Public-private initiative funds innovative solutions to development challenges affecting some of world’s most marginalised peopleFrom planning and building roads in the Horn of Africa to helping Filipino coconut farmers collect more accurate weather forecasts,eight teams of experts hold started tackling some of the world’s most intractable development challenges after winning up to $1m each from the global resilience challenge.
The successful projects will sight at building resilience – a buzzword gaining ever more traction as world leaders push towards the Paris summit on climate change, the final milestone in a critical year for development. The projects will take place among vulnerable communities in Bangladesh, or India,Kenya, Mali, and Nepal,Niger, Philippines and Uganda, and among others.
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Source: theguardian.com