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Portfolio
We highlight below active and recent grant funded projects and, since 2021, impact-first investments.
Working capital to Tanzania’s second biggest selling honey and beeswax brand, expanding offtake from smallholder beekeepers in Tanzania’s forested Southern Highlands
Support for sustainable livelihoods opportunities in the Verde Island Passage (Mindoro, Philippines), a 5,200Ha Marine Protected Area containing high value coral reef and mangrove ecosystems. The repayable grant provides seed funding for a new business focused on exporting mangrove crabs and developing a crab hatchery.
An impact-linked loan for coffee processing infrastructure and technical assistance for Cepro Yanesha, an organic coffee co-operative that stewards 10,000 hectares of rainforest over indigenous community lands in the Peruvian Amazon. The cost of finance is linked to rainforest protection and the adoption of regenerative practices, verified by satellite forest monitoring.
A concessionary loan to expand pineapple leaf processing by a vegan leather producer, increasing the earnings of fruit co-operative workers in the Philippines.
A grant to establish a comprehensive Seaweed Improvement Project in the Philippines and Indonesia. The project aims to significantly improve 3,000 farmers’ incomes through better production and processing, access to equipment finance, and providing linkages to carrageenan buyers globally.
Support on Recognition of Prior Learning for 1,800 low-paid technicians with 5-10 years experience to attend refresher training, receive a formal qualification and earn higher statutory wages.
Training & equipping new ‘goat doctors’ to improve the financial security of subsistence goat herders in rural Maharashtra.
A revenue-based loan to develop virgin coconut oil processing and marketing by Aluan to improve the earning opportunities of smallholders on Simeulue, an important island habitat for several endangered species of western Indonesia. This social investment follows a co-funded feasibility study into the regional coconut supply chain and financing for sustainable replanting.
Working capital for a coding school in Lebanon, providing marketable tech skills to long-term unemployed/underemployed youth and, through expanded blended training, refugees and other marginalised groups.
Working capital to scale the Lake Victoria Gold Programme, a sustainable finance initiative in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to transform the prospects of artisanal & smallscale mining (ASM) through access to equipment, maintenance and expertise. ASM is a neglected industry, second only to agriculture in importance for jobs. The Facility aims to improve productivity, worker safety, and environmental practices, notably towards the Minamata Convention on eradicating mercury pollution.