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This week, we were proud to be part of an important milestone to inaugurate the Berbera Economic Zone, joining @DP_World and the Somaliland Government. It will provide a vital economic boost to Somaliland and support growth in the broader Horn of Africa region.
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Agriculture is critical to the Zimbabwe economy, employing 65 per cent of the population.
We've committed $10 million to @NMBBankZim to help address the financing gap for agribusinesses in Zimbabwe.
The funding will also support projects that promote mitigation and adaptation.
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.@TonyOElumelu: "the single most important challenge in Africa is securing jobs for the young population" @AfricaProg #CHAfrica
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We are delighted to see the latest development of the Berbera Port and the impact it will have at both a local and regional level.
This is another example of how our long-term partnership with @DP_World aims to accelerate Africa’s long-term trade potential.
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We've partnered with @StanChart to provide up to $100 million of new lending to businesses in Zimbabwe. It's the largest investment in the country's private sector for several years 👉 bit.ly/2L2q1vr
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CDC Board member @afalli has written a piece for @GuardianNigeria on #NigeriaAt60.
Nigeria at 60: CDC Group is celebrating a strong partnership
Read it here ➡️guardian.ng/features/focus/n…
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This morning, @FCDOGovUK Secretary @trussliz announced our new name, five-year strategy and Chair. From 4 April 2022, we will become British International Investment, which highlights our role as part of the UK Government’s international financing offer ➡️ bit.ly/3xkVAJn
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We are now British International Investment 🇬🇧
Our new name reflects who we are and what we do, and highlights our role as part of the UK Government’s international financing offer.
Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/3Lvw4qK @FCDOGovUK
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.@DFID_UK Secretary of State @PennyMordaunt at CDC this morning: 'we face a $2.5 trillion financing gap for the Global Goals. The private sector needs to be part of the answer in closing it.' #SDGs 🌍
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Improving port performance in Sub-Saharan Africa by 25 per cent could add $2.6bn per year to the value of exports and reduce the price of imports by $3.2bn.
We're partnering with @DP_World to invest in ports and logistics infrastructure in Africa ➡️ bit.ly/2X2ufhh
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📡We are thrilled to announce we are investing £2bn in Africa over the next two years.
.@CDCgroup has a 70-year track record of making successful impact-led investments across the continent🌍
Find out more➡️bit.ly/2RbapuM
#InvestInAfrica
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Fantastic evening celebrating the launch of our new name British International Investment with @UKinNigeria 🇳🇬🇬🇧
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At the @IMFNews and @WorldBank Meetings, we signed an MOU with @zanacoplc to provide $50 million to support SMEs and climate finance projects in Zambia.
The signing was witnessed by Minister @S_Musokotwane and Minister @vickyford 🇿🇲🇬🇧
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Members of our senior team were delighted to meet with @HHichilema, the President of Zambia, at #COP26. It was a great opportunity to strengthen our partnership and look at ways we can further collaborate to bolster sustainable and inclusive growth ➡️ bit.ly/2ZWM5Uc 🇿🇲
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We are pleased to announce a $26.5 million commitment to @AFEXNigeria.
Our investment will be used to build 20 modern smart storage warehouses in strategic locations in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda to help preserve the lifespan of harvested crops and increase food availability.
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Delighted to be partnering with @MahindraRise to support the development of electric vehicles in India. The new business will develop passenger EVs for Indian consumers and other markets around the world ➡️ bit.ly/3uxlFET 🇮🇳 @UKinIndia
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We're investing $180 million in @liquidtelecom to help bring broadband connectivity to some of the most under-served markets in Africa.
👉 bit.ly/2QoxUBv
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It is great to be at the UK-Africa Investment Summit today in London.
As the world’s largest bi-lateral development investor in Africa we have invested £2.4bn in the continent with a 70-year track record of making successful impact-led investments🌍
#InvestInAfrica
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We've been in Nigeria this week marking 70 years of investing in the country. As part of the trip, today we announced a new $25 million Nigerian investment, as well as the opening of our Lagos office (due early next year).
👉 bit.ly/2DQZMGT 🇳🇬🇬🇧
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We're delighted to announce our first investment to directly benefit the people of Sudan - a $50m commitment to support food availability in the country. Our investment will support Invictus Trading and DAL Group to import 280,000MT of wheat each year for vital food products.
