Monthly Sector Scan

Key Happenings, Insights, Reports,
and Latest Events carefully selected for you!

SEPTEMBER, 2022

Dear Partner,

We are back with our monthly inclusive growth sector scan!

In this edition, we have handpicked 18 such latest blogs, articles, and news from 7 different sectors viz. Financial Services, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Healthcare, Impact Investment, Clean Cookstoves, and Nutrition. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did.

Our secondary research on Climate-Resilient Agriculture guided us to this insightful blog by the Shell Foundation which highlights the importance to make climate-resilient farming methods accessible and commercially viable in sub-Saharan Africa. To find out more insightful pieces, you can browse through our sector news section.

Furthermore, you can download four thought-provoking reports from this edition. Clean Cooking Alliance's Accelerating clean cooking as a nature-based climate solution report examines how investing in clean cooking practices is key to advancing nature-based solutions. Harnessing Private Sector Potential for Rural Development Requires Redefining Productive Use of Energy by GET.transform presents the barriers and solutions to scaling productive use projects. Shell Foundation's Evaluating and maximizing the impact of PayGo on lives and livelihoods report features a mixed methods study to understand the impact of PayGo energy on the customers in Kenya. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report The State of the World's Forests 2022 report explores the potential of three forest pathways for achieving green recovery and tackling multidimensional planetary crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss.

Do not forget to explore and mark your calendars for the upcoming events by Business Call to Action (BCtA), devex, and itad. You can find the registration details below.

We are always looking for your feedback which can help us serve you better. Write us at dialogue@re-emergingworld.com.

See you next month!

Best Regards,
Team Re-emerging World

New Reports Launched

Read and get inspired from the latest Sector Reports

Accelerating clean cooking as a nature-based climate solution

- by Clean Cooking Alliance (CCC)

The report examines how investing in clean cooking practices is key to achieving global climate and development goals - and advancing nature-based solutions.

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Harnessing Private Sector Potential for Rural Development Requires Redefining Productive Use of Energy

- by GET.transform

The study discusses barriers and solutions to scaling productive use projects, The aim is to support governments and project developers in understanding new opportunities and promising business models.

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Evaluating and maximizing the impact of PayGo on lives and livelihoods

- by Shell Foundation

The research features a mixed methods study to understand the impact of PayGo energy on its customers in Kenya.

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The State of the World's Forests 2022: Forest pathways for green recovery and building inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies

- by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Explores the potential of three forest pathways for achieving green recovery and tackling multidimensional planetary crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Sector News

Financial Services

What the MSE Sector Can Learn From the Digital Journey of a Woman Entrepreneur in Peru

Nora is the owner of a bodega - i.e., a small grocery store - in San Juan de Lurigancho, the most populous district in Peru....

WhatsApp Helps Small Businesses Get Back on Their Feet After the Pandemic

How business support organizations in Brazil and Peru used this digital tool to build entrepreneur communities and capacity....

How Do Digital Remittances Contribute to Women's Financial Health?

Results from a UNCDF survey make clear the need for more gender-smart and migrant-centric remittance products....

Augmented Reality for Financial Literacy: An Innovative Approach to Delivering Immersive Customer Education

Kavita Kumari is a woman Business Correspondent (BC) - i.e., a retail agent engaged by a bank to provide financial services at locations other than a bank branch or ATM.....

Sustainable Agriculture

Organic takeover: How 10,000 farmers of Telangana, Andhra are steering a silent movement

A federation of farmer-producer organisations has tapped into the growing organic market to help members raise incomes....

Growing prosperity and building climate resilience for small-scale farmers

In Sub-Saharan Africa, small-scale farmers make up about 60 percent of the population and about 23 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa's GDP comes from agriculture....

Clean Energy

Five hurdles to getting productive use of energy products to the last mile

Productive use of energy (PUE) technologies cover a broad spectrum of energy-enabled products that improve livelihoods when used by customers to generate additional - or new - sources of income.....

Mini-grids supported by Universal Energy Facility deliver first electricity connections in Madagascar

The Universal Energy Facility (UEF), a results-based financing facility managed by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), has reached a milestone.....

Healthcare

Walmart and UnitedHealth Group Collaborate to Deliver Access to High-Quality, Affordable Health Care

Select Walmart Health locations will help improve health outcomes for people by advancing value-based care, powered by proven Optum clinical capabilities.....

How is technology making the healthcare industry affordable and accessible for rural India?

Accurate diagnosis enhanced preventive care, and advanced treatment is why we need to promote artificial intelligence in rural healthcare....

Impact Investment

Designing an Impact Measurement Strategy: What's Your North Star?

As impact investing evolves, it is exciting to witness the growing demand for impact measurement by investors and the ecosystem at large....

Greater investment imperative as climate disasters become more frequent

Pakistan's catastrophic floods have so far caused at least 1,134 deaths, submerged a third of the country and upended the lives of 1.2million people....

Clean Cookstoves

A Clean and Healthy Environment is a Human Right, but We Cannot Ensure it Without Changing the Way People Cook

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly recently declared access to a healthy and clean environment a global human right....

Clean Air Day: How WFP delivers with stoves and sun

That message is all the more powerful today, as the war in Ukraine sends food and fuel prices soaring and contributes to an unprecedented rise in global hunger.....

'Clean cooking' can help protect forests and also combat climate change by reducing pressure on woodlands and cutting air pollution

The modern stove probably doesn't make you think about protecting forests. A group backed by the United Nations wants to change that in hopes of unlocking billions of dollars in funding....

Roadmap for clean cooking energy to target rural masses

Back form an extensive working tour of 10 regions across Tanzania, energy minister January Makamba sat for an interview with The Citizen’s Bernard James over lessons learnt and interventions to deliver on key energy supply objectives by the government.....

Nutrition

How climate change threatens nutrition and food security - and what we can do about it?

In the context of a new GAIN series on "Climate and Nutrition: Why They Need Each Other", we bring together a new episode of GAIN's interview cruncher to hear from two of the world's leading scientists on the impact of climate change on nutrition and food security. ....

Reaching lower-income consumers with nutritious foods: the allure and the challenge

Is it possible to leverage entrepreneurs and businesses to help tackle the poor diets of hundreds of millions of low-income people, and if so, how? ....

Join Upcoming Events

Webinars, Virtual Events, Conferences and more

Proven approaches to delivering inclusive finance: Key lessons from two large-scale financial inclusion initiatives

Hosted by itad

Date: 21st September 2022,
Time: 7:00 am - 10:00 am EST

Unlocking Sustainable Finance for Nature-Based Solutions

Hosted by devex

Date: 22nd September 2022,
Time: 10:15 am ET

The Power of Collaboration: Unlocking the Potential of Innovative Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Hosted by Business Call to Action (BCtA)

Date: 21st and 22nd September 2022,
Time: 9:00 am EST