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One of the Pencil Vs Camera artworks I made for Trust Merchant Bank, everywhere in Democratic Republic of Congo. I captured the photo, made the drawing and conceptualized the image.
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Une des créations Pencil Vs Camera que j'ai faites pour la Trust Merchant Bank, partout en République Démocratique du Congo. J'ai pris la photo, fait le dessin et conceptualisé l'image.
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Currently, 2,000 small-scale farmers in Nandi Hills, Kenya are currently using the solution to sell their produce and working with farmer-friendly agents to ensure they reach the right buyers for the best price.
One of the Pencil Vs Camera artworks I made for Trust Merchant Bank, everywhere in Democratic Republic of Congo. I captured the photo, made the drawing and conceptualized the image.
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Une des créations Pencil Vs Camera que j'ai faites pour la Trust Merchant Bank, partout en République Démocratique du Congo. J'ai pris la photo, fait le dessin et conceptualisé l'image.
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2KUZE empowers farmer-friendly agents like Gilbert Misoi from Nandi Hills to provide a greater percentage of the wholesale value to farmers by providing price transparency and more direct access to buyers.
Farmers using 2KUZE can conduct the entire transaction of selling produce and receiving payments via their feature phones, without having to walk for hours to the markets. This solution in particular supports women farmers, who often have household duties that prevent them from leaving the farm gate and are more often subject to having to take whatever deal is given to them on the day.
2-11-2017 ABUJA NIGERIA Queen Maxima speech during a visit to EFInA (Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access) event "The Role of Government in Driving Financial Inclusion in Nigeria". Copyright Robin Utrecht
06 December 2013, Hangachafa Village, Hawassa (Awasa Zuria Woreda, Sidama Zone, SNNP region), Ethiopia - Mabrat Eyiso sifts beans from dirt, dust and hay. The hay is given to his cows to eat. FAO provided the seeds. The beans harvested from the seeds are sold to the cooperative that is supported by IFAD and WFP. FAO and WFP are jointly implementing the Purchase from Africans to Africa project. The objective is to improve food security and income generation activities of smallholder farmers by promoting local food production using the demand for food from the local schools. WFP is responsible for purchasing food produced by FAO-supported smallholder farmers’ organizations. The project has distributed seeds to farmers on credit basis and each farmer has started to return 25kg of beans as seed to disseminate to the other non-beneficiary farmers as a multiplication effect.The food procured is distributed through WFP’s school meals programme, reaching more than 8,000 students in 7 primary schools in the district.
Most of Henok's nine children attend classes at the WFP supported Anja Chefa school. Farmers grow beans for three reasons; home consumption, to produce next year's seeds and to sell beans at the market. Henok says from 400 kgs of harvested beans, 250 kgs is sold at the market, 100 kgs is for home consumption and 50 kgs will be the seeds for next year's planting. FAO, IFAD and WFP work closely together in Ethiopia. The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) is one of the nine administrative regions of Ethiopia, with Hawassa the capital. The SNNP region has a population estimated at over 16 million people and the majority -- 90 percent -- are smallholder farmers living in rural areas. With 136 Woredas, the region mainly produces maize, haricot beans, teff and coffee, while various populations are agro-pastoralists and pastoralist.
The projects supported by IFAD, FAO and WFP provide an array of complimentary support to small-scale farmers and cooperative unions. Food-security interventions are boosting access to some basic financial services, including bank loans, which were previously unavailable to agricultural cooperative unions and their members. Increased access to those services is, in turn, helping the farmers build a more food-secure future for themselves and their families. Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (UN Secretary General Special Advocate for Financial Inclusion, UNSGSA) and the three food agencies of the United Nations are teaming up in Ethiopia and Tanzania to raise awareness of how access to financial services – such as bank accounts, short-term credit, small loans, savings and insurance – can help improve the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and the rural poor.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/IFAD/WFP/Petterik Wiggers. Editorial use only.
