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21/12/2023

MICROFINANCE EVENT: Invest in Africa Summit; April 16-17, 2024; the Hague, the Netherlands

This annual gathering promotes trade between Africa and Europe, North America and Asia. The agenda will include country-specific meetings and discussions of investment opportunities for the African diaspora. The conference themes include Agribusiness, Climate Financing, Renewable Energy and Technolo...

20/12/2023

MICROFINANCE EVENT: ICT4D Conference; March 19-20, 2024; Accra, Ghana

This annual gathering is intended to promote data innovations that “are making a measurable difference millions of lives” through humanitarian relief, development projects and conservation efforts. The event’s themes include digital inclusion, digital health, food security and agriculture, and...

15/12/2023

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Lipa Later Acquires Fellow E-commerce, DFS, Merchant Services Platform Sky.Garden of Kenya for $1.6m

Lipa Later, a Kenyan financial technology (fintech) integrating e-commerce, digital financial services and merchant services in four African countries, recently paid KES 250 million (USD 1.6 million) to acquire Sky.Garden, a Kenyan service that was launched in 2017 but had announced it would close d...

14/12/2023

MICROFINANCE EVENT: Sankalp Africa Summit 2024; February 28, 2024- February 29, 202412,2023; Nairobi, Kenya

This annual gathering focuses on “sustainable” development in Africa, including as can be promoted via entrepreneurship and impact investing. Attendees will engage on themes such as renewable energy, gender issues, engaging youth, agriculture, health and sanitation. The cost to attend ranges fro...

12/12/2023

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Women’s World Banking Offering 5-month Leadership Program for Regulators

The Saïd Business School at the UK’s Oxford University and the US-based NGO Women’s World Banking are conducting a program from April to August 2024 intended to improve financial inclusion by boosting the leadership skills of financial regulators. Senior banking and regulatory officials of all ...

08/12/2023

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Global Partnerships, Goodwell, Oikocredit Invest $8.5m in Equity in Good Nature Agro to Boost Profits of Small Farms in Southern Africa

Zambia-based Good Nature Agro recently raised USD 8.5 million in Series B equity from US-based Global Partnerships and two organizations with offices in the Netherlands, Oikocredit International and Goodwell Ventures. Good Nature Agro supports small-scale farmers with: (1) seed selection; (2) financ...

08/12/2023

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: L-IFT Studying Fairness of Presumptive Taxation in Ethiopia

Low-income Financial Transformation (L-IFT), a Netherlands-based firm, recently reported on a study it is performing with data being collected over one year from 140 small businesses in Ethiopia. The study addresses the way the Ethiopian government taxes enterprises that bring in less than ETB 500,0...

05/12/2023

MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP UP: “Women Agents for Financial Inclusion: Exploring the Benefits, Constraints and Potential Solutions,” by Emilio Hernandez et al, Published by CGAP

Based on data collected from projects in India, Ghana and Pakistan that aim to improve financial inclusion for rural women, the authors examine the interplay between gender dynamics and the employment of women as agents supplying in cash-in and cash-out (CICO) services. This includes the impact thes...

04/12/2023

SPECIAL REPORT: Partner with Agents for Impact, and We’ll Drive Impact Together!

This article is sponsored by Agents for Impact (AFI). We invite you to learn more about the firm via LinkedIn. Andrij Fetsun, Founder & CEO at AFI: AFI celebrated five years in business in October this year, and my team has attained several impactful goals during this challenging time. This woul...

01/12/2023

SPECIAL REPORT: Leveraging Carbon Credits to Insure MSMEs in Climate-vulnerable Nations

What a pleasure it was to interview Diana Chepng’eno (pictured below) at SAM 2023 in Togo last month! She is such a warm and energetic person - and deeply engaged in the critical work of climate adaptation and mitigation across Africa and the Middle East. During SAM 2023, Ms Chepng’eno spoke

01/12/2023

MICROFINANCE EVENT: 19th Annual Global Microfinance Forum; March 14-15, 2024; Amsterdam, Netherlands

This forum will bring stakeholders together to discuss topics such as: (1) Climate-smart Financing for Smallholder Farmers; (2) Women’s Economic Empowerment by MFIs ; and (3) Green & Sustainable Finance; Genuine Change from MFIs. The event is hosted by Uniglobal, a firm based in the Czech Republic...

30/11/2023

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: AfDB Seeking $1b for African Climate Risk Insurance Facility (ACRIFA) to Boost Microinsurance for Farms, Livestock Against Drought, Floods

The multilateral African Development Bank (AfDB) recently launched a fund called the African Climate Risk Insurance Facility (ACRIFA), aimed at increasing the continent’s resilience to adverse weather events. ACRIFA follows on AfDB’s Africa Disaster Risk Insurance Program, which supported the cr...

29/11/2023

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Jeff Flowers to Lead FINCA Impact Finance

The US-based, for-profit microfinance network FINCA Impact Finance recently announced that Jeff Flowers will become its CEO in January 2024. Mr Flowers previously worked with FINCA International, the US-based NGO launched in 1984 as the Foundation for International Community Assistance, for 17 years...

29/11/2023

SPECIAL REPORT: Investors, MFIs Continue to Wrestle with Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR)

The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR), which the EU passed in 2019, resulted in a “seismic shift” for impact investment funds and their investees. At the closing plenary of European Microfinance Week 2023, Emmanuelle Javoy of Switzerland-based investor Symbiotics explained her fi...

28/11/2023

MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP-UP: “Gendered Investment Differences Among Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from a Microcredit Programme in Western Kenya,” by Keiji Jindo et al

The authors of this study conducted a client-level analysis to examine differences in the investment behavior of female and male microcredit users in Kenya. The scope included data on 21,000 clients of a microcredit programme led by Agrics Limited, a Kenya-based agricultural firm. The researchers fo...

27/11/2023

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: IDB Invest Lending $30m to Atlantic Bank in Support of MSMEs in Belize, with a Focus on Women-owned Firms

IDB Invest, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, recently agreed to issue Atlantic Bank Limited of Belize senior loan funds of up to USD 30 million with the aim of fostering the expansion of Atlantic Bank’s financing for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). T...

26/11/2023

MICROFINANCE EVENT: AEMFI 25th Anniversary; November 28 - December 1, 2023; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Themed, “MFIs in a Digital Era: Financial Inclusion for Job Creation and Women Empowerment,” this event offers microfinance institutions multiple opportunities to showcase their products and how they can contribute to reducing poverty. Researchers will also present their findings, and funders an...

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