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Foundation-written and -funded reports look at current state of affairs and shine a light on the future
Aug 02 2013
Scaling Mobile Technology for Development Intelligence
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 …
Jun 26 2013
Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening
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
Joint Learning Network Update
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
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 28 2013
Degradation and Loss of Peri-Urban Ecosystems
Rapid degradation of peri-urban ecosystems is resulting in a loss of associated ecosystem services. Water provision, storm-and waste-water regulation, along with protection from natural disasters and erosion, are the impacted …
May 28 2013
Youth and Skills
Driven by long‐term shifts in the labor market and on‐going poverty and inequality, youth employment challenges have mounted steadily over the last decade and reached a crisis point in the …
U.S. Economic Opportunity
May 28 2013
Waste and Spoilage in the Food Chain
Food waste and loss is a large and increasingly urgent problem and is particularly acute in developing countries where food loss reduces income by at least 15% (according to the …
Food