BII Provides $100 Million Towards Green Investments and Financial Inclusion in Africa
By Krystle Higgins
The funding aims to drive sustainable growth by facilitating lending to climate-related projects and women-led enterprises, expanding financial inclusion, and helping to close the region’s $42bn gender financing gap.
British International Investment (BII), the UK development finance institution, is providing $100m (€95m) to KCB Bank Kenya to support lending to climate-related projects and address the funding gap for women-led enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Source: Impact Investor (link opens in a new window)
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