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Visa Foundations engagement
Tilgang og strategi

I april 2020 lancerede Visa Foundation Equitable Access Initiative, som er en 5-årig forpligtelse med 200 mio. USD i ryggen til globalt at støtte SMV'er med fokus på kønsdiversitet og -inklusion. Som en del af initiativet yder vi 60 millioner USD i tilskud og 140 millioner USD i effektinvesteringer med fokus på køn og mangfoldighed.
Visa Foundation tror på, at det er afgørende for SMV'ernes bæredygtighed og vækst at skabe et økosystem af kapitalressourcer. Som sådan stræber Visa Foundation efter at øge en ligelig og effektiv adgang til kapital på forskellige stadier af virksomhedens vækst, støtte mindre virksomheder med fokus på kønsdiversitet og -inklusion samt fremme en inkluderende økonomisk vækst. Et ekstra mål er at påvirke sektoren bredt for at hjælpe med at flytte investeringer med fokus på køn fra én niche til det generelle marked.
Visa Foundation går, gennem sine legater, sammen med organisationer, der bidrager med kapital, opbygning af kapacitet og støttefunktioner til SMV'er med fokus på kønsdiversitet og -inklusion. Ydermere bruger Visa Foundation finansiering af legater til at nedbryde barrierer, der forhindrer investeringskapital i at flyde i retning af SMV'er med fokus på kønsdiversitet.
Visa Foundation har investeret 140 mio. USD som engagement i mellemmænd og fonde, der globalt fokuserer primært på markeder i udviklingslande - set fra et kønsperspektiv på tværs af hele porteføljen, fra lånere blandt SMV'er til venture-kapitalpartnere. Målet er at øge antallet af kvinder, der styrer kapital, antallet af kvindelige iværksættere, der har adgang til den kapital, og antallet af kvinder, der nyder godt af disse virksomheder enten som medarbejdere eller kunder.
Programmer og partnerskaber

Financially empowering millions of women-led micro and small businesses (SMBs) globally.
Over 5 years, the program aims to develop, test, and scale financial services to SMBs across a global network of partners while driving learning and insights to advance economic stability for women and their families. Since the start of our partnership in 2018, Women’s World Banking has reached 1.15 million women with a financial solution and expanded their global Network in 32 countries, reaching 69 million women.

Creating employment opportunities for rural youth in Africa by designing a network of innovative and integrated agribusiness hubs to build entrepreneurial capacity and technical/managerial skills.
The envisaged outcomes include creating decent employment opportunities for youth with a focus on green jobs, realizing policy shifts, and enabling other development actors to scale up wholly or parts of this model.

Running accelerators to close the financing gap facing underserved entrepreneurs in Latin America, with a focus on food and agriculture innovation.
This program will build on Village Capital’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Acceleration Initiative, a collaboration between the International Finance Corporation, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, and the World Bank Gender Innovation Lab.

A racial equity and entrepreneurship initiative launched by producer and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams and partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The initiative will provide Black and Latinx entrepreneurs with access to capital, mentors and resources. Prizes will be awarded each year at a national event.

Providing global insights and trends for structured private equity, venture capital, and private debt vehicles with a gender lens.
Project Sage seeks to understand the state of the gender lens investing field. The report is a tool for investors, fund managers and individuals moving capital to align with their commitment to women. Project Sage is researched and published by Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Catalyst at Large.

Strengthening the gender diversity of local farmer cooperatives and their institutional capacity to make them resilient to economic shocks.
Over the three-year initiative, TechnoServe has increased the revenues of farmer cooperatives in India by 113% by providing women with critical business skills, creating market linkages and introducing alternative income generating activities.

Accelerating investment into diverse emerging fund managers in the United States.
VC Include drives returns to investors while also shaping a more equitable and empowered world. The VC Include BIPOC Fellowship for First-Time Fund Managers, the first of its kind, supports the next generation of high performing, Black, LatinX, Indigenous and women-led venture capital and impact funds to drive economic growth in new markets.
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