Empowering low-income communities, smallholder farmers, and women-led MSMEs for a brighter future
Improve the quality of life of low-income and vulnerable households, smallholder farmers and MSMEs, particularly women
Our vision
To improve the quality of life of low-income populations by enabling inclusive finance
Our mission
We enable access to affordable and client-centric financial solutions through inclusive financial sector partners
Our goals
Building resilience to protect living standards
Access to savings and insurance products builds resilience to better respond to the negative effects of adverse weather events, catastrophes, death or illness of the breadwinner or of conflict.
Advancing economic empowerment to increase income and asset building
Tailored loan, leasing and insurance products enable end-clients to invest in productive activities, increase income through increased access to markets, create employment opportunities and build assets.
Accessing essential services to improve current and future generations’ living standards
Adequate payment services and channels, enable access to electricity, clean water, sanitation, education and healthcare on affordable and predictable terms.
Our focus area
Innovative Finance for Impact
We support innovative, high-impact inclusive finance service providers to traverse the pioneer gap by both expanding our toolkit and focusing efforts more deliberately across four focus areas:
- Agriculture
- Health
- Housing
- Climate and resilience
We will be focusing our activities on the nexus between finance and agriculture, health, housing and climate, as well as climate resilience, addressing the needs of women and migrants as cross-cutting priorities across our work. We will leverage on financial instruments including technical assistance, impact-linked finance, and repayable grants to high-impact enterprises – to enable IFSPs to provide innovative financial services that drive progress towards livelihoods and resilience for low-income people.