Steve McCurry
Foundation efforts are designed to equip people, organizations, and communities to weather the risks of a more complex, more interconnected world. Thus, much of our work supports the improvement of lives in developing countries across the globe.
Some of Our Current Initiatives
Strengthening Food Security: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Increasing smallholder agricultural productivity with better seeds, soils, markets, financing, and agricultural policies.
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched AGRA in 2006. An African-based and African-led organization, AGRA is charged with increasing the productivity and profitability of small-scale farms in African countries.
Transforming Health Systems
Widening access to affordable, high-quality health services by leveraging and coordinating resources
While health spending has increased dramatically around the world, access to affordable, quality services has not, particularly in developing countries. This initiative supports models for systemic health shifts, through infrastructure and governance.
Developing Climate Change Resilience
Helping communities cope with imminent consequences of climate change
Through our Asian Cities Climate Change Network, we are piloting resilience strategies in ten cities across Asia. Our aim is to help build the capacity of city stakeholders to address the challenges they face, and to create a sustainable network for sharing these experiences with many others. The Foundation is also attempting to strengthen the adaptive capabilities of African smallholder farmers in anticipating and responding to climate change.
Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing
Expanding and increasing the effectiveness of investments that solve social and environmental problems and generate a profit
Some of the freshest approaches to impact investing are being developed in South and Southeast Asia as well as East, West, and Southern Africa. Foundation efforts are underway to build impact investing infrastructure and support intermediaries focused on smallholder agriculture, low-income housing, health care, technology, and renewable energy.
Our Work in Exploration
Each time the Foundation identifies a new area of focus within one or more of our five issue areas, we begin to hone our strategy, during an exploratory phase. For instance, the Foundation is examining ways to ensure that carbon markets contribute to both mitigating climate change and reducing rural poverty in the developing world. (Through carbon markets, credits for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and for carbon sequestrations can be sold and traded.)
