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Menstrual Health and Hygiene: A Cross-Cutting Impact Opportunity
Women and girls* who menstruate make up a quarter of the world’s people, yet too many of them lack the resources they need to manage their menstruation – including knowledge, products, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and positive social norms around...
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Resilient Rural Women: Applying Personas and Insights for Climate-Smart Innovation
Rural women in low-income countries have different motivations and behaviors, even when they share a common livelihood like agriculture. Understanding their uniqueness enables service providers to tailor offerings that better help rural women boost climate-smart practices. Around the world, rural...
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India’s GDP Could Grow by $50 Billion a Year Through More Physical Activity
How valuable is physical activity to the economy? A pioneering study by Dalberg alongside Sports and Society Accelerator is measuring the impact in India. Here are our preliminary findings. If every adult in India were to shun a sedentary lifestyle...
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5 Steps to Help Improve India’s Education System
Our team in India recently brought together key education leaders to discuss the sector in general — including the national education policy, EdTech, generative AI, innovative finance, and climate change. India’s education sector is one of the largest and most...
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Dalberg’s Climate Commitment: Update on Our Journey to Net Zero
In 2020, we pledged as a firm to reach net-zero. Our three-part climate commitment — with a 2026 goal — binds us to neutralize our carbon footprint, offset emissions along with plastic use, and apply a climate lens to all...
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The Potential of Web3 Technologies to Drive Social Change
Web3 and blockchain technologies are increasingly prevalent and have the potential to dramatically transform many parts of society, including the social impact sector. Whether conversations focus on the metaverse, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), or decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), the global Web3...
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Dalberg Announces Seven New Partners
Representing four different offices and three different entities, we are thrilled to announce the election of seven new Dalberg Partners. As the most senior leaders in the firm, Partners play a leading role in stewarding Dalberg’s mission and business, deepening...
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Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Closing the Monitoring, Verification, and Reporting Gap to Enable Sustainable Regenerative Agriculture
Silvia owns a thousand acres of wild grassland located in the Argentinian Gran Chaco – a biodiversity hub and the world's second largest lowland forest. The quickest way for Silvia to make money off their land is to graze it...
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Land Restoration that Works: How to Rejuvenate the Environment while Stimulating Economic Growth
Across Africa, a climate solution known as Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is gaining traction through an ambitious goal to restore 100 million hectares of degraded landscape by 2030. But more philanthropic capital is needed to help FLR achieve its potential...
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Driving Change through Storytelling: An Interview with Journalist and Dalberg Alum Megan Schutzer
Megan Shutzer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist who focuses on issues related to race, gender, and class in the U.S. and around the world. Her work includes the documentaries “New Generation Queens: A Zanzibar Soccer Story”, an...
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Dalberg Advisors Elects Gaurav Gupta as Global Managing Partner
Dalberg Advisors is pleased to announce the appointment of Gaurav Gupta as Global Managing Partner. Effective January 1, 2023, Gaurav will steward the firm at a time of rising recognition that social and environmental impact can no longer be a...
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Rural Women and Climate Change: The Products and Services that Are Expanding Earning Potential and Mitigating Risk
Integrating a climate and gender lens into services for rural women could help reduce the gender inequality gap and prevent them from being excluded from climate resilience initiatives. Factoring gender and climate considerations into the design of financial services like...
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