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How we can harness the power of Generative AI in Development Image
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Aug 13, 2024
How we can harness the power of Generative AI in Development

The impact and future potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have dominated discourse in the tech space over the last five years. AI, in its broadest sense, refers to algorithms that can act in a way that would normally require human...

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Feb 16, 2024
Why scaling innovations is central to the development fightback

Innovation is central to the modern development agenda. The Covid pandemic in 2020–2021 wiped out 25 years of progress in lifting people out of poverty leaving, tragically, more people in poverty than there have been in recent memory. We cannot...

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Jun 01, 2023
How to attract more private sector capital to development

The Global Innovation Fund was established as an impact-focused, venture-style investment vehicle, designed to take informed risks and invest in the best social innovation ideas early on. The ability to tolerate risk is crucial in the development investment space, since...

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May 19, 2023
Why we should take risks on things which are hard

GIF CEO Alix Peterson Zwane recently gave the Keynote speech at the Yale School of Management Impact Investing Conference. We share here Alix's full keynote address. We know less than we think we do I know you’re going to hear...

Why we need continuous innovation and experimentation in development Image
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Feb 16, 2023
Why we need continuous innovation and experimentation in development

The Global Innovation Fund was established as an impact-focused, venture-style investment vehicle, designed to be able to support the rigorous testing and scaling up of innovative solutions to problems faced by the world’s poorest people. As such, innovation and experimentation...

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Nov 16, 2022
From seed to scale: Accelerating innovative enterprises

Traditional aid agencies and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) cannot always take risks on early stage, innovative ventures, which creates what is often referred to as the “pioneer gap”. Early seed funding, where available, may help the innovators to understand the...

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Sep 09, 2022
My top three lessons in innovative investment

I was fortunate enough to spend time this week attending the Centre for Global Development’s annual Development Leaders’ Conference in Paris. It is always a great forum for discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the wider development community, and I...

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May 26, 2022
The impact of adaptation and the adaptation of impact

GIF wants to maximise its social impact. We also want to support climate adaptation. Are those goals compatible? Can we measure climate adaptation impact on the same yardstick we use for all our investments? We think so. For us, the...