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Monthly Sector Scan

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


November 2022

Dear Partner,

We are back with our monthly inclusive growth sector scan!

In this edition, we have handpicked 15 such latest blogs, articles, and news from 6 different sectors viz. Financial Services, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Climate Action, Women Empowerment, Water and Sanitation. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did.

Our secondary research on Financial Services guided us to this insightful blog by the Asian Development Bank, which highlights how government-backed digital currencies can help remote communities leap-frog the limitations of traditional currencies and get more people into financial systems. 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. World Resources Institute’s State of Climate Action 2022 report measures the global gap in climate action, highlighting where progress must accelerate to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit warming to 1.5°C. Strengthening local fresh food markets for resilient food systems by GAIN presents how local fresh food markets are vital entry points for just food systems transformation supporting access to safe, affordable healthy diets for all. UNICEF’s State of the World’s Drinking Water report is a comprehensive survey about the links between water, health, and development, with actionable recommendations to reach SDG targets on access to safe drinking water. Finally, Vodafone and UNDP’s report Digital Finance Platforms to empower all indicate that the successful deployment and adoption of mobile financial services can have a direct, positive impact on GDP growth in developing markets.

Do not forget to explore and mark your calendars for the upcoming events by Asian Development Bank and UnLtd. 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
State of Climate Action 2022
- World Resources Institute (WRI)

The report measures the global gap in climate action, highlighting where progress must accelerate to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit warming to 1.5°C
Download Report
Strengthening local fresh food markets for resilient food systems
- The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

The report presents how local fresh food markets are vital entry points for just food systems transformation supporting access to safe, affordable healthy diets for all.
Download Report
State of the World’s Drinking Water
- UNICEF

The report is a comprehensive survey about the links between water, health, and development, with actionable recommendations to reach SDG targets on access to safe drinking water.
Download Report
Digital Finance Platforms to empower all
- Vodafone and UNDP

The report indicates that the successful deployment and adoption of mobile financial services can have a direct, positive impact on GDP growth in developing markets.
Download Report
Sector News
Financial Services
Government-Backed Digital Currencies Can Be a Powerful Tool for Financial Inclusion
Government-backed digital currencies can help remote communities leap-frog the limitations of traditional currencies and get more people into financial systems.....
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Kickstarting CICO Rural Agent Network Innovation: 5 Tips for Funders
Solutions to advance agent networks at the last mile exist. Yet, market actors might not be aware, and even when they are, they might dismiss these solutions as irrelevant to their own context. ....
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Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Supply Chains: Future Proofing by Farmer-Focusing
Gas prices. Food prices. Inflationary prices. Downward price pressure. Upward price pressure. Global supply chains. On and on it goes, with each new headline revealing a business environment stripped of its old rhythm.....
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New possibilities for value-added agricultural advisory services through data sharing and integration
Agricultural livelihoods predominate among the rural population of Ethiopia to such an extent that agriculture makes up 32.5% of the country’s GDP (2020/21) and accounts for 63.5% of employment (2021).....
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Supporting Women Farmers in the Age of Climate Change: Why It’s Time To Look at Agriculture Solutions Through Both a Gender and Climate Lens
In sub-Saharan Africa, women smallholder farmers (relative to their male counterparts) have lower access to productive resources like land, and to educational resources that build technical and digital skills. ....
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Clean Energy
New Malawi Integrated Energy Planning Tool provides critical insights to advance energy access
On 19 October, the Government of Malawi, SEforALL and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet launched the Malawi Integrated Energy Planning Tool, an online,....
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For the first time in decades, the number of people without access to electricity is set to increase in 2022
The global energy crisis, which will weigh heavily on negotiations at the COP27 Climate Change Conference that starts next week in Egypt, is also undermining efforts to ensure universal access to secure affordable energy,....
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Climate Action
How Behavioral Science Can Help Fight Climate Change
Behavioral insights offer effective tools to come up with innovative solutions to address people’s behavior and biases regarding climate change.....
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Zero Waste vs. Climate Change: Why Waste Reduction Offers a Key Opportunity for Climate Action Through Private Enterprise
As the urgency of the climate crisis grows, pressure is mounting to find easily implementable, affordable solutions that yield fast results.....
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Can millions of smallholder farmers meaningfully mitigate climate change and be rewarded for it? We think so.
PxD is collaborating with the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) to identify opportunities to benefit poor farming communities through their participation in climate mitigation activities.....
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Climate action through clean cooking
With its mandate to promote access to finance across energy value chains, the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has been investing in innovative business ideas from energy enterprises ....
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Women Empowerment
How to Invest With a Gender Lens
There is a noticeably growing interest in gender lens investing (GLI) from both impact and mainstream investors.....
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Developing a super app for women beauty-entrepreneurs in India
India has the youngest population of the world and is one of its fastest growing economies. However, this growth story has left a key demographic behind: women. ....
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Water and Sanitation
Sanitation-linked livelihoods project: Six key insights from a learning study
Over the last four years, several Indian states have made strides to empower collectives of women and other vulnerable communities....
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Loo What? The Story of an Entrepreneur Tackling the Global Sanitation Challenge
Everyone has a favorite toilet story, some negative, others humorous, perhaps not as bad as the scene from the movie Trainspotting....
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