IWAI was launched to create financial accounts reflecting a company’s financial, social, and environmental performance. Monetary impact measurement in financial statements is a necessary condition for the acceleration of impact economies that optimize risk, return and impact, and produces new insights for investors and corporate decision-makers. The ultimate aim is to change the economy from … Continued
Digital technologies are changing almost every aspect of our lives, bringing about critical global challenges. To address them, the GSMA launched the Digital Declaration, a platform of companies across industries committed to advance a trusted, inclusive, innovative, and sustainable digital future for all. Counting 82 companies, the global platform fosters cross-industry and public-private dialogue; conducts … Continued
GSMC’s Informed Society Initiative is designed to: 1. Help educate youth to become informed information consumers, able to separate fact from fiction and determine the credibility of news sources; 2. Give journalists the skills to avoid repeating mis/disinformation to the adult public. Through a far-reaching “media literacy” effort in primary and secondary schools and at … Continued
The pandemic has created a space for collective action, allowing communities to co-create solutions. The crisis served as an important reminder that south-south cooperation is needed for carving out policy space for the recovery of the South. The Global Development Centre promotes alternative, indigenous development narrative based on experiences from the global South and encourages … Continued
The project is a collaboration between the state of Qatar through Generation Amazing (GA), Supreme Committee, and the football governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) and its 41 Member Associations (MAs). This recently launched project aims to promote inclusion, gender equality, and child protection through football. The project targets young … Continued
Leading from the South (LFS) is a feminist alliance of four Women’s Funds: African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Fondo de Mujeres del Sur (FMS), International Indigenous Women’s Forum-AYNI Fund (FIMI/AYNI), and Women’s Fund Asia (WFA), supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. LFS unites feminist activism and lobbying efforts by women, girls, and trans-led … Continued
In 2020, Covid-19 caught the world by surprise, revealing significant gaps in early warning capabilities to detect and respond to emerging pathogens before they cause global harm. A more rapid and nimble system with robust global coordination is crucial for preventing future pandemics. The Milken Institute aims to create a global system of local and … Continued
The Global Action on Cybercrime Extended (GLACY+) is a joint project of the European Union and the Council of Europe that aims to strengthen the capacities of states worldwide to apply legislation on cybercrime and electronic evidence. It promotes consistent cybercrime legislation, policies, and strategies and strengthens the capacity of criminal justice authorities to apply … Continued
The Elevar Method of investing (e.M) focuses on three aspects: low-income customers, business models delivering essential products and services profitably, affordably and at scale, and entrepreneurs with the ambition and ability to build businesses that address barriers of access and inequity. Core to e.M is the belief that enhancing the value delivered to customers – … Continued
The project consists of creating a web tool to alert and provide information on proposed laws or policies likely to impact civic space in Latin America. This would lend a crucial, rich digital presence to our current newsletter on the same theme, circulated fortnightly via email, thus broadening the product’s offer and beneficiaries substantially. Events … Continued
