CAFIID members are welcome to join our upcoming Gender Lens Investing Community of Practice meeting:

Leveraging Social and Gender Bonds for Impact: Lessons from Latin America and West Africa

August 7, 2025 at 1pm EST on Zoom.

In the evolving landscape of gender lens investing, social and gender bonds are emerging as powerful results-based financing tools that directly channel capital toward gender equity and inclusive economic development. This session offers CAFIID members a unique opportunity to hear directly from two trailblazing leaders who are designing and implementing such instruments in Latin America and Africa.

By learning from the Latin American experience of ProMujer and the West African innovation led by FinAfrique, participants will gain insights into how gender and social bonds are structured, with a particular focus on informal economies, how impact is measured, and how they can be adapted and scaled to support gender equality.

This is a not-to-miss opportunity to connect CAFIID members with though leaders from emerging markets and take away practical lessons for structuring gender-lens financing in local contexts.

Featuring:

• Carmen Correa (CEO, ProMujer)

• Fabrice Kom (Executive Director, FinAfrique)

NOTE: This event is for current CAFIID members and invited guests. If you're interested in becoming a member, join here.

Fabrice Kom Tchuente

Founder and Executive Director, FinAfrique Partners

Fabrice Kom Tchuente is the Founder and Executive Director of FinAfrique Partners, a consulting firm

specializing in inclusive and sustainable financing for African economies. FinAfrique Partners is notably

behind the Inclusive Bonds concept (a bond mechanism dedicated to financing the informal sector),

which is currently being implemented in several African countries with the support of leading

international development institutions such as IDRC, UNDP, and UNECA. Fabrice also worked for several

years in asset management in Paris, within the HSBC and NATIXIS banking groups.

Carmen Correa

Chief Executive Officer, Pro Mujer

With a vast experience inside Pro Mujer since 2017, Carmen is the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. Carmen previously served as Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, supervising the implementation of Pro Mujer’s social impact programs, which include expanding financial inclusion, providing health and well-being services and offering skill

building opportunities to underserved women across Latin America. Correa has more than thirty years of experience in operational management, strategic planning and program execution focusing on sustainable development in Latin America. Before joining Pro Mujer,

Carmen led efforts at the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) in Uruguay to develop a new instrument to finance a venture capital fund and business accelerator. Carmen also served as Program Director at Fundación Avina Uruguay, leading the regional strategy for inclusive markets aimed at contributing concrete and relevant changes that lead to a more sustainable development in Latin America. Prior to Avina, Carmen led as Chief Operations Officer and later as Executive Director of Endeavor Uruguay, an international non-profit organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs. She also served as Administrative Manager at DeRemate.com an online auction site in Uruguay, and has occupied various positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC and at the Organization of the American States (OAS) in Uruguay.

Carmen is board member of 2X Global, member of the steering committee of the Taskforce on Inequality & Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), advisory board member of Socialab Uruguay and the EC-America Program at Columbia University. Carmen is a mentor of Endeavor Uruguay and she actively participates of the Global Steering Group on Impact Investment.

In 2023 Carmen was selected by Google.org as one of the seven Leaders to Watch. In 2025 Forbes listed Carmen as one of the 50 Over 50 Global change makers.

Carmen holds a B.S. in Management from National- Louis University in McLean, VA, and has a Business Administration Certificate from Georgetown University, among other management development courses from Harvard Kennedy School in Boston, John Hopkins University and USDA in Washington, DC, and ESADE/ORT in Uruguay.