Women's Micro Small & Medium Enterprise Trade Finance

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Cameron

Cameron Burgess

Project start date: 1/1/2024

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

NO POVERTYGENDER EQUALITYDECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTHREDUCED INEQUALITIES

Skills

Trade FinanceTechnical AssistanceFinancial ModelingCultural LiteracyCommunity Outreach

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