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G.MB378109N0229 : DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK This project is the first stage in a long-term conservation initiative to reduce habitat degradation and restore critical habitats for Cerulean Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler and Canada Warbler in the Central Andes mountains of Colombia. These species' conservation plans recognize that improved community awareness and engagement through education and the development of alternative livelihoods can stimulate increased habitat stewardship to better support conservation actions. Also, through the engagement of local and federal government agencies and public/private protected area managers, the partners can reduce fragmentation and increase connectivity within and between sites to better support species movement and survival. Audubon has had great success in utilizing bird tourism as an economic incentive to stimulate environmental stewardship in the Americas. In recognition of this, the Government of Colombia has invested in Audubon to replicate this proven approach to expand its bird tourism product and support the sustainable economic development of up to fifty rural communities within the Central Andes Region. This opportunity offers Audubon and the bird conservation community a unique set of circumstances to significantly enhance bird and habitat conservation including a growth of citizen science participation to support monitoring of the target species into the future.
PROTECTING SHOREBIRD HABITATS IN COLOMBI Marine Protected Areas (MPA) networks are cornerstones of biodiversity preservation, however, few are effectively connected and managed to preserve critical habitats for Neotropical migratory shorebirds. Partners will improve the quality of migratory shorebird habitats in the network of MPAs in the Pacific Coast of Colombia, part of the Pacific Americas Migratory Flyway, aiming to enhance protection and management of one important Ramsar site: the Delta of San Juan River. They will: 1) establish a new regional MPA located in the Delta of the San Juan River (approx. 70,000 Ha); 2) support the implementation of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) by the regional environmental authority CODECHOCO to strengthen law enforcement in the new MPA; and 3) design and implement a shorebird participative monitoring program in the Delta of the San Juan River. By expanding the coastal areas under legal protection and enhancing management effectiveness, partners will conserve well connected shorebird habitats in the Colombian Pacific coast, thus implementing important actions of the national and regional Pacific Americas Shorebird Conservation Strategy .
PROTECTION & MONITORING OF CERULEAN & GO ? 2014-3: Objectives include fee title acquisition of 383 acres (253 acres of wetlands and 130
Wildlife Without Borders-Western Hemisphere The Recipient will enter into a two-year cooperative agreement with the Wildlife Without Borders Latin America and Caribbean (WWB-LAC) program to expand its sustainable development activities (Tit Ventures) to 6 new rural communities where Proyecto Tit
ENHANCING MARKET BASED SOLUTIONS FOR ENDANGERED BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN TWO WATERSHEDS OF THE CAUCA VALLEY COLOMBIA This project will enhance connectivity between forest blocks and provide additional food and shelter for several endangered bird species including the Cauca Guan (Penelope perspicax), Indigo-winged Parrot (Hapalopsittaca fuertesi), Brown-banded Antpitta(Grallaria milleri) and Turquoise Dacnis (Dacnis hartlaubi). Project activities will take place within two watersheds in Colombias Cauca Valley, the Amaime-Sonso Watershed in the department of Valle del Cauca, and the Chinchin - Ro Claro watershed in Caldas department. The intended outcome is to enhance the biodiversity value of regenerative agriculture, specifically silvopastoral systems, by improving tree and shrub selection with higher biodiversity value alongside plants that supplement cattle feed. Clearing land for cattle production is the biggest threat to habitat loss in the Americas, but silvopastoral systems offer a balanced solution that can increase farmer profits while reducing soil erosion, improving water security, sequestering carbon and improving biodiversity conservation and climate resilience for many species. The project also will.support local livelihoods through improved profits for small to medium sized farms and through the creation of community-based.tree nurseries to support the restoration activities. Specific activities are: 1) Develop a comprehensive playbook to encourage and.guide farmers and agricultural technicians to transform their cattle ranches into biodiversity rich silvopastoral systems; 2) Conduct.GIS analyses within the watersheds to prioritize farms with the highest conservation return on investment; 3) Build capacity in.farmers, agricultural technicians and other landowners to convert their lands to better support biodiversity and improve ecosystem.services, helping to create new enterprises within rural communities; 4) Measure baseline biodiversity knowledge to support long.term measures of success; and 5) Facilitate knowledge transfer across the Cauca Valley landscape
Protecting Cerulean & Golden-winged Warblers in Colombia The project will acquire and restore habitat, support park rangers, survey migratory birds, offer field research courses, distribute the Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia; and conduct outreach campaigns.
