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Turning Intent into Impact: How Gender Toolkits Empower Investors, Donors, and Businesses
When women have equal opportunities to thrive, it fuels progress, drives innovation, and creates shared prosperity. Organizations that promote gender equality—through inclusive leadership and equitable opportunities for women to shape operations and decisions—can unlock the full potential of their workforce....
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A New Harvest: How Blended Finance is Enabling Sustainable Farming
Global agriculture is at a critical juncture with climate impacts, severe soil degradation, and growing economic pressures threatening both farmer livelihoods and global food security. Food systems are currently responsible for over a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions—and without...
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Unconventional Coalitions Will Shape the Future for U.S. Workers: The Role for Funders
Workers in the United States won meaningful gains in wages, benefits, and working conditions in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2019, nine states have passed new legislation to raise their current or future minimum wage to $15 or...
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Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures: Five Innovations Advancing Maternal and Newborn Health through Digital Solutions
This year, the World Health Organization’s World Health Day theme is “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” spotlighting the urgency of improving maternal and newborn health. Maternal and newborn health is a foundational driver of societal well-being. Over the past two decades,...
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Navigating the DPDP Act: What It Means for EdTech and the Future of Digital Learning
In an AI-powered world where lives are increasingly digitized, and every interaction leaves a digital footprint, the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act marks a significant milestone in India’s evolving digital governance framework. The Act has undergone several stages of...
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From Public Funds to Commercial Finance: Evaluation of the FMO Progression Model
How can concessional public funding help businesses with a clear social purpose scale toward commercial viability? FMO’s Progression Model anchors on helping businesses grow by providing public funds in high-risk phases, transitioning them through FMO’s balance sheet, and ultimately positioning...
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An Interview with Layusa Isa-Odidi, Partner at Dalberg Advisors
Corporate sustainability is no longer a niche conversation; it has become a defining agenda for businesses worldwide and must be tailored to align with different stakeholder values and regulatory environments. As the urgency to address social and environmental challenges intensifies,...
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The AI Action Summit 2025: Africa’s Role in the Global AI Landscape
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be at the forefront of global discussions, shaping economies, industries, and everyday life. The AI Action Summit 2025, which wrapped up recently in Paris, infused fresh energy into this dialogue with a high-profile gathering. Now...
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Bharat Climate Forum 2025: Charting India’s Vision for Cleantech Self-Reliance
India has ambitious targets to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, meet 50% of its energy needs from non-fossil sources by 2030, and achieve 30% EV sales penetration for new vehicles by 2030. While significant progress has been made towards these...
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From Responsibility to Impact: The Private Sector’s Evolving Role
Learn how businesses can align profit with purpose, de-risk investments in emerging markets, and build more resilient, inclusive economies.
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Advancing Energy Access: The 2024 Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report
With 660 million people projected to remain without Tier 1 electricity access by 2030 and a growing 1.6 billion living in weak-grid areas, off-grid solar (OGS) solutions are critical to bridging the gap. In 2023 alone, the sector served 561...
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Closing the Gap: Elevating Corporate Impact in Humanitarian Response
As natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, climate impacts and other crises become more frequent and severe, humanitarian organizations are facing an urgent funding and resource gap. Many corporate actors and corporate foundations are already stepping up to support relief efforts, primarily...
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