Mobilising Investment in Women’s Health and Rights: Reflection From 16 Days of Activism

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The annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, which runs from November 25th (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to December 10th (Human Rights Day), provides an important opportunity to raise awareness and mobilize resources to support these efforts. The numbers are still very disturbing across Africa and the globe: more […]

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Empowering Africa’s Female-led MSMEs for growth through Gender Lens financing

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About 7 in every 10 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) owned by women have little or no access to financial services; a reflection of the $42b gender financing gap in Africa. Sociocapital is one of the implementing partners of the Growth4Her project, an accelerator which provides women entrepreneurs with the capacity and tools needed to transition from small to high-potential fundable growth-stage businesses. The program offers investment readiness skills, direct links to funders, and fosters an ecosystem that supports these women to survive and thrive.

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Impact Investing in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Emerging Opportunities for Businesses in Nigeria

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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an additional 97 million people living in poverty in 2020, causing a setback in the goal of ending poverty by 2030.  Nigeria, among other countries with low human development, has a low Human Development Index (HDI) due to poor social infrastructure, high-income inequality, institutional corruption, and other development challenges. The

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Reintroducing Sociocapital Impact Group - Our Vision, Mission, and ‘IMPACT’ Values.

Reintroducing Sociocapital Impact Group – Our Vision, Mission, and Values.

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Reintroducing Sociocapital Impact Group – Our Vision, Mission, and Values. With the world at an inflection point from widening health disparities to fragile economies and fractured systems, it’s clear that business-as-usual approaches to development are no longer enough. The challenges are too complex, too interconnected, and too urgent. And here’s the truth – the development

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 Reinvigorating Nigeria’s Health Care — Key Reforms of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has embarked on a transformative journey to rectify Nigeria’s longstanding healthcare challenges. Aware of the sector’s important role in national development, his administration is implementing five interventions to make health services more cash-based, qualitatively better, and accessible (2). 1.1 Nigerian Health Sector Reinvigoration Investment Program Initiated in December 2023, the project

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Sociocapital Launches Milestone Health Systems & Capacity Strengthening Project in Nasarawa State

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Sociocapital, in partnership with the Nasarawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, has launched a significant Health Systems & Capacity Strengthening Project to enhance healthcare infrastructure and management in Nasarawa State. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and TAConnect, this 18-month initiative aims to improve healthcare delivery through strategic capacity building, enhanced monitoring, and

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Sociocapital Inaugural Launch of a Milestone Health Systems & Capacity Strengthening Project in Nasarawa State

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The inaugural meeting of the Nasarawa State Primary Healthcare Health Systems & Capacity Strengthening Project flagged off by the Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency marks a significant milestone in efforts to enhance healthcare infrastructure and capacity in the state. The project is a collaborative effort funded by the Bill and

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The Prevalence and Risk of Malaria in Pregnancy

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Malaria poses significant dangers to pregnant women and their fetuses. Pregnant women face greater risks of malaria complications and mortality compared to non-pregnant women of the same age. Malaria in pregnancy can lead to maternal anemia, fetal loss, preterm birth, low birthweight, and cognitive-developmental delays in infants. Of the five malaria parasite species that infect

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Improving Agricultural Productivity and Income Through Sustainable Water Management Practices

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Sociocapital conducted the Mid-Term Review of the USAID-funded ‘Water for Agriculture’ project interventions targeted at sustainably increasing water availability and management towards increasing agricultural productivity amongst 4,000 farmers and 50,000 herders in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states in North-Eastern Nigeria.

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Strengthening Africa’s Creative Economy Ecosystem Towards More Resilient and Sustainable Development

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In partnership with the Henley Business School, UK and AfriNolly Creative Hub, Lagos, Sociocapital co-created an interactive, modular, and asynchronous Pan-African social impact entrepreneurship e-learning program with learner-directed, self-paced learning content targeted at early-stage entrepreneurs in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa but open to users more widely across the continent. The program is currently

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Improving Equitable Access to Skills and Employment Through Apprenticeship and Informal Education

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Sociocapital supported the Skills for Prosperity (S4P) Nigeria Project to conduct a detailed country landscape and stakeholder satisfaction survey to: identify and address factors that shape the business environment for technical and vocational education and training (TVET); understand stakeholder’s satisfaction with TVET programmes, apprenticeships, and traineeships; and uncover specific areas related to safeguarding, gender equality

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Towards a More Collaborative, Country-Led, and Global Nutrition Response

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Sociocapital supported the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the World Food Program to equip and support Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs), the private sector, as well as humanitarian and development actors within the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Business Network to collaboratively adopt safe and healthy nutrition business practices through the development of

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