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Press Release: DFC Announces New Global Development Strategy To Catalyze $75 Billion by 2025
DFC aims to maximize global development impact and deploy new technologies, while continuing to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Energy, Finance, Investing, Technology, WASH
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Press Release: Solar-Powered Technology To Level the Playing Field for Women and Girls in World’s Poorest Countries
The Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund has awarded 20 organisations a total of £2.9 million in funding for innovative, solar-powered appliance technology projects that will help to level the playing field whilst addressing the climate emergency.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Avoiding Information Overload: Four Lessons From a Performance Manager on How To Use Data To Drive Development Outcomes
Development impact bonds (DIBs) are a popular way to drive successful social outcomes – but assessing a program's effectiveness requires a lot of data. Dayoung Lee and Dia Banerjee at Dalberg Advisors share lessons they've learned from managing the performance of the world’s largest education DIB, showing how data can improve outcomes without causing undue burdens on the organizations that should be benefiting from it.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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Press Release: Uganda Posts Growth in Mobile Money Accounts During Pandemic, Mobile Subscribers Shrink
The growth to 25.9 million accounts was, however, smaller than what had been seen in the first quarter.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: UNDP, UNCDF, Switzerland and Kenya Launch a New Initiative To Govern BigFintech for Greater Good
Geneva, 9 October 2020 - Regulators, UN agencies, market actors and officials from 10 countries will gather virtually on October 9th to launch the Dialogue on Global Digital Finance Governance, implementing one of the key recommendations of the UNSG Digital Finance Task Force, to catalyse international and corporate governance innovations to ensure BigFintechs benefit all.
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- Finance, Technology
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Big Tech’s Emerging Market Finance Push Brings Rewards and Risk, FSB Says
A push by big technology firms into financial services in developing countries will improve access to them, but might also make traditional lenders more vulnerable, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) said.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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Taking Cold Chains Off-Grid: How Solar Powered Cold Rooms Could Dramatically Reduce Food Waste in Sub-Saharan Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa, up to 50% of produce perishes before reaching end customers, largely due to a lack of viable cold chain solutions. Maria Knodt at Energy 4 Impact and Ruth Kimani at CLASP explore how solar-powered cold rooms can address this issue, and highlight some significant technical and business model challenges that could undermine their impact.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy, Finance, Investing, Technology
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