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AstraZeneca Launches Africa Health Innovation Hub to Increase Access to Healthcare
This network seeks to tackle current healthcare challenges through collaborative innovation, promote affordable and equitable healthcare access.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Forget about Mobile Money, Invest in Insurtech Instead: The Untapped Triple Bottom Line Opportunity in Nigeria
Nigeria has one of the lowest insurance penetration rates in the world, at just 0.5%. But as Brian Yu at Shecluded explains, this low uptake means the industry is poised for disruption and growth. He explores how insurtech innovators are addressing the key problems plaguing the sector — namely, a lack of accessibility, affordability and customer trust — and calls for funders to look past their traditional focus on mobile money and invest in the insurtech businesses that are transforming the way the industry serves low-income customers.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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Analysis: Combatting India’s Learning Crisis Through Innovations in Financing: ‘How’ We Fund Is as Important as ‘What’ We Fund
Over the last few years OBF has created a paradigm shift for the way that capital is deployed to solve for intractable development challenges such as learning poverty.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Bitget Launches $100 Million Web3 Fund to Support Next-Generation Crypto Projects in Asia
The fund will focus on investing in Web3-friendly venture capital and outstanding Web3 projects, with the goal of supporting the development of the next generation of crypto projects.
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: UNDP to Support Seven Innovative Financial Solutions for Clean Energy in East Africa
The seven solutions are the winners of the UNDP Climate Aggregation Platform Financial Innovation Challenge which aims to crowdsource innovative financial aggregation solutions for clean energy assets in East Africa.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Visa Foundation Commits $5 Million to Support Women Entrepreneurs in Africa
Visa Foundation says it expects to contribute $5 million in grants and impact investments in Africa that will support women’s participation in the digital economy.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: DFC Approves More Than $655 Million of Investments to Bolster Infrastructure, Energy Security, Food Security, and Healthcare in Q2 of FY2023
The transactions will support U.S. foreign policy and development priorities across the globe.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Global
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New Report Shines Spotlight on E-Mobility Innovators Unlocking Access to the US $3.65 Billion Motorcycle Market in Sub-Saharan Africa
Electric motorcycles are set to be a dominant force in sub-Saharan Africa’s sustainable mobility transformation.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa