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Press Release: UNCDF Releases Cutting-Edge Research on Financial Health
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in partnership with i3 Program, supported by MetLife Foundation, released its flagship publication, “Delivering Financial Health Globally”.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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Improving the Outcomes-Readiness of Implementors – A Key Step Towards Scaling Results-Based Financing
With less than a decade left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the development financing gap has widened. According to Gagandeep Nanda at Dalberg and Dhun Davar and Sietse Wouters at UBS Optimus Foundation, results-based financing can provide a solution. But though organizations have high interest in participating in results-based financing, many are not ready to take on funding that is tied to outcomes instead of inputs and activities. They share five characteristics of effective outcomes-ready implementing organizations, and five ways these groups can be set up for success.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: It’s Time To Bring Equity to the Fore in WASH Programming
If the push to reach everyone with available and sustainable WASH services by 2030 becomes a competition between implementers to find the lowest hanging fruit, and governments are graded only on aggregate achievements, inequality will only worsen.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
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- global development, governance, SDGs
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Press Release: CDC Group Announces $50 Million Trade Finance Facility With Ecobank As Part of Its COVID-19 Response
This marks CDC’s first partnership with EBISA with the commitment aimed at providing systemic liquidity to underserved markets and crucial trade finance support to local banks and businesses across Africa.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UNCDF Launches Initiative to Address Challenges Faced by Smallholder Farmers in Asia, Africa
The challenge will help address challenges faced by smallholder farmers around productivity, climate change and supply chain, by also working alongside International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- SDGs, smallholder farmers
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Getting In the Game: How Wealthy Individuals and Families Can Bring Impact-First Investing Off the Sidelines
The vast majority of impact investments target market-rate returns, which leaves impact-focused enterprises with lower prospects for competitive returns struggling to attract capital. But as Mariah Collins of The Bridgespan Group explains, there's a group of influential and deep-pocketed investors who are ideally placed to change this dynamic: wealthy individuals and families. She shares findings from a recent report that aims to shed light on this largely untapped opportunity, and discusses why the shift to impact-first investing has never been more important — or easier — to make.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, SDGs
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Press Release: Lightrock Closed USD $900 Million Global Growth Fund, Investing In People, Planet and Productivity in Europe, India and Latin America
Lightrock, a global impact private equity firm closed its Lightrock Growth Fund I with investments from LGT and its private clients.
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Global
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Healthy Animals Make a Healthier World: How Expanding Animal Care Can Advance the SDGs and Support Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Smallholder farming is the main source of livelihood for many families facing extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and livestock provides up to 45% of their income. Jeannette Ferran Astorga at the Zoetis Foundation explains why access to quality animal healthcare is critical to protecting those farmers' livelihoods. She discusses how the organization is championing healthier, more sustainable animal care practices, and how improving livestock care can make a major impact on the region's progress toward the SDGs.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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