Videos

Ruth Goodwin-Groen, managing director at Better Than Cash Alliance, discusses the urging of G20 leaders to increase digital payments in developing nations.

Travelling to the foothills of the magnificent Mount Kenya, we meet Major Mwiti on his farm, Sunland Roses, a business which has been enabled to grow by Standard Chartered Bank's dedicated SME development platform.

Access to finance is a problem faced by many women in Uganda. DFCU Bank, a commercial bank in Uganda, helps women entrepreneurs overcome this challenge. It runs a 'women in business' programme, which supports over 4000 businesswomen. CDC, the UK's development finance institution, is a long-term investor in DFCU. Its investment allows the bank to provide long-term funding to support small and medium businesses (SMEs), including those run by women, enabling them to grow and provide sustainable jobs.

This is an IFC video about FINCA's success in bringing affordable banking services to the poor of Kinshasa.

FAO is supporting a micro-financing scheme known as "warrantage" that is empowering smallholder farmers to make more money out of their crops and helping relieve food insecurity.

Ma Lin Lin is a wife and mother of four from Kyu Wun Village, Myanmar. The former rock miner's daily struggle to make ends meet transformed when she joined the capacity building program, Swan Yi. Now a business owner and entrepreneur, Ma Lin Lin has built a brighter future for her family. Hear her story, as one of the five million women around the world The Coca-Cola Company will empower by 2020 as part of the #5by20 initiative.

Chris Isaac, Director of Business Development at AgDevCo, describes a model for financing smallholder farmers to help boost their productivity and incomes.

Besides access to finance there are range of capacity building services that MSMEs need for their growth and development. Non-financial services are such capacity-building inputs which are mainly targeted at enhancing the performance of a business enterprise.

To find out what is holding back women entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, The Asia Foundation and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation present the new study: "Access to Trade and Growth of Women's SMEs in APEC Developing Economies". Learn more about the study's findings and hear experiences from female entrepreneurs in this video!

In the Northeastern Bangladesh city of Sylhet, a group of women entrepreneurs have joined together to advocate for better access to loans for women. Through their efforts, more women are now finding the means to grow their own business and boost employment in their region. The Asia Foundation, in partnership with BICF, has provide technical assistance and training to women's business forums in four districts of Bangladesh since 2008.