African Banking Corporation Holdings Limited ABCH was formed in May 2000 following a merger between First Merchant Bank Holdings and udc Holdings. The merger put in motion the transformation of ABCH, whose major operations are in Zimbabwe into a diversified financial services group with an increased geographical reach in Southern and Eastern Africa. The project is intended to decrease ABCHs exposure to the harsh economic conditions prevailing in Zimbabwe by widening its revenue base in neighboring African countries with more stable economic fundamentals and attractive market potential. This diversification and expansion will be accomplished through its established regional financial leasing subsidiaries, and a widening of its product line to include full wholesale banking services in the region.     IFCs lead role in this project will help to build confidence among investors and attract funding from both private investors and bi-lateral agencies to ensure the long-term growth prospects of ABCH. The project will help fill a critical market gap by expanding and strengthening a locally-managed financial institution that will provide specialized financial services such as investment banking, asset financing and management, all critical areas for building a robust financial infrastructure and providing sustainable term funding for private sector activity. Moreover, this project will have a positive impact on the integration of financial systems in the Southern Africa region, which will in turn support increased cross-border trade and investment.
Micro Provident Botswana Limited Micro Provident Botswana Limited (Letshego) is a leading consumer finance company in Botswana.  It was founded by Micro Provident Limited (MPL), an Isle of Man company, in 1998 as a private entity, after which it converted to a public enterprise in 2002, and listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange in September 2002.  The company provides short to medium-term micro loans to employees of governmental, quasi-governmental and private sector companies in Botswana, with the loans being repaid by payroll deduction.  MPL is interested in disposing of a portion of its interest.  IFC alongside Pan-African Investment Partners and Pan-Commonwealth African Partners (the Funds), two investment funds managed by Zephyr Africa Management Company (Zephyr), are considering acquiring a minority position in Letshego and supporting the Companys growth.
Peo MSME Project The proposed investment consists of a Pula-linked senior loan of up to US$40 million equivalent to Peo Finance Proprietary Limited (Peo or the Company). IFCs investment will provide Peo, a new non-deposit taking NBFI based in Botswana, with funding to facilitate access to finance through digital channels to un(der)served individuals in Botswana and scale up its lending operations of micro loans for agricultural or home improvement activities. Assessment of Project Outcomes Stakeholder Effects: Improved access to and quality of finance for individuals  The income streams of low-income individuals has been severely affected by the lockdowns, increased uncertainty, and a slow-down in economic activity in the wake of the pandemic. As the economy begins to recover, there is a need for access to capital to finance investments in productive assets to resume economic activity, and to adjust to the post-crisis economic environment. However, access to financing is limited for low- income individuals that were most affected by the crisis. In this context, the Project supports Peo to provide much-needed financing to assist low- income individuals especially in the agriculture sector in overcoming liquidity constraints and returning to their previous income generating capacity. 

Assessment of Contribution to Market Creation Resilience: IFC anticipates that the project will support resilience amongst microfinance and Base of Pyramid (BOP) finance providers by helping the market deal with the growing uncertainty and catalyzing investor response. A rise in non-performing loans, and disrupted borrower cash-flows has left banks reluctant to lend directly to BOP segments. Macroeconomic instability and uncertainty on long-term risks has led to increased difficulties in accessing medium-term funds needed to support the recovery and growth of lending operations. By investing in Peo, IFC will demonstrate to other investors the viability of supporting the sustainability and recovery of BOP financial service providers.
Botswana Building Society The proposed project comprises a loan investment by IFC of up to US$40 million equivalent to help strengthen the long-term funding position of a financial institution in Southern Africa. The proposed project is expected to generate a range of social and economic benefits related to financial inclusion and financial sector development in the project country. Specifically, the project will help to: (i) increase access to financial services by the lower end of the market; (ii) deepen financial inclusion through a focus on underserved clients, leveraging the investee's wide branch network; and (iii) foster healthy competition in the project country's financial sector as the investee broadens its target market segments and expands the scope of its services following its planned transformation.
ABCH & Subs. The project involves a combined IFC equity and subordinated loan investment of up to $20 million to enable ABC Holdings Limited (the Group, Bank, or ABCH) diversify and grow its funding base and develop into new markets, particularly outside of Zimbabwe.  IFC will also provide technical assistance to ABCH in areas such as corporate governance and risk management.  This project allows IFC to play an important institutional building role by strengthening an indigenous African regional mid-tier financial institution and by increasing the banking penetration in Southern and Eastern Africa. This project will strengthen and diversify ABCHs funding base and bring about the transfer of technical know-how and best practices to enable the Group to develop a solid platform from which to increase the provision of banking services to segments of the market that are generally underserved by foreign banks in Southern and Eastern Africa and will result in an increase in the volume and number of loans to MSMEs.
