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Covid 19 test kits donated by Jack Ma ground partner Dalberg

Getting critical medical supplies and protective gear to 54 African nations

On 22 March a cargo flight from Guangzhou, China arrived in Addis Ababa with a first round of supplies donated by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation. Dalberg was on hand to help receive the shipment, which included more than 5 million face masks, 1 million testing kits, 40,000 sets of protective clothing, and 60,000 protective face shields. The Jack Ma Foundation has plans to distribute COVID-related medical items to all 54 African countries. Dalberg will provide targeted support, as needed, on distribution logistics.

Developing the Nigeria National Integrated Pneumonia Control Strategy and Implementation

Dalberg and members of the Every Breath Counts Coalition join together with government, communities, and private and public healthcare organizations to develop Nigeria’s first-ever integrated pneumonia control strategy, in support of “survive and thrive” child health efforts.

Assessing women’s financial inclusion in Nigeria

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and EFInA engaged Dalberg to support its nation-wide research on women’s financial inclusion and outline steps needed to increase this inclusion.

Closing the Gaps: Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles

A Dalberg-authored report for The Collaborative for Frontier Finance shares a set of approaches aimed at filling the financing gap for Small and Growing Businesses

Impact and Ikigai: A conversation with Yana Kakar, Dalberg’s outgoing Global Managing Partner

As Yana’s final year as Global Managing Partner draws to a close, the firm’s newest Partner and global lead on diversity and inclusion, Afua Sarkodie, helps ring in Dalberg’s next chapter by reflecting on Yana’s stewardship and hopes for the firm’s future. As one of Yana’s longtime collaborators, Afua has had first-hand experience with the mentorship and vision that have helped define Yana’s tenure.

Dalberg Advisors Elects Edwin Macharia as Global Managing Partner

Edwin will succeed Yana Kakar who was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2016, serving the maximum of two terms.

What are hidden data treasuries and how can they help development outcomes?

Our team built an exhaustive crop type and yield estimation map in Burkina Faso, using artificial intelligence and satellite images from the European Space Agency. But building the map would not have been possible without a data set that GIZ, the German government’s international development agency, had collected for one purpose on the ground some years before – and never looked at again. At Dalberg, we call this a “hidden data treasury” and it has huge potential to be used for good.

Youth NEET in Kenya: Understanding values, capabilities, and barriers towards achieving career and life goals

Dalberg’s report ‘Youth not in education, employment, and training in Kenya’, launched on October 16, 2019 in Nairobi

USAID’s Investment Support Program (implemented by Dalberg Advisors) creates Primer on Catalyzing Agricultural Finance

Through the Primer on Catalyzing Agricultural Finance , USAID and Dalberg have come together to outline the tools that USAID can use to address agricultural finance gaps, with the ultimate aim of tackling market failures and mobilizing private sector finance

Press release: Cross-Sectoral Commitment from Four Leading Organizations to Achieve the Global Goals through a Gender Lens

Acknowledging the world’s insufficient progress towards achieving the 2030 Global Goals and determined to accelerate our collective efforts, the leading global impact business Dalberg, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the Indian not-for-profit Educate Girls and the UN Agency UNICEF signed the Neutral is Not Enough pledge to place gender inclusion at the center of their organizations’ efforts. This pledge was signed at a jointly hosted event of the same name, which discussed how achieving any and all of the Global Goals demands a gender lens, and how we must start working differently.

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