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NEWS & INSIGHTS

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    Stockpiling: is it really that irrational?

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyday life as we know it. Perhaps the first behaviour to change was our shopping.

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    Genesis continues to manage UNAIDS technical support programme

    Genesis will continue to manage the East and Southern African region of the UNAIDS technical support mechanism (TSM) from 2020 to 2022, following a successful first two years in partnership with Oxford Policy Management.

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    Looking for best practice to protect young girls from HIV

    Genesis has been contracted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research best practice in mentoring programmes that can protect adolescent girls and young women from being infected by HIV.

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    Covid-19 pandemic: We must plan using models, act on actual data

    Models need to be adjusted by actual measurements, like the actual number of people who are dying from the disease. This means that models tend to be more inaccurate in the beginning, but get better at making predictions over time.

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    All the George Floyds: Genesis condemns racism and injustice

    Genesis Analytics condemns racism and all forms of injustice. We are further committed to creating a safe environment for honest conversations about race and how we can effectively upend the systemic racism that many of our team members experience every day.

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    Genesis launches two new ways to view the COVID-19 epidemic

    Genesis Analytics has launched two important and useful new tools for looking at and understanding the Covid-19 epidemic. This comes amid daily predictions and models that tell us how severely the Covid-19 epidemic will become in South Africa, as well as the rest of the continent.

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    Genesis part of initiative to guide SA business in return2work

    The Return2Work Initiative offers businesses clear and simple step-by-step guidance on re-opening and staying open, incorporating the key legal requirements and tools to minimise infection and maximise compliance. The initiative is led by Genesis Analytics, BSA, the PPGI and Harambee.

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    Are we asking the right questions about unlocking the SA economy?

    Genesis CEO Stephan Malherbe joined economists and business leaders at the CDE webinar on unlocking the South African economy. Malherbe argued that the more ready business is, the sooner the economy will be unlocked and that is why initiatives like return2work.co.za are so important.

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    Africa’s individual Covid-19 epidemics require unique responses

    Africa has just over 34,800 cases of Covid-19. While this is a large number, it pales in comparison with other regions of the world. It is increasingly important for African countries to assess their own epidemics, and not feel pressured to apply a “one size fits all” approach, no matter who is advising them

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    A data-first mindset will arm Africa against the pandemic

    As the Covid-19 pandemic evolves in Africa, the desire for certainty, a deluge of global information and scarcity of authoritative findings all create the risk of misinformation. As with written news on the pandemic, we need to be responsible in how we consume and share data.

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    Investments in EdTech: Looking beyond the Covid-19 lockdown

    The Covid-19 pandemic has caused massive disruption to education globally, forcing school systems across the world to close. As mitigation measures are considered to preserve education outcomes, the discussion has largely revolved around the role that education technology (EdTech) can play in enabling remote learning.

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    Cloud-computing solutions can reduce banking costs in Africa

    More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included. A new report Cloud Banking in Africa: The Regulatory Opportunity, by Genesis Analytics and Orange Business Services, outlines how cloud computing in financial services can help financial services providers reach and serve the poor.

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