-
Combining Green Banks and National Funds to Boost Climate Financing in Africa
The African Development Bank has partnered with the Climate Investment Funds to release a scoping report highlighting the impact of combining green banks and national climate funds to accelerate green financing.
- Categories
- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- climate change
-
Analysis: ‘Brazil Is Suffocating’: COVID Surge Creates Severe Oxygen Crisis
Several states report critical stock levels, loans of cylinders and even transfer of patients who require oxygen.
- Categories
- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Analysis: Rwanda Bridges Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion by 10%
Although there are still a number of challenges that continue to drag women behind men in terms of financial inclusion, the number of women who are banked have greatly improved, rising from 24 percent in 2016 to 34 percent in 2021.
- Categories
- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
Press Release: Green Climate Fund Approves $80 Million in FAO-Led Projects in Congo and Jordan
The new initiatives will help smallholders mitigate and adapt to climate change.
- Categories
- Agriculture, Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- climate change
-
Ghana’s Redbird Raises $1.5 Million Seed to Expand Access to Rapid Medical Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa
For patients and healthcare professionals to properly track and manage illnesses, especially chronic ones, healthcare needs to be decentralized. It also needs to be more convenient, with a patient’s health information able to follow them wherever they go.
- Categories
- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- startups
-
Analysis: Solar Technologies Can Speed up Vaccine Rollout in Africa. Here’s How
There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential workers in developing countries has only just begun.
- Categories
- Coronavirus, Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- renewable energy, vaccines
-
$1.2 Million Innovation Fund Launched to Unearth Emerging Technologies in Africa
The African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (www.AECFafrica.org) has today launched a US$1.2 million Innovation Fund to unlock the potential of renewable energy to create new business opportunities.
- Categories
- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- innovation, renewable energy, scale, solar
-
Afriex Raises $1.2 Million Seed to Scale Its Payments and Remittances Platform Across Africa
Sending money from the U.S. to Nigeria can be a painstaking process. For remittance platforms like Western Union, it will cost a transfer fee and take between one to five business days for money sent from a U.S. debit card to enter a Nigerian bank account.
- Categories
- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
The Best of NextBillion in Your Inbox Each Week!
Subscribe to NB Notes for news, jobs & on-the-ground insights from the world of emerging markets business.
We respect your privacy. Your information is safe and will never be shared.
Don't miss out. Subscribe today.