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UNCTAD adviser, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, launches African Young Entrepreneurs Fund
Mr. Ma said that he would also work with UNCTAD help bring 200 budding African businesspeople to his homeland China to learn from Alibaba hands on.
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- Entrepreneurship
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No more empty stocks: Contraceptives reach rural women thanks to pioneering logistics system
“It is free - no need to pay. Better still, I am also told that from now on I can get it regularly in my home when the mobile health team visits my village. We can now start family planning. It is very good for us”, says Nan Aye Aye Lwin.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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U.N. glimpses into blockchain future with eye scan payments for refugees
Iris recognition devices at the checkouts of the camp's supermarket authenticate customers' identities and deduct what they spend from sums they receive as aid from the World Food Program (WFP).
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- Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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The world’s first solar-powered refugee camp
As part of its Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign, the IKEA Foundation began offering solar lamps to residents in Azraq, which became essential for everything from cooking and studying, to safe access to water and sanitation. Yet the lamps, though essential, only illuminated the broader challenge of life without a consistent power grid.
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- Energy, Environment
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- North Africa & Near East
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- migration, refugees, renewable energy, solar, solar energy, Syria, UN, UNHCR
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Opinion: Adopting the sustainable development goals is a business opportunity for Australia
Business as usual is not an option. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched in 2015, are 17 goals for ending poverty, transforming health and education, improving our cities and communities, addressing gender equity and tackling urgent challenges such as climate change. Collectively, they propose a new development pathway, based on partnership between governments, civil society and business that could transform our societies.
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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UN Study: Digitization of Kenyan Farmer Payments Helps Tackle Poverty
One Acre Fund, supported by Citi, enabled farmers to easily make loan repayments via mobile money instead of cash, reducing the uncertainty, inefficiency, insecurity and high costs previously caused by cash transactions.
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- Agriculture, Financial Inclusion, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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10 things you need to know about the Better Business, Better World report
The report is an 88-page roadmap to help business leaders understand how the private sector can benefit from the SDGs, and reveals the issues that will present the biggest opportunities for their businesses over the next 13 years.
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- Energy, Environment
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Tedros’ fundraising strategy for WHO, global health
Tedros has repeatedly mentioned the need to expand the WHO’s donor base, and he reiterated this during his first press conference as the newly elected director-general on Wednesday at Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the current 70th World Health Assembly is held. WHO’s funding unit requires upsizing in terms of size and skills of human resources, he said. WHO should look into what it can learn from other United Nations agencies, such as UNICEF, on the issue of fundraising.
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- Health Care
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- donors, ethiopia, fundraising, global health, health care, healthcare finance, UN, WHO
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