Events

You’re Invited to the 5th ICR Facility DFI Exchange Group on Alternative Collateral!    Join us for an engaging peer learning experience focused on Alternative (to) Collateral for Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). This DFI Exchange Group will provide valuable insights, technical guidance, and real-world examples from DFIs on key aspects of alternative (to) collateral.  Date: […]

Overview – Policy Brief The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) is spotlighting the critical role of National Public Development Banks (NDBs) in mobilizing domestic resources, crowding in private investment, and delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The First Draft of the Outcome Document, which outlines a renewed financing framework and emphasizes […]

Summary Join us to explore lessons learnt regarding how legal and policy reforms can enhance women’s freedoms, unlock greater economic opportunities for them and build stronger and more resilient economies for all. Date: 27 May 2025 Time: 15h30 – 17h00 (CEST) Location: Online Languages: English, French and Spanish through simultaneous interpretation This webinar presents the research […]

The ICR Facility started in September 2019, as a multi-partner project to support the improvement of policies that drive conducive business and investment climate in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. After five years of successful implementation, the ICR Facility will conclude in August 2025 and continue under a new name, the Global Gateway ICR […]

Lessons learnt from the ICR Facility’s support to WEE in the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries Event Summary Women’s economic empowerment is not just a moral imperative—it is a driver of economic growth and sustainability. Over the past five years, the ICR Facility has supported more than 60 interventions across African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) […]

The ICR Facility aims to provide capacity building to Chambers of Commerce and more broadly Business Membership Organisations in member states of the OACPS so that they can identify good practices in promoting and encouraging women economic empowerment, and support these organisations by providing tools and guidance to apply this knowledge. The identification of good practices […]

You’re Invited to the 4th ICR Facility DFI Exchange Group on Wholesale Lending!  Join us for an engaging peer learning experience focused on Wholesale Lending for Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). This two-part DFI Exchange Group will provide valuable insights, technical guidance, and real-world examples from DFIs on key aspects of wholesale lending. Our guest speakers […]

  The DFI Exchange Group is a platform for all DFI-related knowledge sharing and group activities of the ICR Facility and provides DFIs with the opportunity to share and showcase their best practices and experiences with peers. Once per quarter, we facilitate peer sessions where DFIs can come together to meet on a specific topic […]

The ICR Facility supports governments, public agencies and private sector representative bodies in African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries to improve their business environment on the basis of Public-Private Dialogue (PPD).   PPD is an effective tool to enhance collaboration between public and private actors. It is a continuous and semi-structured process that brings together various […]

The Investment Climate Reform (ICR) Facility has organised the ICR4WEE Conference on 5-6 June 2024. The event focused on creating better legal, institutional, and regulatory conditions for businesses to grow and operate, as well as to improve women’s participation in policy-making processes.   Building on its successful activities and the dynamic networks it has established across African, Caribbean […]

The Care Economy — including childcare, eldercare and domestic work — is vital to society, yet it remains invisible, undervalued, and unevenly distributed. The disproportionate share of care and domestic work that falls on women and girls, especially when it is unpaid, is a key barrier to their participation in the workforce and negatively impacts […]

Across the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) regions, the growing youth population presents a valuable asset that policymakers and governments have yet to fully utilise. Countries that act swiftly to capitalise on this demographic transition have a significant opportunity for economic transformation. To unlock this potential, we must move beyond traditional approaches to addressing youth […]