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UN Sustainable Development Goal
SDG 5: Gender Equality
Gender equality, participation, safety and economic opportunity.
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Clean Cooking in Africa: LPG Dependence, Fuel Security and Household Resilience
Africa’s clean-cooking push is finally attracting serious money and delivering record gains. It is also concentrating risk. Liquefied petroleum gas now provides more than 70 per cent of the continent’s clean-cooking access, captured nearly half of recent summit disbursements, and remains exposed to imported-fuel prices and maritime chokepoints. The answer is not to retreat from LPG. It is to judge every clean-cooking pathway by whether households can keep using it when prices, suppliers or projects fail.
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Women's Business Finance in Africa: Identity, Data, Risk-Sharing and Market Access
Africa's women-business finance market is attracting smarter capital, from first-loss guarantees in Kenya to dedicated credit lines and guarantee platforms across the continent. But the latest institutional evidence points to a deeper constraint: capital cannot reach firms that remain difficult to identify, register, assess, collateralise, serve and connect to markets. StoneComms proposes a Financeability Stack that treats those preconditions as investable infrastructure rather than side projects.
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