The GG ICR Facility provides technical assistance to national and sub-regional development finance institutions (DFIs) in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific to identify, prepare and implement projects and investments with high development impact in alignment with the EU Global Gateway (GG), with a special focus on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and gender-lens investing.
The GG ICR Facility delivers group trainings in collaboration with regional DFI associations, leveraging their strong networks to reach a wide audience of DFIs. Trainings are offered both online or in-person and can be conducted in several languages, including English and French.
The topics of trainings are demand-driven and tailored to participants’ needs. Examples include resource mobilisation, investing in Global Gateway core sectors (e.g. infrastructure, energy), gender lens investing or other areas aligned with the EU Global Gateway priorities.
The GG ICR Facility periodically partners with DFIs to deliver tailor-made technical assistance, capacity building and advisory services. This support is co-designed with key experts and the DFI itself to ensure alignment with the institution’s strategic priorities.
The topics of the technical assistance vary depending on demand. Examples include institutional strengthening, infrastructure/energy investments, setting up blended finance instruments, operational gender mainstreaming or other areas highly relevant for the EU Global Gateway.
Where possible, activities targeted towards a specific DFI are opened to other banks in order to facilitate knowledge sharing and peer exchange.
From 2023 to 2025, the ICR Facility supported 16 DFIs on gender mainstreaming, spanning all OACPS regions.
The DFI exchange group is a space for DFIs to share and showcase their best practices and experiences with their peers.
The GG ICR Facility disseminates good practices and lessons learned and promotes dialogue and knowledge-sharing between national and regional institutions as well as between geographical regions.
We publish reports and studies and share thematic resources which can be found on our resources page. This page also includes links to recordings and materials of past webinars.
The ICR Facility (predecessor of the GG ICR Facility) has developed a self-paced training specifically designed for representatives from DFIs so that they can learn or strengthen how to develop a gender finance approach in their institution.
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