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"Don't put women on boards for the sake of it - put women on boards because it has value." We spoke to Dolika Banda about the importance of initiatives like @TBRAfrica bit.ly/2FFcBpz #IWD2019
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Mangroves are around 50 times more cost effective than cement sea walls at protecting coastlines from extreme weather. We've been working on a mangrove restoration project with a renewable energy company in Pakistan.
Take a look ➡️ bit.ly/3erHwF3 👀
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We're very pleased to welcome Dolika Banda and Andrew Alli as our two new Non-Executive Directors. They both have a huge amount of experience of doing business across Africa, and we look forward to working with them.
👉 bit.ly/2Pe3k9L
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Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are doing increasingly more, but people aren't all that familiar with exactly what a DFI does. In this podcast we've produced with @devfinancenews we aim to answer a few of the questions people have 👉 bit.ly/2pcSq8I
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In Cape Town earlier today, the Prime Minister introduced our plans for investing £3.5 billion in Africa over the next four years. Here's some more detail from @nickodonohoe on what it means.
👉 bit.ly/2wnZeDX #UKAfrica 🌍
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Our CEO @nickodonohoe joined @rajshah at #COP26 last night to formally sign our partnership with @EnergyAlliance.
The platform aims to unlock $100bn in public and private financing ➡️ bit.ly/3GBLb02 #LetsChangeEnergy
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Yesterday, we announced our partnership with @StanChart to support businesses in Zimbabwe. This blog from @nickodonohoe looks at how the country can return to being the economic force it once was 👉 bit.ly/2ISJznF 🇿🇼
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"Investing isn't just about capital, it's about people" - our Chairman Graham Wrigley is on the first panel of the day at the Gender-Smart Investing Summit here in London #gendersmart
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We’re excited to be part of this commitment to mobilise $3 billion for businesses and funds that advance women’s economic empowerment.
👉 2xchallenge.org
#2XChallenge
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We’re delighted to announce Growth Investment Partners (GIP) Ghana, a pioneering new company set up by BII and led by Ghanaian investment professionals, which will provide a new model for financing SMEs in the country.
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We're investing $50 million in @KeEquityBank, to help reach more SMEs and climate-eligible projects in Central and Eastern Africa.
The investment comes alongside partners including @IFC_org, @FMO_development, @symbioticsnews and @responsabletech ➡️ bit.ly/3MbiSrE
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We are proud to announce we have signed an MOU with @nsia_nigeria 🇳🇬
The partnership is designed to foster long-term inclusive growth and attract private capital into high-impact sectors of the Nigerian economy.
Find out more here ⬇️bit.ly/3cOXjfX
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Our new $150 million partnership with @StanChart will begin operating in four Commonwealth countries - Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana and Kenya.
As #CHOGM2018 gets underway, the UK's Minister for Africa @hbaldwin welcomes the deal 👉 bit.ly/2HtqSXa
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We're very happy to announce that we'll soon be welcoming our first Chief Impact Officer. Liz Lloyd CBE will lead a team of 50 professionals and ensure that impact remains at the heart of what we do.
More here 👉 bit.ly/2KUCph6
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One of our first ever investments, Chilanga Cement in Zambia, became the first company to be listed on the Lusaka Stock Exchange. Find out more about our history of backing businesses in Zambia...
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We've announced a new $40 million investment to support the growth of medium-sized businesses in sub-Saharan Africa: bit.ly/2fTjI2n
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Today we're very happy to welcome our first Chief Impact Officer. Liz Lloyd CBE will be responsible for overseeing the assessment, measurement and management of our development impact, ensuring that impact remains at the heart of what we do.
More info 👉 bit.ly/2KUCph6
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Along with other development finance institutions in the G7, together we’re backing $3 billion worth of investment in companies and funds that advance women’s economic empowerment.
Take a look at the website 👉 2xchallenge.org #2XChallenge
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What challenges do business leaders face in developing countries? This interview with Zambian entrepreneur and CDC Board member Valentine Chitalu is a good read 👉 bit.ly/2rb57lh @TheAfricaList
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Brilliant to see the world's first 3D-printed school opening in Malawi. The school was built by 14Trees, a joint venture between @LafargeHolcim and us. @UNICEF estimates there's a shortage of 36,000 classrooms in Malawi alone.
Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/2TQwmCZ
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We're partnering with @FirstBankngr to establish a $100 million finance facility.
