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Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance Community of Practice (CoP) - Successful Models: Addressing Barriers in Financing Women SMEs

25 May 2021
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Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance Community of Practice (CoP) - Successful Models: Addressing Barriers in Financing Women SMEs
Background
The objective of the new Women Entrepreneurs Financing Community of Practice (CoP) is to effectively share knowledge and best practices, tools and innovative products to facilitate increased services to W-SMEs. To discuss and agree on how best to build a sustainable community of practice, we organized the first meeting on December 16th, 2020. Its purpose was to discuss and agree on priority areas of focus and how to best structure the CoP to serve memberson how best to build a sustainable community to effectively share lessons learned on how to increase financial services to W-SMEs. About 40 members and IFC staff from diverse regions and institutions attended the meeting. 
 
Next Meeting: Successful Models: Addressing Barriers in Financing Women SMEs
The barriers impeding access to financial services for Women-SMEs are multidimensional and require a mix of financial, technical and policy solutions. Globally, many financial service providers have adopted business models to overcome barriers and successfully tap into the $1.5 trillion market for financing Women-SMEs (W-SMEs). During our next CoP meeting, volunteers will share experiences in adopting various approaches to address barriers, unlock market opportunities and provide financial solutions to W-SMEs.
 
On May 25 from 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. EST, the meeting will also include an open discussion for participants to voluntarily share unique experiences and discuss solutions.
 
Objectives:
Share models and showcase approaches to addressing institutional and structural barriers in financing W-SMEs
Deep dive into holistic approaches and lessons from diverse financial institutions and partners to unlock market opportunities 
Share perspectives along unique stages of the product cycle; Research/ Market Studies – Product Development – Delivery.
Share perspectives on working in imperfect markets/ addressing regulatory barriers 
Facilitate participants contribution in sharing unique experience and solutions 
 
Possible Areas for deep dive:
Unleashing Market Opportunities and Business Case 
Strategy development and implementation
Product design and delivery
Leveraging Partnerships and Collaboration 
Addressing legal and regulatory barriers
 
Session Flow
Total Duration = 90 mins 
Introductions (presenters, champions) and overview by moderator: 5 mins 
Speaker Presentations: 15 mins
Q&A: 10 mins
Open Discussion with Participants:  50 mins
Next CoP topic: 5 mins
Conclusion, Wrap-up, Next steps by moderator: 5 minutes 
 
 
Registration is open for members on Member's portal.
 
If interested in participating, please contact Minerva Kotei for more information.