{"id":2727,"date":"2021-11-25T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/crecer\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:41:45","slug":"crecer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/crecer\/","title":{"rendered":"CRECER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CRECER<\/strong> | Development Finance Institution<\/em><\/h2>\n

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CRECER is a Bolivian IFD (Development Finance Institution) with more than 20 years of experience, focused on offering financial products to improve the quality of life of women and their families. <\/strong>It is the second largest institution in Bolivia by number of clients and serves the poorest areas. It also offers free trainings in financial education, technology, and cervical cancer prevention. In 2021, Crecer will begin to offer savings products and short-term deposits.<\/p> \n

Largest IFD in Bolivia, serving more than 222,000 clients all over the country, <\/strong> with a portfolio of EUR 266M, of which 19% is agri-focused. Crecer is present across Bolivia, with good coverage, especially in rural areas. Crecer measures its clients’ Poverty Probability Index annually, finding that 27% of their clients live on less than $2\/day.<\/p>\n

Although CRECER has an environmental policy in place, it has not yet developed the procedures for its implementation at the operational level. Huruma has included as a key recommendation the development of an environmental & social strategy<\/strong> that includes implementation, reporting & evaluation of environmental indicators, stablishing priority efforts for the institution.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Country:<\/strong> Bolivia<\/p>\n

Investment:<\/strong> EUR 5,1 milion<\/p>\n

Type of investment:<\/strong> Senior unsecured debt<\/p>\n

Technical assistance:<\/strong> Pending confirmation<\/p>\n

Investment date:<\/strong> September 2021<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Huruma: Transforming Lives<\/em><\/h2>\n

Huruma\u2019s investment in Crecer aims to transform the lives of smallholder farmers through the following theory of change:<\/p>\n

Input: EUR 5,1 MM<\/strong> focused on agricultural financing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Output:<\/strong> Increase its agri-portfolio by at least 2.9x Huruma\u2019s investment<\/strong> and its outreach to active farmers by 1.2x.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outcome:<\/strong> Increase >9,200 farmers\u2019 crop yields <\/strong>and >7,500 families\u2019 rural income*<\/strong><\/p>\n

(*) Metrics calculated on the basis of the study estimates \u201cUnderstanding Impact Performance: Agriculture Investments\u201d (GIIN, 2020)<\/blockquote>\n <\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n
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    Crecer is a Bolivian development finance institution with more than 20 years of experience that offers financial products to improve the quality of life of women and their families. It has more than 222,000 clients throughout the country, 19% of whom are farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"inversiones.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investments","tag-bolvia-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fondo-huruma-agricultura-crecer-bolivia-7.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Fondo Huruma","author_link":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/author\/jl\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondohuruma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}