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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, Impact Assessment
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Analysis: Digital Generation, Our Generation: Girls Need Access to Digital Devices and Services
On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, millions of girls are coming together with organisations like UNICEF to call to close this digital gap and accelerate opportunities for girls.
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- Technology
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- accelerators, digital inclusion, SDGs, youth
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Indian Online Learning Platform Vedantu Becomes Unicorn With $100 Million Funding
Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Ford, Macarthur Foundations Launch $5 Million Fund to Support ‘Youth Ecosystem’ in Nigeria
NYFF is a five-year collaborative fund seeded by $3 million from the Ford Foundation and $2 million from the MacArthur Foundation.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- youth
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From Local Manufacturing to Digital Tech: How African Organizations are Pivoting to Support Maternal and Child Health During COVID-19
There have been substantial improvements in maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa over the last two decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put these gains at risk, as both maternal and perinatal outcomes are worsening in countries across the continent. Shraddha Kothari of Intellecap details how some organizations have adapted to respond to these challenges, exploring how they're using technology-based solutions, local manufacturing and innovative partnerships to prevent further deterioration of maternal and child health outcomes in the region.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Report: Education Is in Danger of Collapsing in a Quarter of Countries. These 8 Are Most At Risk.
Education has taken a serious blow from Civil conflict, climate disasters, and COVID-19 says Save the Children’s report.
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- Coronavirus, Education
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, youth
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Analysis: The 6 Ps of Empowering Youth Social Entrepreneurs
Youth social entrepreneurs are becoming pillars of resilience in the COVID recovery period.
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- Coronavirus
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- youth
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Financial Services That Work for Young People: How Social Norms Impact Financial Resilience Among the Youth in Africa
Financial service providers are capable of reaching young people in Africa, but not without a deep understanding of how social norms and expectations are impacting their financial access and usage, say Lise Paaskesen at Lise Consultancy and Weselina Angelow at the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute. They explore research that suggests how providers can improve young people's opportunities and resilience by offering services that foster autonomy, decision-making and bargaining power — which in turn can contribute to changing social norms in those areas.
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- Finance
- Tags
- financial inclusion, research, youth
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