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Hello Tractor Is Set to Pilot a New PAYG Tractor-Financing Product With the $1 Million Prize Award From Heifer International
Last year, the company suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the new investment Hello Tractor has received as a co-winner of the US$1.5 million Heifer International AYuTe Africa Challenge served as a silver lining in the business’s dark cloud.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya: This Entrepreneur’s Business Manufactures an Alternative to Firewood
BrightGreen Renewable Energy Limited company produces fuel briquettes from upcycled farm waste, or biomass in Kenya.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Information Asymmetry Is Keeping Rural Women Entrepreneurs From Success
Most semi-urban and rural Indian women who want to run their own micro-companies are either unaware of welfare schemes they can avail for financial support or they are too hesitant to apply.
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- Asia Pacific
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IFC Provides $150 Million Financing Package to SeABank
To support local businesses and help them make a resilient recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic, IFC is providing a $40 million loan to Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank.
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- Environment
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- South Asia
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Gates Foundation Commits $2.1 Billion over the Next Five Years to Gender Equality
With this $2.1 billion commitment, the Gates Foundation plans to focus on three core areas that are key to advancing gender equality: economic empowerment; family planning and health; and accelerating women’s leadership.
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- Investing
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- Global
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ANDE Announces Winners of the Second Round of the Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund
The fund will allow three organizations to test models to increase investment into women-led small and growing businesses in western, southern, and eastern Africa.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: G7 Development Finance Institutions Set New Goal of $15 Billion for Gender Lens Investment Through ‘2X Challenge: Financing for Women’ Initiative
The Japan International Cooperation Agency made a joint announcement setting a new goal of $15 billion to be mobilized over the next two years as a new phase of an initiative called “The G7 2X Challenge: Financing for Women” with development finance institutions aiming to unlock resources that will help advance women as entrepreneurs, as business leaders, as employees, and as consumers.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Unilever Unveils Program to Support Women in Businesses
Unilever’s Sunlight, has invested in a five-year program to support women in business through various initiatives such as financial literacy training and advertising.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa