With a $10 million, three-year debt facility, Banco Ficohsa Nicaragua will provide accessible loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a dedicated focus on women entrepreneurs. 

This blog summarizes cross-cutting findings from a series of case studies highlighting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Village Enterprise’s and SEWA’s climate-smart innovations from the FinEquity Community that use financial coupled with non-financial interventions that are seeing to improve women’s resilience to climate events. What are we learning?

This blog is part of a FinEquity blog series highlighting how organizations in the Community of Practice are thinking about improving women’s resilience to climate events through inclusive finance, analyzing some recent trends, and providing some recommendations for those supporting innovators on this journey.

This Brief is part of a series of case studies documenting work done by community members to increase women’s climate resilience, with the hope to inspire financial service providers and other stakeholders to start addressing the specific financial service needs of women in the face of climate change.

The Female Entrepreneurship Fund is a specialized investment vehicle that channels resources from institutional investors to support women entrepreneurs in the Central American Integration System (Sica) region.

This paper analyzes the potential for fintech to facilitate cheaper and more efficient remittances, and to enhance financial inclusion in Central America.

Lessons learned from previous crises to help with future crisis responses

This report includes key financial and operational indicators that provide a country overview, indicator level performance and institutional details.