The Care-SheTrades Impact Fund
Moving from a gender lens to gender justice
Moving from a gender lens to gender justice
Trillion dollars is the size of the female economy. It is the largest in the world; larger than the economies of India and China combined.
% of the micro, small, medium enterprise finance gap is composed of women-owned businesses.
Trillion dollars is the estimated size that the growing private debt market will reach by 2025, yet in 2019, there were only 17 debt-focused gender lens vehicles investing around the world.
%. Globally, women-led business perform better, with lower proportions of non-performing loans (3.7%) than the global average (5.0%).
The Care-SheTrades Impact Fund is a blended finance gender investment fund that focuses on bridging the gap for women-centered businesses across target countries in emerging markets. Because of the disproportionate impact that climate change has on women, the fund also addresses the intersectionality between gender and climate impact by applying a robust climate lens across its investment cycle.
Fund Management Partners
A best-in-class impact fund manager with a 13-year track-record of successful impact investments in frontier markets. Bamboo has six current blended finance funds targeting the missing middle including debt and equity for tech-enabled small and medium-sized businesses and six legacy funds focused on financial inclusion, energy access and pioneering sectors
A joint United Nations and World Trade Organization agency that provides deep global trade and market expertise to support growing small and medium-sized businesses and female entrepreneurs in developing countries, including the SheTrades platform with over 30,000 women founders
Investors and Partners
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Philippines, Samoa, Uganda, Vietnam
