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Can GAVI’s new partnership model crack ‘mhealth pilotitis’ while opening new markets for Vodafone?

August 21, 2013

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Originally published on Devex Impact:   To improve vaccination rates, the GAVI Alliance is tackling supply chain bottlenecks through an innovative partnership with Vodafone in Mozambique. Photo: VillageReach.   In the 13 years since it was founded to jumpstart stagnating global vaccination rates, the GAVI Alliance has achieved some remarkable results. Three hundred and seventy million […]

What the Global Food Security Act of 2013 can do for agriculture development

August 8, 2013

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Originally published on the ONE blog, and co-authored with David Hong, agriculture policy manager at the ONE Campaign: Smallholder farmers are the largest population of poor people in the world. If we want to tackle global poverty, we have to address agriculture. The US government has prioritized agriculture development in Feed the Future, its $3.5 billion global hunger […]

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