The ILO and IFC launch a third year-long Community of Practice among insurers to reduce the protection gap for women

The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility and the IFC Women’s Insurance Programme have launched the third cohort of the year-long IFC-ILO Women’s Insurance Community of Practice – #In4Women – to raise awareness about the insurance needs of women, and to highlight the market opportunity for insurers if they target women as customers and employees. Following the success of the first two cohorts of the Community of Practice, the partnership continues to impart best practices on how to increase access to insurance for women, allowing for learning and knowledge sharing within the…

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UN Women partners with the Digital Public Goods Alliance to advance gender justice

At the Global Digital Public Infrastructure Summit in Cairo in October, UN Women announced that it has joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a multi-stakeholder initiative that facilitates the development of and investment in digital public goods. Following the Summit of the Future, where leaders adopted the Global Digital Compact recognizing the potential of digital technologies in transforming our world for the better, UN Women will work with the Digital Public Goods Alliance towards accelerating progress towards gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Around the world, women and…

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Centuries of colour history to be revealed as National Trust establishes new laboratory to research paints used in the past

New insights into the colourful world of the past will be revealed at a new National Trust archive of thousands of historic paint samples. The new facility based in Kent has been made possible thanks to funding of £621,962 from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Homeowners might ponder what colours their houses were before white and magnolia became so universal, but the National Trust is creating a new laboratory to research paint samples gathered from across its properties to see what the many hidden layers of paint…

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Lurch from drought to deluge sees another mixed year for UK wildlife as National Trust thanks supporters who’ve helped hundreds of projects

With 2024 declared the world’s hottest year on record earlier this month, ferocious storms bookended a very wet and mild year in the UK, prompting fresh fears for climate change’s impacts on wildlife. With 2024 declared the world’s hottest year on record earlier this month, ferocious storms bookended a very wet and mild year in the UK, prompting fresh fears for climate change’s impacts on wildlife. 2024 got off to a wildly wet start with Storm Henk battering the nation, causing flooding, destruction and power cuts in early January.  Two…

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Fundraising Regulator appoints new committee members

The Fundraising Regulator has appointed four new committee members to replace long-serving members who have come to the end of their terms of appointment.   Jen Suter and Adrian Williams have been appointed to join the Fundraising Regulator’s Standards Committee, while Valerie Morton and Damian Chapman have been appointed to the Complaints and Investigations Committee.   In their roles on the Standards Committee, Jen and Adrian will help oversee the development of the Code of Fundraising Practice, in consultation with those who fundraise and the public. They will help the Fundraising Regulator…

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