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Annual Report 2023-2024
Annual Report
Business Regulation and Policy
Read about our activities from September 2023 to August 2024

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Annual report 2022-2023
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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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Annual Report 2021-2022
Annual Report
Business Regulation and Policy
This Progress Report reflects the progress on the activities of the ICR Facility achieved until August 2022, with a particular focus on the period 1 September 2021–31 August 2022. The ICR Facility is implemented through three Output Areas. In Output Area 1  Implementation of demand-based interventions was in full swing throughout the year. High numbers […]

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Annual report 2020-2021
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Business Regulation and Policy
Read about our activities from September 2020 to August 2021

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Eswatini and Seychelles adopt new industrial policies for inclusive growth
ICR Story
Women's Economic Empowerment
The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare economic vulnerabilities around the world, and in Eswatini and the Seychelles it highlighted the risks of overdependence on a few sectors to generate growth. More than that, it brought home the imperative of building diverse economies that help reduce inequalities, enhance environmental sustainability and create better employment opportunities for women […]

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Tax Incentives? New Laws? Regulations? Policy Makers and Sector Specialists Explore Effective Ways to Support the Social Economy in ACP Countries
ICR Story
Access to Finance
In Jamaica, the social economy has grown rapidly in the past decade. However, Charmaine Brimm of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, a government agency which manages policies for the country’s sustainable development, says that the sector has developed in a ‘highly informal and fragmented way.’

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Arbitration Services in the OHADA Region and Beyond – Exchange among Peers for Enhancement
ICR Story
Business Regulation and Policy
Investments in African countries have grown at a steady pace over several years, some of which have triggered disputes that require inclusive and effective resolution services in an increasingly challenging business environment. Arbitrage is one such a commercial dispute resolution method.

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Financing Variety: a Challenge for Impact Investors
ICR Story
Investment Policy
Given the scale of social and environment challenges across African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, access to finance for social enterprises and inclusive businesses – well-placed to tackle many of these challenges – becomes a priority. The first comprehensive review of the social investment landscape across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), published by African Venture Philanthropy Association […]

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The Role of Investment Promotion Agencies in Public-Private Dialogue in ACP Countries
Past event
Public Private Dialogue
Through Public-Private Dialogue, Investment Promotion Agencies contribute to economic policy making and reform, whether through formal and structured processes or informally through their day-to-day activities and contacts with investors. In a previous series of peer-to-peer workshops, IPAs from 8 countries in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region had the opportunity to exchange knowledge, share […]

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Using Domestic Financial and Fiscal Policy to Mobilise Private Adaptation Finance in ACP Countries
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Green Economy
The countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region are some of the most vulnerable to climate change. Scaling up finance for climate adaptation is critical, particularly across the diversity of private actors from households, through micro-small medium enterprises (MSMEs) to corporations, financial institutions and investors; all of which are influenced by public policy […]

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Democratising Access to Social Finance: Green and Social Enterprises in the Pacific and the Caribbean
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Access to Finance
In the face of mounting climate risks, entrepreneurs are coming up with solutions to accelerate transition to more climate resilient development, alongside investors putting more resources into climate finance. The climate risks are particularly acute for island nations in the Pacific and the Caribbean, where there’s also been a growth in entrepreneurial solutions that address […]

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