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Business environment reforms for youth employment in ACP countries: lowering barriers to employment and recruitment
ICReports
Youth's Economic Empowerment
This report discusses potential business environment reforms (BER) that present opportunities for advancing youth employment across African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The ACP countries face a significant challenge in this regard, and policymakers play a crucial role in crafting a business environment that actively supports youth employment. The report offers four broad business environment […]

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Annual report 2022-2023
Annual Report
Business Regulation and Policy
Read about our activities from September 2022 to August 2023

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Trends in Gender Finance in DFIs in Caribbean and Pacific Region
Past Events
Access to Finance
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) have a key role to play in promoting gender responsive finance and women’s economic empowerment (WEE). While the initiatives of multilateral banks are well-documented and communicated via events and publications, visibility of the efforts of national and sub-regional DFIs on this topic is low. Gender finance is not commonly highlighted on their websites […]

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Trends in Gender Finance in ACP Development Finance Institutions: Overview and Selected Examples
ICReports
Access to Finance
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) have a key role to play in promoting gender responsive finance and women’s economic empowerment (WEE). While the initiatives of multilateral banks are well-documented and communicated via events and publications, such as 2021’s “Public Development Banks Driving Gender Equality: an Overview of Practices and Measurement Frameworks” by UNWOMEN and the Agence […]

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Honour Loans: A Comprehensive Mechanism to Foster Development by Supporting MSMEs
ICReports
Access to Finance
The honour loans mechanism is a multidimensional one combining financing free of interest or requirement for securities or guarantees, with support to entrepreneurs. It has several benefits for entrepreneurs: Firstly, it finances their development, serving as seed funds and strengthening their project’s equity. It can therefore create financial leverage with microcredit or banking loans. Secondly, it can help […]

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Assessment of the Landscape of Agribusiness Financing to Women and Youth
Access to Finance
The ICR Facility provided technical assistance to the Tanzania Agriculture Development Bank (TADB) in response to a proposal submitted by the bank for support in increasing its outreach to women and youth. TADB is a state-owned development finance institution (DFI) which was launched in 2015. The bank aims to catalyse access to finance to smallholder […]

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Annual report 2020-2021
Annual Report
Access to Finance
Read about our activities from September 2020 to August 2021

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Investment Climate Reform and the Adaptation Finance Gap
ICReports
Green Economy
Many ACP countries are highly vulnerable to climate change and yet face shortfalls in funding for adaptation. Engaging the private sector and mobilising its investment is therefore vital to deliver climate adaptation in these countries. ACP countries typically have weak investment climates, however, hindering the private sector from playing a role in climate adaptation and […]

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National DFIs: Critical Allies for Climate Action
ICReports
Green Economy
Executive Summary National development finance institutions (NDFIs) can play a vital role in promoting climate financing and thus achieving Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due to their knowledge of local markets, their close connections to domestic public and private stakeholders and their ability for local currency financing. However, currently NDFIs are not involved as intensively in […]

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Social Enterprise and Inclusive Business in ACP Countries: Variety and Access to Finance
ICReports
Access to Finance
Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to highlight the variety of social enterprises and inclusive businesses operating across Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, and to explore the barriers they face in accessing finance. Placing positive social impact at the forefront of their work sets these businesses aside from mainstream, or ‘profit-first’ businesses, […]

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Finance solutions for female entrepreneurs in Botswana
ICR Story
Access to Finance
Botswana is looking to reshape its future. The longest uninterrupted democracy in Africa, the middle-income country has set out a transformational agenda that it hopes will see it achieve prosperity for all. Vision 2036 has an aim to turn Botswana into a high-income country by building an inclusive and thriving private sector, with a particular […]

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How Technical Assistance for Public Development Banks can be Transformational in Achieving National Climate and Gender Objectives
ICR Story
Access to Finance
On financing and capital markets, women are worse-off than men. Women have less access to finance, assets and collateral. Additionally, the world is faced with an unprecedented climate crisis, with disasters increasing in their severity, frequency and unpredictability. To achieve a gender-equal and ecological transformation of economies, Public Development Banks (PDBs) come into play. PDBs […]

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