Banker Preeti Sinha appointed to top position at UN Capital Development Fund newsindiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsindiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The young and educated farmer Key to revolutionised agriculture
If you have bought locally grown strawberries, or dragon fruit, or the out of season bottle gourd, and the luscious Thai guava all year round, you are already a beneficiary of the silent agri-revolution happening in Bangladesh. For any observant consumer, the leaps and bounds advancement in food crop production needs no explaining, as well as its contribution to improved livelihoods and reduced poverty. According to the World Bank, agriculture accounted for 90 percent of the reduction in poverty in the five-year span from 2005, and food grain production in the country tripled between 1972 and 2014, demonstrating a growth rate second only to China.
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021:
In December 2020 the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the Freetown City Council (FCC) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) jointly launched the Freetown-Blue Peace project, an initiative that will leverage innovative finance to implement a sustainable water project in Sierra Leone’s capital city.
First of its kind in terms of partnership and financing, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the first-ever elected female Mayor of Freetown, spoke to Africa Renewal’s Kingsley Ighobor about the project’s potential impact on the city’s residents, and the lessons for other cities, among other issues.
RFA: Leveraging Open APIs and Shared/Open Data Systems to Power Innovative Digital Solutions
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The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has announced the
Leveraging Open APIs and Shared / Open Data Systems to Power Innovative Digital Solutions that Enable Low-Income Ugandans Access Products and Services.
UNCDF is looking for incumbents and innovators that are able to provide innovative and scalable solutions in one of the two following areas of intervention:
Deploy or leverage open APIsthat can enable the rollout of innovative digital solutions or service offerings that that improve the livelihoods of low-income, last-mile communities in Uganda (namely women, refugees, youth, MSMEs) – with a primary focus on the sectors of finance, agriculture, education, health and energy.
UPTAKE OF INSURANCE BY ADULTS INCREASE BY TWO PERCENT – Zambia Daily Mail daily-mail.co.zm - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from daily-mail.co.zm Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.