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DEG Provides $50 Million Loan to Tanzania’s CRDB Bank to Boost Small Business Financing and Support Women and Youth Entrepreneurs
This financing will help address a significant gap in access to formal financing for small enterprises, which are vital to the Tanzanian economy.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Women, Wealth and Climate Resilience: The Transformative Power of Asset Creation in Africa
Climate vulnerability is a key factor behind the challenges facing women and girls in Africa. Yet as Jo Opot at Gather Ventures explains, the impact of investments aimed at building their climate resilience often fades too quickly, as poverty and tradition pull them back into household and caregiving duties. She argues that this problem represents a failure to address underlying power dynamics, and proposes a critical yet often overlooked solution — asset creation — exploring how it can advance both climate resilience and the quality of life for women and girls.
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- Environment, Investing
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Miller Center Capital Supports Altitud to Expand Economic Opportunities for Women in Mexico
For more than a decade, Altitud has provided affordable credit to women who are starting sewing enterprises, which is often their first step toward financial independence.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Symbiotics Launches $5 Million Gender Sukuk With Kashf Foundation, Pakistan
Kashf Foundation is driven by its mission to deliver high-quality and sustainable microfinance services to low-income families and female micro-entrepreneurs.
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- Investing
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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Swedfund Invests $10 Million to Support MSME Lending in East and Southern Africa
Swedfund, Sweden’s development finance institution, has signed a USD 10 million loan to Platcorp Holdings Limited to support lending to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC Invests in IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond™ 7 to Fund High-Impact Women Enterprises in South and Southeast Asia
The subordinated debt will be invested through the Advancing Gender Equality, Resilience, Opportunity and Inclusion Worldwide (GROW) facility, in partnership with the Government of Canada.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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AfDB, Partners Launch $264 Million Infrastructure Project in Southern Nigeria
The five-year plan includes rehabilitating 248 km of roads, restoring two erosion sites, and implementing solid waste management through public-private partnerships.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ghana Launches Groundbreaking National Business Agenda to Empower Youth and Women Entrepreneurs
"The initiative, unveiled at a high-level event in Accra, represents a rare collaboration between government agencies, business associations, civil society, and international development partners."
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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