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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Time Poverty and women’s economic empowerment: An interview with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Keiko Valente

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.

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Dalberg Data Insights Protects Malaria-Free Zones in Zambia

Mapping Malaria Risk Flows through Human Mobility

Singapore on track to become go-to city for innovative global solutions

Singapore has all the ingredients to be a powerhouse in addressing the SDGs.

We capture the social value of private data

Our data-driven solutions uncover actionable insights to better understand, act upon, and evaluate social issues.

GDPR: The implications for Africa

How African governments can further data protection policies in their national development agendas.

Safe surgery for women: sharing Rahel's Story

Safe Surgery 2020 is a global partnership established to make surgery safe, affordable and accessible for all. Thanks to its work, Rahel was able to safely have a Caesarian section in rural Ethiopia.

The African Development Bank has announced the appointment of Yana Kakar to the Presidential Youth Advisory Group, which provides insights and innovative solutions for creating jobs for Africa’s youth.

African Development Bank appoints Yana Kakar to its Presidential Youth Advisory Group

The African Development Bank announces the appointment of Yana Kakar to the Presidential Youth Advisory Group in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

New Dalberg study shows social, economic and environmental viability of scaling ethanol cooking fuel in Kenya

Principal findings of a triple-bottom-line study on scaling clean ethanol cooking fuel in Kenya.

Happy Cities Summit: Amaravati 2018

A global summit on urban innovation centered on the principles of "Happiness".

Why a cross-value chain approach is key to tackling plastics pollution

Individual behavior change is at the heart of systemic transformation.

[Podcast] Gaurav Gupta on UNLEASH, What Makes An Effective Social Enterprise, and Much More

Dalberg's Gaurav Gupta on what makes an effective social enterprise

Gaurav Gupta is interviewed by BFM, an independent radio station in Malaysia.