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Africa’s Firms are Not Growing—New Data Reveal a Jobs Challenge
Across 48 Sub-Saharan African economies, a firm that has operated for nearly three decades employs barely twice the workers it had at birth. The gap relative to high-income economies is large, structural, and costly.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Urgent, Coordinated Response to Record Decline in Global Aid, per New OECD Data
Projections from ISGlobal research and The Lancet Global Health suggest this level of ODA decrease could lead to 9.4 million or more preventable deaths by 2030.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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- data, global development, NGOs, research, SDGs
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Africa CDC Secures Over US$250 Million to Advance Africa’s Global Health Security Agenda at the Lyon One Health Summit in Lyon
Implemented under Africa CDC leadership, this programme will strengthen surveillance, expand laboratory capacity, and deepen collaboration with leading European institutions.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WDI Partners with Villgro Africa and Haskè Ventures to Scale R&D Impact Voucher Model Across Seven African Countries
R&D impact vouchers connect small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) with public research organizations through affiliated researchers, enabling businesses that might otherwise lack resources to access cutting-edge scientific expertise while providing African researchers with access to SMEs that they normally would not be exposed to.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Switzerland and Malawi Authorise the First Article 6.2 Activity in Malawi: Malawi Dairy Biogas Program
The greenhouse gas mitigation activity is authorised under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, marking the first authorisation of its kind under the bilateral climate agreement between Malawi and Switzerland. It was developed in close partnership with Sistema.bio, EcoGen, ACT Group, and the KliK Foundation.
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- Energy, Environment, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Peru’s Natural Legacy Secures $37.5 Million Funding Boost from Green Climate Fund
New investment strengthens long-term protection of more than 15 million hectares of the Peruvian Amazon and expands Indigenous-led climate resilience.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Latin America
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Press Release: WDI, Africa Health Tech Summit Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Health Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Africa
The collaboration establishes WDI as a summit and knowledge partner for the Africa HealthTech Summit (AHTS), a premier Pan-African platform convening innovators, policymakers, investors, and business leaders to drive health sector transformation.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Accelerating Climate-Health: How the Sector Can Become Africa’s Next Strategic Investment Frontier
Africa faces a growing dual challenge at the critical nexus of climate and healthcare, as countries and health systems that are already strained by chronic underinvestment must now also deal with climate-related shocks and disease burdens. As Rajat Chabba at the William Davidson Institute and Martin Slawek at Open Capital Advisors explain, without targeted investment in integrated climate-health solutions, these health systems risk becoming overwhelmed, undermining public health and climate resilience across the region. But they also argue that these pressures create a clear opportunity for investors, businesses, and public and development-sector players. They explore why climate-health presents a compelling investment case in Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Investing
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