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The Challenge Initiative: Expanding Access to Family Planning

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Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Idea and the Action The Challenge Initiative (TCI) offers a unique approach to financing, scaling and sustaining family planning programs that are designed to address the rapid urbanization taking place in Africa and Asia.

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Outcomes-Based Financing: The Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

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The initiative was a pioneering collaboration between leaders from across private and philanthropic sectors to scale up proven interventions to improve learning outcomes of students, as well as address the critical gap in financing by unlocking new funding and making existing funding work better. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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SAMRIDH: Using Blended Finance Toward Quality Health Care in India

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multiple challenges limit their ability to scale up, including lack of capital, market access, regulatory roadblocks and market inefficiencies. IndusInd Bank. Identify and support sustainable, innovative business models by providing access to affordable capital. Caspian Debt. THE IMPACT. Directly serving over 5.2 Learn More.

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EMPROPAZ: Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Crisis

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With high concentrations of migrants in both cities and remote, rural areas, there is a large-scale need to support these vulnerable populations in order to promote peace and economic growth. Meanwhile, the already distressed country has received approximately 2.5 Studying rehabilitation efforts is an active area of academic research.

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How Leaders Can Build Resilience in Teams

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It’s about starting small and scaling up, understanding that even little gestures can have a big impact. Shannon Smith Emerging Scholar in Business; Associate Professor of Business Administration. Parmar is an authority on how to make good decisions — one of the toughest challenges in leading a business.

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Words vs. Actions: Why Innovation Must Be Central to COP28 Discussions

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According to the World Bank, more than 70 carbon pricing initiatives are in play. conference provides an opportunity for country leaders to strategize coordinated action on a global scale. He studies the role of innovation in helping a business succeed. In the U.S.,

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5 Difficult but Feasible Steps to Reverse the Climate Crisis

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5 Difficult but Feasible Steps to Reverse the Climate Crisis burtonc Thu, 06/15/2023 - 22:25 15 June 2023 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business, Ethics & Society Innovation for Sustainability Business & Public Policy Modern Global Leadership Canada is on fire, California is flooding and Greenland’s glaciers are rapidly retreating.

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