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Impact Management Moves Toward Standardization: How Investors are Harmonizing Their Practices — And Where More Progress is Needed
Impact investing and development finance are promising ways to generate positive impacts and healthy financial returns in emerging markets. But as Thelma Brenes Munoz and Mitzi Perez Padilla at FMO, the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank explain, the lack of standardized impact management practices across different investors has become a key obstacle for the industry. They explore the growing movement toward standardization in impact management, discussing key signs of progress — and what investors can do to accelerate it.
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- Investing
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Barbados Approved for US $100 Million Loan from Inter-American Development Bank
The loan allows Barbados to continue modernising its policies, laws and regulations as it strives to achieve sustainable development.
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- Environment
- Region
- Latin America
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Press Release: Report: World Bank Urges Action for Gender Equality in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
The report advocates for gender-responsive legislation to safeguard women’s rights in mining and build a more sustainable sector.
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- Energy, Health Care, WASH
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- Global
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Three West African Junta-Led States Quit ECOWAS Regional Block
Since the coups - and despite sanctions, negotiations and threats of military intervention - the military leaders have failed to provide a clear timetable for a return to constitutional rule.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- regulations
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Can Mr. Beast Break Through on the Chinese Internet?
The world’s biggest YouTuber is breaking into the one market Western content creators have generally avoided: China.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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IKEA Supports SME Waste Management Projects with $5.1 Million in Kenya
The collaborative effort will support the development of policies and regulations that encourage private sector engagement in waste management and circular economy practices.
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- Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Navigating the Opportunities and Risks of Solar Irrigation: The Importance of Comprehensive Accounting and Smart Regulations
A realistic assessment of the technical and logistical costs, complexities, and expected returns from linking solar irrigation with carbon credit programs in LMICs should be undertaken to set realistic expectations.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- agtech, energy access, food security, regulations, research, solar, water
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Nigeria: Lagos State Bans Single-Use Plastics
Commissioner Wahab directed the State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, and the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, to immediately commence implementation of the ban.
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- WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, regulations, waste
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