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Press Release: Vivriti Asset Management Launches India’s First Securitization Fund With Investment From IFC and M&G Catalyst, to Boost Financing for Small Businesses and Address Gender Gaps
Millions of low-income households and micro and small enterprises (MSEs), especially women-owned MSEs, will have improved access to finance with the investment.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Applying a Gender Lens to Agribusiness: A Pathway to Economic Empowerment for Women
Women farmers in emerging markets face many gender-specific challenges when they attempt to participate equally in agricultural supply chains, employment opportunities and distribution networks. As Cait Nordehn and Bwile Musonda at TechnoServe explain, agribusinesses are well-positioned to address these challenges — if these firms can improve the gender inclusivity of their sourcing, operations and distribution. They discuss TechnoServe’s experiences deploying its Gender-Responsive Diagnostic tool with agribusinesses to identify opportunities for greater gender inclusion.
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- Agriculture
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Funding Announced for African E-Commerce and Fintech Initiatives
The African Development Fund and the Smart Africa Alliance have jointly launched a US$1.5 million project to streamline digital trade and e-commerce policies across 10 African countries.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Deploys More Than $2.1 Billion, Expected to Impact the Lives of Over 215,000 Black Women Across the Country
The investment capital and over $23 million in philanthropic capital to 137 organizations, companies and projects across the country to drive economic empowerment.
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- Investing
- Region
- North America
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Empowering Women to Fight Climate Change: A Program in Zambia Shows How Smallholder Farmers Can Lead the Way
Southern Africa has faced persistent drought, erratic rainfall and other consequences of climate change. And as Simon Crittle at International Development Enterprises (iDE) explains, women are disproportionately impacted by these challenges. He discusses an iDE program that trains farmers in Zambia to sell climate-smart agricultural inputs and services to their fellow smallholders — an initiative that it demonstrates the impact market-based interventions can have in preparing women farmers to play a leading role in addressing the climate crisis.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Press Release: Visa Foundation Commits To Uplift Women Entrepreneurs Across Sub-Saharan Africa Through Its Equitable Access Initiative
As part of its $200 Million Equitable Access Initiative, Visa Foundation commits $1 Million to two local organizations – AfriLabs and Graça Machel Trust – building on its efforts to support gender diverse and inclusive small and micro businesses
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Addressing India’s Economic Achilles Heel: Leveraging Trade and Digitalisation to Boost Women’s Labour Force Participation
India will soon become the world’s most populous country and third-largest economy, and it is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy global economic forecast. But as international development consultant Abhirup Bhunia points out, the labour force participation rate for women in India is just 24% — far lower than most countries. He argues that India will not realize its potential if women’s economic participation fails to increase, and explores how the country can leverage international trade and digitalisation to empower women to drive its emergence as a global economic powerhouse.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press Release: IFC and Itaú Partner in a Gender Bond to Support Women Entrepreneurship in Brazil
IFC subscribed $200 million in a gender bond to Itaú Unibanco to support the bank's lending program to women-owned small and medium enterprises in Brazil.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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