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Global Water Challenge and AMREF Health Africa Launch Women and Girl-focused Impact Partnership
As the world celebrated Global Handwashing Day, Global Water Challenge (GWC), with Amref Health Africa, launched a high impact community water partnership with support from The Starbucks Foundation to empower women and girls in coffee- and tea-growing communities of Kenya and Tanzania.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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Charting a Pathway to Scale Through Government: Adapting a Girls’ Empowerment Program to a Public School Setting
BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) program supports vulnerable young women through group training focused on education and social/economic empowerment. But despite its longevity and impact, the program has lacked a path to self-sufficiency and scale. Esau Tugume and Jenna Grzeslo at BRAC discuss a solution to this challenge: adapting ELA to an after-school setting in Uganda, allowing it to be scaled through public schools. They explore this model, and share how they've navigated the issues that can arise when leveraging government involvement in pursuit of scale.
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- Education
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- education, gender equality, gender gap, government, scale, social impact, Women, youth
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Women Left Behind: Gender Gap Emerges in Africa Vaccines
As health officials in Gambia and across Africa urge women to be vaccinated, they’ve confronted unwillingness among those of childbearing age.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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DFC Surpasses $6.7 Billion in Commitments in 2021 During Record Fiscal Year
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced it committed $6.7 billion to support private sector development projects in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 ended September 30, representing the largest level of financial commitments in a single year in 25 years.
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- Investing
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Made in Africa, Sold Around the World: An African E-Commerce Innovator Connects Women Creators with Global Customers
Sub-Saharan Africa is currently one of the world’s smallest e-commerce regions, but as Moulaye Taboure at Afrikrea points out, it has seen 42% year-on-year growth from 2019-2020, and its leading markets are starting to mature, providing a foundation for continued growth. He explores how several factors are aligning to support the e-commerce industry’s continued momentum in Africa, and discusses Afrikrea's efforts to build a platform that enables local sellers – particularly women – to grow their businesses and sell their products worldwide.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Press Release: Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth: a Call To Action to Accelerate Progress in Ending Maternal Mortality
During the celebration of its 10th anniversary, Merck for Mothers announced today the creation of a new global collaboration, Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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- healthcare, maternal health, SDGs, sustainability, Women
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‘We Need Dignified Jobs’: How a Human Trafficking Survivor Sparked a Social Enterprise to Empower Victims of Exploitation
Human trafficking survivors need more than rescue and handouts – they need jobs. But as Elsa Cruz of Savhera explains, trafficking victims face multiple barriers that prevent them not only from escaping their captivity, but from finding sustainable employment if they do regain their freedom. She shares how Savhera provides dignified employment to trafficking survivors in both the U.S. and India, through a unique approach focused on physical, intellectual, economic and spiritual healing and development.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Analysis: Information Asymmetry Is Keeping Rural Women Entrepreneurs From Success
Most semi-urban and rural Indian women who want to run their own micro-companies are either unaware of welfare schemes they can avail for financial support or they are too hesitant to apply.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Asia Pacific
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