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Press Release: Almost 2 Billion People Depend on Health Care Facilities Without Basic Water Services – WHO, UNICEF
A lack of water puts health care workers and patients at higher risk of COVID-19 infection.
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- Coronavirus
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Press Release: DFC Approves Over $2.1 Billion in New Investments for Global Development
Projects aim to bolster energy security in Eastern Europe, trusted telecommunications networks in Africa, and the global response to COVID-19
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- Coronavirus, Investing, Telecommunications
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Press Release: The EU Should Make 2021 the “Super Year” for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Europe and Globally, Shows New Report by SDSN and IEEP
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) publish today the Europe Sustainable Development Report 2020, the second independent quantitative report on the progress of the European Union, its member states, and other European countries towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed by all UN member states in 2015.
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- Environment, Investing
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- global development, SDGs
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Press Release: AgTech Company SeeTree Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding Round to Scale Globally and Expand into New Crops
SeeTree, an AI-powered, end-to-end service that provides growers with intelligence on trees and tree clusters, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. This third round of funding, one of the largest investment rounds for an Israeli Agtech company, will allow SeeTree to scale globally, grow the R&D and customer-facing teams and broaden services to cover new crops.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Analysis: Europe’s Second COVID-19 Lockdown Could Hurt African Economies
A second wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is forcing some European and Asian countries to implement lockdowns that could hurt the global market and many sub-Saharan African economies.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Big Impact of Small Improvements: How Last-Mile Distributors Have Responded to COVID-19 with ‘Incremental Innovation’
Distributing beneficial products in last-mile communities has always been difficult, but COVID-19 has made it much harder, exacerbating many of the challenges that last-mile distributors were already facing. Emma Colenbrander and Gerwin Jansen at the Global Distributors Collective explore innovative solutions to some of these challenges, many of which have tended to be incremental rather than radical.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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The Development Bank of Rwanda Spearheads Economic Inclusion Among Refugees
The Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) has secured $9 million (over Rwf8.5 billion) from the World Bank to finance entrepreneurial projects initiated by refugees in Rwanda.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UN: COVID-19 to Worsen Poverty in 47 Poorest Nations
The pandemic could push as many as 32 million people in the world's least developed countries into extreme poverty, a new UN report has said. Without international action, global development goals will be missed.
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- Coronavirus