Kalahari Diamond KDL is a recently incorporated private UK company and will conduct operations through Godi (Proprietary) Limited, its wholly owned Botswana subsidiary. KDL will undertake a major review of existing geological information for the 90 licenses with a view to prioritizing and ranking areas that are considered more prospective.  BHPBs proprietary airborne Falcon Technology will be utilized to conduct aerial surveys of these areas.  If high priority target areas are identified, KDL will follow up with ground geophysics and sampling techniques.  Confirmed anomalies will be drill tested to recover samples for assessment of diamond potential.

Development Impact
Botswanas rapid and consistent economic development and high growth rate has been based on the re-investment of its mineral wealth in education, health, and sustainable economic development initiatives.  Although Botswana has a stable and democratic government and policies consistent with private sector development, exploration expenditure in Botswana is inconsistent with its diamond mineral potential.  In 2001, diamond exploration expenditure in Botswana was only $4.5 million, compared to $17 million in Australia, and $81 million in Canada.  This is partly due to the extensive sand cover renders exploration difficult.  Botswanas ability to continue their impressive development performance will be facilitated by new mine developments.  The formation of KDL and the introduction of the Falcon technology provide a step towards this objective.

The use of the airborne Falcon gravity gradiometer system will enable KDL to rapidly, with minimal environmental impact, obtain enhanced geological information on Botswana, including geological detail below the Kalahari sand cover that blankest about 70% of Botswana. The data collected will provide an enhanced understanding of Botswanas geological potential, and some of the data will be released to the Botswana Government as prospecting licenses are released.  KDL is willing to make available any relevant data to the Botswana Government and IFC assistance has been requested to develop, in consultation with KDL and Government, appropriate mechanisms for dissemination and utilization of the Falcon data beyond its mineral application.

IFCs involvement will assist in making KDL a leader in sustainable mining development initiatives.  IFC will have a positive role assisting mine development, facilitating community partnerships, local economic development, skills transfer, building environmental management capacity, and encouraging appropriate resource utilization and conservation practices (especially associated with game reserves).
Micro Provident Limited t/a Letshego The project is to provide a multi-currency loan of up to $20.0 million to Micro Provident Botswana Limited (Letshego or the company) to support the Companys growth.  Letshego is a leading consumer finance company in Botswana, with subsidiaries in Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and, shortly, in Zambia. It was founded by Micro Provident Limited (MPL), an Isle of Man company, in 1998 as a private entity, after which it converted to a public enterprise in 2002, and listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange in September 2002. The company provides short to medium-term consumer loans to employees of governmental, quasi-governmental and private sector companies in the countries in which it operates, with the loans being repaid by payroll deduction.   In 2004, MPL sold a portion of its interest to IFC alongside Pan-African Investment Partners and Pan-Commonwealth African Partners (the Funds), two investment funds managed by Zephyr Africa Management Company (Zephyr) and FMO. At present, IFC exposure to the company is $3.97 million representing a 7.1% equity stake. Since the late 1990s, demand for financial services, particularly within households, has increased in Botswana and the other countries in which Letshego operates, backed by the rapid growth of personal incomes. Given the lack of interest by the commercial banks in the rapidly growing consumer finance sector, the company has been able to significantly expand its financial services to households. This project will continue to build the capacity of the company and enable it to expand its operations. The project would also promote the development of the consumer finance industry in Botswana and the other countries of operation and enhance the purchasing power of low and middle income individuals in these countries.
Botswana Solar The Project consists of the development, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of a 50 MWac solar PV plant at Selebi Phikwe in Botswana. The Project will be supplying power to Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) under a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), signed on August 31, 2022.  The Project was bid under a competitive process conducted by BPC in October 2020 and awarded to Scatec in August 2021. The main expected project-level outcomes stem from increased access to reliable electricity through investment in renewable energy. Botswana is currently facing energy insecurity and loadshedding due to a demand deficit and dependencye on imports from South Africa. The project is expected to increase the installed generation capacity of Botswana by 11 percent at an affordable tariff and thereby contributing to reduced loadshedding and enhanced reliability. Currently Botswanas power generation is composed of coal fired power stations, diesel peakers and imports from South Africa, which is still mostly coal based. This project therefore also supports in the decarbonization of the regional power network. The anticipated market creation effects include improved competitiveness, deriving from support to the countrys first utility scale project-financed IPP project, with important demonstration effects. This investment also supports Botswanas efforts to increase resilience, by demonstrating a commercially viable and sustainable way to transition out of its current expensive and unreliable dependence on fossil fuel based energy and imports from South Africa.
