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WHO/UNICEF Report Highlights Gaps in Health Facility Sanitation
The report calls on countries to strengthen routine monitoring and move beyond measuring whether infrastructure is present. Monitoring should increasingly assess reliability, safety, accessibility and cleanliness, as well as whether services meet the needs of patients and health workers.
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- Health Care, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- global development, hygiene, research, sanitation, water
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Report: Mobilizing Electric Two-Wheeler Finance in Indonesia
". . . with the phaseout of vehicle purchase subsidies, financing will become an increasingly important driver of market growth to meet the country’s electrification targets of 13 million E2Ws and 2 million electric four-wheelers by 2030."
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
- Region
- South Asia
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South Africa’s Unemployment Rises to 8.5 Million as Job Market Weakens
The latest figures were released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in its Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the second quarter of 2026, covering labour market conditions between April and June.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment, mining, MSMEs, research
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Lessons From One of the World’s Largest Health Surveys
India’s recently released National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) factsheets, covering nearly 679,000 households across 715 districts, give us an insight into the largest pillar of the global Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) network.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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ANDE’s Next Chapter
Announcement via ANDE, "To keep ANDE strong for the long term, we are transitioning to a digital-first operating model."
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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The Catch-22 in Global Health Finance: Why Medical Oxygen is the Test Case for Turning Aid into Investment
By most measures, medical oxygen in sub-Saharan Africa isn’t an investable market. As Alex Losneanu and Jason Houdek at Oxygen CoLab explain, providing medical oxygen is capital-intensive and operationally demanding. That means small- and medium-sized oxygen suppliers typically stall out or get absorbed into grant-funded programs instead of becoming commercially viable, and funders conclude that these SMEs are too fragile to justify the investment risk. They argue that this conclusion is wrong, and also self-fulfilling, reinforcing a Catch-22 that exists across global health. They share findings from a supplier mapping project that show how emerging business models are enabling oxygen SMEs to scale, and propose three shifts in how catalytic capital can be designed to support these and other businesses across the global health sector.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Interpol Report Finds AI Linked to More Than Half of Cybercrime in Africa
The 40-page report draws on survey data from 36 African member countries and highlights a defining shift: cyber-criminality has evolved from isolated incidents into an industrialized, borderless ecosystem.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Small Steps Taken Towards Greater Gender Diversity in African Startup Ecosystem in Last 2 Years, Says New Report
The report was released in partnership with industry stakeholders, led by Madica, an Africa-focused pre-seed investment programme dedicated to empowering underrepresented and underfunded mission-driven founders.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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