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How to boost investment in locally controlled forestry in Mexico
… . An example of forms of local control seeking to reach their financial potential is FINDECA, a financial enterprise in Oaxaca that was born in 2007 out of coffee … zapota ), Maya nut ( Brosimium alicastrum ), and pepper; Working capital, oriented mainly to production.  The solution may seem obvious — …
Insight, 01 October 2013
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
… and public finance to the local level to provide social, business and financial services to more than 25,000 families. Nobody at the event … the energy and forestry sectors – there is an acute need for improved financial literacy. But it is also true that in many other cases, the … have the power to multiply twenty-fold what they do… But they need capital… International aid agencies put US$135 billion a year into …
Insight, 15 December 2016
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… of implementation and political priorities — and have struggled for financial sustainability. This lack of sufficient geographic scale and … boosts child health and education and contributes to household human capital. Cash injections also have multiplier effects in the economy. … through in-depth, targeted country case studies that will explore financial sustainability, and social and environmental effectiveness at …
Project, 26 April 2016
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Towards an enabling environment for small and medium forest enterprise development
… adding, and promote the formation of human, social, physical and financial capital for effective forest and business management. This policy brief …
Publication, 01 January 2006
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Analysis of Private and Social Discount Rates in Costa Rica, An
… issues in discounting and then proceeds to a calculation of financial and social rates of discount. The results suggest that the best estimate of the private opportunity cost of capital, the consumption rate of interest (CRI) and the social discount … Given that the lack of a significant difference between the cost of capital and the CRI there is no immediate need to distinguish between …
Publication, 01 January 1999
Paul, a gold prospector in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)
Six steps forward for African mining
… While these two cases show some headway at country level, private capital continues to be a missing link across the continent. (Local) …
Insight, 01 March 2017
Settlement in Solomon Islands.
How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
… We are seeing rates of illegal squatting soar, mostly in the capital, Honiara. Some are squatting on land owned through traditional … to address these problems simultaneously and effectively, given the financial hardships and lack of capacity. How could we? The reefs around …
Insight, 25 November 2020
The slogan on a woman T-shirt in Kitwe, Zambia - emblazoned with 'Addressing water and sanitation challenges through city-wide partnerships' - highlights the community-led approach (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Local funds allow informal-settlement residents to shape development
… and international development assistance agencies to provide the capital for investments. These funds also help to establish the … that they could pay for improvements over time. Such innovative financial arrangements enable the communities to secure sanitation, to … to realising the potential of urbanisation. Partnerships and other financial collaboration help citizen organisations to hold their …
Insight, 01 November 2016
A vendor in India uses energy produced by a micro-grid funded by SunFunder (Photo: Sameer Halai/SunFunder)
Off-grid energy powered by the crowd
… crowdfunding help to achieve what previous policies haven't? Current financial approach Many barriers for small players still remain. Existing funding mechanisms for micro-grids are mainly financial institutions with high interest rates: micro-finance … against several barriers imposed by regulators for receiving foreign capital. Enabling a proper environment to scale up this type of …
Insight, 09 April 2015
Rural welders use mini-grid electricity to generate income (Photo: Energy Change Lab)
Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion
… kilometres from Lindi in southeast Tanzania to Dodoma, the nation’s capital, to join 23 other entrepreneurs along with mini-grid developers, equipment suppliers, financial institutions and training institutions to learn how mini-grids …
Insight, 19 September 2018