financial inclusion study grounded in customer voice.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Ola Krutrim Acquires AI Platform Bharatsah’Ai’Yak
With this acquisition, Ola Krutrim plans to integrate BharatSah’AI’yak into its LLMs, cloud infrastructure, and agentic platform Kruti.
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- Agriculture, Education, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: The Math Tutor and the Missing $533 Million
"From Dubai, the enigmatic founder of Byju’s recounts how he made his empire — and vows to rebuild it."
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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