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Financing Agricultural Supply Chains – Sustainably
In April of 2011, Rainforest Alliance and Citi Foundation hosted a Sustainable Value Chain Finance Workshop, which established a dialogue across the full range of agricultural sector participants, including buyers, exporters, retailers, producers, insurers, private and public financial institutions, development agencies and civil society.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- supply chains
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Housing Series: The Critical Shift Toward Asset Building
For over two decades, the partnership between the Citi Foundation and Habitat for Humanity International relied heavily on a "one house, one family," volunteer house-building model. But a shift to a strategy that increases the supply of financial products and services that accelerate financial inclusion is urgently needed.
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- Finance, Uncategorized
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From the Roundtable: Reflections on Improving Microfinance
Citi Foundation recently hosted an interesting day-long roundtable that focused on the Center for Financial Inclusion’s (CFI) report on "Opportunities and Obstacles to Financial Inclusion." It’s an important report because it raises significant issues for the sector. The discussion focused on how to protect and educate legitimate borrowers.
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Citi Increases its Microfinance Work Across the Region
While most banks across Asia seem to be focusing on the high-net-worth market in Asia, some are also concentrating on the promising mass market. Most view licences in China as an opportunity to capitalise on the China Dream; others see microfinance as a means to build long-standing relationships across the region. According to the India Development Foundation, nearly 9 million Indian households that had access to microfinance moved above the $1.25 a day consumption threshold between 199...
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- Asia Pacific
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Citi Gives New Funds to Microfinance Group
Citi has committed new funding for the Banking with the Poor Network (BWTP), the only pan-Asia microfinance network, as part of its continued commitment to promoting financial inclusion globally. Citi Foundation grants worth USD200,000 will enable the BWTP Network to provide secretariat services to the APEC Business Advisory Council’s Advisory Group on Financial Inclusion and also build its capacity to support BWTP members consisting of microfinance institutions, commercial banks, c...
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- Asia Pacific
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- supply chains
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Mumbai Forum Addresses Challenges to Scaling Up Clean Energy Access in India
Given the large potential market for clean energy services, what’s preventing the industry from taking off and reaching the people that need it most? New Ventures India and CDF-IFMR recently convened a forum with industry stakeholders including investors, renewable energy CEOs and regulators to address scaling clean energy products with the BoP.
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The Citi Foundation’s ’More Than Philanthropy’ Approach Explained
Pamela P. Flaherty is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Citi Foundation, which is NextBillion’s first Sponsoring Partner. She also serves as director of Corporate Citizenship for the company. She spoke with NextBillion about the Foundation’s approach to fighting global poverty through enterprise initiatives.
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Introducing Citi Foundation, NextBillion?s Sponsoring Partner
I’m happy to announce the Citi Foundation as the inaugural sponsoring partner of the NextBillion Network. Like NextBillion, the Citi Foundation highlights innovations, leaders and initiatives to combat poverty through enterprise. This grant will be used to redesign NextBillion’s network of sites and vastly improve the reader experience.
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