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Announcing Our New Partnership with ImpactSpace
We have long been on the lookout for a media partner that's creating deep and useful market data for the companies we cover on NextBillion. That's why today we're thrilled to announce a media partnership with our friends at ImpactSpace, a new open data platform created to fill the information gap in impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Gavi, India PM discuss strategic vaccine partnership
Gavi, a global vaccine alliance, proposes to have a new strategic partnership with India for 2016-2021, which will see further fund support of up to $500 million to accelerate the introduction of modern vaccines for all children in the country.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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NexThought Monday: Proof Points for a New Model of Aid
Partners in Food Solutions was founded five years ago on the conviction that Africa can and someday soon will feed itself, and that there are business solutions to humanitarian problems. Today, the CEO says, that conviction has been proved out by the organization's impact and by its growing ranks of corporate partners.
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- Agriculture
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Tackling the World’s Deadliest Childhood Disease
Few people in the developed world would ever guess that pneumonia kills more children under the age of 5 than any other disease. This serious respiratory infection takes the lives of nearly a million children each year, with the vast majority of these deaths occurring in developing countries.
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- Health Care
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Expanding the Boundaries of Global Health: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sector
“There is a shift taking place in the public health arena to strategically engage the private sector to address global health needs,” said Bridget McHenry, a fellow for Global Health Fellows Program II, serving as organizational development adviser for Office of Population and Reproductive Health in U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health Bureau.
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- Education, Health Care
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UNICEF, Philips launch maternal and child care innovations project
Kenya is set to benefit from a joint project of UNICEF and the Philips Foundation which targets at reducing maternal and child mortality rates.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New MasterCard-SMU Program to Help Promote Financial Inclusion in Asia Pacific
MasterCard and the Singapore Management University (SMU) today announced the launch of a two-year Social and Financial Inclusion Programme.
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Small Foundations Are Embracing Impact Investing
Paperwork and bureaucracy aren’t just pains in the backside of everyone working at every small business or smaller nonprofit. They’re also barriers to entry — for new people, new ideas and even new sources of capital.Crowdfunding might help level the playing field, but even that has a new set of challenges and limitations. When it comes to improving our cities, who knows how many opportunities to try out new approaches or scale up existing models are falling through the cracks?
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