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Quality Infrastructure that Benefits All: Time for a Shift in How We Think about Gender in Infrastructure
Investing in infrastructure is widely recognized as a cornerstone of socio-economic development and is attracting increasing attention in the post-COVID era. With no country in the world spared from the economic impacts of the pandemic, infrastructure has been pitched as...
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The Rising Tide of Health Technology: Design for Equity to Ensure Access for the Underserved
Dalberg recently hosted a webinar with four medical practitioners who are helping to redefine the intersection of health tech and equity. This is what we learned. While the health technology market has been growing consistently for more than a decade,...
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Kenya’s Digital Economy: A People’s Perspective
A Dalberg study into how people in Kenya experience and use digital devices and services offers insights for stakeholders seeking to advance and deepen digital engagement for all Kenyans. The study, conducted in partnership with Omidyar Network, validates Kenya’s position...
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None Until All Are Free: LGBTQ+ Rights Through an Intersectional Lens
None Until All Are Free: LGBTQ+ Rights Through an Intersectional Lens By Saalar Aghili Saalar Aghili is a consultant in Dalberg’s Justice, Equity, and Economic Mobility practice, which is dedicated to building a more equitable and just society for all...
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Expanding access to finance for urban female retail traders in Kenya
Financial Service Providers (FSPs) in emerging markets are increasingly recognizing that a one-size-fits-all approach to expanding access to finance does not meet the needs of many small businesses, notably women-led small businesses. But what specific steps are necessary to design...
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Making Mobile Money More Inclusive: The Potential Impact of Africanenda on the Mobile Payments Ecosystem in Africa
Usage of mobile money has exploded across Africa during the Covid-19 crisis. At first blush, this is good news given that the past decade has shown that providing access to mobile money accounts is one of the most impactful ways...
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Paving the Way for African Leadership in Health Emergency Management
Public Health Emergency Operations Centers (PHEOCs) play a critical role in mitigating the most serious effects of Covid-19 and other health emergencies. Through a grant awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Dalberg has worked across five West African countries to help...
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The Energizing Finance Research Series: Taking the Pulse 2021
The 2021 Energizing Finance study — developed by international organization Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) in partnership with Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Dalberg Advisors — shows that for the seventh consecutive year, the world is falling perilously short of...
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Funding Agricultural Innovation for the Global South: Does it Promote Sustainable Agricultural Intensification?
What does the global agricultural innovation investment landscape look like? This study provides a global baseline for investments in agricultural innovation, looking at who is investing and how funds are being invested, including how much of this funding aims to...
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Immunization Programs In Africa: A New Path Forward
Two decades into a mission that has saved millions of lives by supporting immunization efforts in developing countries, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is carving a path for countries to sustainably finance and manage their own health programs in the medium-...
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Covid in India: Analyzing the Socio-Economic Impact and Efficacy of Early Government Relief Efforts
A survey of 47,000 low-income households across 15 states in India highlighted how entitlement schemes could adapt to families’ needs in a time of crisis, and helped inform what is needed for the path ahead. As the Covid crisis progressed,...
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The Opportunity to Reverse Devastating Biodiversity Loss through a Nature-Positive Economy
Earth’s biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate—since 1970 wild animal populations have declined by 68% on average, and over 130 000 insect species have died out. Its continued loss would be dire for humanity, but a new report published...
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