Aequitas Impact Investment Fund - Technical Assistance

This technical assistance facility aims to improve the environment and well-being of vulnerable populations especially women in Africa Asia Eastern Europe and Latin America. It seeks to support small-scale financial institutions that are supported by the Aequitas Impact Investment Fund (P01202001). Technical assistance seeks to help small-scale financial institutions and their clients by improving the availability of financial products and services to underserved populations including women youth small and medium enterprises and smallholder farmers. Project activities include: (1) supporting financial institutions in reducing the ecological footprint of their operations; (2) training in financial education for micro small and medium-sized enterprises especially those run by women; and (3) supporting financial institutions in distributing gender-sensitive climate-change-smart financial products and services to micro small and medium-sized enterprises especially women entrepreneurs.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased performance of the financial institutions supported particularly in terms of the implementation of inclusive policies that promote gender equality and climate resilience; (2) increased uptake of financial products and services by micro small and medium entrepreneurs particularly women-led enterprises supporting economic and climate resilience; and 3) mobilized more external resources into the fund with external stakeholders to support development results.