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Jamila Abass – MFarm
As CEO of MFarm, Jamila Abass uses mobile technology to help farmers increase their incomes. MFarm provides farmers in Kenya with real-time market price information and a group selling platform where they can connect with other farmers to jointly market their crops in greater volumes. By giving rural farmers more direct and powerful access to buyers, MFarm is positioned to improve hundreds of thousands - and potentially millions - of lives.
Lukas Biewald – CrowdFlower
Lukas Biewald is CEO and founder of CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing internet company that breaks large digital projects into small microtasks and distributes them to workers around the world. CrowdFlower engages a workforce of nearly 3.5 million people to complete more than 2 million tasks every day. In a key example, Biewald helped PopTech Science Fellow Sarah Fortune find new ways to study the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. By sharing the workload, making it fun and insisting on quality results, CrowdFlower provides incomes while speeding the path toward more accurate and scalable results.
Rachel Brown – Sisi ni Amani - Kenya
Rachel Brown founded Sisi ni Amani - Kenya ("We are Peace - Kenya" in Swahili) to pioneer the use of mobile technology to get the right communication capacity into the hands of local peacebuilders, enabling communities to participate in democratic processes and prevent violence. Through civic education, engagement and dialogue, SNA-K leverages SMS text messaging to support the peace efforts of community leaders. As a key partner in the collaborative PeaceTXT project, SNA-K is working to make locally effective tools that can be replicated globally in stopping violence and building peace.
Bryan Doerries – Outside the Wire
Bryan Doerries is the founder of Theater of War, a project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to service members, veterans, caregivers and families to help them start talking about the challenges faced by military communities today. He is also the co-founder of Outside the Wire, LLC, a social impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health issues, such as combat-related psychological injury, end of life care, prison reform, political violence and torture, and the de-stigmatization of the treatment of substance abuse and addiction. A self-described evangelist for classical literature and its relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help heal very modern wounds.
Toure McCluskey – OkCopay
Toure McCluskey is the founder of OkCopay, a unique search engine for medical procedures that helps Americans with inadequate insurance find affordable local health care. At OkCopay, people can quickly search for the procedure they need, compare local providers, and view actual provider prices and details on the appropriate health clinic. By bringing transparency to healthcare costs, OkCopay is ensuring that those most in need can find effective and reasonable health services.
Nicholas Merrill – Calyx Institute
Nicholas Merrill created the Calyx Institute to help launch a telecommunications and Internet service provider focused on the right to privacy and freedom of expression. Merrill has personally fought intrusive government demands for private customer information, and he aims to develop, document and publicly release technology to enable private communications that even the service provider cannot decode or eavesdrop upon. Merrill’s goal is to inhibit mass surveillance and to protect the privacy and security of users everywhere.
www.facebook.com/calyxinstitute
Jacobo Quintanilla – Internews
Jacobo Quintanilla joined Internews to bring news and information resources to people in humanitarian crises. As Director of Humanitarian Information Projects, Quintanilla has helped create a two-way dialogue between aid workers and affected communities in countries such as Haiti, Central African Republic and Kenya. Building on Internews' core mission, Quintanilla's projects empower local media in crisis situations to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect, and the means to make their voices heard.
Andreas Raptopoulos – Matternet
Andreas Raptopoulos is the founder and CEO of Matternet, building a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transport medicine and goods in places with poor road infrastructure. Matternet's "drones for good" use small, electric UAVs to transport packages weighing up to 2 kilos and containing items like vaccines, medicines or blood samples, over distances of 10 kilometers at a time. By creating a new paradigm for transportation that leapfrogs roads, Matternet is helping to revolutionize transportation in the developing world.
