Women's Micro Small & Medium Enterprise Trade Finance
Australia
An award-winning finance vehicle to benefit women-led enterprises across the Indo-Pacific, with an initial focus on Indonesia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands.
Design & Implementation
1-3 years
Last update: October 05, 2023
Challenge
Small scale women entrepreneurs in the Indo-Pacific lack the purchasing power and logistics support to ensure that the raw materials they need for their businesses can be reliable, sustainably, and cost-effectively sourced.
Description
What We Do: TFV 2.0 provides trade finance and facilitation services to WSMEs in the Indo-Pacific region
Short Term Outcomes: WSMEs have inventory and equipment for their businesses delivered to them when they need it, on better terms
Long Term Outcomes: Long-term relationships are established with inventory, equipment and logistics suppliers that reduce prices and volatility
Impacts: The TFV 2.0 WSME network becomes market setters not market takers, i.e. asserts collective power as actors in the value chain
SDGs
Skills
Outcomes
The Trade Finance Vehicle 2.0 builds upon the activities of the first Trade Finance Vehicle that focused on menstrual health businesses, and achieved the following outcomes:
Fund of US$50,000, raised from 15 investors
Provided trade finance & facilitation
Purchased common input materials
Shipped them to Pacific menstrual health enterprises
Negotiated an invoice to be paid inclusive of the input materials, all shipping, freight and storage
Paid on terms to better /fit when the enterprise would generate revenue from the sale of the pads