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Storytelling for Velocity, Not Visibility: Why African Development Organizations Need a New Communications Playbook How African development organizations can create a more holistic, systems-based approach to managing their communications efforts.

Storytelling for Velocity, Not Visibility: Why African Development Organizations Need a New Communications Playbook

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#GlobalDevelopment #Africa #communications #PublicRelations #consulting #SubSaharanAfrica

Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond Analysts at Acumen and Open Capital explore the challenges that are holding the productive use of renewable energy sector back.

Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond

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@acumen.org #solar #energy #EnergyAccess #agriculture

Rethinking What it Means to Start a Business: Why Systemic Venture Building Matters for Africa’s Food Future Analysts explore a systemic venture-building model that can support African entrepreneurs working in agriculture and other sectors.

Rethinking What it Means to Start a Business: Why Systemic Venture Building Matters for Africa’s Food Future

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#Africa #FoodSecurity #agriculture #business #SystemChange #GlobalDevelopment

Interoperability is the Answer to Scaling Up E-mobility in Africa: What the Continent Can Learn from the EU and India’s Divergent Approaches How the EU and India’s different routes toward interoperability in electric vehicles and batteries can inform Africa's e-mobility transition.

Interoperability is the Answer to Scaling Up E-mobility in Africa: What the Continent Can Learn from the EU and India’s Divergent Approaches

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#ElectricMobility #EMobility #ElectricVehicles #EVs #Africa #India #SustainableMobility

Scaling Through Consortiums: Five Lessons We’ve Learned About Growing Impact Collectively Five lessons that can enable impact-focused organizations to collaborate effectively and scale their solutions through consortiums.

Scaling Through Consortiums: Five Lessons We’ve Learned About Growing Impact Collectively

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#NGOs #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #nonprofits

NextBillion's Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest Congratulations to the winners of NextBillion’s 2025 “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest, and best wishes for the new year!

NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest

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#SocialEnterprise #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact #solar #EnergyAccess #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #degrowth #GlobalSouth #SocialEntrepreneurship #Africa

Announcing NextBillion's Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4 It's time for NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of the Year contest: Read these 12 key articles from 2025, and vote for your favorites.

Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4

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#solar #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact #SocialEnterprise #EnergyAccess #renewables #entrepreneurs #ImpactInvestors #SocialEntrepreneurship #SolarPower

Backing First-Time SME Finance Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 10 Years of Data Reveals Successful Pathways — And the Role of Catalytic Capital New research shows how first-time SME investors can move from concept to first investments — and how catalytic capital can support them.

Backing First-Time SME Finance Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 10 Years of Data Reveals Successful Pathways — And the Role of Catalytic Capital

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#ImpactInvesting #EmergingMarkets #Africa #investing #ImpactInvestors #CatalyticCapital

African Agriculture at a Climate Crossroads: Business Risks and Opportunities as the Continent Navigates the Growing Crisis Why African agriculture faces a choice: remain trapped in a cycle of ongoing emergency responses — or invest in long-term climate resilience.

African Agriculture at a Climate Crossroads: Business Risks and Opportunities as the Continent Navigates the Growing Crisis

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#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Africa #ClimateAction #SubSaharanAfrica #GlobalDevelopment #sustainability #agriculture #farming

Context Instead of Carbon: Why Climate Finance in Africa Must Shift its Focus from Mitigation to Adaptation Why framing climate action as either mitigation or adaptation prevents funding from reaching Africa’s most climate-smart solutions.

Context Instead of Carbon: Why Climate Finance in Africa Must Shift its Focus from Mitigation to Adaptation

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#Africa #carbon #CarbonCredits #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateMitigation #ClimateAction #agriculture #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment

Press Release: @technoserve.bsky.social, The Bid Lab, and Argidius Foundation launch VerdeXcelerate – Agtech for Impact, a new initiative designed to boost #startups that support #Smallholder farmers in #CentralAmerica and #Colombia.

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#business

AI Risk Management in Digital Finance: Protecting Africa's Underbanked from Invisible Threats AI-powered lending tools offer new opportunities to reach the underbanked — but they also introduce new risks that lenders need to manage.

