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CONNECTIONS
DELIVERING
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A Community Fostering
Inclusive and Green Finance
Who We Are
We empower women-owned and led businesses in Asia and the Pacific by assisting financial institutions in providing gender-responsive and sustainable finance through the adoption of cutting-edge technologies.
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Spotlight
Read our latest newsletter: Future-Proofing Financial Institutions for Green Growth
How can the financial sector embrace inclusive and green growth opportunities? Future-proofing the financial sector requires institutions to go beyond targets and checklists and instead adapt new mindsets, upskill, and foster sustainable innovation.
In this issue, we examine how financial institutions can strengthen internal capacities to integrate sustainability into their core business models. We also look at a new approach to sustainable innovation built around banks as enablers of sustainable value creation for all stakeholders.
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News and Events
ADB Hosts 5th Asia Finance Forum in Manila
ADB, together with the Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg, with support from the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE), hosted the 5th Asia Finance Forum (AFF) with the theme “Positioning for the Future” on 23–25 September at the ADB Headquarters in Manila. Joanna Romero, gWFX Lead, participated as a panelist in the Investing in Women MSMEs: Innovations and Trends session on 24 September. The discussion explored innovative technology, gender-intentional product design, alternative credit models and capacity building to unlock capital for women entrepreneurs, featuring insights and examples from Fiji, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. ADB’s Private Sector Financial Institutions division also led sessions on mobilizing MSME financing for green and inclusive development and innovative finance and inclusive initiatives in green finance development.
WATCH: How can financial institutions keep up with evolving regulatory requirements in green finance?
Laura Canas da Costa, Global Policy Co-Lead at UNEP FI, discusses how banks can invest in internal capacity building and collaboration to meet the moment.
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Navigating the WE Finance Code: Essential Tools for Signatories
The gWFX team has compiled key tools for practitioners seeking resources to guide them on their WE Finance Code journey. Members can access the guide here.
New Publication: Green Finance and Women-Owned Businesses:
A Growth Opportunity for Financial Institutions in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
This publication shares key insights from a market assessment conducted by ADB which surveyed 90 financial institutions in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to gain insights into the drivers and barriers to accessing green finance among micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), especially those owned by women. The insights provided are intended to guide private sector financial institutions and other stakeholders in designing targeted solutions and promoting green finance to support MSMEs and foster a green economy. Read the publication here.
Technology
We support FIs in the identification and selection of cutting-edge technologies to facilitate gender-responsive and sustainable financing.
What We Do
Capacity
Building
We provide tailored knowledge solutions to enhance our partners' capacity in delivering inclusive financial services.
Funding
Opportunity
We explore funding and co-financing opportunities to support FIs in boosting lending to women and women's businesses.
Sustainable
Finance
We encourage and assist the implementation of sustainable finance in our partner FI's strategy, operation, products and services.
Partners
The CAREC Women’s Empowerment Online Platform (WEOP) is our knowledge partner. It is a comprehensive and user-friendly digital space that aims to empower women across the region by providing capacity development resources, opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration with stakeholders.
The CAREC member countries are Azerbaijan, People’s Republic of China, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
To promote finance sector development, the Financial Sector Development Partnership Fund (FSDPF) was established in July 2006 through contributions from the Government of Luxembourg. Given growing demand from the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries for financing support, the Financial Sector Development Partnership Special Fund (FSDPSF) was created in January 2013. The FSDPSF focuses on the key operational areas of finance sector development, inclusive finance, and infrastructure finance. Since the fund was established, the FSDPSF has allocated a total of $25.5 million for 76 projects, some of which are capacity building initiatives of gWFX.
The High-Level Technology (HLT) Fund is a multi-donor trust fund established in 2017. It provides grant financing to promote the integration of HLT and innovative solutions into ADB-financed and administered sovereign and nonsovereign projects throughout the project cycle—from identification to implementation and operation. The fund encourages more widespread adoption of HLT to address development challenges in ADB's developing member countries.
Mastercard works to connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, their innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Visa is a world-leading digital payments network that removes barriers and connects people to the global economy. Visa aims to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) is our co-financing partner. We-Fi is a collaborative partnership among 14 governments, eight multilateral development banks (MDBs), and other public and private sector stakeholders, hosted by the World Bank Group.
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