Daily News 23

Brussels, 23 January 2018 - Investment in microfinance and social enterprises is set to receive a significant boost. The EU's financing programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) will receive an additional €100 million for its Guarantee scheme from the European Fund ...

The report published today jointly by the European Commission and the European External Action Service shows the positive impact of the European Union's duty-rebate schemes on developing economies.

Brussels, 19 January 2018 - Trade acts as an engine for growth and helps promote human and ...

January 23, 2018 - ElectriFI co-finances the implementation of the Asrama Microgrid Pilot Project developed by the energy access integrated operator Benoo Energies. Asrama is a village of 5000 residents in Togo, connected to the national road, with no electricity. The closest grid connection is 27 ...

22^nd January 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom – At the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association conference in Hong Kong, Azuri Technologies, a leading provider of PayGo solar products and services across sub-Saharan Africa, today announced the launch of its innovative $20 million off-balance-sheet debt financing program to ...

Brussels, 15 January 2018 - As the world continues to change faster and more fundamentally than ever before, expectations toward businesses are increasing. It’s no longer enough to deliver high-quality products at low prices with good availability. They need to be delivered in a way ...

• Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), meets with UN Secretary General António Guterres in New York to discuss cooperation and the importance of multilateral action.
• EIB pledges support for reaching Sustainable Development Goals under the new UN strategy with proposals to strengthen ...

Washington, D.C., January 18, 2018—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has helped Partech Ventures launch a €100 million fund that is expected to become the largest venture-capital fund focused on digital-technology start-ups in sub-Saharan Africa. The initiative will help accelerate an ...

San Francisco, CA, Jan 18 2018– RSF Social Finance has just invested over $900,000 in four women-led enterprises that are creating opportunities for women and girls around the world: Akola Project, Eu’Genia Shea, Kreyòl Essence and Spotlight: Girls. The investments, in the form ...

Press Release, Published January 11, 2018 – CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – Fresh Coast Capital, a Midwest-based social enterprise, is filling a market gap by delivering investible green infrastructure projects to municipal governments with the help of new program related investment support from The Kresge Foundation. Rain gardens, bioswales ...