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.
Clean Energy and
Energy Inclusion for Africa
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.
Dutch Good Growth Fund
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.
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.
Triple Jump Financial Inclusion
Resilience Fund
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.