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‘Impact Entrepreneurship’ Places Importance on Social Consciousness
On a trip to Africa in 1990, Peter Scott was moved to tears by the deforestation he encountered.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rwanda’s Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn
Over the last decade in Rwanda, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria dropped by 80 percent, maternal mortality dropped by 60 percent, life expectancy doubled -- all at an average health care cost of $55 per person per year.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Invested Development Invests in SolarNow to Provide Affordable Solar Home Systems in Uganda
The Netherlands, & Kampala, Uganda – Invested Development, an emerging markets-focused social impact investment company, has invested in SolarNow, a Dutch social enterprise operating in Uganda. SolarNow combines a franchise model with an end-user credit facility to provide affordable solar home systems (SHSs) in Uganda.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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Africa: Closing the Gap – Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty
When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this capital city earlier this month, she knew she was not speaking for Liberian children alone.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Full speed ahead: AfDB’s plan for a Pan-African information highway
The African Development Bank has installed a common information technology platform in 13 countries and the African Union Commission.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: Global Fund News Flash – Issue 14
The Global Fund plans to launch its new funding model in the coming days.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South Africa ‘needs coherent energy policy’
Sout Africa must create a coherent energy policy or it will continue to struggle to rely on power utility Eskom and millions of South Africans will remain in energy poverty, World Energy Council head Christoph Frei said on Tuesday.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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I promote farming to get people out of poverty
Following the success of Upland rice that Professor Gilbert Bukenya promoted throughout the country while he was Vice President, he is planning a similar exercise in the near future. He talked to Daily Monitor's Dorothy Nakaweesi about that and more.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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