The partnership will direct funding to women-owned and led businesses, as well as to local SMEs in Nigeria ➡️ bit.ly/3s8mT8V @UKinNigeria 🇳🇬
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Last night in Kigali Jen Braswell, our head of value creation, participated in a panel and met the winning 100 women entrepreneurs. We are incredibly proud to be one of the founding organisations of the @Invest2Impact competition. Congratulations to all of the winners.
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Today we've published our Annual Review 2017. It looks back on a year where we made more than £1 billion worth of new commitments, and the companies we invest in employed nearly three quarters of a million people.
👉 bit.ly/2zAyWmf
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Investment is enabling this company in Malawi to develop a new, environmentally friendly alternative to clay-burnt bricks. Listen to the full story in our podcast with @devfinancenews 👉 bit.ly/2pcSq8I
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We're working with development finance institutions in the G7 to agree new steps to increase the resilience of economies threatened by the climate emergency. This includes an increase in investments in adaptation and resilience.
Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/3vYGQhB
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📢 We are incredibly proud to announce we have appointed @AmaleeAmin as Climate Change Director at CDC ahead of the launch of our new climate change strategy.
Find out more about the exciting new appointment ➡️
bit.ly/3c2Nl9N
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We're very pleased we could partner again with @LSEGplc, @AfDB_Group and @PwC on the second Companies to Inspire Africa report. Lots of great firms feature in it - you can hear from a few of them in our latest podcast.
👉 bit.ly/2S79CfA 🌍
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We are so proud to have joined ours partners at the launch of the #Invest2Impact @invest2impact business competition in Nairobi today. Great to have @kattengtio there representing CDC as we invite #womenentrepreneurs in East Africa to apply invest2impact.africa
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📽️Strive Masiyiwa, founder and executive chairman of @econetzimbabwe came to CDC Group to discuss his vision to connect Cape Town to Cairo by fibre network 🌍
piped.video/WfV68yutkzc
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Our new five-year #strategy , '#Investing to transform lives', has been published. Read it here: bit.ly/2uMXG3n #globaldev
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We're backing @mkopasolar with long-term debt and equity to help them connect a million more homes in East Africa with solar power.
We’ve secured US$80M in financing for solar installations in 1 million homes – on top of the 500K already connected bit.ly/2xvV7Dy
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📢We are incredibly proud of our Africa Funds team who won LP of the year at the @PEAfrica_ Awards in London last night.
🎉Congratulations to the team for the award recognising their work across the continent
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We've launched our strategy on investing to create opportunities for women. Read about how we'll engage with companies to influence positive outcomes for both women and businesses
bit.ly/2L8sEek
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📣 Calling all women-owned SMEs in East Africa. We're launching a business competition which will provide participants with visibility, mentorships and the opportunity for funding. Find out more here: invest2impact.africa #2Xchallenge @invest2impact
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Watch: Developing countries need reliable and affordable electricity to grow #businesses and create #jobs: bit.ly/2izLsFh #sustdev
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Very pleased to be joining other development finance institutions in supporting a new fund from @PhatisaGroup, which will invest to strengthen food supply, local production and distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa.
More here ➡️ bit.ly/3awCyoh 🌍
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We're investing $10m in the SDG Outcomes Fund, a partnership between @BridgesOutcomes and UBS Optimus Foundation. The Fund aims to direct socially motivated investment and effective donor funding towards projects that support the most vulnerable people in developing countries.
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In this blog, @nickodonohoe says development finance institutions need to be 'first movers' and invest in Zimbabwe, so mainstream investors will follow 👉 bit.ly/2Ejk1un 🇿🇼
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Next week members of our gender and investment teams will be in Kigali for @AfDB_Group Global Gender Summit 🌍
Ahead of the summit and the @invest2impact event find out what we have learnt about gender-lens investing through the 2X Challenge➡️bit.ly/2KADdJ5
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Applications are open to join @TheAfricaList Class of 2020. If you're an exceptional CEO or business leader in DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda or Zambia, they'd love to hear from you.
You can find all the information here: bit.ly/2X7UFKn #LeadershipMatters
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With G7 development finance institutions and multilateral partners, we’re committed to investing a combined $80bn in the private sector in Africa in the next five years.
