Funds and Mandates

01

Global Gender-Smart Fund

The Global Gender-Smart Fund (GGSF) is the world’s largest gender-lens investment fund. The GGSF aims to address the USD1.7 trillion gender gap by providing responsible financial services to underserved women, women-owned, and women-led businesses in developing markets. It seeks to improve livelihoods, promote women’s leadership, and enhance gender balance within financial institutions.

02

Clean Energy and
Energy Inclusion for Africa

Clean Energy and Energy Inclusion for Africa (CEI Africa) aims to support the delivery of climate-friendly electricity for people and businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Foundation was established by KfW on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2022 the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) joined as Contributor to CEI Africa. CEI Africa provides Results-Based and Outcomes-Based grants and co-invests with crowdlenders in the off-grid and green mini-grid companies, combined with technical assistance.
03

ASN Microkredietfonds

Established in 1998 by ASN Bank, invests in expanding and mature financial intermediaries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. It’s a listed fund that enables private individuals to invest in microfinance institutions by purchasing shares in the fund.

04

Dutch Good Growth Fund

A consortium consisting of Triple Jump and PwC is responsible for managing the part of the DGGF that provides financing for local SMEs in up to 73 selected countries through investing in Intermediary Funds. The consortium manages the DGGF on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
05

Oxfam Novib Fund

The Oxfam Novib mandate was established in 1998 by Oxfam Novib to support high-potential, high-impact microfinance institutions worldwide. It is dedicated to enhancing resilience in response to the escalating effects of climate change. Oxfam Novib Fund (ONF) supports Microfinance institutions (MFIs) that focus on underserved markets and target specific groups: rural communities, small-scale agricultural producers and women borrowers.

06

Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund

The EEGF, initiated in 2019 by Shell Foundation and FMO, provides catalytic financing for early and growth-stage companies in Sub-Saharan Africa operating in the access to energy ecosystem and facilitating access to affordable, reliable, sustainable energy by 2030.

07

Triple Jump Financial Inclusion
Resilience Fund

The fund will focus on providing subordinated debt to financial intermediaries serving Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and low-income borrowers in emerging markets. FIRF aims to serve as a catalyst to improve the solvency position of these Financial Intermediaries allowing them to continue and increase their lending activity to MSMEs and low-income borrowers.
08

MicroBuild Fund (historical)

Established in 2012 by Habitat for Humanity International and Triple Jump, supplies debt capital, specifically for housing solutions that financial intermediaries offer to their low-income end-clients in emerging markets. The fund also has a technical assistance program to help investees develop or improve their housing products, and serve end-clients better.