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Oxfam Novib and Goodwell target East African startups with €20M Pepea fund

TechCrunch

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.

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Oversight Board raises alarm over Facebook’s role in Ethiopian conflict

The Verge

The Oversight Board set up by Facebook issued a decision today calling on the platform to begin an independent assessment of the platform’s role in heightening the risk of violence in Ethiopia, as part of a more specific ruling on a post that made unfounded claims about Tigrayan civilians.

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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia. Each indicator had an annual target and a quarterly target.

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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

NTEN

Bill Gates sees measurement as the path to follow to meet and overcome that challenge: Given how tight budgets are around the world, governments are rightfully demanding effectiveness in the programs they pay for. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results from the government’s own estimates.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

Also, we work together with government subsidy programs since they’re also interested in protecting their farmers.” Its clientele includes the likes of the World Food Programme and Central Bank of Nigeria as well as the Zambian and Kenyan governments. million farmers.

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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many government leaders in Rwanda have embraced Twitter, both in the “official’ capacity, tweeting from their Ministry’s profile for formal communication or often from a personally branded profile. There are many women in leadership government positions in Rwanda, and many are on Twitter.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

TechCrunch

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. mPharma is also present in Gabon where it has a contract with the government to build a drug supply chain infrastructure.

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