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Behavioral model for financial health

Working together with the Center for Financial Services Innovation & the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, Dalberg Design sought to understand whether a global version of their financial health framework could advance our collective understanding of consumer behavior and deepen...
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Ready, Set, Launch

Ready, Set, Launch

Ready, Set, Launch aims to support strategic and targeted planning for the introduction and scale of global health innovations, with a sharp focus on employing methods that fit the local context of the communities in which we work. Global health...
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Small merchants, big opportunity

The forgotten path to financial inclusion More than 180 million micro and small merchants operate across the developing world While individually these businesses are small, their influence within the global economy is significant: They transact over $6.5 trillion per year...
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Dakar resilience

Dakar resilience strategy

By joining 100 Resilient Cities - pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation, Dakar hopes to accelerate its evolution to become a model African city, which will have successfully aligned its rich heritage to opportunities that the 21st century offers. Dakar is...
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Protecting tigers from Asia’s infrastructure development boom

This blog draws on findings from a new report from Dalberg and WWF — Protecting Tigers from Asia’s Infrastructure Development Boom. Tigers have travelled a rocky road over the past hundred years. Decimated from rampant poaching and merciless habitat destruction,...
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Don’t forget our oceans on #GivingTuesday

The importance of the world’s oceans, and the challenges they face cannot be understated. Oceans are home to the earth’s most diverse ecosystems, and are crucial to fighting climate change as they absorb 30% of the CO2 in the atmosphere....
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Going cashless in demonetisation

Towards a cashless society

How India Stack can help persuade merchants to adopt digital payment It has been more than three weeks since the Prime Minister announced that Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes would be demonetised. And despite the rhetoric, its effects appear not so...
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Tanzania small holder farmer

Financial Inclusion Fit to Size: Customizing Digital Credit for Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania

Digital credit products represent an important financial inclusion opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania, where close to 80% of the workforce is engaged in farming. Uptake of these products by smallholder farmers, however, remains limited.  To address this challenge, Dalberg's...
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Global landscape study on digitizing P2G payments

At an estimated 8 trillion USD across the globe and 375 billion USD in low and lower-middle-income countries alone, person-to-government (P2G) payments make up a significant part of the payments landscape. The value proposition for digitising these payments is clear—and compelling: For...
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How Nigerian businesses can help save newborn lives

How Nigerian businesses can help save newborn lives

Article originally published in Ventures Africa. Each year, over 250,000 newborns die in Nigeria within their first 28 days of life – and most of these deaths are preventable. The Federal Ministry of Health has been paying attention and has...
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16 Amazing Design Agencies You Should Know About

In this article, Vivian Li from Tradecraft includes Dalberg Design as one of the 16 noteworthy agencies that produce incredible work today, yet they’re harder to surface and difficult to qualify as an agency because of the nature of their work. Vivian...
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Saving Doñana

From Danger to Prosperity Doñana is an internationally recognized wetland that has economic, environmental and social values The Doñana wetland complex includes a World Heritage site, a natural park and four Natura 2000 sites. It is famous for being Europe’s...
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