Developed through the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund, these Learning Books demonstrate how investment systems can be built from local realities rather than external assumptions.
Currency risk is not an unavoidable feature of cross-border finance but a design choice, and funders can use existing tools to shift that burden away from local organizations and toward those better equipped to manage it.
In West Africa, Trade Lenda’s approach confirms that there are financial actors willing to understand and work within informal systems. This case study explores Trade Lenda’s advanced practices in localization in more detail.
This guide is designed to help women’s rights organizations (WROs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and other mission-driven groups understand innovative finance and engage more confidently in conversations about finance, funding, and investment.
This portfolio of insights was written to encourage different ways of seeing grassroots girls’ soccer from an investment perspective.
Fòs Feminista (Fòs) is a feminist asset owner and intermediary building financial infrastructure that shifts power and facilitates mission-aligned capital flows.
We spotlight FrontEnd Ventures as a demonstration of how the design of an investment thesis through a fundamental gender and power analysis can shift power in finance.
Criterion develops a set of reframes that give us a way to move from understanding the system to actively shaping it, building the intermediation and infrastructure needed for more lasting, aligned flows of capital.
This framework for financing the prevention of gender-based violence offers a shared way of understanding how financial systems themselves shape the conditions in which gender‑based violence persists. It translates established GBV prevention logic into a form that is legible and usable by financial decision‑makers, while remaining grounded in the realities of GBV work.
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