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Gender bond framework launched by UN Women and African development agency

New guidelines aim to boost capital markets funding and improve gender equity in Africa
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Gender bond framework launched by UN Women and African development agencyOnly 18 per cent of MSME lending in Africa is channelled to female-led MSMEs (Image: Ute Grabowsky/Getty Images)

A group of development agencies has launched a gender bonds framework that aims to encourage the inclusion of gender considerations in capital markets issuances in Africa.

The framework, created by FSD Africa, British International Investment and the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women — known as UN Women — aims to clarify the process of issuing gender bonds. 

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