Ruta Aidis, project director for Gender Gedi, and Geri Stengel, founder of Ventureneer and author of Forget the Glass Ceiling: Build Your Business Without It – the publication accompanying the report – shared lessons they felt might help organisations working to support private sector development and female entrepreneurs in developing countries.
What began as a program to help small entrepreneurs in developing countries has become a new form of credit for those in the developed world who are trying to get back on their feet.
A T-shirt brand supports entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Her business, Childs Capital, which raises money for entrepreneurs in developing countries, resumed with minimal disruption.
But his pet proposal was federal financing of small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Tracey Horner, head of Lendwithcare, says that since its launch five years ago, 21,000 lenders have loaned almost £6m to around 17,000 entrepreneurs in developing countries.
But in addition to donating eyeglasses, the company also works with entrepreneurs in developing countries and trains them on how to start their own businesses selling prescriptive eyewear.
He advertised his project on DevelopmentSpace, the site of a new company devoted to pairing small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries with donors elsewhere.
Every month, each store contributes 10p from each sale of one product to help entrepreneurs in developing countries, from tailors in Malawi to grocers in South Sudan.
Since Deki, a Bristol microfinance charity, got together with the Friska Food restaurant chain, eight entrepreneurs in developing countries have been given loans they desperately need to expand.
On the demand side of the equation, entrepreneurs in developing economies need to be able to signal more easily that they are creditworthy.
