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How to unlock business funding for development projects
By Edward Hanrahan – SciDev.Net Results-based carbon financing shows the way forward for involving the private sector in development, says ClimateCare’s Edward Hanrahan. There is increasing acknowledgement that the public...
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Will Somalia get enough rain this year?
Parts of southern Somalia are yet to recover from the battering they took in 2010-2011, when severe drought followed excessive rain, and now the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS...
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Governments Can Make Water and Sanitation for All Africans a Reality by 2030 says WaterAid
Today, on the 20th anniversary of World Water Day, WaterAid (http://www.wateraid.org) is calling on international leaders to support an ambitious target of providing access to water, sanitation and hygiene for...
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Cheap ‘nano-tablet’ purifies water for up to six months
By Munyaradzi Makoni Researchers have developed a water purification tablet comprised of nanoparticles that can be used by developing world communities with no access to clean water. The tablet, MadiDrop,...
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The African Water Facility Increases Access to Water Supply and Sanitation, Fights Cholera in Zimbabwe
Funded by the African Water Facility (AWF) to the amount of US $3 million, the project designed to rehabilitate the water supply and sewerage systems in Chitungwiza will be handed...
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AfDB Cites African Countries’ Integrated Climate Resilience Solutions in the Water Sector in CIF Global 2012 Annual Report
The African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) has laid out solutions some African countries are about to apply, with help from the AfDB and the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), to respond...
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Africa’s Biggest People Power Event of 2013 One Month Away
Africa’s Biggest People Power Event of 2013 One Month Away Hundreds of thousands of Africans will join with people across the world to take action Hundreds of thousands of Africans...