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When AI Gets It Wrong: Lessons from a Women-Centered Design Experiment Highlight the Need for Inclusive GPTs CARE's attempt to build a women-centered design GPT for female entrepreneurs shows the need for more inclusive AI models.

When AI Gets It Wrong: Lessons from a Women-Centered Design Experiment Highlight the Need for Inclusive GPTs

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenderEquity #ChatGPT

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Beyond Shock, Money or Mandate: Why African Banks Aren’t Taking Bold Climate Action — And What it Will Take to Move Forward African banks have yet to truly engage in climate finance: Analysts share a framework for understanding the extent of their climate lending.

Beyond Shock, Money or Mandate: Why African Banks Aren’t Taking Bold Climate Action — And What it Will Take to Move Forward

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#ClimateChange #ClimateFinance #ClimateAction #climate #Africa #banking #lending #GlobalDevelopment #finance

Moving Past the ‘Infrastructure of Hope’: Why Investors, Policymakers and Entrepreneurs Must Build a Modern E-Commerce Ecosystem in Southeast Asia Why the lack of a formal e-commerce ecosystem is the central challenge for economic inclusion in Southeast Asia today.

Moving Past the ‘Infrastructure of Hope’: Why Investors, Policymakers and Entrepreneurs Must Build a Modern E-Commerce Ecosystem in Southeast Asia

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#Ecommerce #SoutheastAsia #SmallBusiness #entrepreneurs

Aligning Capital with Justice: How Innovative Finance Can Enable the Final Stretch Toward Energy Access in Africa How rethinking energy finance can help expand energy access to the remaining 10% of excluded communities — which are primarily in Africa.

Aligning Capital with Justice: How Innovative Finance Can Enable the Final Stretch Toward Energy Access in Africa

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#ImpactInvesting #Africa #EnergyAccess #solar #renewables

A New Green Revolution in Indian Agriculture: How Satellite Remote Sensing is Quietly Transforming the Sector How satellite remote sensing is enabling a data-driven revolution in Indian agriculture, and how the sector can foster wider adoption.

A New Green Revolution in Indian Agriculture: How Satellite Remote Sensing is Quietly Transforming the Sector

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#satellites #agriculture #farming #smallholders #India

The ABCs of Catalytic Sunsetting: How Foundations and Other Philanthropic Funders Can Exit Boldly — And Leave a Bigger Legacy How philanthropic funders can leverage “catalytic sunsetting," spending down their assets in a defined timeframe to catalyze systemic change.

The ABCs of Catalytic Sunsetting: How Foundations and Other Philanthropic Funders Can Exit Boldly — And Leave a Bigger Legacy

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@dalberggroup.bsky.social @kusisami.bsky.social #philanthropy #philanthropists #SocialEnterprise #ImpactInvesting

Scaling Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Developing Local Ecosystems How youth entrepreneurship projects in Africa can leverage institutions like schools and public agencies to reach young people at scale.

Scaling Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Developing Local Ecosystems

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@technoserve.bsky.social #entrepreneurship #Africa #GlobalDevelopment #NGOs #nonprofits #YouthEmployment

Building Sustainable Sanitation Markets in Africa: Lessons from Uganda and Malawi Research from Uganda and Malawi sheds light on the challenges, opportunities and business models that are emerging in this critical sector.

Building Sustainable Sanitation Markets in Africa: Lessons from Uganda and Malawi

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#sanitation #Africa #EmergingMarkets #WASH #Uganda #Malawi #sustainable #UrbanDevelopment

A Field-Based Perspective on Sub-Saharan Africa’s Agriculture Crisis: Exploring the Four Critical Dimensions that are Driving Food Insecurity How agriculture businesses, funders and policymakers can address the multifaceted factors that contribute to food insecurity in Africa.

A Field-Based Perspective on Sub-Saharan Africa’s Agriculture Crisis: Exploring the Four Critical Dimensions that are Driving Food Insecurity

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#agriculture #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #farming #agtech #ClimateChange

The Circular Solar Opportunity in Africa: How Refurbishing Solar Systems Can Reduce E-Waste and Expand Energy Access Inter Ethiopia Solutions explores its circular economy approach to refurbishing solar home systems and repurposing lithium-ion batteries.

