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Access to Finance
Session 5 of DFI Exchange Group
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: […]
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Access to Finance
Toward Fit-for-Purpose DFI Regulation in the SADC Region
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 […]
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Women's Economic Empowerment
Webinar: Women’s Economic Empowerment through Reforms: Sharing Lessons Learnt from the ACP Region
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 […]
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From Coordination to Collaboration: 5 years of the ICR Facility
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 […]
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Women's Economic Empowerment
InfoPoint Conference: How to make the business environment work for women’s economic empowerment (WEE)?
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) […]
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Women's Economic Empowerment
Trends and Best Practice in Mainstreaming Gender in Chambers of Commerce and Business Membership Organisations in ACP Countries
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 […]
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Access to Finance
Session 4 of DFI Exchange Group
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 […]
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Development Finance Institutions
DFI Exchange Group – Session 3: The Green Climate Fund (GCF)
  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 […]
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Public Private Dialogue
Business Environment Reforms through Public- Private Dialogue – Lessons learnt from the ICR Facility’s Interventions
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 […]
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Women's Economic Empowerment
ICR4WEE Conference
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 […]
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Women's Economic Empowerment
Webinar: Trends in Care Economy Policies in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
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 […]
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Youth's Economic Empowerment
WEBINAR: Business Environment Reforms for Youth Employment in the ACP Region
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 […]
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