Financial Ecosystem Strengthening Activity Sample Clauses

Financial Ecosystem Strengthening Activity. This Activity will increase financing options for MSMEs and large firms by structuring financing vehicles that address access to credit issues for firms across the size spectrum, especially women and youth owned firms, and building the capacity of financial sector actors to develop and deliver innovative financial products. To achieve this goal, the Activity will fund: (A) technical experts or consultants to (1) design and launch financing vehicles that mobilize financing for MSME firms across the size spectrum, which may include an SME working and growth capital fund potentially anchored by the Lesotho Pension Fund, (2) provide technical assistance and grants to financial institutions to develop and pilot appropriate gender- smart financial products for micro enterprises, (3) create an innovative crowdfunding model that leverages women’s savings groups to promote formalization and increase opportunities to leverage finance for MSMEs, (4) create a financing vehicle designed to provide equity capital to growth stage businesses not yet ready for commercial equity funding, and (5) assist larger firms in accessing financing from existing impact funds outside of Lesotho. The (B) technical assistance to the Central Bank of Lesotho, other Government entities, and other public or private organizations engaged in the financial and business sector to strengthen the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework for SME financing in Lesotho and promote gender lens investing; (C) technical assistance to key Government financial regulatory agencies and public and private financial institutions to (1) increase deliberate financial programming and products for women and youth, (2) organize financial sector convenings on gender lens investing, and (3) address specific barriers and challenges unique to women and youth owned businesses; (D) capacity building for women’s savings groups, to promote formalization, increase market opportunity to members, leverage finance and provide a catchment platform for target beneficiaries of the BETA Project; and (E) data collection, impact measurement, and support for studying and measuring the effectiveness of specific interventions of the BETA Project at the firm level as well as the overall efficacy of the BETA Project and disseminating the results of such studies.
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