The Circular Solar Opportunity in Africa: How Refurbishing Solar Systems Can Reduce E-Waste and Expand Energy Access

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#solar #SolarPower #SolarEnergy #Africa #Ethiopia #EWaste #CircularEconomy #RenewableEnergy #renewables #OffGrid

Women, Wealth and Climate Resilience: The Transformative Power of Asset Creation in Africa How asset creation can advance both climate resilience and the quality of life for women and girls in Africa.

Women, Wealth and Climate Resilience: The Transformative Power of Asset Creation in Africa

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#Africa #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #ClimateSolutions #GenderEquity #entrepreneurship

Building Smarter Data Practices in Entrepreneurship Support Ecosystems: How Entrepreneurs, Investors and Other Stakeholders Can Drive Systemic Change How entrepreneurship support ecosystems can improve their monitoring, evaluation and learning and data-sharing practices.

Building Smarter Data Practices in Entrepreneurship Support Ecosystems: How Entrepreneurs, Investors and Other Stakeholders Can Drive Systemic Change

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@wdavidsoninst.bsky.social #entrepreneurship #data #SocialEnterprise #ImpactInvesting #SocialImpact

Designing Digital Health Tools for the Last Mile: Lessons for Maximizing Connectivity, Usability and Trust Four lessons from digital health deployments in emerging markets show why some tools succeed in the last mile, while others stall.

Designing Digital Health Tools for the Last Mile: Lessons for Maximizing Connectivity, Usability and Trust

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#DigitalHealth #GlobalHealth #healthcare #DigitalAccess #EmergingMarkets #India #Africa #PublicHealth

A Global Effort to Unleash Local Data: How Open Mapping is Shaping Grassroots Climate Resilience Worldwide How open mapping leverages community-generated data to create reliable maps of vulnerable areas for use in climate mitigation and adaptation.

A Global Effort to Unleash Local Data: How Open Mapping is Shaping Grassroots Climate Resilience Worldwide

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#mapping #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateResilience #ClimateAction #EmergingMarkets #NGOs

Redefining Fairness: How Second-Degree Price Discrimination Can Bring Greater Access to Essential Goods and Services in Emerging Markets

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#equity #EmergingMarkets #BusinessDevelopment #PriceDiscrimination #economy #microeconomics #business #NGOs #MSMEs #EconomicDiscrimination

Transforming How Financial Service Providers and Fintechs Leverage Data: A New Free Tool Aims to Separate the Signal from the Noise

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#FinancialInclusion #fintech #DigitalFinance #EmergingMarkets #FinancialServices #data #DigitalEconomy #innovation

Measuring Systems Change in Agricultural Finance in Africa: Practical Metrics and Guidance for Detecting and Tracking Real Change Agricultural finance in Africa remains limited, but these metrics can help reveal whether systems change is actually happening in the sector.

Measuring Systems Change in Agricultural Finance in Africa: Practical Metrics and Guidance for Detecting and Tracking Real Change

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@dalberggroup.bsky.social #agriculture #Africa #lending #finance #SystemsChange #farming #SubSaharanAfrica

From COVID to Foreign Aid Cuts: How Community-Led Financial Access Can Help Women and Their Communities Weather Crises As foreign aid cuts and other crises reduce funding for women’s inclusion, community-led financial access is more important than ever.

From COVID to Foreign Aid Cuts: How Community-Led Financial Access Can Help Women and Their Communities Weather Crises

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#FinancialInclusion #microfinance #EmergingMarkets #ForeignAid #USAID #COVID19 #GlobalDevelopment @e-mfp.bsky.social #FinancialServices #COVID

The Rise of the Creator Economy in Emerging Markets: Empowering Youth and Marginalized Communities Through Web Monetization How Web Monetization — a “pay-as-you-use” approach that enables small, real-time payments — can empower content creators in emerging markets.

The Rise of the Creator Economy in Emerging Markets: Empowering Youth and Marginalized Communities Through Web Monetization

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@interledger.interledger.social.ap.brid.gy #ContentCreators #influencers #EmergingMarkets #employment #YouthEmployment

Connected Power: Ensuring Africa is Not Left in the Dark — or Offline How "connected power" — positioning telecom towers as anchor customers for energy projects — can boost energy and internet access in Africa.

