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Monthly Sector Scan

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


AUGUST, 2022

Dear Partner,

We are back with another edition of our inclusive growth sector scan!

Do you know climate smart technologies can impact lower income men and women differently? Our secondary research on women led climate smart agriculture guided us to this insightful blog by the Center for Financial Inclusion which highlights the importance of gender transformative climate smart innovations.

In this edition, we have handpicked 25 such latest blogs, articles, and news from 8 different sectors viz. Sustainable Agriculture, Financial Services, Clean Energy, Healthcare, Water and Sanitation, Impact Investment, Livelihood, and Nutrition. We hope you enjoy reading them as much we did.

Additionally, you can download four thought-provoking reports from this edition. UNDP's Accelerating Digital Transformation for the Global Goals report provides ten inspiring good practices on how different countries can boost inclusive digital transformation. Global Gender Gap Report 2022 by the World Economic Forum presents a robust cross-country analysis and outlines why it will take another 132 years to reach parity. Global Distributors Collective's Selling productive use of energy products to last mile consumers report features first-hand insights and lessons learned from 13 last mile distributors that have experience in testing or selling productive use of energy (PUE) products.The IFRC and WWF report Working With Nature to Protect People highlights how nature-based solutions can reduce the likelihood of climate change and weather-related events occurring.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming events by the Clean Cooking Alliance, Global Distributors Collective, UNESCAP, and Cities4Forets. You can find the 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
Inclusive by Design: Accelerating Digital Transformation for the Global Goals
- by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The brief report provides some inspiration for how countries can accelerate inclusive digital transformation and mitigate its potential harms, through case studies and ten emerging good practices.
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Global Gender Gap Report 2022
- by World Economic Forum

The report presents data on how gender parity is not recovering, and why it will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap.
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Selling productive use of energy products to last mile consumers: Lessons Learned
- by Global Distributors Collective (GDC)

The research features first-hand insights and lessons learned from 13 last mile distributors (LMDs) that have experience of testing or selling productive use of energy (PUE) products.
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Working with nature to protect people: How nature-based solutions reduce climate change and weather-related disasters
- by World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

The flagship report from the IFRC and WWF highlights how the power of nature to protect people is being overlooked.
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Sector News
Sustainable Agriculture
Gender Norms On and Off the Farm: Engaging Smallholder Women in Finance and Climate-Smart Agriculture
How gender norms influence the behavior of different actors in the financial system. The series aims to promote solutions....
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Reimagining the Future of Food With a Systems-Based Approach
How Acumen, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, is Empowering Systems Leaders to Transform the Future of Food....
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Natural option: Organic, natural farming not only profitable & sustainable but also productive
CSE recently consolidated long-term evidence on holistic benefits of organic and natural farming.....
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Financial Services
CGAP Pilots Innovative Digital Credit Models for MSEs
CGAP today announced partnerships with five fintech companies to explore the potential of technology-enabled business models....
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Digital Credit Algorithms in India: Expanding Access or Cementing Exclusion?
CFI explores how automated decision-making tools for digital credit are playing out for one demographic in India....
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Global Hub Launched to Eradicate Women's Digital Financial Exclusion and Accelerate Women's Business Ownership
New Women's Digital Financial Inclusion Advocacy Hub to Champion Equal Access to Digital Financial Services for Women....
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Innovating for growth: How digital platforms are transforming small business support
The Center's partnership with CRF highlights three opportunities to use digital technologies to strengthen small business ecosystem......
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How Can Gender Analysis Help Us Understand and Address Women's Financial Exclusion?
Financial inclusion means that individuals and businesses have access to useful and affordable financial products ....
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Clean Energy
India to stop carbon credit exports until climate goals are met
India will ban firms to export carbon credits until the nation meets its climate goals.....
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How the off-grid solar industry can boost impact and financing for climate adaptation and resilience
Off-grid solar (OGS) has long been hailed as a tool for climate change mitigation - replacing polluting kerosene lanterns.....
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Locally grown herbs for global markets: how a Kenyan agribusiness is thriving on off-grid cold storage
In a lead-up to announcing this year's Global LEAP Off-Grid Cold Chain Challenge (OGCCC) finalists....
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Healthcare
Sanofi Global Health Creates Nonprofit Brand for 30 Medicines in Low-Income Countries
Sanofi Global Health launches nonprofit Impact brand for 30 medicines in low-income countries.....
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The Rockefeller Foundation Launches the Vaccination Action Network to Strengthen Health Systems and Scale Up Covid-19 Vaccinations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Amref Health Africa selected as implementing partner to provide technical assistance for the new peer-to-peer learning network....
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Water and Sanitation
To accelerate progress in rural sanitation, we need subsidies to reach the poorest and most vulnerable
Accelerating progress in rural sanitation towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 - clean water and sanitation for all....
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Meeting the Demand for Investments in Water and Sanitation
Every person needs about 70 liters of fresh water a day to meet basic needs, according to the World Health Organization.....
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Why there is a need for philanthropic investments in urban sanitation in India
One of the reasons for the low involvement of the private sector is primarily because of less awareness of underlying issues of sanitation ....
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Impact Investment
The Power of Results-Based Funding for Poverty Alleviation: What We Learned from Africa's First-Ever Development Impact Bond - and What's Next
Village Enterprise implements an evidence-based "poverty graduation" program that is recognized as a cost-effective way....
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Why Social Enterprises Struggle to Measure Impact - And What Impact Investors Can Do About It
How impact investors can support more effective measurement practices and increase accountability for improving the livelihoods....
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Levelling-up gender in locally-led climate finance - the case for the Dedicated Grant Mechanism and inclusivity in forest governance
How the Dedicated Grant Mechanism empowers indigenous women to be agents of climate action in forest governance....
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ESG Reports Aren't a Replacement for Real Sustainability
Corporate leaders face conflicting signals on the need for environmental, social, and governance reporting....
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Livelihood
Greening livelihoods, bridging the digital divide
"Green & Digital" promoted sustainable income-generation practices while serving as a platform to address the digital divide and improve livelihoods....
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Acumen Launches a $25 Million Investment Initiative to Power Livelihoods with Clean Energy
Acumen launched its new Pioneer Energy Investment Initiative: Powering Livelihoods Using Solar (PEII+)....
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Nutrition
Innovative new app launched to train, support and motivate frontline nutrition workers in Gujarat State, India
A new app designed to strengthen supportive supervision of frontline workers and improve nutrition service quality....
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Economic shocks predict increases in child wasting prevalence
In low and middle income countries macroeconomic volatility is common, and severe negative economic shocks....
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Advancing Gender and Social Equity through
Nature-Based Solutions

Hosted by Cities4Forests
Date: 24 August, 2022
Time: 02:00 P.M in Eastern Time
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Last mile distributor-MFI partnerships to enable access to beneficial products in underserved communities

Hosted by Global Distributors Collective (GDC)
Date: 25 August, 2022
Time: 08:00 A.M in Eastern Time
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Regional Dialogue on Enabling Women's Entrepreneurship through Smart Legislative and Policy Reforms

Hosted by UNESCAP
Date: 31 August, 2022
Time: 09:00 A.M - 05:00 P.M in Bangkok
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Clean Cooking Forum 2022

Hosted by Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)
Date: 11 October - 13 October, 2022
Time: 08:00 A.M in Ghana
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