AI Risk Management in Digital Finance: Protecting Africa’s Underbanked from Invisible Threats

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #fintech #DigitalFinance #FinancialInclusion #RiskManagement

The World is Losing the Fight Against Malaria: Could Drones and AI Help Defeat the Disease Once and For All? How SORA Technology is using drones equipped with AI-powered cameras to target mosquito breeding sites and eradicate malaria at its source.

The World is Losing the Fight Against Malaria: Could Drones and AI Help Defeat the Disease Once and For All?

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#malaria #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment #Africa #drones #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PublicHealth #SubSaharanAfrica

Financing Off-Grid Solar: A Pioneering Provider in Honduras Shows the Impact of Diversified Funding How the pioneering company Soluz Honduras is bringing solar products to Honduras' rural areas by tapping a diverse array of financing models.

Financing Off-Grid Solar: A Pioneering Provider in Honduras Shows the Impact of Diversified Funding

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@hummingbirdgreen.bsky.social #Honduras #solar #EnergyAccess #ImpactInvesting #OffGrid #funding #GlobalDevelopment

Entrepreneur-Friendly Inclusive Finance: A Survey of Brazilian MSMEs Highlights Key Lessons for Lenders 60 Decibels' interviews with over 400 MSME loan applicants in Brazil show how inclusive lenders can better serve the needs of entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur-Friendly Inclusive Finance: A Survey of Brazilian MSMEs Highlights Key Lessons for Lenders

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@60decibels.bsky.social #Brazil #MSMEs #SmallBusiness #lending #ImpactInvesting #ImpactMeasurement #entrepreneurs #FinancialInclusion

Africa Needs Jobs — the Agri-Food Industry Can Provide Them: How the Sector Can Boost its Impact on Employment Across the Continent Sub-Saharan Africa must create 20 million jobs per year til 2050 to keep up with population growth: Could the agri-food sector provide them?

Africa Needs Jobs — the Agri-Food Industry Can Provide Them: How the Sector Can Boost its Impact on Employment Across the Continent

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#agriculture #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #employment #FoodSecurity #unemployment #GlobalDevelopment #jobs

NextBillion at 20: Reflecting on Growth, Change and Global Impact In celebration of its 20th anniversary, NextBillion is highlighting articles and conversations that have shaped emerging markets business.

NextBillion at 20: Reflecting on Growth, Change and Global Impact

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#GlobalEntrepreneurshipWeek #GEW2025 #SocialEnterprise
#SocialEntrepreneurship #EmergingMarkets #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact

Public Good vs. Profitable Exits: Why Public Innovation Agencies Must Stop Copying Venture Capital Emre Eren Korkmaz explores the downsides of public institutions' embrace of the profit-centric, risk-averse mentality of venture capital.

Public Good vs. Profitable Exits: Why Public Innovation Agencies Must Stop Copying Venture Capital

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@ox.ac.uk #innovation #VentureCapital #VC #SocialInnovation #investing #SocialImpact #ImpactInvesting #PublicSector

Tackling Climate Disinformation Is on the COP30 Agenda A Declaration on Information Integrity was launched at COP30 where signatory countries committed to address climate disinformation.

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#COP30HealthDay #ClimateChange #ClimateDisinformation #disinformation #sustainability

#COP30 is underway, and several new announcements, including new reports, partnerships and funds have been released.

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#ClimateAction #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange #MSMEs #socimp #COP30Brazil #ActionAgendaSolutions #FundOurFuture

BII and BlueOrchard Launch $250 Million Climate Fund for Insurers BII will anchor the BlueOrchard Climate Action Mobilisation Fund (BOCAMF), with both firms targeting investment from insurance companies.

News: @britishintinv.bsky.social and BlueOrchard Launch $250 Million Climate Fund for Insurers:

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#ImpactInvesting #DevelopmentFinance #insurance #SMEs #EmergingMarkets #SocialImpact #ClimateFinance

From Energy Access to Economic Empowerment: Workable Models for Financing a Just Transition in Emerging Markets Anthony Osijo at Bboxx explores ways to finance a just climate transition in emerging markets — while also eradicating energy poverty.

