After the Grant Ends: Why Rural Water Utilities Fail — And What We Learned from Building One nextbillion.net/after-the-gr... #water #WaterAccess #WASH #GlobalDevelopment #CleanWater

Courageous Capital: How Africa Built its Own Tech Ecosystem nextbillion.net/courageous-c... #Africa #technology #fintech #MobileFinance #investing

Understanding Africa’s Broken Climate Finance System: How the Missing Layers in the Capital Stack are Holding the Market Back nextbillion.net/understandin... @wdavidsoninst.bsky.social #climate #ClimateFinance #ClimateChange #ImpactInvesting

Financing the Future: How Off-Balance-Sheet Special Purpose Vehicles Could Fund Africa’s Cleantech Transition nextbillion.net/financing-th... @acumen.org #cleantech #solar #Africa #RenewableEnergy #renewables #ImpactInvesting #EnergyTransition

Flipping the Script on Investor Feedback: A New Survey Gives Entrepreneurs a Platform to Assess — And Influence — Their Impact Investors’ Practices nextbillion.net/flipping-the... @wdavidsoninst.bsky.social @acumen.org #ImpactInvesting #SocialEnterprise #SocialEntrepreneurship #entrepreneurs

Grant Dependency is Undermining Global Development: Here’s a Fundamentally New Architecture for Funding NGOs nextbillion.net/grant-depend... #GlobalDevelopment #NGOs #EmergingMarkets

The Keys to Successful Blue Bonds: How Peru’s Strong Local Lending Systems Are Expanding Water and Sanitation Access nextbillion.net/keys-to-succ... #water #sanitation #WASH #GlobalDevelopment #BlueBonds #Peru #LatinAmerica #ImpactInvesting #WaterAccess

‘Deep Pockets’ vs. ‘Long Pockets’ in DPI: What Instant Payments and Open Finance Tell Us About Sustainable Funding for Digital Public Infrastructure nextbillion.net/deep-pockets... #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #DPI #DigitalFinance #finance #governance #PublicPolicy #EmergingMarkets #payments

Selling the Outcome, Not Just the Appliance: What the Clean Cooling Sector Can Learn from Clean Cooking nextbillion.net/selling-the-... @wdavidsoninst.bsky.social #CleanCooling #CleanCooking #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateAdaptation

Moving Forward in a Post-USAID World: Why Women Must Be at the Center of Financial Inclusion nextbillion.net/moving-forwa... #FinancialInclusion #WomensEmpowerment #gender #GenderEquality #USAID #GlobalDevelopment

How to Support Rural Social Enterprises: Three Key Learnings from a Field Visit in Malaysia nextbillion.net/how-to-suppo... @sreevas.bsky.social #Malaysia #SocialEnterprise #GlobalDevelopment #SocialEntrepreneurship

High Expectations Require New Approaches: What Africa’s Social Innovators Need to Scale — And Why Support Systems Must Evolve nextbillion.net/high-expecta... #SocialEnterprise #SocialEntrepreneurs #Africa #SocialImpact #SubSaharanAfrica #GlobalDevelopment

Turning Silos into Synergy: An Inclusive Finance Pilot Provides Lessons for Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration nextbillion.net/turning-silo... #GlobalDevelopment #partnerships #ImpactInvesting

Africa’s Energy Future Needs More Than ‘Trickle-Down Electronomics’: Why the Debate Around False Trade-Offs Risks Leaving Millions Behind nextbillion.net/africas-ener... @gogla.bsky.social #EnergyAccess #solar #SolarEnergy #SolarPower #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #electrification

When Competitors Collaborate: How Eight Impact-First Investors Came Together to Confront the Valley of Death nextbillion.net/when-competi... @acumen.org @openroadimpact.bsky.social @villagecapital.bsky.social @kiva.org #ImpactInvesting #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #GlobalDevelopment

Getting the Most out of Monitoring Data: An Impact Investor Explores the Value of a Unified Approach nextbillion.net/getting-the-... #ImpactInvesting #ImpactAssessment #ImpactMeasurement #data #SocialImpact #ImpactInvestors

