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🌍💼 Empowering local entrepreneurs for a sustainable future 🌱 Meet Lay Sreybo, a determined entrepreneur from the Smao Ambok market in Cambodia. Starting her business with a mix of hope and hesitation, Lay initially struggled to navigate funding applications on her own. However, through working with the Higher Tier Cooking Component (HTCC) project, she took the leap, successfully applied for results-based financing (RBF), and transformed her business. Today, her store is a trusted source for clean cooking appliances, providing affordable, high-quality products to her community while contributing to a healthier environment. Lay’s journey is a testament to the power of resilience and support, showing how small businesses can drive impactful change. 🌟 Read the full story to learn how Lay is making a difference with her unique business approach and community-centred values. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ev9TWcMg #WomenEntrepreneurs #SustainableDevelopment #EmpoweringCommunities #CleanCooking

📣 The Investment Climate Reform Facility, a collaborative project by SNV, GIZ, Expertise France, and the British Council, has published its 2023-2024 Annual Report! The report highlights the Facility’s impactful work on improving the business environment and investment climate across African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. 🎯 Key achievements within the year include: ✅ 72 ACP countries reached through various initiatives. ✅ 91 partner organisations supported to improve the business environment. ✅ 62 business environment interventions completed, with 57% focusing on promoting gender equality.  ✅ 61 Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) supported through capacity building. ✅ 183 knowledge products and 135 technical reports published.   At the ICR Facility, we believe that inclusive economies are stronger. By prioritising gender equality, we work to ensure equal opportunities for full participation in economic life.   🔗 Curious to learn more? Dive into the Annual Report to see the positive changes we are contributing to across ACP countries: https://lnkd.in/egZ9cFuu Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Expertise France, and British Council

🌍 As the world prepares for COP29 in Baku, SNV is set to contribute its voice and expertise at the pivotal UN climate change conference.    From 11 to 22 November, global leaders, climate experts, and stakeholders will come together under this year's theme, ‘Enhance ambition and enable action.’ With an urgent call for climate finance and local impact, COP29 is an opportunity to drive real change for vulnerable communities worldwide. 🌱💼    Our focus at COP29 🟢     🔹 Climate finance: Unlocking investments through innovative financial instruments that address the unique risks in climate action.   🔹 Systems transformation: Advancing systems that address the climate crisis across sectors through inclusive, locally-led solutions.   🔹 Addressing fragility: Supporting communities facing environmental challenges, promoting sustainable practices, and improving food, water, and energy security.    Where to find us 🔍    We will be participating in several side events and bilateral meetings including:    📍 Official UNFCCC side event  Session title: Designing for quality and equity in clean cooking carbon projects  🗓️ Tuesday, 12 November | ⏰ 18:30 - 20:00 (GMT +4) | Side event room 2    📍 UNIDO Pavilion  Session title: Renewables-based clean cooking: An opportunity for climate and development  🗓️ Friday, 15 November | ⏰ 9:00 - 10:00 (GMT +4) | UNIDO Pavilion    To learn more about SNV at COP29 and see our schedule of activities that will be regularly updated, visit 👉 https://lnkd.in/djEthw9F Join us as we explore innovative financing for local climate action at COP29!      #COP29 #ClimateFinance #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateAction 

🌍 As we conclude #UrbanOctober and prepare for #COP29, here’s an important analysis published in NPJ Clean Water that explores the complexities of developing and designing global indicators, particularly concerning safely managed sanitation under SDG target 6.2.🚽 🔎 Our team reviewed data from nearly 32,000 households across Africa and Asia, uncovering valuable insights into the reliability of various sanitation indicators. ➕ By incorporating additional criteria, researchers from SNV, UTS-ISF, and Leeds University found that some systems classified as ‘safely managed’ according to current global indicators may actually pose risks to individual and public health. ➡️ Read the full analysis here: on.snv.org/3YpNP2N Cite as follows: Mills, F., Foster, T., Kome, A., Munankami, R., Halcrow, G., Ndungu, A., Evans, B., and Willetts, J., ‘Indicators to complement global monitoring of safely managed on-site sanitation to understand health risks’, NPJ Clean Water, 7(1):58, 2024, doi: 10.1038/s41545-024-00353-2, Epub 2024 Jul 7, PMID: 38979059; PMCID: PMC11227438. #Sanitation #CleanWater #SDGs #PublicHealth #Research Freya Mills Tim Foster Antoinette Kome Rajeev Munankami Gabrielle Halcrow Antony Ndungu Barbara Evans Juliet Willetts