Botswana Solar Phase 2 The Project consists of the development, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the greenfield Mmadinare 50MWac Solar PV Facility (the Project) in a 140 hectares site located approximately 5.8km northwest of Selebi Phikwe and 9.2km southeast from Mmadinare, in the Selebi Phikwe District of Botswana. The Mmadinare Project (Phase II) is a replica and adjacent to the 50 MWac Selebi Phikwe Project (Phase I) that is currently under construction bringing the total capacity of the Mmadinare Solar complex to 100 MWac. The main expected project-level outcomes stem from increased access to reliable electricity through investment in renewable energy. Botswana is currently facing energy insecurity and loadshedding due to a demand deficit and dependency on imports from South Africa. The project is expected to increase the installed generation capacity of Botswana at an affordable tariff. The proposed investment will also contribute to reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation given the heavy reliance of Botswana's power generation on coal fired power stations, diesel peakers and imports from South Africa, which is still mostly coal based The anticipated market creation effects include improved competitiveness, deriving from support to the country's second utility scale project-financed IPP project, following up on IFC support for the first such IPP, with important demonstration effects and a signal to investors of the bankability of similar projects within a evolving regulatory context. This investment also supports Botswana's efforts to increase resilience, by demonstrating a commercially viable and sustainable way to diversify the countrys energy mix and transition out of its current expensive and unreliable dependence on fossil fuel-based energy and imports from South Africa.
Tsodilo Project Tsodilo Resources Limited (the Company or "Tsodilo") is a Toronto Stock Venture Exchange listed exploration company that is currently exploring for diamonds, base and precious metals (the Project) in the northwestern part of Botswana.  Tsodilo started off exploring for diamonds but has recently discovered what appears to be a promising copper/nickel deposit.  Exploration of the diamond licenses is centered on an area where a previous exploration program discovered 19 kimberlites, four of which contained micro-diamonds. Tsodilo has discovered a further 9 kimberlites, bringing the total number of known kimberlites in this field to 28.
Tsodilo is seeking IFCs engagement (i) to assist in funding the continued exploration of the Project to reach a scoping study stage within the next two years; and (ii) to provide environmental and social technical assistance to help develop the Project in line with industry best practices. The development impact at the exploration stage will be limited to the provision of local employment opportunities and support for community development activities. We expect the Project, if it advances to a mine, to have the following notable impacts: i) Direct employment and the implementation of  programs to improve livelihoods of the local population in a region with very limited employment opportunities other than cattle farming;  ii) generation of revenues for government in the form of royalties and corporate taxes. Assuming the base metal discovery is confirmed, the Project will also support the effort by the Government to diversify the mining sector from dependence on diamond mining.
Transport od donated protective equipment for Covid-19 pandemics Prevoz donirane zaščitne opreme za zaščito pred Covid-19 Uprava za zaščito in reševanje je poskrbela za in financirala prevoz zaščitne opreme (zaščitnih mask), ki jo je doniralo zasebno podjetje Kylin Prime Group.
Strengthening National Capacities for Improved Decision Making and Mainstreaming of Global Environmental Obligations NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
START Fund Nigeria Floods 2019 Provide Food assistance, NFIs, water supplies and rehabilitation of latrines for vulnerable people afected by flooding
N04 Anticipation Alert - Cold Wave Nepal Start Fund anticipation project for cold wave Nepal focusing on food security and livelihoods, shelter and NFI and cash distribution
START - Gender Surge Capacity This pilot aims to get gender in emergencies expertise to where it is needed - both now and in the future.
START Fund Alert 418 Tonga This intervention will integrate COVID-19 risk communications and community engagement (RCCE) with support of Town Officers and use of mass media, aligned with MoH and NEMO messaging; and will support household livelihoods to mitigate TC Harold
START Fund Mali Internal Displ CARE intervention will support 1,300 vulnerable IDPs households (about 7,800 persons) via cash distribution to cover immediate food needs in complement of dry food already distributed by WFP operations. In addition, CARE raising awareness sessions will benefit not only to IDPs but also host-families in both Districts, this will allow them to increase their knowledge towards gender issues such as gender based violence, nutrition and health practices but also contribute to reduce the risk of tension between both communities.
START Fund Chad 2016 Following the alert activated to the Start Fund for the displacement of refugees from CAR, and the consequent grant confirmation, CARE supported a relief response in the WASH, Protection and Shelter sectors through, among others, the construction of 100 latrines and 100 showers in the relocation sites, 2 water sources, and distribution of 100 plastic sheets. Protection activities focused in the domains of SGBV, PBS, distribution of baby kits and dignity kits to women.
START Fund Freetown Flood The crisis event the project seeks to respond to is the flooding that took place in different comunities in Sierra Leone the weekend of August 28th 2022.