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USAID launches inclusive AgriTech digital design toolkit
Genesis Analytics and Athena Infomatics have been supporting USAID’s Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (REFS) to develop an inclusive digital design toolkit.
The USAID Toolkit for Inclusive AgriTech Digital Solution Design provides guidance to USAID staff and implementing partners on how to design inclusive digital technology interventions in Feed the Future activities.

AI4D Africa focuses on AI for persons with disabilities
Designing Artificial intelligence to help people with disabilities was a focus point at the Artificial Intelligence for Development in Africa (AI4D Africa) programme phase 2 workshop in Accra this month.
The workshop, hosted in Accra by the Responsible AI Lab(RAIL), centered on readiness to scale and responsible AI framework for Africa. They again delved into ways to strengthen research for policy change, language models as well as means to ensure effective collaboration.

African governments asked to upgrade HIV funding for better impact
African countries have been called on to upscale funding for HIV prevention and keep it steady to save lives and ensure national advancement.
This was the call from a three-day regional HIV prevention meeting organised by the South-South Learning Network (SSLN), which facilitates country-to-country learning and knowledge exchange and provides technical assistance to countries within the network.

Airbnb SA provides jobs, aids economic growth
Online accommodation booking platform Airbnb supported almost 50 000 jobs and contributed more than R23.5 billion to the South African gross domestic product in 2022. This is according to the new Airbnb Economic Impact report conducted by independent consultancy Genesis Analytics − commissioned by Airbnb – released on 19 October 2023.

Congratulations to the winners
Our annual Value Unlocked competition showcases the best work done in the firm over the past year that highlights our purpose of Unlocking Value for our clients and communities. The standard this year was as exceptional as always and the firm had a hard time voting for the winners.

100 African health experts discuss HIV prevention in Accra
A Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Collaborative Regional Conference which comprises of more than 100 health experts from 20 African countries opened yesterday in Accra.
PrEP is a critical HIV prevention tool that involves the use of antiretroviral medications by individuals, who are HIV negative, but are at increased risk of acquiring the virus. Read more here and here
From funding to financing: Call to increase national budgets for sexual and reproductive health
Access and availability of sexual and reproductive health services is not only a basic human right, but also one of the most powerful opportunities for long-term socio-economic development. Each dollar invested in ending preventable maternal deaths and meeting the unmet need of family planning by 2030 will bring economic benefits of USD 8.4 by 2050, and these returns are even greater for investments in ending harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and child marriage.

Urgent call for adaptation investment plans to catalyse adaptation finance
Adaptation investment planning spur investments in prioritised projects and support the the implementation of adaptation and resilience measures in Africa. In this analysis, Sarah Wewege and Chipo Rusere of our Climate Finance and Economics practice discuss the advantages of this approach and how it can present a compelling case for investment. Read more here

Red lights flash on funding for HIV, TB and STIs
Within four years South Africa will be short of R7.2bn in overall funding needed to contain HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to a leading health economist.
That’s the projection by Steve Cohen, of Genesis Analytics, who heads the costing & financing task team at the South African National Aids Council (Sanac).

25m adult women in Nigeria have no formal bank accounts
A study jointly undertaken by Genesis Analytics and Commissioned by the Gender Centre of Excellence in close collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has revealed that 25 million adult Nigerian women are unbanked and over 16 million rural women rely exclusively on informal financial services.