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Press Release: UNICEF and the GIIN Join Forces to Integrate Child Outcomes Into Impact Investing
The collaboration will result in tools and guidance that help investors to measure, manage and optimize their impact on children.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Addressing the Communications Breakdown in Global Development: How AI-Enabled Assessment Tools Can Reach Excluded Communities
Development work can only be effective if it’s based on the actual needs and lived experiences of the communities it aims to serve. But as Talía Jiménez Romero at Fortell Impact explains, in many of the remote, under-resourced areas where this work is most needed, the voices of local people are often the hardest to hear, due to barriers related to language, education, and lack of access to the internet and other technologies. She explores how AI can be leveraged to facilitate data collection and needs assessments in these multilingual and low-connectivity contexts, while complementing the work of local teams on the ground.
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- Technology
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The African Development Bank Group and the United Nations Development Programme Have Launched the AI 10 Billion Initiative
The AI 10 Billion Initiative is a co-designed partnership between the Bank Group, UNDP and private partners that seeks to mobilise up to $10 billion by 2035.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Economy That Remembers: Institutional Amnesia and the Regenerative Correction
Modern capitalism has perfected a hidden discipline: the systematic design of economic systems that forget. What we call “externalities” are not costs that disappear — they are consequences displaced. The regenerative economy, at its core, is not simply greener or more inclusive. It is an effort to build systems that remember.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Botswana Targets Drug Manufacturing in Health Emergency Recovery
Health Minister Stephen Modise, in an interview, said that while medicines are now more widely available, nationwide the focus is on building strong supply chains with locally manufactured drugs to overcome the high cost of importing medication.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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REDD+ Can Make Poor Households More Vulnerable
Analysis of two Indonesian projects finds neutral or negative impacts on household income.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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Impact Leadership Under Pressure: Four Lessons from Resilient Organizations
Impact leadership is hard even in the best of times. But as Erin Worsham and Kimberly Bardy Langsam at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) explain, recent crises have put added stress on leaders and organizations across the sector. Drawing on insights gathered during COVID-19 and other crises, they share four key lessons that can help impact leaders navigate the pressure of the present while preparing their organizations for the future.
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- Social Enterprise
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UNFPA and Africa CDC Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance Health and Innovation Across Africa
The agreement cements a shared commitment to accelerate progress toward universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), promote demographic resilience, and build resilient, equitable health systems through innovation and strategic partnerships.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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