Innovation & Investment Senior Advisor Lauren Behr discusses the urgency for innovation and the difficulty of scaling it to respond to today’s challenges on this World Creativity & Innovation Day.
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Building sustainable development solutions with local communities’ experience and knowledge at their foundations.
Blog Post
Strengthening African research and innovation systems to deliver homegrown solutions to African communities’ social, economic, and health challenges.
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Mobilising institutional capital and the private sector to spur climate financing and meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
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This factsheet for USAID’s Investment Facilitation Activity in the DRC provides an overview of the project's aims to build a pipeline of potential investors and investment-ready companies in the DRC.
Resource - Fact Sheet
Wayne Lifshitz
Senior Director, Supply Chain Management
Wayne Lifshitz is an entrepreneurial senior leader, systems-thinker, business strategist, and strategic connector with more than 20 years of cross-cutting experience in Big 5 consulting, start-up, nonprofit, federal, and social enterprise sectors. He is currently a…
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Improving service providers’ business models in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will enable peri-urban communities to better access safe drinking water and sanitation services.
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Balancing ethical concerns with a demand-led approach to trading relationships can transform fragile value chains into resilient market systems that pay out for emerging and developed economies as well as suppliers and buyers.
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This brief provides an overview of the five-step process on scaling Aflasafe through commercialization in sub-Saharan Africa and highlights lessons learned.
Resource - Technical Brief
This brief describes the three-phase approach to transfer and commercialize Aflasafe across different African countries, as well as the challenges and lessons learned throughout the process.
Resource - Technical Brief
Dany Khy
Senior Advisor, Private Sector Engagement
Dany Khy is a senior international development professional with more than 16 years of experience leading programs in economic development with a focus on entrepreneurship, finance, and forging innovative public-private partnerships in the world’s largest emerging…
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This technical brief describes how ACCELERE!1 used microfinance income-generating activities and community savings groups to help parents secure a more sustainable future for their children through education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Resource - Technical Brief