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Great research and paper. Indicates low-cost soil testing could benefit farmers in areas with changing salinity tremendously in #bamgladesh and likely beyond. a2i IFPRI ICCCAD Isabel Siddique Whisson

Another brilliant piece by Sara Jerving on why #healthworkers in Nigeria weren't paid for months after work completion. Digital Health Payment Initiative & Research Community Health Impact Coalition leaders comment on systemic weaknesses in contracts/payments: who makes sure workers get their pay on time? devex.com/news/exclusive…

Bill Gates writes about innovations that make him optimistic about tackling #climatechange, emphasizing the importance of investing in #foodsecurity, agri production and public health, as well as cleaner technologies for manufacturing. gatesnotes.com/State-of-the-e…

Super helpful overview of India's farmstack. This digital public infrastructure supports better, lower-cost services and products to small-scale agri producers. Excited to see what happens!

The dedication of frontline workers is crucial to the African Region's polio eradication efforts. With support from the Gates Foundation, WHO African Region is leading health innovation to bolster polio campaigns in the DRC🇨🇩. See how👇🏿

With Better Than Cash Alliance, World Health Organization (WHO) has empowered 2M+ health workers in Africa to receive mobile payments. As Maria May notes, "Digitizing payments empowers people, especially women, to access financial services and control earnings." What a great project! bit.ly/3OCrnPO

#Bangladesh Bank just launched a new dashboard that provides a lot of sex-disaggregated financial inclusion data publicly. Great to see efforts like this to make public data more accessible: wfidbb.org.bd/home. Kudos ConsumerCentriX!

I love starting my workday by reading The Ken. Such great analysis with just the right level of irony and humor.

So excited to read this! Congratulations to Brandon Bennett and co-authors.

Inspiring article in today's NYT about the important contributions of frontline workers, especially women, in progress against polio. They are the ones that parents trust, who ensure all children have access to vaccines. Community Health Impact Coalition Digital Health Payment Initiative & Research

Please join us, if you support and want to learn more about the student protests in Bangladesh

Great to see Dr Sania Nishtar and Svenja Schulze calling out women's contribution to #vaccination programs. Timely call to action for all stakeholders to support frontline workers to reach all children safely and effectively. theguardian.com/global-develop…

While India has successfully created an edifice for extending social protection to the wide majority of its citizens, its isolated welfare schemes are only a band-aid solution to the country’s multidimensional developmental challenges. scroll.in/article/106982… Read Andaleeb

Some exciting stats in here!

Wow, what a power line-up and great set of new resources! Digital payments can enable better delivery of health services and ensure frontline workers get their full wages.

“We’re enamored by high technology, and we’re not in love with low-tech. Low-tech is always seen in our eyes as second-class. Why would you do this, when you could do that? And I would argue just the opposite.” -Richard Cash. I miss him. nytimes.com/2024/11/02/sci…

The announcement that women will be barred from studying in medical institutes in Afghanistan will have far-reaching consequences on women’s health in the country ⬇️ msf.org/excluding-wome…

Washington has 3rd highest homeless population in US, federal report shows: komonews.com/news/local/was…

We all have to fight back against fascism. This is a test case and it couldn’t be more important we stop this and bring him home. Mahmoud’s rights are our rights. If they can illegally abduct him and shred his legal rights, they will never stop. Anyone this lawless