Aceli Africa is a new market incentive facility to mobilize $700M in lending to agricultural SMEs and improve livelihoods for over 1 million smallholder farmers and enterprise employees by 2025. The design and implementation of Aceli Africa is based on lending data and stakeholder insights gathered over the past two years. These findings are detailed in […]
The Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT), which recently partnered with Tata Power to launch the world’s largest electricity access initiative, is joining forces with the Global Development Incubator (GDI), to merge the best of GDI’s incubation model for new ventures and initiatives, and ITT’s technology commercialization, to create large-scale change. GDI is the leading organization […]
The COVID-19 crisis is a generational moment that requires any individual, community or organization to rethink its identity and its pursuits. The world is shifting with astonishing speed, and some parts are upending completely. The Global Development Incubator (GDI), the leading organization working to build and scale the next generation of social impact solutions, is […]
Natalya Wallin and Jason Wendle, Directors of the GDI-incubated Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS), write for the Council on Foreign Relations about how COVID-19 is affecting victims of modern slavery, and the immediate opportunity for the private and public sector to recover responsibly in order to prevent exploitation. >> Read the full blog […]
COVID-19 is an extreme shock that is unprecedented in its impact on national, regional, and global markets. The focus of response efforts in developing countries have been on densely populated urban centers, but the majority of people in these countries live in rural areas. The Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab and ISF Advisors, both […]
In response to the global COVID-19 crisis, the Global Development Incubator (GDI) and the Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT) have launched a partnership to curate, design and promote effective solutions to the COVID response in low-income countries. This initiative recognizes that while much of the current attention to COVID response has been focused on tertiary […]
Women of the World Endowment (WoWE), an early-stage initiative incubated by GDI, has launched a global challenge with UN Women to increase financial commitments to initiatives focused on financing Sustainable Development Goal 5 — gender equality. The objective of the 10X Challenge is to catalyze gender-responsive capital that accelerates the achievement of the SDGs by […]
The Global Digital Health Index (GDHI) — an interactive digital resource that tracks, monitors, and evaluates the use of digital technology for health across countries — is now available in 4 additional languages: Arabic, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. The GDHI currently contains critical data on the status of digital health ecosystems in 23 participating countries […]
Leapfrog to Value is an early-stage health initiative incubated by GDI that is building a coalition around value-based care. Value-based care aligns patients, payers, and providers around a common goal: achieving the best health outcomes at the best cost. By embracing value-based health systems, Leapfrog to Value believes that low and middle income countries have […]
ISF Advisors and the Mastercard Foundation’s Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab (the Lab) — both initiatives currently housed at Global Development Incubator (GDI) — have released their latest rural and agricultural finance state of the sector report: Pathways to Prosperity. This report is a follow-up to the 2016 publication, Inflection Point: Unlocking growth in […]
