Growing Blended Finance in Zambia
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 Investments to bolster the viability and expand the scale of their investments in Zambia. The collaboration aims to forge enduring partnerships and expand access to 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
Conducting a Rapid Assessment of the Refugee and Host Community Ecosystem in Uganda
With one of the most open-door refugee policies in the world, Uganda stands out as a significant refugee hosting country in Africa, offering opportunities aiming at the resettlement of the refugees. In collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation and World University Read More
Providing Comprehensive Investment Support to the Government of Tunisia
As part of national efforts to change and improve Tunisia's investment landscape and its global implications, Expectation State, funded by the UK Government, delivered a multi-year programme to enhance and facilitate foreign investment into the country. The programme provided support Read More
Identifying Tensions Between Investment and Digital Rights
In collaboration with Caribou Digital, and in partnership with USAID's Innovation, Technology and Research (ITR) hub, Expectation State was commissioned to identify tensions between investment and market growth in the digital technology sector and their impact on individual rights. In Read More
Researching Devolution and Refugees Rights in Kenya
Global failures to resolve conflicts that have generated refugees, alongside a corresponding failure to find solutions to displacement, have led to protracted exile for a significant proportion of the world’s refugees. This has had a major impact on countries in Read More
Integrating refugees into West African economies
The Central Sahel is currently the fastest growing displacement crisis in the world, with ramifications for the wider West Africa region. Yet the ability for refugees and IDPs to play an active role in the economy is severely limited. In 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
Assessing Barriers to Refugee Lens Investment in Jordan
Jordan hosts the second largest proportion of refugees per capita in the world, but their ability to engage in the formal economy can be limited. The nascent field of Refugee Lens Investing is gradually decoding how global investors can better Read More
Profiling and Engaging Impact Investors for Jordan
As an asset class and idea, impact investing is growing. Mainstream fund managers have entered the arena, raising awareness about the issues associated with the core tenets of impact investing. While this is great for the industry, it is less Read More