The Frontier Brokers recently released The Value of Gender Lens Investing: Lessons Learnt Across the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem — an informational video featuring interviews from gender lens investing experts across a range of key sectors and countries. This video was designed as a freely available learning tool to showcase a range…

Did you know that Indonesia is home to more than 22 million women entrepreneurs? In fact, women run more than half of SMEs in Indonesia, yet an estimated 82% of Indonesian women are unserved or underserved by credit providers. Indonesia’s impact investing market was described by Global Impact Investing Network…

Globally, 2.3 billion people live with either insufficient or complete lack of access to electricity supply. As of 2018, the UNDP reports that across Asia-Pacific, an estimated 420 million people lack access to electricity, and almost 2.1 billion people in the region do not have access to clean cooking. ‘Unclean…

Impact Investing is a relatively new term to most people, used to define a broad range of investments made across asset classes, regions, and even sectors, directed at businesses with a positive and measurable social or environmental impact. As a growing field, there is a need for impact investment funds…

Today’s article was contributed by Athena Global. At Frontier Brokers, we are bringing together 7 impact investment firms implementing 4 projects to stimulate financing for businesses in the Asia-Pacific. Our projects are diverse in their approaches to financial products and capacity development for partners as well as their integration of…

As 2021 begins, our network wanted to reflect on the exciting yet unprecedented year past, acknowledging that for many social entrepreneurs and supporters of social entrepreneurs, it has been a more financially-stressful time than ever before. For us, COVID-19 resulted in barriers and delays to project implementation, as many financial…

Today’s article was contributed by Indigo Elliott-Phibbs from Athena Global. Frontier Brokers is very excited to launch an animated video on Gender Lens Investing (GLI). This animation has been a major collaboration project for the network and our partners and we are very proud to share it more widely! The…

At Frontier Brokers, our network members are passionate about gender lens investing (GLI), which incorporates gender analysis into investment processes to generate simultaneous financial returns for investors, and positive outcomes for women and girls. Each Broker consortia has developed a specialised approach to gender lens investment and measurement. As a…

New findings under the Scaling Frontier Innovation (SFI) program shed light on the challenges, opportunities and risks confronted by social entrepreneurs in the Pacific, specifically Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands and Timor-Leste. In this needs assessment conducted by ygap in May 2020, data analysis shows all 9 of the interviewed…