The Missing Ingredient in Impact Investment in Africa: A New Financing Model for Business Advisory Service Providers Tackles the ’Lack of Investable Pipeline’ Challenge nextbillion.net/missing-ingr... @socialfinance.bsky.social #Africa #ImpactInvesting #investing

Farming Under Solar: How Agriphotovoltaics Can Transform Rural Livelihoods in India nextbillion.net/farming-unde... #India #agriculture #solar #SolarEnergy #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #GlobalDevelopment #farming

The Hidden Filters: How to Fix the Biases that Skew Investment Pipelines Away from Women Founders nextbillion.net/hidden-filte... #investing #ImpactInvesting #GenderLens #gender #WomenEntrepreneurs

Three Questions for Five African Businesses: Insights from Sankalp Africa Summit’s ‘Enterprise Showcase’ nextbillion.net/three-questi... #Africa #AfricanBusiness #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship

Accelerating Climate-Health: How the Sector Can Become Africa’s Next Strategic Investment Frontier nextbillion.net/accelerating... @wdavidsoninst.bsky.social #climate #ClimateChange #health #healthcare #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment #investing #ClimateHealth #ImpactInvesting #Africa

When Uncertainty Becomes Structural: Entrepreneurship Support Organisations as Ecosystem Infrastructure in a New Fiscal Reality nextbillion.net/when-uncerta... #entrepreneurship #GlobalDevelopment #entrepreneurs

The Myths and Realities of Inclusive Insurance: Lessons from the Field nextbillion.net/myths-realit... #FinancialInclusion #insurance #finance #EmergingMarkets

Designing Finance for the Realities of Youth: Applications are Open for the Newly Renamed Luxembourg Award for Inclusive Finance nextbillion.net/designing-fi... @e-mfp.bsky.social #FinancialInclusion #youth #finance

The Trade-offs in African Energy Access are Real: Why Electrification Efforts Must Prioritise Industrial Use over Household Connections nextbillion.net/trade-offs-a... #EnergyAccess #solar #RenewableEnergy #Africa #GlobalDevelopment #electrification #SDG7

The Hidden Role of ‘E-Boiling’ in Clean Cooking: How Nairobi’s Informal Settlements are Quietly Powering an Electric Transition nextbillion.net/hidden-role-... #CleanCooking #Africa #Kenya #research #EnergyAccess #GlobalDevelopment #UrbanDevelopment

What Drives Corporate Philanthropy in Asia: Exploring the Region’s Unique Approach to Giving nextbillion.net/what-drives-... @bridgespangroup.bsky.social #Asia #CSR #Corporations #Philanthropy #GlobalDevelopment

Addressing the Communications Breakdown in Global Development: How AI-Enabled Assessment Tools Can Reach Excluded Communities nextbillion.net/addressing-c... #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GlobalDevelopment #data #ImpactMeasurement #LanguageAccess

Impact Leadership Under Pressure: Four Lessons from Resilient Organizations nextbillion.net/impact-leade... #SocialEnterprise #SocialEntrepreneurship #SocialImpact #NGOs #nonprofits #leadership #LeadershipLessons

Creating a Local Means of Exchange for African Entrepreneurs: How a Blockchain-Based Community Currency Gained Traction in Tanzania nextbillion.net/creating-loc... #blockchain #crypto #cryptocurrency #Africa #entrepreneurs @malikelbay.com #Tanzania

The False Choice in African Energy Access: Why the Sector Must Balance the Needs of Households and Businesses — And How it Can Electrify Both nextbillion.net/false-choice... #Africa #EnergyAccess #energy #SolarEnergy #solar #GlobalDevelopment

Leveraging the Currency of Trust: How Social Commerce Data Can Inform Risk Management and Bring Formal Finance to Women-Led MSMEs nextbillion.net/leveraging-c... @microsave.bsky.social #FinancialInclusion #Indonesia

Storytelling for Velocity, Not Visibility: Why African Development Organizations Need a New Communications Playbook nextbillion.net/storytelling... #GlobalDevelopment #Africa #communications #PublicRelations #consulting #SubSaharanAfrica

Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond nextbillion.net/productive-u... @acumen.org #solar #energy #EnergyAccess #agriculture

Rethinking What it Means to Start a Business: Why Systemic Venture Building Matters for Africa’s Food Future nextbillion.net/rethinking-w... #Africa #FoodSecurity #agriculture #business #SystemChange #GlobalDevelopment

Interoperability is the Answer to Scaling Up E-mobility in Africa: What the Continent Can Learn from the EU and India’s Divergent Approaches nextbillion.net/interoperabi... #ElectricMobility #EMobility #ElectricVehicles #EVs #Africa #India #SustainableMobility

Scaling Through Consortiums: Five Lessons We’ve Learned About Growing Impact Collectively nextbillion.net/scaling-thro... #NGOs #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #nonprofits

NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest nextbillion.net/nextbillions... #SocialEnterprise #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact #solar #EnergyAccess #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #degrowth #GlobalSouth #SocialEntrepreneurship #Africa

Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4 nextbillion.net/announcing-n... #solar #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact #SocialEnterprise #EnergyAccess #renewables #entrepreneurs #ImpactInvestors #SocialEntrepreneurship #SolarPower

Backing First-Time SME Finance Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 10 Years of Data Reveals Successful Pathways — And the Role of Catalytic Capital nextbillion.net/backing-firs... #ImpactInvesting #EmergingMarkets #Africa #investing #ImpactInvestors #CatalyticCapital

African Agriculture at a Climate Crossroads: Business Risks and Opportunities as the Continent Navigates the Growing Crisis nextbillion.net/african-agri... #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Africa #ClimateAction #SubSaharanAfrica #GlobalDevelopment #sustainability #agriculture #farming

Context Instead of Carbon: Why Climate Finance in Africa Must Shift its Focus from Mitigation to Adaptation nextbillion.net/context-inst... #Africa #carbon #CarbonCredits #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateMitigation #ClimateAction #agriculture #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment

Press Release: @technoserve.bsky.social, The Bid Lab, and Argidius Foundation launch VerdeXcelerate – Agtech for Impact, a new initiative designed to boost #startups that support #Smallholder farmers in #CentralAmerica and #Colombia. Read the full press release here: bit.ly/48KJcFy #business

AI Risk Management in Digital Finance: Protecting Africa’s Underbanked from Invisible Threats nextbillion.net/ai-risk-mana... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #fintech #DigitalFinance #FinancialInclusion #RiskManagement

The World is Losing the Fight Against Malaria: Could Drones and AI Help Defeat the Disease Once and For All? nextbillion.net/world-losing... #malaria #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment #Africa #drones #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PublicHealth #SubSaharanAfrica

Financing Off-Grid Solar: A Pioneering Provider in Honduras Shows the Impact of Diversified Funding nextbillion.net/financing-of... @hummingbirdgreen.bsky.social #Honduras #solar #EnergyAccess #ImpactInvesting #OffGrid #funding #GlobalDevelopment

Entrepreneur-Friendly Inclusive Finance: A Survey of Brazilian MSMEs Highlights Key Lessons for Lenders nextbillion.net/entrepreneur... @60decibels.bsky.social #Brazil #MSMEs #SmallBusiness #lending #ImpactInvesting #ImpactMeasurement #entrepreneurs #FinancialInclusion

Africa Needs Jobs — the Agri-Food Industry Can Provide Them: How the Sector Can Boost its Impact on Employment Across the Continent nextbillion.net/africa-needs... #agriculture #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #employment #FoodSecurity #unemployment #GlobalDevelopment #jobs

NextBillion at 20: Reflecting on Growth, Change and Global Impact nextbillion.net/nextbillion-... #GlobalEntrepreneurshipWeek #GEW2025 #SocialEnterprise #SocialEntrepreneurship #EmergingMarkets #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact

Public Good vs. Profitable Exits: Why Public Innovation Agencies Must Stop Copying Venture Capital nextbillion.net/public-good-... @ox.ac.uk #innovation #VentureCapital #VC #SocialInnovation #investing #SocialImpact #ImpactInvesting #PublicSector