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GIF is excited to announce a $460,000 investment in Isizwe, an internet service provider that offers online access to low-income communities in South Africa at a rate 20 times cheaper than the current standard. Digital connectivity is now considered a basic human necessity as increasing numbers of public and private services are delivered online. The […]

Building robust systems that collect and track data from an early stage can help businesses be prepared when raising debt, according to innovators with experience in asset and customer financing. Innovators and entrepreneurs were exchanging ideas at a GIF-hosted workshop where they identified data related to unit economics, and on how assets are performing, as […]

GIF welcomes you to join us for a cross-learning event highlighting experiences, challenges and lessons learned from scaling and commercialising agricultural technologies. Our 90-minute webinar will feature leaders in the agricultural sector representing GIF-supported innovations at different stages of the scale spectrum present on lessons learned as their businesses grow. Join us as we explore: […]

A new partnership between GIF and social enterprise Buildher will help disadvantaged young women secure skilled employment in the traditionally male-dominated construction sector. The latest deal to join GIF’s portfolio will improve incomes while challenging gender norms and generating learning on how to overcome gender barriers to expand employment opportunities for women. Founded in 2018, […]

GIF is pleased to announce a $675,000 grant to MTV Staying Alive Foundation to produce campaigns that aim to address gender-based violence and wider gender issues, as part of the TV series and multimedia campaign MTV Shuga. Under the grant, MTV Staying Alive Foundation, a charity that produces the series, will seek to engage female-led […]

GIF’s business is improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. This difficult task has been vastly complicated by the increasingly volatile, relentlessly changing climate. Recent climate crises such as the horrendous drought in Madagascar, and global outbreaks of floods and wildfires, show us societies worldwide are not well-adapted to today’s climate shocks, let alone […]