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BASE


The Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Switzerland that develops forward-looking mechanisms to accelerate the financing of sustainable energy markets, with the ultimate aim of contributing global solutions to climate change, poverty mitigation, conflict prevention, and sustainable development.

The Ashden Awards


The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy reward, promote, and support local sustainable energy programs in the United Kingdom and the developing world. Today the Ashden Awards are an internationally recognized yardstick for excellence in the field of sustainable energy, and award winners have gone on to substantially increase the scale of their work and inspire others to replicate it.

Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves


Led by the United Nations Foundation, the Global Alliance brings together expertise from all over the world to improve cooking stoves, which impact women’s health, carbon emissions, and safety all over the world.

Investees


Simpa Networks

Simpa Networks, Arc Finance, Mobile prepayments
Simpa Networks is a start-up technology company with a bold mission: to expand clean, safe, and sustainable energy services to 20 million people by 2020. Simpa is developing a product and business model that will make sustainable energy choices “radically affordable” to the 1.6 billion Base of the Pyramid (BoP) consumers who currently lack access to electricity.

Negros Women for Tomorrow Fund (NWTF)

The Negros Women for Tomorrow Fund is an MFI in the Visayas, Philippines. In operation since 1984, the organization currently serves over 78,000 people, almost all women.

Faulu Advisory Services


Faulu Advisory Services is the consulting arm of Faulu Kenya, one of the leading MFIs in Kenya. Faulu Advisory develops new business and best practices that are then implemented throughout the MFI.

Kenya Women’s Finance Trust


Kenya Women’s Finance Trust serves over 300,000 women in Kenya. Recently, KWFT became a Deposit-Taking MFI, allowing it to deepen its services to the women of Kenya.

Funders

Citi


The Citi Foundation is committed to enhancing economic opportunities for individuals and families, particularly those in need in the communities where Citi works, so that recipients can improve their standard of living. Globally, the Citi Foundation focuses its strategic giving on: microfinance and microentrepreneurship, small and growing businesses, education, financial education and asset building, the environment, and community development (only in the United States and Canada).

IDB/MIF


The Inter-American Development Bank funds efforts to reduce poverty and inequality in Latin American and Caribbean countries. It aims to bring about development in a sustainable and climate-friendly way. The bank is guided by its 48 member countries, 26 of which are in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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