By Julius Ouma Trade is a fundamental enabler of sustainable development, inclusive growth and poverty reduction. By facilitating the exchange of goods and services, trade sustains businesses, creates jobs and livelihoods. To sustainably engage in [c]
Global Compact Network Kenya Executive Director Judy Njino has challenged the private sector to accelerate action at the pace and scale needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Ms. Njino noted [c]
Safaricom has joined the UN Global Compact’s Forward Faster initiative that aims to accelerate private sector action to deliver on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and meet the 2030 Agenda. The initiative calls on [c]
Key players in the clean cooking sector are meeting in Nairobi to explore ways of enhancing access to clean cooking energy. The forum is the major highlight of this year’s Week of Clean Cooking organized [c]
Mombasa city will host the first-ever East Africa Public Relations Week, a collaborative event that will bring together some of East Africa’s brilliant minds in the communications sector. Running under the theme of “Enhancing Sustainability [c]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the winners of its Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards as part of its annual Goalkeepers campaign. The foundation recognized the work of four remarkable change-makers to advance progress [c]
Closing the mobile internet ‘usage gap’ should be a priority for countries seeking to deliver against the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goals, according to the GSMA’s seventh annual Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals. The [c]
The African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA), a Pan-African network of social investors collaborating to mobilise and deploy capital for impact and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through its Africa Sustainable Finance Hub (ASFH) and [c]
AVPA, a network of social investors collaborating to mobilize and deploy capital for impact, has launched a new programme designed to strengthen the capabilities of African social investors. The 2022 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship will [c]
Samsung has announced that the company ranked fourth out of 150 companies in the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)’s Digital Inclusion Benchmark in 2021. Samsung was recognised for its consistent, multifaceted efforts to be digitally responsible, [c]
Airtel Africa, which has a presence in 14 countries across Africa, has launched a comprehensive sustainability strategy which sets out its detailed plans to improve the lives of millions of people across Africa through digital [c]
By Oliver Nudds Current waste management practices in Africa are causing major economic, social and environmental impacts. The rise in plastic consumption combined with weak waste collection infrastructure is resulting in increased marine plastic litter, [c]
Safaricom’s latest sustainable business report indicates that the company created a total value of Kshs 664 billion for the Kenyan society in its last financial year, which is ten times greater than the profit made [c]
Mobile operators and government institutions of the DRC have partnered with the global mobile association, the GSMA, to advance the nation’s digital transformation with the launch of “We Care” in the country. The We Care [c]
Reducing household emissions is considered one of the most effective ways of combating climate change and mitigating the threat of global warming. Household carbon dioxide emissions have been proved to have a major impact on [c]
Even as the world recently celebrated Earth Day, the ravaging impact of climate change is being felt globally through extreme weather events like wild fires, massive flooding, devastating hurricanes and severe drought. Scientists have for [c]
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