The investment will support economic recovery and growth across the continent ➡️ bit.ly/3gAiULh 🌍
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Our CEO @nickodonohoe is in Zambia with @vickyford to launch our new name, British International Investment.
Under BII, we will scale our commitment to Africa, and support investment in green infrastructure and digital transformation @UKinZambia 🇿🇲🇬🇧
Looking forward to arriving in Zambia tomorrow to celebrate the first in-market launch of BII with @nickodonohoe
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We're proud to share our new five-year strategy.
It responds to the opportunities and challenges facing developing and emerging economies, and sets out three clear strategic objectives – to invest in productive, sustainable and inclusive development ➡️ bit.ly/3oQZUgK
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We've just announced a new partnership with @StanChart. Together, we're providing $150 million to benefit SMEs in supply chains, by enabling them to get paid earlier 👉 bit.ly/2HtqSXa
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We’re pleased to announce a $100 million finance facility with the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) to support essential trade finance activities, agricultural development and food security in Africa.
@FCDOGovUK @AndrewmitchMP
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The business case for investing in women is clear. That's why we partnered with other development finance institutions within the G7 to launch the #2XChallenge.
Find out more 👉2xchallenge.org
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Today, we're announcing a new investment in PEG Africa. Our capital will help them bring solar energy to a million people in West Africa.
It's also our first investment under the 2X Challenge - which encourages investment in businesses benefiting women
cdcgroup.com/en/news-insight…
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We're in Zambia today to celebrate our 70th anniversary. Here's a (very brief) history of some of our work in the country - we made our first investment there back in 1949.
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Why do firms matter to economic development?
📽️Ahead of the UK-Africa Investment Summit on Monday we sat down with Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the @UniofOxford to find out.
#InvestinAfrica 🌍
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Thank you to @DominicRaab and @JaneMarriottUK for visiting this @liquidtelecom data centre in Nairobi this week. Our partners Mettle Solar are constructing a solar power installation there to provide clean energy to the centre.
Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/3sMPazU ☀️🇰🇪
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At the World Bank meetings @nickodonohoe welcomed SIFEM and @EIB to 2X.
Both pledged to increase the number of gender-smart investments they make and to encourage existing investee businesses to advance gender equality.
Read about it here: bit.ly/2NkkulS
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We're partnering with @DP_World to invest in ports and logistics infrastructure on the African continent. Why is this vital for economic development? Watch the video below ⬇️
And find out more about the partnership here ➡️ bit.ly/2X2ufhh
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Very excited to be welcoming @FredSwaniker to speak at our Insight event on 23 June. Fred will be discussing the future of leadership on the African continent and the role of technology in creating new job opportunities.
Register here ➡️ bit.ly/3gdKw9Q @alubusiness
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Great to see so many people we've worked with at our 70th anniversary event yesterday. We look forward to sharing more on what we've learnt over the years and what it might mean for the future role of development finance institutions.
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We’ve committed $15 million to the SUSI Asia Energy Transition Fund, which invests in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage in South-East Asia. This investment is our first in South-East Asia under our 2022-2026 investment strategy.
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Great to read about IIFL Finance - a financial services company in India we invest in - and their plans to employ 4,000 more people 🇮🇳
Read the story from @EconomicTimes 👉 bit.ly/2MZn8wq
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📢 It was fantastic to be at the event today in Nepal with @DFIDNepal to announce our investment in WorldLink.
Improving access to affordable and quality internet is central to Nepal’s development and economic growth, and a key part of UN #SDG9.
➡️bit.ly/2oiWYx6
Happy to share that @DFID_UK's dev finance institution @CDCgroup has invested ~$12m in #WorldLink, Nepal's largest private internet service provider. The investment will compliment @DFIDNepal's work toward connecting Nepal's most marginalized people. #UKaid #UKinNepal
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🌍Did you know that as a proud backer of @liquidtelecom we are helping to lay 2,600km of fiber optic cable across the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
That's the same distance as London to Moscow.
Find out more here ➡️bit.ly/2to0itr
#InvestInAfrica
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At BII, we’re committed to supporting Africa’s green transition.
We’ve committed $20 million to the Helios CLEAR Fund – a new climate fund that will invest in African growth-businesses in green sectors that support climate mitigation and adaptation.
@AnnelieseDodds @FCDOGovUK
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Our thanks to all who joined our Investing for Clean and Inclusive Growth event online and in-person at #COP26.
