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Research: A Plan to Maneuver Female Leadership in Ghana’s Renewable Energy Sector
The country is experience a profound paper-to-practice divide with agencies operating in silos and treating gender as a tangential social issue rather than core economic requirement.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: UNICEF and the GIIN Join Forces to Integrate Child Outcomes Into Impact Investing
The collaboration will result in tools and guidance that help investors to measure, manage and optimize their impact on children.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: The Economy That Remembers: Institutional Amnesia and the Regenerative Correction
Modern capitalism has perfected a hidden discipline: the systematic design of economic systems that forget. What we call “externalities” are not costs that disappear — they are consequences displaced. The regenerative economy, at its core, is not simply greener or more inclusive. It is an effort to build systems that remember.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: Innovation Under Constraint in the Global South
For the impact economy, the central challenge is not replication but responsibility. If scale reshapes power, then impact-aligned capital must take responsibility for how that power is structured and where value ultimately accrues.
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- Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: ‘Clean Energy for People and Planet’ Must Start With African Realities
For Africa, the clean energy agenda cannot be framed as a matter of global urgency translated into continental compliance. It must be ‘glocalised’, by adapting to local political economies, governance realities, historical trajectories of (under) development, and importantly, a consideration of indigenous energy systems.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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2026 Gates Foundation Annual Letter: The Road to 2045
"Last year, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria rose. And in 2025—for the first time this century—it’s almost certain that more children died than the year before."
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: After 2030: Defending the Global Goals in an Age of Retreat
If the SDGs are to be replaced or reimagined after 2030, the most urgent task is to identify what must not be lost.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Global
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AllianzGI Launches $1 Billion Emerging Markets Climate Finance Fund
The fund will focus on emerging markets globally including Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Asia Pacific.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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