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GCC-backed development fund signs $32m malaria deal

The first investment by the $2.5bn Lives and Livelihoods Fund will support efforts to eradicate malaria in Senegal.

Insights Issue 16

Creating a wired world

Universal internet access should be a central pillar of efforts to build back better after Covid-19, writes Adrian Lovett, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation.

Interviews Issue 16

Poverty pioneers

J-PAL is a global league of economists with a shared ambition: to help transform the lives of the world’s poor through better and more effective policy interventions.

Interviews Issue 16

Low-paid migrants keep the Middle East moving, but many face hardship and exploitation. In Bahrain, the Migrant Workers Protection Society works to support the vulnerable by offering help, exposing abuses and lobbying for change.

Interviews Issue 16

‘Humanitarian aid is never just a job’

When disasters occur, aid needs to reach those affected as quickly as possible. As head of DHL’s humanitarian logistics center in Dubai, Fatima Ait Bendawad is on the frontline of relief efforts.

In-depth

Treating trauma

Steve Sosebee was so moved by the plight of a young amputee in Palestine, that he set up charity to help thousands of sick children.

Update

Refugee organisations get $24.3m funding boost

The Larsen Lam ICONIQ Impact Award supports calls to localise aid funding and increase direct support to frontline organisations.

Update

New $1bn gender fund launches to support Global South NGOs

Regional networks and grassroots organisations working in healthcare, education, and advocacy will benefit from the fund that aims to support women’s leadership and correct harmful gender norms.

Insights

Malnutrition matters

Simon Bishop and Taimur Hadi from The Power of Nutrition on why the world needs to act now to prevent a looming malnutrition crisis.

Update

New philanthropy-backed fund to boost frontline healthcare across Africa

The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund aims to drive US$100m to community healthcare initiatives in up to 10 countries.

Insights

We need to change how we think about world hunger

The war in Ukraine shows that hunger can’t be solved just with humanitarian assistance alone. In this essay, Bill Gates outlines why we also require investments in agriculture R&D.

Insights

Education cannot wait

Armed conflict, climate-induced disaster, and forced displacement have disrupted the education of 222 million children globally. Yasmine Sherif outlines how philanthropy can help.

Podcasts

Investing for impact

Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen, and Myrna Atalla, executive director of venture philanthropy organisation, Alfanar, discuss what corporations, philanthropists, and impact investors can do to support social enterprises.

Podcasts

Shifting the power: why development dynamics need to change

Asif Saleh, executive director of the world’s largest NGO, discusses community-led solution systems, microfinance, and climate accountability.

Panos

GCC-backed development fund signs $32m malaria deal

Creating a wired world

Poverty pioneers

The working poor

‘Humanitarian aid is never just a job’

Treating trauma

Refugee organisations get $24.3m funding boost

New $1bn gender fund launches to support Global South NGOs

Malnutrition matters

New philanthropy-backed fund to boost frontline healthcare across Africa

We need to change how we think about world hunger

Education cannot wait

Investing for impact

Shifting the power: why development dynamics need to change

Panos

GCC-backed development fund signs $32m malaria deal

Creating a wired world

Poverty pioneers

The working poor

‘Humanitarian aid is never just a job’

Treating trauma

Refugee organisations get $24.3m funding boost

New $1bn gender fund launches to support Global South NGOs

Malnutrition matters

New philanthropy-backed fund to boost frontline healthcare across Africa

We need to change how we think about world hunger

Education cannot wait

Investing for impact

Shifting the power: why development dynamics need to change

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