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Turning Silos into Synergy: An Inclusive Finance Pilot Provides Lessons for Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
Silos and fragmentation have slowed progress in inclusive finance for too long, as the efforts of private actors, public institutions, philanthropic funders and other stakeholders are often not intentionally aligned. As Seth Spiro at FINCA and Moustapha Seck at FLUID argue, one reason for this lack of alignment is that many of the systems underpinning inclusive finance were not built for multi-stakeholder collaboration. They explore solutions to these structural constraints, explaining how FINCA’s partnership with FLUID has aligned incentives, learning and execution to overcome organizational silos.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing
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Village Capital Makes First Africa Ecosystem Fund Investments in Ghana
The initiative was created to support startups building solutions around economic mobility and climate resilience in Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Namibia-Based Firm to Back Early-Stage Southern African Startups With $10 Million Fund
The fund will focus on sectors including fintech, agritech, healthtech, education, clean energy, e-commerce, and enterprise software.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bestseller Supports Regenerative Agriculture in South Africa Through International Fund
The Regenerative Fund for Nature supports projects that are based on local knowledge and existing practices. It was established by Conservation International and Kering in 2021 with Inditex joining in 2023. BESTSELLER is now joining the fund as a partner.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC Discloses Proposed $25 Million Investment in Admaius’ Virunga Africa Fund II
The fund is targeting $500 million to invest in mid- to large-cap African companies.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SIDBI and Shell Foundation Launch US $3.1 Million Initiative to Expand Access to Green Finance for Nano-Entrepreneurs
Backed by a $3.1 million grant from Shell Foundation, the EN-Trans RSF provides a second-loss risk coverage to Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs), including SIDBI as a lender, for loans extended to low-income communities.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Failure as a KPI: Finding Philanthropy’s Courage to Fund and Fail (and Talk About It!)
Absence of failure is not evidence of success; it is evidence that risk is being avoided. The beauty of philanthropy is that we can take risks and we can afford to fail and learn. All we need is the courage to imagine our work differently.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Venture Studio OneBio Locks $6 Million First Close to Turn African Lab Research Into Global Biotech Companies
Unlike a conventional VC firm, OneBio works as both an investor and a venture studio, creating biotech companies from the ground up.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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