Anne Spahr

Chief of Party

Anne Spahr is a micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) finance and business development specialist with more than 15 years of experience designing and overseeing initiatives to facilitate finance and improve livelihoods for farmers, fishermen, and…

Person - Specialist

Rural Finance Initiative (RFI)

Following decades of armed conflict, providing rural Colombians with financial services is essential to building an inclusive economy and promoting stability.
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Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project

In the face of globalization, countries worldwide must strengthen and deepen their financial systems to achieve growth and alleviate poverty.
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To Bring On Partners, Know Your Pitch

Relationship-building is easy to overlook but is often crucial to a project's success. Nicole Kresse shares four tips from a project with a 100 percent success rate at signing on partners.
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Final Report: El Salvador Small and Medium Enterprises Development Program

USAID’s Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program focused on raising access of small businesses to business development services. As a result of these efforts, more than 10,900 micro, small, and medium businesses were assisted and 22,000 jobs were created, 48 percent of which went to women.
Resource - Project Report