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Introducing GIF’s AI-powered impact modelling assistant Image
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May 27, 2026
Introducing GIF’s AI-powered impact modelling assistant

How can scarce resources be directed towards the innovations with the greatest potential to improve people’s lives? Our Practical Impact (PI) modelling framework is one of the ways that GIF helps funders address this hard but essential question. It helps...

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May 11, 2026
Scaling impact in emerging markets through debt financing

As startups mature, their funding needs evolve. While early-stage equity is vital for initial growth, relying on it for long-term expansion becomes expensive and dilutive.Despite their potential, many high-impact enterprises find themselves trapped in a “missing middle.” They have outgrown...

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Apr 29, 2026
Scaling, systems, synergy: Key takeaways from the Skoll World Forum 2026

The Skoll World Forum, the Sidebar and Marmalade Festival in Oxford are always more than just conferences, they are a pulse check for the global social impact community. This year, members of the Global Innovation Fund (GIF) team joined the...

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Apr 13, 2026
How systems innovators achieve scale

Innovation ecosystems. Systems change. Platform innovations. Spillover effects. In international development, “systems” are having a moment. For those of us focussed on scaling impactful innovations, this shift is vital. Traditionally, scaling an innovation and achieving systemic change have been viewed...

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Mar 25, 2026
The Anatomy of Scale: Lessons from a decade of scaling innovations

What does it actually take to scale an innovation so that it improves the lives of millions?Last week in London, the Global Innovation Fund (GIF) convened a group of partners and peers to tackle this exact question. The workshop, titled...

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Feb 13, 2026
Scaling impact: moving behavioural insights from trial to transformation

Last week at the World Government Summit in the UAE, I had the privilege of joining a panel convened by the Behavioral Science Group (BSG) for the Global Behavioral Evidence Network for Development (GBEND).Our conversation centered on a question that...

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Jul 23, 2025
From vision to reality: Embedding impact

GIF Investment Director, Xiu Jing Seow recently attended a SolarX APAC event in Sri Lanka. The ISA SolarX Accelerator is a year-long programme aimed at accelerating early-stage solar enterprises across the APAC region. Xiu Jing delivered a presentation about embedding...

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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...