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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
- Region
- 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
- Region
- 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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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Expanding Digital and Financial Inclusion: World Bank Supports Morocco’s Reforms for Social and Economic Resilience
The World Bank today approved a US $450 million loan to support momentum in Morocco for reforms designed to increase public access to financial and digital services.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- North Africa & Near East
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Google Launches New Programs to Bolster African Innovation, Female Entrepreneurship
Google has announced the launch and opening of applications of a new US$3 million Black Founders Fund (BFF) Africa programme, and a Google.org-backed US$3 million grant to the Tony Elumelu Foundation to support female entrepreneurs on the continent.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: COVID-19 Has Devastated India’s Self-Employed Women. Here’s How To Support Them.
Women employed in India's huge informal economy have been hit disproportionately hard as millions of livelihoods have become even more precarious or evaporated completely during the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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