Monthly Sector Scan

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May, 2022

Dear Partner,

Thank you for your continued support and interest in our monthly newsletter!

In this edition, you will find recent news, latest articles, and topical blogs on Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture, Healthcare, Water and Sanitation, Financial Services, Clean Energy.

Additionally, you can download three interesting reports from this newsletter. NITI Aayog’s Women Transforming India 2021 publication will leave you inspired with the stories of 75 women entrepreneurs and their way of creating impact. The Better than Cash Alliance Report provides a high level three-year plan on the National Digital Payments Roadmap for Bangladesh. The CRISIL report Helping MSEs go digital shares how Covid-19 has changed the way micro and small enterprises (MSEs) market or sell their products & services by upgrading their digital landscape.

Do not miss to mark your calendars for the upcoming events hosted by CGAP and Women’s World Banking. You can find the links below.

We are always eager to receive your feedback at dialogue@re-emergingworld.com on our newsletter so that we can serve you better.

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Team Re-emerging World

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Women Transforming India 2021

- by Niti Aayog

75 stories of women entrepreneurs contribute to making a 'Sashakt aur Samarth Bharat' through self-sufficient businesses and unique business solutions.

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Bangladesh's National Digital Payments Roadmap 2022-2025

- by Better Than Cash Alliance

The National Digital Payments Roadmap provides a high-level plan to expand the adoption ofresponsible digital payments in a way that is agile,inclusive, and helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Helping MSEs go digital

- by CRISIL

How Covid-19 has changed the way micro and small enterprises (MSEs) market or sell their products and services. Amid the pandemic, around 65% of the respondent MSEs upgraded their digital landscape.

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Sector News

Nutrition

Feeding the world: What are the challenges and how can we achieve global food security?

Conflict and hunger are closely intertwined - when one escalates, the other usually follows. As in any crisis, it is the poorest and most vulnerable who are hardest hit, and in our....

In the fast-growing field of food systems impact evaluations, a shift toward evaluating consumer behaviour

As we've noted before on this blog, the world faces a critical need to revamp its food systems to provide healthy diets for a growing global....

Sustainable Agriculture

Mighty Tools for Mighty Farmers: Investing in Climate-Smart Agriculture Innovations for Smallholder Farmers

The climate crisis is a food security crisis. Drought has killed cattle in Kenya and destroyed maize in southern Zambia. Extreme heat....

The link between women's land ownership and climate resilience

It is estimated that 73.2 percent of the rural female workforce is engaged in agriculture (compared to 55 percent of male workers). Approximately 80 percent of all economically active women are employed....

Developing market systems that support regenerative agriculture

The statistics are startling 78% of the world's poorest people remain reliant on agriculture, 33% of the world's soils are degraded and agriculture contributes to about a quarter of global climate emissions ...

Healthcare

How to improve primary healthcare to prepare for future pandemics

Millions of lives have been lost, while a generation of students faced a learning crisis. It's been a stark reminder of the need to build....

How can we maximize the potential of women sales agents?

Among development initiatives aiming to boost healthcare access and women's income empowerment, using female sales agents to sell....

Water and Sanitation

Make every drop count: An inclusive, integrated and innovative approach to water scarcity is critical

The world needs a more inclusive, integrated and innovative way of addressing the issue of water scarcity, which already threatens as many as 3.2 billion people living in vulnerable rural communities....

WaterAid and The VF Foundation Launch Program to Improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Cambodia

WaterAid and The VF Foundation announce the launch of a year-long program to reach more than 85,000 people with access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene in....

Financial Services

There's Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women

Mary Ellen Iskenderian explores the transformative impact of financial inclusion. Why does it take more than micro-loans to empower women....

India's Blanket Approach to Financial Inclusion Is Leaving Women Behind: Here Are Four Ways to Close the Gender Gap

India's Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana program has been a game-changer for financial inclusion....

Nandan Nilekani looking to help Indian small merchants with Open Network for Digital Commerce

Nandan Nilekani is no stranger to both innovation and multi-billion-dollar projects. The 66-year-old is probably the most well-known for founding....

India's Women Business Correspondents are Struggling: Three Steps to Increase Their Viability - And Boost Financial Inclusion

India is home to 17% of the world's total female population. Yet the country has traditionally viewed....

Clean Energy

Lighting Tanzania's Rural Areas: How Jaza are reaching households living on $2/day

Since 2020, Shell Foundation in partnership with USAID and UK FCDO has supported Jaza Energy to develop affordable energy products....

Powering rural communities through solar energy in Zimbabwe

UNICEF's Solar interventions in health facilities improve service delivery for women in rural areas in Zimbabwe. Patricia Bhebhe, 23, cannot wait to hold her little bundle....

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