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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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EIB Global Pledges More Than €1 Billion in Support of Mission 300 Goals
Mission 300, launched by the World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group, aims to connect 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa to electricity by 2030.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South Africa Develops $122 Million Bond to Restore Water Catchments
The outcome based bond will link investor returns to measurable environmental improvements such as invasive plant removal and catchment rehabilitation.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: British International Investment and ILX Complete First Joint Investment in Emerging Markets
The $15 million transaction marks ILX’s first sub-participation in a BII investment, since the two institutions formalised their partnership to increase institutional capital flowing into high-impact opportunities in emerging markets.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Global
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The Impact Sector is Confusing Satisfaction with Impact: Rethinking the Growing Reliance on Perception Surveys
Measurement standards in the impact sector have shifted toward perception surveys — i.e., forms that ask individuals to rate their personal experience with a program or organization — to quantify success. But as Juan Taborda Burgos, Jorge Bouchot and Miranda Hansen at Root Capital argue, perception-based metrics can mask a program’s ineffectiveness, potentially leading organizations to scale interventions that do not work. They share insights from a recent Root Capital report that reveal the downsides of relying solely on perception data, and offer four actionable principles that can help leaders navigate the pressure to demonstrate impact — while avoiding costly mistakes.
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- Agriculture, Investing, Social Enterprise
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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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FinDev Canada Proposes $33 Million Investment in BlueOrchard Initiative
BOCAMF is structured as a 12‑year private debt blended‑finance fund designed to channel capital into climate‑focused interventions across low‑ and middle‑income countries.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Innovation Under Constraint in the Global South
For the impact economy, the central challenge is not replication but responsibility. If scale reshapes power, then impact-aligned capital must take responsibility for how that power is structured and where value ultimately accrues.
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- Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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