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    Genesis to evaluate campaign against sugary drinks

    Genesis Analytics has been awarded a six-month contract by Vital Strategies to support the evaluation of a communication campaign aimed at reducing the consumption of sugary drinks in South Africa .Obesity in South Africa has been increasing over the past 30 years, making it the country with the highest obesity rate in sub-Saharan Africa.

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    Genesis is M&E partner to Rockefeller Foundation’s Digital Jobs Africa initiative

    Genesis Analytics has been awarded a two-year grant by The Rockefeller Foundation to serve as monitoring and evaluation (M&E) partner to their Digital Jobs Africa (DJA) initiative, which was set up in response to the challenge of widespread youth unemployment in Africa.

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    Emirates’ study warns of losses to tourism

    SA would lose more than 140,000 inbound foreign tourists if Emirates Airline were to halt flights to the country, according to an economic impact study prepared by Genesis Analytics for  the airline.

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    Genesis wins Gates Foundation contract to support global campaign on HIV

    Genesis Analytics has been awarded a one-year contract by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Medical Male Circumcision Programme in South Africa.

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    What Will It Take to Reach the Fast Track Prevention Targets: What, Who and How

    More than 15 000 participants attended the  21st International AIDS Conference in Durban from the 18 to 22 July 2016. Our health team organised a satellite entitled, What Will It Take to Reach the Fast Track Prevention Targets: What, Who and How, on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

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    Genesis opens Nairobi office to expand East Africa work

    Genesis Analytics has opened an office in Nairobi to boost its work in financial services strategy, competition economics, infrastructure development and monitoring and evaluation in East Africa.

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    Genesis Analytics becomes first Africa-based affiliate of Shared Value Initiative

    Genesis Analytics has been signed on as the only African-based affiliate of the Shared Value Initiative’s Consulting Affiliate Network, the world’s leading shared value practitioners’ network, the world's leading shared value practitioners' network. 

     

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    Genesis Senior Associate discusses critical enablers in Africa's development

    Joel Barnor, a senior associate in the Intrastructure and PPP advisory practice at Genesis Analytics, discussed the critical enablers to development in Africa at a Gibs seminar.

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    Genesis Analytics signs agreement with Parker Fitzgerald

    Parker Fitzgerald, a global leader in risk management consulting, has signed an agreement to work with Joburg economic-based firm Genesis Analytics to grow their work in the Africa market.

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    Genesis Analytics buys Anansi Health Consulting

    Genesis Analytics is opening a health practice after buying Anansi Health Consulting.The Health practice will start on 1 February 2016 as the eighth practice in Genesis, which is the largest economics­ based consultancy in Africa. Anansi Health Consulting is led by Dr Saul Johnson, a well ­known epidemiologist in the health development field.

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    Innovation fund expands support for local investors

    The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is actively stepping up its support to inventors to position South Africa as the continent’s leader in industrial innovation. With Nigeria and Kenya hot on South Africa’s heels, the dti recognised the urgency of driving new technologies and after 13 years decided to evaluate the impact of their Support Programme for Industrial Innovation (SPII). Between 2000 and 2013 SPII provided R623-million of funding to 401 projects, which have directly created or retained approximately 3000 permanent jobs (ie at the cost of more than R200,000 per job)

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    Genesis to lead Kenyan plan to house 34,000 students

    A consortium led by Genesis Analytics has been appointed to lead a project that plans to build hostels for 34,040 students in partnership with the private sector to alleviate the accommodation crisis at five Kenyan universities and colleges.

    Rapid expansion of academic programmes in Kenya has put institutions of higher learning — currently admitting nearly 70,000 new students a year — under immense pressure to provide additional accommodation space.

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