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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.

It’s About Time: the case for valuing women and girls’ unpaid care work

Dalberg’s analysis of the global unpaid care work challenge.

Unpaid care work and women’s economic empowerment: An interview with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Keiko Valente

Dalberg interviews Keiko Valente, Associate Program Officer on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Gender Equality Team. Keiko talks about what’s missing from the unpaid care work conversation, takeaways from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work with Dalberg, and how she’s helping to advance gender equality through her role.

Smallholders on the world stage: how private investment can help secure our food future

USAID’s Investment Support Program (implemented by Dalberg Advisors) assesses the effectiveness of market-based solutions for smallholder farmers.

L’entrepreneuriat de masse, moteur de l’emploi de masse

Cet article a initialement été publié dans l’édition du 25 mai 2019 de Jeune Afrique. Vous pouvez consulter l’article original ici. La récente levée de fonds de 100 millions de dollars par la startup Andela montre que les financiers internationaux sont à la recherche de la prochaine licorne africaine. Les entrepreneurs du continent ont inspiré…

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