| Andean Region and Southern Cone | Development Finance and Economic Security
We support innovative efforts to broaden the participation of individuals and communities in social and economic life. Our work builds individual and community assets among marginalized, low-income populations, both urban and rural, to reduce poverty, inequality and social injustice. To secure economic advancement, one of our key efforts supports microfinance and business development institutions. |
| China | Economics and Development Finance
We assist China in expanding its already extensive expertise in economic analysis and its considerable capacity to analyze economic issues and articulate economic policies. Our grants also support efforts to increase opportunities for poor and vulnerable people to secure sustainable livelihoods. |
| India, Nepal and Sri Lanka | Development Finance and Economic Security
We support strategies that strengthen retail institutions, microfinance networks and institutions to promote financial inclusion, especially of poor women, Dalits and other marginalized communities. Our grantees facilitate linking rural producers and artisans with corporate partners to realize better wages and incomes. |
| Mexico and Central America | Development Finance and Economic Security
We help improve the access of low-income people to financial services that can help them build, manage and control assets. Our goal is to assist the poor in generating sustainable incomes, through business ownership or acquiring job skills, so they can build additional assets such as homeownership or better health and protect against unforeseen setbacks. |
| Southern Africa | Development Finance and Economic Security, and Environment and Development
Our grants in this area seek to improve the economic prosperity of poor and marginalized people. One focus is on development finance to deliver a range of financial services to the poor. The other is on community-based natural resource management work. Our grants help to improve access and control of natural resource assets at the community level, and they support local efforts to market and add value to these natural assets—often through natural resource-based enterprises. |
| United States | Development Finance and Economic Security
Our work in this field seeks to help low-income people generate sustainable incomes, save and plan for the future, and protect themselves against unforeseen economic setbacks. We support a wide range of initiatives aimed at enabling people to exert more control over their futures and participate in economic life in meaningful ways. We support organizations that help people gain access to basic financial services (such as loans, savings accounts, and insurance), improve the functioning of housing markets, promote the development of small enterprises that benefit low-income people, and encourage people to save. |
| Vietnam and Thailand | Development Finance and Economic Security
We promote improved access to financial services for disadvantaged groups, such as low-income households, ethnic minorities and women. Financial services of importance to these groups include credit, savings, insurance and money transfers. We seek to promote greater outreach by formal financial service providers, including banks, credit cooperatives and nonbank financial institutions. We also support specialist microfinance institutions and networks to strengthen and formalize their operations. |
| West Africa | Development Finance and Economic Security
Our work in this field supports efforts to broaden access to financial services for the poor. Priority is given to efforts that strengthen the capacities of financial institutions that provide microfinance and small business development services to this population to expand their operations, raise the quality and professionalism of their services and help them adopt best-practice guidelines. |