Connected Power: Ensuring Africa is Not Left in the Dark — or Offline

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#Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #EnergyAccess #SolarEnergy #solar #InternetAccess #DigitalDivide #OffGridSolar #internet

Bringing Digital Transformation to the Water Sector: How New Technologies Can Boost Water Access in LMICs How digital technologies can revolutionize the management and distribution of clean water in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Bringing Digital Transformation to the Water Sector: How New Technologies Can Boost Water Access in LMICs

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#water #WASH #technology #Kenya #Africa #WaterSector #EmergingMarkets #WaterAccess #DigitalTransformation

It’s Time to Rethink Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Introducing ‘Access-as-a-Service’ Exploring "Access-as-a-Service," a model that combines in-person care options with first-line healthcare provided through digital channels.

It’s Time to Rethink Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Introducing ‘Access-as-a-Service’

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@jhpiego.org #Africa #healthcare #health #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #UniversalHealthcare #EmergingMarkets

Being a Changemaker in an Era of Accelerating Change: A Q&A with Ashoka Founder and Social Entrepreneurship Pioneer Bill Drayton Ashoka founder Bill Drayton shares his thoughts on social entrepreneurship as the sector faces new challenges — and exciting opportunities.

Being a Changemaker in an Era of Accelerating Change: A Q&A with Ashoka Founder and Social Entrepreneurship Pioneer Bill Drayton

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#SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact @socapglobal.bsky.social
@pioneerspost.bsky.social @impactentrepreneur.com @ssir.org

Mobilizing More Capital for African SME Funds: New Research Reveals Persistent Market Constraints — And a Growing Focus on Innovation Analysts share findings from a new report on the SME fund investment landscape in Africa, discussing their implications for fund managers.

Mobilizing More Capital for African SME Funds: New Research Reveals Persistent Market Constraints — And a Growing Focus on Innovation

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#Africa #SMEs #MSMEs #investing #ImpactInvesting #MSMEDay #WorldMSMEDay #GlobalDevelopment

Bringing African Knowledge into the Probiotic Industry: The Untapped Goldmine in Nigeria’s Fermented Foods As the health benefits of probiotic foods have become more widely known, Nigeria's fermented food market could evolve into a viable industry.

Bringing African Knowledge into the Probiotic Industry: The Untapped Goldmine in Nigeria’s Fermented Foods

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#Nigeria #probiotics #FermentedFoods #FoodIndustry #FoodIndustry #GlobalDevelopment #GutHealth #nutrition #FoodSecurity #Africa #FoodSystems

To Truly Innovate, WASH Funders Need to Get Their Hands Dirty: Key Learnings from Five Years of Pioneering Impact-Linked Finance in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Analysts explore the need for more hands-on WASH funding approaches, and share lessons from one such approach: Impact-Linked Finance.

To Truly Innovate, WASH Funders Need to Get Their Hands Dirty: Key Learnings from Five Years of Pioneering Impact-Linked Finance in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

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#WASH #water #sanitation #hygiene #ImpactInvesting #impinv #ImpactInvestors #SDG6 #GlobalDevelopment

DOGE is WEIRD: Why India’s Public Sector Consulting Ecosystem Should Not Follow in America’s Footsteps Why DOGE's approach to cutting spending on public sector consulting is “WEIRD” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic).

DOGE is WEIRD: Why India’s Public Sector Consulting Ecosystem Should Not Follow in America’s Footsteps

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#DOGE #GovernmentEfficiency #India #consulting #PublicSector #consultants #government #governance

Africa Must Not Be a Spectator in its Own Economic Development: The Need for Pension-Backed Private Capital How tapping pension funds as a source of venture capital can provide a massive infusion of local funding into Africa's high-growth startups.

Africa Must Not Be a Spectator in its Own Economic Development: The Need for Pension-Backed Private Capital

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#Africa #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapital #investing #GlobalDevelopment #SubSaharanAfrica #startups #SMEs #MSMEs #funding #EmergingMarkets #Ghana #pensions

Building a Better AgTech Funding Model in Africa: Three Key Challenges Behind the Ecosystem’s Loss of Momentum Venture funding to African AgTech startups has declined significantly: Analysts share three priorities for building a better funding model.

Building a Better AgTech Funding Model in Africa: Three Key Challenges Behind the Ecosystem’s Loss of Momentum

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#agriculture #AgTech #VC #VentureCapital #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #climate #ClimateChange #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #SmallholderFarming