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Report: Reimagining the Future of Entrepreneurship Support in East Africa
A new report from WDI, "Reimagining the Future of ESOs in East Africa," integrates insights from accelerators, incubators, investors, ESO donors and intermediaries in the East African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
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- Global
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Press Release: New Facility Launched to Strengthen Water Enterprises and Expand Safe Water Access
The facility is designed to help promising water enterprises grow stronger and reach further.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: The limits of AI in Social Change
More actors—from grantmaking to service delivery—are exploring the use of AI. However, the excitement around scale and efficiency often overshadows a critical question: What does it mean to bring machine-generated abstraction into systems built on trust, context, and relationship?
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- Technology
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- Global
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Press Release: Report: The Global Energy Alliance Shows How Partnerships Power Energy Access, Job Creation, and Carbon Reduction at Scale
As showcased in its newly released 2025 impact report, the Global Energy Alliance's public-private-philanthropy partnership model builds country-led coalitions and leverages catalytic finance and technical expertise to advance a sustainable energy future.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: We Tested AI Impact Assessments. Here’s What We Learned.
Can generative AI speed up and strengthen impact-performance assessment of venture investments?
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- Social Enterprise
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Nigeria’s Koolboks Raises $11 Million to Scale Solar-Powered Refrigeration Across Africa
The company designs solar-powered refrigeration units that pair ice-battery thermal storage with IoT telemetry.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Climate-Smart Public Health: A Blueprint for Resilient Health Systems
When different types of data are brought into one platform, researchers and climate and health practitioners can better understand how environmental changes lead to infectious diseases, etc.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Global
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Report: Impact Accounting Has an Equity Problem
Is water in Sweden really 25 times more valuable than water in Mauritania?
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- Environment, WASH
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- Global
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