From Energy Access to Economic Empowerment: Workable Models for Financing a Just Transition in Emerging Markets

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#EnergyAccess #CleanCooking #JustTransition #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #EmergingMarkets #solar #SolarEnergy #Africa

Convincing Customers to Buy What’s Best for Them: How Lessons from Clean Cooking Can Increase the Adoption of ‘Merit Goods’ How the clean cooking sector’s experience selling cookstoves and fuels highlights strategies to boost consumer uptake of other "merit goods."

Convincing Customers to Buy What’s Best for Them: How Lessons from Clean Cooking Can Increase the Adoption of ‘Merit Goods’

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#CleanCooking #EnergyAccess #EmergingMarkets #marketing #SocialImpact #GlobalDevelopment #climate #ClimateAction

Turning Failure into Fuel: An Emerging Learning Platform Aims to Bring the Hidden Challenges in Humanitarian Energy to Light How the Humanitarian Energy Learning Platform aims to highlight — and learn from — failure in humanitarian energy access.

Turning Failure into Fuel: An Emerging Learning Platform Aims to Bring the Hidden Challenges in Humanitarian Energy to Light

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#energy #solar #EnergyAccess #humanitarian #refugees #GlobalDevelopment #failure #SolarEnergy #EmergingMarkets

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up: Bhutan and Fiji’s Contrasting Paths to Digital Transformation Reveal the Pros and Cons of Government and Market-Driven Approaches A study involving Bhutan and Fiji reveals their contrasting digital adoption strategies, providing lessons for other small countries.

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up: Bhutan and Fiji’s Contrasting Paths to Digital Transformation Reveal the Pros and Cons of Government and Market-Driven Approaches

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#DigitalFinance #FinancialInclusion #DigitalTransformation #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #Fiji #Bhutan #fintech

Time is a Social Innovator’s Most Precious Resource: Why Are So Many Funders Wasting It? Many funders are surprisingly wasteful with social innovators' time: Here's a better way for funders to handle grants, investments and RFPs.

Time is a Social Innovator’s Most Precious Resource: Why Are So Many Funders Wasting It?

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#SocialEnterprise #NGOs #nonprofits #funding #funders #GlobalDevelopment #ImpactInvesting #entrepreneurs #investors #SocialInnovation

To Change the World, Change Your Economics: How Degrowth Can Shrink Overconsumption in the Global North While Allowing the Global South to Grow Analysts explore what a "degrowth" agenda might mean for global development efforts — and for countries in the Global North and South.

To Change the World, Change Your Economics: How Degrowth Can Shrink Overconsumption in the Global North While Allowing the Global South to Grow

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@mattorsagh.bsky.social #degrowth #overconsumption #GlobalSouth #climate #ClimateChange #environment #economics

The Emergence of InfraTech: How AI and Other Digital Technologies are Enabling Climate-Resilient Transportation Infrastructure in LMICs An estimated 1 billion people lack access to all-weather roads: Here's how "InfraTech" solutions are addressing this gap in LMICs.

The Emergence of InfraTech: How AI and Other Digital Technologies are Enabling Climate-Resilient Transportation Infrastructure in LMICs

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#infrastructure #ClimateResilience #ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #climate #EmergingMarkets

Are Impact Investors Really Listening?: Why Capturing Stakeholder Insights is Key to Impactful Investment Strategies Impact investor Acumen shares what it has learned from embedding listening and impact management into every stage of its investment process.

Are Impact Investors Really Listening?: Why Capturing Stakeholder Insights is Key to Impactful Investment Strategies

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@acumen.org #ImpactInvesting #investing #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #EmergingMarkets

Right Decision, Wrong Reasons: The Way Forward from the Attack on Global Aid Analysts explore market-based alternatives to the failing humanitarian aid model, and propose five principles to guide the transition.

Right Decision, Wrong Reasons: The Way Forward from the Attack on Global Aid

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#GlobalAid #HumanitarianAid #humanitarian #USAID #GlobalDevelopment #refugees #EmergingMarkets