Tag: poverty

• Apply to host an NGO CSW64 Parallel Event

  

  Any global NGO can apply to host an NGO CSW64 Parallel Event as long as their proposed event is relevant to the CSW64 theme. Your organization does not have to be ECOSOC accredited. Your application will be reviewed to determine the relationship of your proposed parallel event to the CSW64 theme and its relevance to…

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  November 10, 2019

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  CWW64, ECOSOC, gender equality, NGO, poverty, poverty eradication, shared prosperity

• Enter the World Bank Data Science Competition and Win $15k

  

  The World Bank  competition will supply a set of training data with anonymized qualitative variables from household surveys in 3 countries, including the “poor” or “not poor” classification for each observation. The challenge is to build models which can accurately classify households from a different set of test data (with the poor/not poor classification removed!)…

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  January 16, 2018

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• Powering the Future We Want: $1 Million Grant on Energy for Sustainable Development

  

  The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a plan of action for people, planet, and prosperity. UN DESA recognizes that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. The thematic focus for the 2017 UN DESA Energy Grant is “Sustainable…

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  May 19, 2017

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  2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, climate change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, Health, idea, industrialization, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, poverty, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The African Women Power Network, The AWP Network, water supply, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply for the $100,000 ONE Africa Award

  The ONE Africa Award aims to recognize, reward, and advance the exceptional work of organizations founded by Africans, based in Africa, and dedicated to helping Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The $100,000 award will bring recognition to innovative African efforts to fight poverty and will incentivize more of such efforts. (The award may…

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  July 25, 2013

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  AWP Network, change, development, Innovation, Mary Olushoga, Millennium Development Goals, ONE Africa Award, poverty, progress, sustainability

• Small Businesses Tackle Poverty in Mauritius

  

  By Nasseem Ackbarally Port Louis — Raja Venkat, a food vendor on the sidewalk of Immigration Square in the centre of Port Louis, the Mauritian capital, sits on his tricycle with a bag full of dhal puris – small, round, flat Indian bread stuffed with pulses – which he sells together with tomato sauce and…

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  July 15, 2013

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  Africa, AWP Network, development, education, girls, growth, Mauritius, Nigeria, poverty, progress, small business, solutions, women, Youths