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We’re proud to tell you that E. T. Jackson and Associates has been nominated for a 2019 SDG Leadership Award by the Global Compact Network Canada for our work on impact investing and gender lens investing, generating new knowledge to advance economic development, small business and decent work (Sustainable Development Goal 8) and, in turn,…(Read more)

“In the world of foreign aid flows, the idea of paying for outcomes rather than inputs has a long history. Yet despite regular proclamations of interest in such approaches, the share of funding that is linked to outputs or outcomes instead of activities and processes remains quite small,” writes the Center for Global Development’s William…(Read more)

On June 26, 2019, Ted Jackson was elected the new Chair of the Canadian arm of the Diamond Development Initiative. A university professor and management consultant specializing in impact investing, economic development, gender equality and program evaluation, with long experience in Africa, Dr. Jackson joined the BoD of DDI Canada in 2011

A new ecosystem platform, Impact Investing Ghana (IIGh), was launched in Accra on June 18, 2019. Addressed by Ghana’s Minister of Finance, the Hon. Ken Ofori Atta, the launch event focused on the theme of ‘Leveraging Private Capital to Close the SDG Funding Gap for a Prosperous Ghana.’ (Read more)

An innovative new mechanism for supporting women’s rights organizations, the Equality Fund, was launched on June 2, 2019, on the eve of the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver. Maryam Monsef, Minister of International Development and Minister for Women and Gender Equality, announced a multi-year, $300 million commitment by the Government of Canada toward the fund, which has already raised an additional $100 million.

On May 23, 2019, McGill University’s WED Lab on women’s empowerment in development hosted a seminar at the International Development Research Centre on feminist and gender-transformative financial inclusion.  With more than 120 participants attending in the room and on line, the seminar was led by Dr. Kate Grantham, WED Lab Research Associate, and panelists Martha…(Read more)

In the first of a series of podcasts by Wider Sense, a Berlin-based philanthropy and CSR think-and-do tank, Ted Jackson is interviewed by Michael Alberg-Seberich on trends and issues in evaluating impact investing, including theory of change, participation, unintended consequences, ecosystem development and gender lens investing.

Canadian development NGO World University Service of Canada (WUSC) has published a new report entitled “Social Enterprise and Post-Secondary Institutions: Optimizing for Development Impact.” From the Antigonish and Desjardins cooperative movements to the current crop of social-purpose tech start-ups,

A new US network, Intentional Endowments, has launched a primer on gender lens investing (GLI) for college and university endowments. Written by Julia Enyart, with the advice of a working group chaired by Suzanne Beigel and including, among others, Julie Gorte, Kristin Hull, Jackie Rotman and Jackie VanderBrug, the primer focuses mainly on screening and engagement strategies for public markets.

In their new blog, Ted Jackson and Brian Rowe ask whether non-governmental organizations are ready for the economic and social changes already being triggered by new applications of artificial intelligence, especially the prospects of large scale job loss over the next 20 years. (Read the blog)