Resources
Explore an array of resources below to deepen your understanding of impact investing. We encourage you to browse through CAFIID content, case studies, member content and additional resources on themes of catalysing finance, climate finance, gender lens invesing (GLI), health, and impact measurement and management (IMM).
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Supivaa: Empowering WSMEs Through the Power of AI
Empowering women-led SMEs across Africa, Supivaa.AI connects WSMEs with financial institutions, providing tailored credit profiles and capacity development support to unlock equal access to capital and drive sustainable growth.
September, 2024
Renew Capital: Driving Towards a Gender-Smart Economy in Ethiopia
Renew Capital and its partners are championing groundbreaking work in Ethiopia to build a gender-inclusive economy that recognizes the power of women in business.
September, 2024
Momentus Global: Advancing Gender Equality through National Financing Strategies in Namibia
Aimed at strengthening DFIs' capacity to enhance women's economic empowerment and financial inclusion, Momentus Global partnered with the UNDP to develop a Gender-Responsive Integrated National Financing Strategy for Namibia.
September, 2024
Value for Women and Aceli: Partnering to Drive Gender Inclusion in Agriculture
Through a five-year strategic partnership, Value for Women and Aceli aim to drive gender inclusion in agriculture through engagement with Aceli’s network of agricultural lenders.
September, 2024
Cross-Border Impact Ventures: Innovations in Exits to Ensure Continued Impact in Health Technology
At over USD 90 million, CBIV’s inaugural fund, the Women’s and Children’s Health Technology Fund I, is the largest women and child-focused health fund in the world at the venture stage.
September, 2024
Kore Global: Supporting DFIs to Advance their Gender Lens Investing Approach through Impact Management and Measurement
Kore Global was commissioned by BII to conduct an evaluation to better understand the potential development impacts for women of investments meeting the 2X Challenge ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘leadership’ criteria.
September, 2024
MEDA: Addressing Gender Disparities in Access to Finance
The USD 200 million Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund has a GLI mandate and is systematically integrating gender diversity, equity and inclusion principles into all aspects of its operations.
September, 2023
Deetken Impact: Promoting Gender Lens Investing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Today, the Ilu Fund’s 25 portfolio companies are serving more than 775,000 clients of whom 75% identify as women and 26% reside in rural areas, as well as employing more than 7,500 individuals with formal and full-time work.
September, 2023
FinDev Canada: Advancing Gender Equality through the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund (EEGF)
Through its investments, EEGF addresses the energy needs of African women consumers and women business owners.
September, 2023
Australian Development Investments (ADI) and Sarona Asset Management: Advancing the Gender Impact of Investments
ADI’s approximately AUD 1 million investment to finance the lending portfolio of women-focused FinTechs has provided access to capital to over one million women-owned or led MSMEs.
September, 2023
Equality Fund: A New Model for Global Feminist Investing
Backed by a $300 million contribution from the Government of Canada, the Equality Fund unites gender-lens investing, bold government funding, and powerful, multi-sector philanthropy to unlock new capital for women's rights organizations and movements.
September, 2023
IDRC: Transforming the Care Economy through Impact Investing (TCEII) Program
TCEII uncovers the unique opportunity for GLI investors to directly invest in SMEs in the care economy, many of which are women-led and women-owned and also develop products and services that address women and girls’ needs.
September, 2023
Deetken Impact: Advancing gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
A run-of-river hydro project in Honduras exploring the intersection of gender and renewable energy to advance gender-smart business practices through incremental capital, customized technical assistance, and education.
December, 2021
Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) and Numida Technologies
Co-building assistance from EWB helped Uganda’s Numida secure early seed investments of US$ 2.3 million
December, 2021
MEDA and Trading Up
A MEDA-led blended finance partnership is behind Trading Up, a trade finance initiative to support SMEs in Ghana and Kenya.
December, 2021
Financing renewable energy projects from development to operations
FinDev Canada lays out South Africa’s Climate Investor One unique structure of three distinct but linked funds to attract concessional through to commercial investors in a large renewable energy fund.
December, 2021
Développement international Desjardins (DID): Putting blended finance at the service of micro and small entrepreneurs
A blended finance-structured investment in Tunisia’s Entrepreneur Financial Centre supporting micro and small entrepreneurs in Tunisia leveraged an initial grant and technical assistance to raise an additional $32 million.
December, 2021
Fondaction and EcoTierra: Working with small farmers on responsible land use and sustainable agriculture in Peru and Colombia
EcoTierra, in a G.P. co-owned by Fondaction and ECOTIERRA, is an agroforestry project developer and operator working with small farmers. Ecotierra created the Urapi Sustainable Land Use Fund to break the deforestation and poverty cycle of many forest frontier areas dominated by smallholder agriculture.
December, 2021