GSK and Save the Children offer $1 million award for healthcare innovations in developing countries that reduce child deaths

GSK and Save the Children $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award continues to call for life-saving ideas for newborns and under-fives

GSK (http://www.gsk.com) and Save the Children continue to call for applications for their 2014 $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award, as previous winners attract interest and support from national governments to help improve survival rates of newborns and children under five in developing countries.

Six months after receiving a share of the 2013 Healthcare...

PARIS, Nov. 30, 2015 – Four European countries – Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland – today announced a new $500 million initiative that will find new ways to create incentives aimed at large scale cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries to combat climate change. The World Bank Group worked with the countries to develop the initiative.

The Transformative Carbon Asset Facility will help developing countries implement their plans to cut emissions by working with them to...

Organisational needs often forgotten in developing countries' IT education
Phys.Org
A shortage of skilled IT service management professionals constitutes an obstacle for the efficient use of information and communication technology, and is a particular challenge for the least developed countries, such as Tanzania. Tanzanian universities offer ...

Organizational needs often forgotten in developing countries' IT education
EurekAlert (press release)
A shortage of skilled IT service management professionals constitutes an obstacle for the efficient use of information and communication technology, and is a particular challenge for the least developed countries, such as Tanzania. Tanzanian universities offer ...

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Mr. Shavkat Berdiev – Chief Commercial Officer at Tigo (L) and Dr. Jama Gulaid,  Unicef Tanzania Representative. 

Tigo, under Millicom International Cellular (MIC) Tanzania Limited, has offered to support the children of Tanzania through four projects initiated and supported by UNICEF Tanzania.

From 2016 – 2018, financial and in-kind contributions worth about TZS $ 354,625,172 (USD $165,000) will be used to support the Under Five Birth Registration Initiative, the National Child Helpline,...

Readers tend to pay little attention to newspaper stories on development. And even when they do, it is only when the story is made juicy. At this point, when almost everyone in Tanzania seems to be mesmerised by the political drama ahead of the October election, we are likely to witness that kind of thing.