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PEG Africa raises $1.5 million from leading debt investors to support distribution of solar home systems in Ghana
PEG Africa (PEG) has announced a $1.5M USD debt raise to fund the purchase of solar home systems that will reach 75,000 people in Ghana. The funding was raised from leading energy access debt providers, and follows a $7.5 million equity round in June 2016.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, solar
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AMIR, SEEP and Mastercard in partnership to promote transparency in microfinance sector
An initiative that seeks to enhance consumer protection and promote responsible financing has been launched in Kigali. The second phase of the Responsible Finance through Local Leadership and Learning programme also seeks to promote financial transparency in the microfinance industry.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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CGAP, Citi Foundation Launch Digital Financial Inclusion Policy Program in China, Indonesia, Philippines
CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), a US-based, nonprofit research center that aims to facilitate the expansion of financial access, and the Citi Foundation, the charitable arm of US-based financial services firm Citigroup, recently launched the “East Asia Digital Financial Inclusion Program”. The program’s goal is to engage policymakers in China, Indonesia and the Philippines to bring best practices relating to digital financial services to and from other parts of the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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- digital payments
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11 Health Innovations to Drastically Cut Maternal and Child Mortality Rates
Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 health innovations could save more than 6 million mothers and children by 2030, if they are invested in and used widely in 24 priority countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- innovation, public health
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Eaton Vance Dives Into Social-Impact Investing With New Acquisition
Eaton Vance has agreed to acquire the assets of the impact-investing firm Calvert Investment Management, a move that would give it a large presence in the growing field of socially and environmentally responsible investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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How We Can Support Bottom-Of-The-Pyramid Entrepreneurs, Like Trash Sifters
Across the developing world, enterprising people are sifting through garbage bins to build small businesses through recycling. It is in the informal economy, yet they have developed an economic system. This “waste economy” is providing new opportunities for people like Vusi Memela.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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FICO and EFL Partner to Extend Access to Credit for “Unscoreable” Consumers and Entrepreneurs in Multiple Markets
As part of its FICO Financial Inclusion Initiative, analytic software firm FICO today announced a strategic partnership with EFL Global to expand credit scoring options for lenders and consumers in markets outside the US. FICO will offer EFL's psychometric scoring alongside its own credit scoring products in global markets, with the initial focus on Turkey, Russia and Mexico.
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- Impact Assessment
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Ghana: Social Enterprise Impacts Thousands in Ghana
A new research by the Social Enterprise Activity in Ghana has revealed that 98 social enterprises in Ghana currently employ 998 young people directly, impacting 103,148 lives in Ghana.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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