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100 Days To Go: Abu Dhabi Finance Week's 2023 Edition Expects Leadership of 3500+ Top Financial Firms from Over 100 Countries

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
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It will collectively aim to collaborate on maximising the opportunities and minimising the challenges presented within the 'Transition Era'.

Key Points: 
  • It will collectively aim to collaborate on maximising the opportunities and minimising the challenges presented within the 'Transition Era'.
  • Embracing the Transition Era will build the path to a stronger, more resilient financial landscape through these events placed within ADFW.
  • The first day will also witness the start of the globally renowned Fortune Global Leadership Summit 2023.
  • ADFW will continue with Asset Abu Dhabi's second edition which is levelling up to be one of the world's strongest assemblage of global private market leadership.

100 Days To Go: Abu Dhabi Finance Week's 2023 Edition Expects Leadership of 3500+ Top Financial Firms from Over 100 Countries

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
LLP, Private equity, Investment banking, COP28, Abu Dhabi Global Market, Capital market, GGV Capital, Blockchain, Economist, ABU, Fintech, Million Pound Menu, USD, Crown prince, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Former, Arab Monetary Fund, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, HRH, ADFW, Arcapita, Regulation, EToro, Aramex, Abu Dhabi Investment Office, Cohen & Steers, Executive Committee, Singapore FinTech Festival, Executive Council, Capital, Climate, Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, MENA, Hedge fund, Abu Dhabi Executive Council, VC, Collaboration, Bank Leumi, Renewable energy, Cryptocurrency, Emaar Properties, Investcorp

It will collectively aim to collaborate on maximising the opportunities and minimising the challenges presented within the 'Transition Era'.

Key Points: 
  • It will collectively aim to collaborate on maximising the opportunities and minimising the challenges presented within the 'Transition Era'.
  • Embracing the Transition Era will build the path to a stronger, more resilient financial landscape through these events placed within ADFW.
  • The first day will also witness the start of the globally renowned Fortune Global Leadership Summit 2023.
  • ADFW will continue with Asset Abu Dhabi's second edition which is levelling up to be one of the world's strongest assemblage of global private market leadership.

Catalytic Investment to Improve Community Health Care for Millions Across Africa

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Monday, August 8, 2022
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GENEVA, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is announcing a crucial new catalytic fund to support community health workers across up to 10 African countries. The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF) will provide financing to accelerate and sustain the scale up of frontline community health workers, the backbone of community health services.

Key Points: 
  • Investing in frontline community health workers can generate a return of up to 10:1 when considering the improved economic, health, and social outcomes of community health workers.
  • The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF) will provide financing to accelerate and sustain the scale up of frontline community health workers, the backbone of community health services.
  • This catalytic investment is a first step towards a broader shared ambition to scale community health, contributing to expanding universal health coverage.
  • Africa Frontline Firstis a collaborative effort by the Financing Alliance for Health, Last Mile Health, the Community Health Acceleration Partnership, and Community Health Impact Coalition under the championship of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Catalytic Investment to Improve Community Health Care for Millions Across Africa

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Monday, August 8, 2022
Woman, Movement, Johnson & Johnson, CEO, Vatican COVID-19 Commission, Nobel Peace Prize, Investment, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Built-in self-test, Private sector, Community, Workforce, Jeffrey Skoll, Mark R. Dybul, Twitter, COVID-19, Infection, Partnership, AU, Pandemic, Skoll Foundation, Global, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, African Union, AIDS, HIV, Solution, Ebola, TB, Disease, Pharmaceutical industry, Health insurance, Healthcare, Malaria, Health

GENEVA, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is announcing a crucial new catalytic fund to support community health workers across up to 10 African countries. The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF) will provide financing to accelerate and sustain the scale up of frontline community health workers, the backbone of community health services.

Key Points: 
  • Investing in frontline community health workers can generate a return of up to 10:1 when considering the improved economic, health, and social outcomes of community health workers.
  • The Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund (AFF-CF) will provide financing to accelerate and sustain the scale up of frontline community health workers, the backbone of community health services.
  • This catalytic investment is a first step towards a broader shared ambition to scale community health, contributing to expanding universal health coverage.
  • Africa Frontline Firstis a collaborative effort by the Financing Alliance for Health, Last Mile Health, the Community Health Acceleration Partnership, and Community Health Impact Coalition under the championship of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

USAID Announces $200 Million Commitment to Tackle Child Wasting, the Largest Single Investment in Malnutrition Treatment in History

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Monday, July 18, 2022
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WASHINGTON, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, USAID Administrator Samantha Power took a historic step forward in the fight against global malnutrition by announcing a US$200 million contribution to UNICEF to combat the deadliest form of malnutrition, child wasting. The Administrator was joined by philanthropist Sir Chris Hohn, the CRI Foundation (CRI), The Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF), and The ELMA Relief Foundation who collectively committed at least an additional US$50 million in philanthropic resources to bring life-saving care to severely malnourished children around the globe.