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan – Global Financial Inclusion Initiative
As director of the Global Financial Inclusion Initiative at Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action, Aishwarya Ratan focuses on the design and delivery of effective financial services for the poor. GFII seeks to test, evaluate and replicate interventions to improve products, delivery channels and tools ranging from savings products to mobile money and financial literacy programs. The initiative's rigorous approach to testing and measuring the impact of such innovations aims to ensure that the financial services available to the poor to manage and grow their money are affordable, efficient, secure and welfare-enhancing.
www.poverty-action.org/financialinclusion
Eric Stowe – A Child’s Right / Splash
Eric Stowe believes that every child has a right to clean water—and he has built an innovative, scalable approach to act on that belief. Since founding A Child's Right (soon to be Splash) in 2006, Stowe has developed a highly effective model to ensure safe water for urban children living at the intersection of these two streets: “greatest degrees of poverty” and “worst water quality conditions.” Leveraging world-class water purification technology, sustainable monitoring and maintenance, excellent people, and a rigorous commitment to transparency, A Child's Right will soon announce that every orphanage in China has safe drinking water. Stowe's team will then demonstrate how they are customizing their approach for 15 more countries in Asia and East Africa, using their "Proving It" platform to share both successes and failures at all of their project sites.
Eric Woods – Switchboard
Eric Woods is the CEO and founder of Switchboard, which uses mobile phones to create nationwide networks of health workers in developing countries. Switchboard partners with mobile operators to provide health workers with free nationwide calling, a nationwide registry and access to information via bulk text messaging. Having already linked all doctors in both Ghana and Liberia, Switchboard will next connect health workers at all levels throughout Tanzania, working toward the vision of a collaborative network of health advice, referrals and improved care in places where access is most challenging.
Daniel Zoughbie – Microclinic International
Daniel Zoughbie created Microclinic International to help leverage the power of social network relationships to spread healthy behaviors throughout under-resourced communities. Working in Jordan, India, Kenya, the West Bank and the United States, Microclinic International has begun to show that working through existing social groups of friends and family can significantly help people improve their outcomes in the fight against such diseases as diabetes and HIV/AIDS. The effectiveness of their approach is attracting attention from governments and other large-scale health providers, opening the door to large-scale replication and the broader use of this "contagious health" approach.
4 May 2021. A panel of policymakers and development partners discussed ambitious approaches to build back better through women’s entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and green and decent jobs for women.
COVID-19 wiped away a disproportionately higher share of women’s jobs, widening gender gaps in labor market access and increasing women’s vulnerability to poverty. As Asia and the Pacific economies look to recovery, it will be important to address these inequalities in women’s work to ensure a more inclusive "new normal."
The event was held during the 54th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors.
The Global Findex shows 3/4 of the world’s poor do not have a bank account, not only because of poverty, but also due to costs, travel distance and paper work involved. In all regions, with the exception of high income economies, borrowing from friends and family is the most commonly
reported source of credit for current loans. For more information go to: www.worldbank.org/globalfindex
Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion event during the 2012 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. on April 19, 2012. Photo by Ryan Rayburn/World Bank
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Women's World Banking held its annual benefit on Tuesday, October 9, 2014 at the IAC HQ Building in New York City. The evening featured a panel conversation among our corporate supporters Barclays, Citi Microfinance, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women and Walmart on why it is important to invest in women. Devex moderated the panel.
06 December 2013, Hangachafa Village, Hawassa (Awasa Zuria Woreda, Sidama Zone, SNNP region), Ethiopia - Mabrat Eyiso sifts beans from dirt, dust and hay. The hay is given to his cows to eat. FAO provided the seeds. The beans harvested from the seeds are sold to the cooperative that is supported by IFAD. The cooperative sells the beans, partly to the Anja Chefa HGSF school. Most of Henok's nine children attend classes at the Anja Chefa school. Farmers grow beans for three reasons; home consumption, to produce next year's seeds and to sell beans at the market. Henok says from 400 kgs of harvested beans, 250 kgs is sold at the market, 100 kgs is for home consumption and 50 kgs will be the seeds for next year's planting. FAO, IFAD and WFP work closely together in Ethiopia. The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) is one of the nine administrative regions of Ethiopia, with Hawassa the capital. The SNNP region has a population estimated at over 16 million people and the majority -- 90 percent -- are smallholder farmers living in rural areas. With 136 Woredas, the region mainly produces maize, haricot beans, teff and coffee, while various populations are agro-pastoralists and pastoralist. FAO has been playing a leading role providing access to seeds and planting materials under the umbrella of various emergency and development-oriented projects supported by different donors, particularly over the past four years. WFP is providing food assistance to 1.6 million people in SNNP region. While IFAD is the leading agency in the field of rural finance. Repayments of loans in the region are high, with up to 92-96 percent of loans are paid back.
