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Press Release: DFC Announces $42 Million Guaranty to the Dominican Republic’s Banreservas, Plans to Open New Regional Office in Santo Domingo in October
The new loan portfolio guaranty to the Dominican Republic’s largest bank will increase small business lending with a particular focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Profit with Purpose: How Women-Inclusive Business Practices Drive SME Success
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) presents a significant untapped opportunity to advance gender equality in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Skincare E-commerce Startup Uncover Raises $1.4 Million to Expand Into Ghana and Uganda
The company distributes these skincare products through its e-commerce platform and retail partnerships with pharmaceutical chains like Goodlife and Medplus in Kenya and Nigeria.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Bank Grants $17 Million to Promote Gender-Sensitive Agricultural Value Chains in Mauritania
The program aims to increase productivity and add value to agricultural products to boost women's income and support female entrepreneurship in Mauritania.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: World’s Largest Gender-Lens Fund Starts Operating with New Investment Strategy
The new strategy focuses on strengthening the provision of gender-smart and responsible financial services concentrating on underserved women as well as women-owned and women-led businesses in developing markets.
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- Investing
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- Global
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The End of Secondhand Clothes
A major source of work for women in East Africa is suddenly under threat.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Building Businesses, Rebuilding Lives: A Holistic Approach to Supporting Refugee Entrepreneurship
For refugees, running a business is often a big part of their efforts to rebuild their lives. Jacinta Mutie, Paul Karanja and Patrick Guyer at RefugePoint share learnings from RefugePoint‘s comprehensive refugee entrepreneurship support initiative, exploring how the program provides refugees with the stability, business skills and funding they need to move themselves and their households along their path towards self-reliance.
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- Education
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Empowering the Underserved: A New Report Highlights the Impact of Off-Grid Energy Solutions — And Some Emerging Challenges
Up to 674 million people living in the world's most vulnerable communities are projected to remain unelectrified by 2030. According to Kat Harrison at 60 Decibels, the off-grid sector could reach these customers, if these energy businesses and organizations are given the right support to successfully scale. She shares insights from a new 60 Decibels report, based on interviews with 79,000 energy customers in over 30 different countries over the last three years, which highlight some adjustments the sector could make to reach hundreds of millions of excluded customers.
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