And a big thank you to our speakers @nickodonohoe, @DolikaBanda, David Auerbach (@Sanergy), Bill Winters (@StanChart), Wendy Woods (@BCG) and @Helen_Whately 👏
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Wonderful to have @jollysusie @bisialimi @JustineGreening @S_Chelvan join @mau2811 at our London office last night for a #pridepanel on the future of LGBT rights and the role of DFIs as agents for change . Thank you to all our guests. #Prideworks #Pride 🌈
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✍️It’s essential that responses to the #covid19 pandemic consider and support women, to strengthen economic resilience in the countries where we invest.
Our Gender Lead @arpita_raksit explains why ➡️ bit.ly/2M1a6Pv
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We're providing a $50 million trade finance facility to @GroupEcobank. The facility will provide systemic liquidity and support vital supply chains in Africa, in markets such as Togo, Burkina Faso and Chad.
Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/36JuFKB
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Congratulations to the team at the Azura power station in Benin City, Nigeria - their first 153 megawatt turbine has been connected to the grid! The plant's on course to be fully operational by May next year.
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🎙️ We have a new podcast episode! We discuss the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on women, and how investors, businesses and financial institutions are responding to it.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts ➡️ bit.ly/30TVCIP
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We're planning to invest over $1 billion in businesses in Africa during 2021, maintaining our strong investment pace on the continent.
Read more in the @Bloomberg interview with our CEO @nickodonohoe ➡️ bloom.bg/2NoGxvo 🌍 @BBGAfrica
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We've announced a new $20 million investment to help bring solar power to a million off-grid homes in East Africa: bit.ly/2g2xjRj
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We’re investing £3.1 billion over the next five years to combat the climate emergency.
The capital will support emerging economies meet their Paris Agreement goals, and to adapt and become more resilient to the impacts of climate change ➡️ bit.ly/3wj3DGh #COP26
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Exciting announcement from our dutch colleagues @FMO_development, as they launch a new #fintech platform for Africa: bit.ly/2AseOSW #biz4dev
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Very proud that Chris Chijiutomi, our Head of Infrastructure Equity, is part of this @UN working group that will develop a roadmap for achieving climate and energy targets.
Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/3rG7slg @BusinessDayNg
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Great news that @liquidtelecom has been able to connect the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to digital healthcare services.
👉 bit.ly/2WLbYA3
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On Monday, we became British International Investment
Our new name communicates the increased breadth of what we do. That includes our growing role as a major climate investor in emerging economies.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3NMRNMO
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Today we're pleased to announce our first direct equity investment in Myanmar. Our investment in internet service provider Frontiir will help fund expansion throughout the country, connecting over 2 million people to the internet. More here: bit.ly/2YhVVNU 🇲🇲 #SDGs
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The start of 2020 marks ten years until the deadline to fulfil the @UN SDGs, but will this really be the so-called 'decade of delivery'?
In our latest podcast we asked can be done to mobilise more capital towards the goals.
Listen here: bit.ly/2ZRQXpx
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📢Don't miss our Africa Managing Director Tenbite Ermias taking part in the @InvestAfrica1 webinar tomorrow.
🌍 He joins @ewadesmith and others to discuss sustaining UK-Africa trade in a post-COVID world.
➡️12-1pm BST
Register here➡️ bit.ly/2TXMxeZ
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Some lovely photos sent to us from Zimbabwe of Cairns Foods. As well as providing jobs in its factory, it also supports thousands of smallholder farmers who supply the business. @UKinZimbabwe
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Whether transforming lives and markets, or having a positive impact on the planet, investment in the private sector in Africa and South Asia is making a difference.
These #ImpactGamechangers show us how. Find all the gamechanging businesses here ➡️ bit.ly/3rMgP2y
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We are incredibly proud to be one of the development finance institutions behind the @invest2impact competition and our team can't wait to meet the 100 winners at the #2019GGS in Kigali next week. #WomeninBusiness
In two weeks, the 100 #invest2impact WINNERS will gather together in #Kigali, Rwanda to celebrate their achievement at the #GlobalGenderSummit
#ThePowerOf100 #2Xchallenge #WomeninBusiness #Ethiopia #Kenya #Uganda #Tanzania #Rwanda #EastAfrica
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Together with @IFC_org, we're hosting a conference on how we can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Thanks to all the brilliant speakers so far 👍
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