Key Points: 
  • "Despite the power of this incredible tool in the fight against child wasting, it is drastically underutilized.
  • Most parents who are able to bring their children to clinics to seek treatment are met with a lack of supply.
  • With this commitment, we will help get this lifesaving care into the mouths of an additional 2.4 million childrenthe largest leap in coverage on record."
  • Child wasting is the deadliest form of malnutrition, but it is treatable in the form of Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).

USAID Announces $200 Million Commitment to Tackle Child Wasting, the Largest Single Investment in Malnutrition Treatment in History

Retrieved on: 
Monday, July 18, 2022
Leadership, Climate change, Public health, Research, USAID, History, CRI, CEO, Lists of countries and territories, Woman, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, RUTF, Investment, Solution, Therapeutic food, Work, Food, Health minister, CIFF, Micronutrient, Life, ECF, Adolescence, Wasting, United Nations General Assembly, COVID-19, Malnutrition, UNICEF, Growth, Death, Health, Administrator, Famine, Partnership, Government, Parent, Sustainability, Pharmaceutical industry, Renewable energy, Birth control, Toy, Foundation, Child

WASHINGTON , July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, USAID Administrator Samantha Power took a historic step forward in the fight against global malnutrition by announcing a US$200 million contribution to UNICEF to combat the deadliest form of malnutrition, child wasting. The Administrator was joined by philanthropist Sir Chris Hohn, the CRI Foundation (CRI), The Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF), and The ELMA Relief Foundation who collectively committed at least an additional US$50 million in philanthropic resources to bring life-saving care to severely malnourished children around the globe.

Key Points: 
  • "Despite the power of this incredible tool in the fight against child wasting, it is drastically underutilized.
  • Most parents who are able to bring their children to clinics to seek treatment are met with a lack of supply.
  • With this commitment, we will help get this lifesaving care into the mouths of an additional 2.4 million childrenthe largest leap in coverage on record."
  • Child wasting is the deadliest form of malnutrition, but it is treatable in the form of Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).

Leaders Launch New $1bn Gender Fund to Advance Global Equality and Women's Leadership

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Thursday, March 17, 2022
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The Gender Fund, aiming to raise US $1bn to advance gender equality and women's leadership, unites philanthropists, foundations, locally-rooted program partners, advisors and private sectors from around the world.

Key Points: 
  • The Gender Fund, aiming to raise US $1bn to advance gender equality and women's leadership, unites philanthropists, foundations, locally-rooted program partners, advisors and private sectors from around the world.
  • While funding for gender equality has been rising over the last decade, only 1% of that funding has reached women'sorganizations.
  • A range of grants are available for a broad ecosystem of actors working to advance gender equality and women's leadership through tangible actions.
  • The Fund began sourcing and awarding an initial set of 15 grants for initiatives addressing major barriers to gender equality.

More than US$27 billion committed to tackle global malnutrition and hunger crisis at the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021
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TOKYO, Dec. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Government and private sector donors have pledged more than US$27billion at the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit this week to address the global malnutrition and hunger crisis.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Dec. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Government and private sector donors have pledged more than US$27billion at the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit this week to address the global malnutrition and hunger crisis.
  • "Let me recall our Sustainable Development Goal to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030.
  • Global nutrition donors have all largely delivered on their previous Nutrition for Growth financial commitments, some several years early.
  • According to the 2018 Global Nutrition Report, 10 of the 2013 signatories pledged a collective US$19.6 billion by 2020.

Governments and private funders announce historic US$1.7 billion pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

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Monday, November 1, 2021
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Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage half the world's land and care for an astonishing 80% of Earth's biodiversity , primarily under customary tenure arrangements.

Key Points: 
  • Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage half the world's land and care for an astonishing 80% of Earth's biodiversity , primarily under customary tenure arrangements.
  • A recent study showed, however, that Indigenous communities and organizations receive less than 1% of the climate funding meant to reduce deforestation.
  • "This historic $1.7 billion pledge is a challenge to all funders to do far more to support and partner with Indigenous Peoples and local communities who hold a key solution to climate change, and have them lead the way."
  • "The work to protect the planet's future will only be successful in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Certificate in ESG Investing Adds to the Skills Landscape in Investment Management

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Monday, October 25, 2021
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Peg Jobst, Managing Director of Credentialing at CFA Institutecomments:

Key Points: 
  • Peg Jobst, Managing Director of Credentialing at CFA Institutecomments:
    "Against a backdrop of increasing client demand for ESG expertise, it is imperative for investment professionals to understand this subject matter.
  • The Certificate in ESG Investing offers a broad foundation of knowledge to help portfolio managers, analysts and sales teams integrate ESG considerations into products, policies and client conversations.
  • As we approach COP26, CFA Institute sees a clear role that the financial sector can play in integrating environmental, social and governance factors into investment portfolios.
  • The CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing seeks to upskill relationship managers and investment counsellors as they meet client demands.