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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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
