OUR IDEAS

DigiFarm Wins a Fast Company 2018 World Changing Idea Award

Smallholder farmers – which number over half a million in Kenya alone – are among the most underserved group by financial and information services. Investment in this sector is hampered by lack of understanding and visibility into what, exactly, smallholder...
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Improving the Lives of Marginalized Farmers Through Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60Ez7L3PEc&feature=emb_logo The AP Agtech Summit 2017, organized in partnership with Dalberg and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brought some of the best minds from across the world to brainstorm solutions to challenges faced by marginalized farmers in Andhra Pradesh. With...
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Walking the walk

The Sustainable Development Goals are increasingly on the agenda for businesses and investors, both as a responsibility and an opportunity.In September 2015, all member states of the United Nations signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is broad...
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Will real-time data sourcing change the future of SDGs?

With 17 goals, 169 sub-indicators and over 193 countries signing on to the SDGs, collecting consistent real-time data is critical. In this podcast with CSIS, Daniella Ballou-Aares explains that organizations across the world need to aggregate real-time measurable data across countries rather...
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Dalberg Celebrates International Women’s Day

This International Women's Day, Dalberg celebrated the progress made globally on gender equality and women and girl's empowerment.Over the past decade we have witnessed a drastic drop in child marriage, near parity in primary school enrollment, and a staggering decline in...
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Time Poverty: Why it Matters and What To Do About it

Globally, women and girls do the vast majority of caregiving and domestic work in the home. These heavy and disproportional responsibilities result in time poverty. We must act now to tackle the time poverty burden and transform our societies.
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Privacy in financial services

Dalberg recently hosted a workshop on ‘Privacy in Financial Services’ in collaboration with CGAP and Dvara Research. We brought together fintechs, catalytic funders, banks, policy makers, investors and foundations who collectively brainstormed ideas for how we might better protect consumer data and privacy. The Dalberg Mumbai team put...
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Dalberg expands its media business to amplify and influence the global development agenda

Dalberg Media, part of the Dalberg Group, works to influence and amplify the global development agenda through digital and media products, social media campaigns, videos, conferences and events. Its recent initiatives include UNLEASH and the Big BET Initiative. With clients...
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Slippery slope: protecting Pirin from unsustainable recreation and logging

Pirin National Park, one of Europe’s most important biodiversity hotspots, has suffered irreparable damage from the construction and expansion of Bansko ski resort, reveals a WWF report published today. The analysis finds that the ski resort, approved by Bulgaria’s government in...
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Big pools, bigger splashes: how corporate social responsibility funds in India can maximize impact and efficiency

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending is increasing in India, and is characterized by hundreds of small to mid-sized spenders In 2013, the Indian government assumed a unique stance in its effort to address socioeconomic issues by mandating corporations to spend...
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2018 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report released

The latest report from Dalberg, GOGLA and the World Bank Group’s Lighting Global Program shows that $922 million has been raised since 2012, while an estimated 130 million products have been sold to date, reaching 360 million people with life-changing...
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Privacy on the line

Making Consent Count for Data Protection: Read our article published by Live Mint. Learn about our workshop on ‘Privacy in Financial Services’, hosted in collaboration with CGAP and Dvara Research There is a growing consensus on the need for a Data Protection bill for India. With...
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