Catalytic Capital Symposium: A Deeper Dive into Financing a Just Transition

Chemonics UK and the Impact Investing Institute hosted a hybrid event on 1 November 2023 at Chemonics UK’s offices in London and online via Teams Live Events. Achieving a global transition to net zero, and doing…

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Engaging the Private Sector to Achieve Health Outcomes

Private sector engagement is critical to achieving inclusive growth and ensuring sustainable health outcomes.
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Financial Services

Recognizing that functioning financial markets are key to broad-based economic growth, Chemonics works with financial institutions to increase the availability and affordability of financial services for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises and underserved populations.
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Blended Finance Technical Briefs Primer

Chemonics International’s Private Sector Engagement team, in collaboration with Dalberg and KOIS, has developed a series of technical briefs to enrich the technical knowledge of the development community around blended finance in the areas of agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes. This primer provides a targeted, high-level overview of blended finance mechanisms to contextualize these sector-specific technical briefs.
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Effectively Utilizing Repayable Grants to Help Facilitate Market Creation

Key Insights From the International and Development Finance Institutions on How to Harness Repayable Grants to Build Financial Ecosystems and Nascent Businesses
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Blended Finance Technical Briefs

Chemonics’ Center for Private Sector Engagement, in collaboration with Dalberg and KOIS, developed technical briefs on blended finance in the areas of agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes.
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Final Report: E-PESO Activity

This report summarizes the accomplishments of the Philippines E-PESO Activity, which supported the transition of the Philippine economy from cash/checks to electronic payments for broader-based economic growth and financial inclusion.
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Keeping Vulnerable Children in School – Evidence of a Successful Community Savings Model

This technical brief describes how ACCELERE!1 used microfinance income-generating activities and community savings groups to help parents secure a more sustainable future for their children through education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Technical Brief: Helping Rural Financial Institutions Expand Rural Service Delivery

Through five working principles, USAID’s Rural Finance Initiative served as central change agents by providing highly customized advisory services, mixing expertise from the Colombian financial sector and the development community. This reached more than 750,000 rural clients and mobilize $999 million in financial services.
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Executive Memorandum: Armenia Financial Sector Assessment

The objectives of USAID’s Rapid Financial Crisis Assessment for Armenia were to identify strengths and vulnerabilities of financial sector participants, assess overall soundness and stability of the financial and corporate sectors, highlight linkages between the macro-economy and the financial sector, and ascertain economic policy implications.
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FS Series #12: Developing Government Bond Markets – Primer, Diagnostic

The objective of this primer is to help identify the reforms required to develop an efficient government securities markets, both for the primary market in which government securities are issued and for the secondary market in which government securities are traded.
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FS Series #11: Innovations in Financial Services Delivery – Branchless Banking

From USAID’s Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project (FS Share) is a primer offering case studies, covering business models and partnerships, relevant to branchless banking and how technology can offer tools and services to facilitate this. Examples of these tools include card-based, mobile phone-based, or other ICT-based devices.
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