Sep 01 2013
While the majority of the African population is heavily reliant on agriculture, the continent has lagged behind other developing regions in progressing this essential sector. Research and development specific to …
Food
Aug 28 2013
For the poor in urban slums, the majority of the programs targeting community health are often to combat communicable diseases or do not prioritize NCD related outcomes.
Aug 15 2013
Today, food and prosperity are still intrinsically linked. Farm production provides the life-sustaining calories and nutrients that allow poor communities and, indeed, all people to sustain healthy, secure livelihoods. With …
Food
Aug 02 2013
While the mobile sector has grown significantly over the last five-to-seven years, scale and sustainability have yet to be achieved. To further explore opportunities and barriers to investment and partnership …
Jul 24 2013
In 2013, The Rockefeller Foundation funded an independent evaluation of 12 years of program related investments (PRI), including 18 transactions totaling $23.9 million deployed both domestically and internationally. The resulting …
Innovative Finance Technology & Innovation Asia
Jul 23 2013
The World Health Organization developed the Handbook on health inequality monitoring: with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries to provide an overview for health inequality monitoring within low- …
Jun 26 2013
Over the last century, The Rockefeller Foundation has seen the incredible power of convening to create shared dialogue, to debate pathways to impact and to catalyze groundbreaking ideas and history …
Jun 01 2013
The Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) has been a central part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s work towards advancing health and achieving universal health coverage (UHC), through our flagship health initiative, …
Health
Jun 01 2013
Digital Jobs Africa is a Rockefeller Foundation initiative that seeks to impact the lives of 1 million people in six countries in Africa by catalyzing sustainable Information and Communications Technology …
U.S. Economic Opportunity
May 29 2013
Thirty prominent agricultural scientists and development specialists from around the world (GCP21 partners) assembled for four days in Bellagio, Italy, to develop a plan of action to arrest the spread …
Food