Empowering Change: Kiva & Green Finance for Climate Action
Innovative Financing for Climate Change
Kiva & Green Finance
Elizabeth Davidson
Portfolio Manager, Francophone Africa
August 2015
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Kiva’s Mission
Kiva’s Model
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around the world.
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Elizabeth Davidson, Portfolio Manager, Francophone
Africa –
elizabethd@kiva.org
Kiva, a pioneering platform, connects individuals to fight poverty through micro-lending. Leveraging the power of the internet and a global network, Kiva facilitates loans as small as $25 to create opportunities worldwide. With a focus on Africa, Kiva has catalyzed $178M in loans, including for clean energy initiatives. Learn more about Kiva's impactful model and how you can get involved in their mission to alleviate poverty and combat climate change.
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1 Kiva & Green Finance Innovative Financing for Climate Change Elizabeth Davidson Portfolio Manager, Francophone Africa August 2015
Kivas Mission 2 Connect people through lending to alleviate poverty
Kivas Model 3 Kiva leverages the Internet and a worldwide network of field partners to allow individuals to lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.
How It Works 4 1 2 3 Lenders fund loan Borrower obtains loan from partner Partner uploads borrower profile Kiva sends $ to partner 4 5 Borrower repays partner Lenders make another loan Partner repays Kiva Kiva repays lenders
Where We Work 5 86 296 $740,000,000 Total Loans 98.7% Repayment Rate Countries Field Partners
Kiva in Africa 6 30 African countries 108 field partners 40,000 loans $178M in total loans $53M in new loan products catalyzed
Kiva & Clean Energy 7 Solar $6.9 million portfolio Clean Cookstoves Biogas
Partners 8
Want to learn more? 9 Additional Information about Kiva For more about Kiva, visit online: Website www.kiva.org Facebook www.facebook.com/kiva Twitter www.twitter.com/kiva YouTube www.youtube.com/kiva Elizabeth Davidson, Portfolio Manager, Francophone Africa elizabethd@kiva.org
