Grants and Contributions

The Advancing Gender Equality, Resilience, Opportunity, and Inclusion Worldwide (GROW) Facility aims to improve women’s livelihoods in developing countries by shifting corporate practices and creating economic opportunities for women. It seeks to achieve gender equality results by providing financial support and advisory services to help businesses improve gender equality through their core functions. This includes employing people, delivering goods and services, and allocating capital. The Facility aims to offer loans and other financial tools to support companies with growth strategies aligned with gender equality goals. This includes promoting women’s leadership or boosting women’s employment in under-represented sectors. Through advisory services, the Facility supports companies in adopting and implementing policies and operational practices that improve the lives of women in all their diversity.

The GROW Facility aims to support women’s leadership and inclusion in 5 priority areas: (1) accelerating access to finance for women and women-led businesses, (2) making supply chains inclusive; (3) removing barriers to employment and leadership; (4) bridging the digital divide; and (5) accelerating inclusive and gender-smart climate action.

The Advancing Gender Equality, Resilience, Opportunity, and Inclusion Worldwide (GROW) Facility aims to improve women’s livelihoods in developing countries by shifting corporate practices and creating economic opportunities for women. It seeks to achieve gender equality results by providing financial support and advisory services to help businesses improve gender equality through their core functions. This includes employing people, delivering goods and services, and allocating capital. The Facility aims to offer loans and other financial tools to support companies with growth strategies aligned with gender equality goals. This includes promoting women’s leadership or boosting women’s employment in under-represented sectors. Through advisory services, the Facility supports companies in adopting and implementing policies and operational practices that improve the lives of women in all their diversity.

The GROW Facility aims to support women’s leadership and inclusion in 5 priority areas: (1) accelerating access to finance for women and women-led businesses, (2) making supply chains inclusive; (3) removing barriers to employment and leadership; (4) bridging the digital divide; and (5) accelerating inclusive and gender-smart climate action.

The Facility for Resilient Food Systems aims to enhance people’s food security, food system resilience and well-being through improved food availability and food affordability in developing countries. The Facility leverages Canada’s concessional finance alongside the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to mobilize private capital and accelerate the response to the global food security crisis. The Facility rapidly addresses critical financing needs and disruptions to agricultural production and agri-food supply chains. It makes strategic investments in private sector-led solutions to build more diversified, productive and resilient local food systems in the long term. The Facility also provides advisory and technical services to financial intermediaries, agribusinesses and farmers along the food value chain to improve their long-term financial sustainability, gender responsiveness and resilience to climate risks so they can continue to deliver much needed food to vulnerable communities. In doing so, the Facility contributes to increasing the resilience of food systems to future shocks in developing countries and reducing the number of people at risk from food insecurity, including women and the most vulnerable.

Projects supported by the Facility might include but are not limited to: (i) working capital and longer-term financing to resume food production in areas affected by conflict; (ii) financing to help diversify production to new origins; (iii) investments in warehousing or storage to reduce vulnerabilities to global supply chain disruptions; and (iv) support to supply lower carbon fertilizers and crop inputs. Project activities include: (1) supporting financial intermediaries and other clients to provide financial products to agribusiness and other agri-value chain actors; (2) providing financial and technical support to agribusiness firms and agri-food value chain actors to support improvement in local production; and (3) providing support and capacity building to agribusiness firms to incentivize more climate-sustainable and gender-responsive business practices.

he Facility for Resilient Food Systems aims to enhance people’s food security, food system resilience and well-being through improved food availability and food affordability in developing countries. The Facility leverages Canada’s concessional finance alongside the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to mobilize private capital and accelerate the response to the global food security crisis. The Facility rapidly addresses critical financing needs and disruptions to agricultural production and agri-food supply chains. It makes strategic investments in private sector-led solutions to build more diversified, productive and resilient local food systems in the long term. The Facility also provides advisory and technical services to financial intermediaries, agribusinesses and farmers along the food value chain to improve their long-term financial sustainability, gender responsiveness and resilience to climate risks so they can continue to deliver much needed food to vulnerable communities. In doing so, the Facility contributes to increasing the resilience of food systems to future shocks in developing countries and reducing the number of people at risk from food insecurity, including women and the most vulnerable.

Projects supported by the Facility might include but are not limited to: (i) working capital and longer-term financing to resume food production in areas affected by conflict; (ii) financing to help diversify production to new origins; (iii) investments in warehousing or storage to reduce vulnerabilities to global supply chain disruptions; and (iV) support to supply lower carbon fertilizers and crop inputs. Project activities include: (1) supporting financial intermediaries and other clients to provide financial products to agribusiness and other agri-value chain actors; (2) providing financial and technical support to agribusiness firms and agri-food value chain actors to support improvement in local production; and (3) providing support and capacity building to agribusiness firms to incentivize more climate-sustainable and gender-responsive business practices.