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Mastercard Lighthouse Massiv and UNDP Announce Partnership and Strengthen Their Commitment on Impact Measurement and Management for Startups
Mastercard Lighthouse MASSIV and UNDP contribute to amplifying the private sector’s role in creating a significant positive impact on people and ensuring we leave a better planet for future generations.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Global
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Putting Outcomes Above Ideology: Why the Development Sector Must Recognize the Critical Role of Low-Fee Private Schools in Addressing the Global Learning Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the global learning crisis, with up to 70% of children in low- and middle-income countries unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10. Yet Corina Gardner and Stephen Caleb Opuni at the IDP Foundation argue that, despite the urgency of the situation, the development sector remains locked in an ideological debate over whether non-state schools should play a role in the global education landscape. They urge the sector to move past its resistance to private education options and instead work to ensure that these schools are properly regulated, integrated and supported.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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Interview: Bill Gates Says Rich Countries Are Tackling Hunger in Africa All Wrong
Bill Gates suggests how backward rich countries' approach to tackling global hunger is a band-aid approach.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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‘Nearly Every Indicator of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Is off Track’: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Report
This year's report, "The Future of Progress," especially noted the impact of the pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Yemen.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Global
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- SDGs
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Why Are Impact Investors Ignoring African Healthcare?
The need to support the private sector – which largely consists of thousands of small-scale clinics and pharmacies – cannot be overlooked.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, SDGs
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Report: Quality Data Is Crucial to Accelerate Progress on the SDGs
New resource from GRI and UN Global Compact to spearhead global momentum on SDGs reporting.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Global
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- global development, SDGs
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Press Release: Amid Widening Sustainable Development Goals Financing Gap, Alliance Invests in Building New Generation of African Investors
AVPA, a network of social investors collaborating to mobilize and deploy capital for impact, has launched a new program designed to strengthen the capabilities of African social investors.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: New Partnership Aims to Enhance Energy Capacities in Humanitarian and Disaster Contexts
The partnership is aimed at enhancing capacity and increasing sustainable energy access through an ecosystem approach in humanitarian settings
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- Energy
- Region
- Global
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- energy access, partnerships, SDGs, solar