MasterCard released “A Progressive Approach to Financial Inclusion,” a study measuring adoption and degree of usage of financial products for 30 countries globally. The study from MasterCard Advisors used a data-driven approach to demonstrate three key principles that will help inform the strategies to drive higher financial inclusion and realize its benefits.
MasterCard has gained first-hand experience into the drivers and barriers of financial inclusion. It is technology that can break the barriers and offer unlimited potential for global economic growth, productivity and efficiency.
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4 May 2021. A panel of policymakers and development partners discussed ambitious approaches to build back better through women’s entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and green and decent jobs for women.
In the photo, Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant of the Prime Minister and Federal Minister, Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Pakistan.
COVID-19 wiped away a disproportionately higher share of women’s jobs, widening gender gaps in labor market access and increasing women’s vulnerability to poverty. As Asia and the Pacific economies look to recovery, it will be important to address these inequalities in women’s work to ensure a more inclusive "new normal."
The event was held during the 54th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors.
One of the Pencil Vs Camera artworks I made for Trust Merchant Bank, everywhere in Democratic Republic of Congo. I captured the photo, made the drawing and conceptualized the image.
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Une des créations Pencil Vs Camera que j'ai faites pour la Trust Merchant Bank, partout en République Démocratique du Congo. J'ai pris la photo, fait le dessin et conceptualisé l'image.
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07 December 2013, Shelfo Village, (Awasa Zuria Woreda, Sidama Zone, SNNP region), Ethiopia - Pastoralists bring their herds of livestock to water at Lake Hawassa. FAO, IFAD and WFP work closely together in Ethiopia. The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) is one of the nine administrative regions of Ethiopia, with Hawassa the capital. The SNNP region has a population estimated at over 16 million people and the majority -- 90 percent -- are smallholder farmers living in rural areas. With 136 Woredas, the region mainly produces maize, haricot beans, teff and coffee, while various populations are agro-pastoralists and pastoralist.
The projects supported by IFAD, FAO and WFP provide an array of complimentary support to small-scale farmers and cooperative unions. Food-security interventions are boosting access to some basic financial services, including bank loans, which were previously unavailable to agricultural cooperative unions and their members. Increased access to those services is, in turn, helping the farmers build a more food-secure future for themselves and their families. Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (UN Secretary General Special Advocate for Financial Inclusion, UNSGSA) and the three food agencies of the United Nations are teaming up in Ethiopia and Tanzania to raise awareness of how access to financial services – such as bank accounts, short-term credit, small loans, savings and insurance – can help improve the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and the rural poor.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/IFAD/WFP/Petterik Wiggers. Editorial use only.
10 December 2013, Shelfo Village, Awasa Zuria Woreda, Sidama Zone, SNNP region, Ethiopia - HM Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA) heading a UN delegation during a visit to Anja Chefa HGSF school, where she met with farmers during a Farmers Fair at the school compound where varieties of seeds and crops were on display. From left: Sani Redi Ahmed, SNNP government representative, Adolfo Brizzi, the Director of Policy and Technical Advisory Division at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Modibo Traoré (FAO Representative for Ethiopia), HM Queen Maxima of the Netherlands.
Photo:©FAO/IFAD/WFP/Petterik Wigger. Editorial use only. Photo credit must be given.