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

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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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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

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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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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

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After scoring a job at the development firm Dalberg, then working in India and Ethiopia, Pal returned to the U.S. Sequoia Capital has internal crash courses for its founders — here’s how they work. “Companies and governments change when enough people demand it through their actions and behaviors.

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Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America

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His roles involved representing Australia in international negotiations on global health and humanitarian affairs and as an advisor to the UN secretary general on global health and pandemic preparedness. . Zenysis currently provides its software to governments and partners in nine countries across Africa, South America and Asia.

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Strengthening evidence for refugee self-reliance programming 

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So, RefugePoint, a nonprofit working to expand access to lasting solutions, and the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Denmark’s largest international non-governmental organization, reviewed the state of the evidence on refugee self-reliance and make recommendations to address these gaps.

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Sudanese fintech Bloom nabs $6.5M, backed by Y Combinator, GFC and Visa

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As highlighted this March and reiterated in the interview, Bloom’s founders say this seed round will help the Sudanese- and Dubai-based startup execute its expansion plan across the Anglo-East African region such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. A few competitors in the region include YC-backed Fingo, Koa and Finclusion.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

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Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Networks in an International Context. His slides and my notes and reflections follow. 1) Everybody is People.