Adanna Chukwuma, CARE’s Associate Vice President for Economic Growth and Private Sector Engagement, penned a guest essay for ImpactAlpha on the importance of community organizations in the blended finance ecosystem.
The perpetual underfunding of these organizations, she argues, is a missed opportunity to unlock capital for the millions of women-led businesses globally that are excluded from formal pathways to finance. Chukwuma reflects on CARE’s experience in moving women-led small and medium enterprises emerging from the world’s largest savings group network into investment-ready form, as a testament to the critical role that origination plays in the blended finance ecosystem.
You can view the article online here.