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A Dalberg-authored report for The Collaborative for Frontier Finance shares a set of approaches aimed at filling the financing gap for Small and Growing Businesses

As Yana’s final year as Global Managing Partner draws to a close, the firm’s newest Partner and global lead on diversity and inclusion, Afua Sarkodie, helps ring in Dalberg’s next chapter by reflecting on Yana’s stewardship and hopes for the firm’s future. As one of Yana's longtime collaborators, Afua has had first-hand experience with the mentorship and vision that have helped define Yana’s tenure.

Edwin will succeed Yana Kakar who was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2016, serving the maximum of two terms.  

Our team built an exhaustive crop type and yield estimation map in Burkina Faso, using artificial intelligence and satellite images from the European Space Agency. But building the map would not have been possible without a data set that GIZ, the German government’s international development agency, had collected for one purpose on the ground some years before – and never looked at again. At Dalberg, we call this a “hidden data treasury” and it has huge potential to be used for good.

Dalberg’s report ‘Youth not in education, employment, and training in Kenya’, launched on October 16, 2019 in Nairobi.

Through the Primer on Catalyzing Agricultural Finance , USAID and Dalberg have come together to outline the tools that USAID can use to address agricultural finance gaps, with the ultimate aim of tackling market failures and mobilizing private sector finance. 

Acknowledging the world’s insufficient progress towards achieving the 2030 Global Goals and determined to accelerate our collective efforts, the leading global impact business Dalberg, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the Indian not-for-profit Educate Girls and the UN Agency UNICEF signed the Neutral is Not Enough pledge to place gender inclusion at the center of their organizations’ efforts. This pledge was signed at a jointly hosted event of the same name, which discussed how achieving any and all of the Global Goals demands a gender lens, and how we must start working differently.

Dalberg’s analysis of the global unpaid care work challenge.

Dalberg interviews Keiko Valente, Associate Program Officer on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Gender Equality Team. Keiko talks about what’s missing from the unpaid care work conversation, takeaways from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work with Dalberg, and how she’s helping to advance gender equality through her role.

USAID’s Investment Support Program (implemented by Dalberg Advisors) assesses the effectiveness of market-based solutions for smallholder farmers.