Leveraging Innovative Finance at the Nexus for Impact

They are parents, children, teachers, doctors and nurses…just some of the thousands whose lives have been disrupted by the worsening Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, now the second largest outbreak of the deadly disease on record.

Dalal, 18, wears her best dress, green dotted with tarnished gold beads. She and her friends sit close together on the concrete floor of a tent in a temporary settlement in Akkar, Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border.

Four years ago, 21-year-old Alganesh had everything to look forward to. Newly married and having recently qualified with a diploma in management, she moved from the Ethiopian countryside to reunite with her husband in Soge, a town in the west of the country

Determined and fearless, Batula Ali has spent her life breaking gender norms in Kenya, while dedicating her time to saving lives.