Bridging Finance Gaps And Empowering Jordanian SMEs
Bridging Finance Gaps And Empowering Jordanian SMEs
Youth and women can be a driving force for Jordan’s private-sector development and an engine for job creation, provided that the challenges they meet in starting or growing a business are addressed. Expectation State is partnering with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to empower Jordanian startups, SMEs, and entrepreneurs by bridging the gap between their financial needs and available resources. Through the creation Read More
Innovative Finance In Lebanon To Leverage SMEs Recovery
Lebanon has been subjected to multiple crises since 2019, with the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 Beirut port explosion further exacerbating its financial and economic decline. This decline has had a huge impact on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), in Read More
Growing Blended Finance in Zambia
Blended finance investments support SMEs facing funding obstacles by combining development funding with private capital, within the same investment deals. This approach is being used to catalyse sustainable economic growth and opportunity in Zambia. Expectation State is collaborating with Baybridge Read More
Fostering the Growth Of MSMEs In Jordan
Micro and Small-sized Enterprises are an essential driver of employment and economic stability in Jordan. The sector requires assistance to keep businesses afloat, as well as systems-level interventions to address longstanding barriers to MSE resilience, formalisation, and growth. Expectation State Read More
Supporting Digital-Focused Investment into Emerging Markets
The investment gap for internet connectivity alone is over $428 billion globally and there is a need to ensure investments are directed toward building open, inclusive, and secure digital infrastructure and services. In April 2022, USAID’s Innovation, Technology, and Research Read More
Increasing access to finance for formal and informal businesses in Jordan
Informal Livelihoods Advancement Activity (Iqlaa) is a five-year USAID-funded program supporting Jordan's Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). Iqlaع aims to meet the immediate needs of formal and informal MSEs following the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, while building stable foundations from which Read More
Advancing Policy to Integrate Arab Youth into their Economies
Arab youth have among the lowest levels of financial inclusion in the world. We were engaged by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion to conduct a special report on the landscape of youth financial inclusion in the Arab region as part Read More