🌍 Mobilising finance for biodiversity and climate requires bold, innovative solutions that bridge public, private, and philanthropic funding. Join us at #COP16Colombia for a session on advancing blended finance for nature-based solutions and regenerative agriculture.   🌱 The increasing support from leading financial institutions and philanthropic organisations marks an important first step. However, we need greater private sector involvement to accelerate financing for biodiversity, especially in countries where domestic resources are limited.   This session will explore practical solutions that build on existing finance mechanisms to: ➡ Reduce duplication across development, climate, and biodiversity efforts ➡ Lower transaction costs ➡ Foster impactful partnerships with development banks, impact investors, and other actors who may lack the specialised capacity to structure blended finance deals 🔍Featuring insights from the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD), Global EverGreening Alliance, Regen10, FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank and 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People, this session will showcase best practices and shared knowledge from vulnerable regions on financing climate, nature, and sustainable livelihoods.   📆Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how we can catalyse greater private investment and make nature-positive change a reality!🤝 Harko Koster Fridah Gacheri Daniel Zimmer Aart Mulder Maggie Charnley Juan C. Ramos Chris Armitage Tara Shyam Ivo Walsmit Caroline Van Leenders Thierry Dudermel #Biodiversity #ClimateAction #Nature #RegenerativeAgriculture #BlendedFinance

‘In this time, we’ve seen firsthand the devastating impacts of climate change: rising temperatures, drought, and floods. But we haven’t just watched. We’ve acted.’   A huge thank you to the governments of Australia, Bhutan, Lao PDR, and Nepal for their partnership in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). Together, our partnership: 🌱 Withstood the test of time, evolving to the world's changing development needs. 📚 Built on past successes to reach more communities. 🚰 Provided crucial access to WASH services in underserved areas and groups. 🔊 Amplified the voices and enlarged the influence of historically excluded groups in determining the shape and form of climate-resilient WASH systems.   Access to WASH is essential for community resilience against climate change. Limited access hinders development. This is why we join other groups in the world stressing the need for comprehensive climate financing. This is our joint message in the bottle. 🍾   We are grateful to our partners in government and civil society and believe that together, we can achieve climate-proof societies! 🤝 Congrats to all!   🎉 #ClimateAction #WASH #ClimateFinance #Resilience COP29 Azerbaijan UN Biodiversity United Nations Gabrielle Halcrow Antoinette Kome Kencho Wangdi Rinzin Ugyen Lenneke Braam Rachel Pringle Anne Mutta Ratan Budhathoki Heman Paneru

🌍#COP16Colombia - Our call to action from the sessions: 📌Learning session on Landscape Financing: We live in landscapes, and landscapes live in us. Valuing and investing in regenerative landscapes is essential for a sustainable future. The link between biodiversity and climate resilience has never been clearer, and action has never been more urgent. In the session on Landscape Financing, we were reminded that locally-led solutions must be at the forefront of the biodiversity agenda. 📢 📌Learning session on Moving Finance Forward Together: Biodiversity is foundational to our economy and society. To unlock its full potential, we need bankable solutions, backed by blended finance, to drive these efforts forward.🍃 📌Learning session on Debt-for-Water Swaps: Our water resources and natural environment face challenges from floods, droughts, poor quality, and limited access. Debt crises and water governance issues hinder progress in preserving and restoring ecosystems. It’s crucial to contextualise when and where to apply debt-for-water swaps versus other mechanisms and to adapt standard operating procedures to specific countries, projects, and users.💧 🌱At SNV, we believe that nature is central to climate resilience and food security. However, to scale solutions, we must unlock and mobilise investments that address the unique risks involved. This is where partnerships and innovative financing play a key role.💡 📑 Read our latest brief on SNV's work through the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development’s Origination Facility. It outlines how we’re working with businesses that aim to protect ecosystems and support local communities. This collaboration with private sector actors exemplifies how partnerships can drive climate action and sustainability. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTabzVSK Harko Koster Fridah Gacheri WWF Dutch Fund for Climate and Development FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People Global EverGreening Alliance Regen10 Rabobank

With many thanks to Enabel for convening us and to the World Bank for hosting, I appreciated the opportunity yesterday to deepen discussions as to how development agencies can strengthen collaboration in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations (FCAS). With FCAS (or FCV countries) continuing to experience substantial (and in places deepening) challenges, with extreme poverty and acute food insecurity increasingly clustered in such contexts, it's vital we develop better (efficient and effective) ways of working together - within locally, context-led frameworks and partnerships. A key requirement to enabling this is adopting Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting tools (especially digital) that enable us to account for costs of activities and attribute these to outputs, whilst being more comfortable in sharing our respective contributions to the broader outcomes we're working towards, and which are so deeply needed (more on this here: https://lnkd.in/eacxuScA). We also mustn’t lose sight of the very real development gains that have been made over recent years in current or previously highly fragile contexts and the opportunities to accelerate and build on these. At this time of increasing skepticism towards Official Development Assistance and rising nativist sentiment and self-interest, we must ensure development cooperation – including the opportunities to leverage development financing with innovative financing mechanisms and private sector funding flows – doesn’t exacerbate the already widening disparities between FCAS and less fragile environments. 🙏 Jean Van Wetter Enabel Heidy Rombouts, PhD Ministry of Foreign Affairs Belgium Ina Hommers Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Jeremie Pellet Expertise France Soukeyna Kane Anke D'Angelo The World Bank' SNV #WBGMeetings #TeamEurope #WorkingBetterTogether Practitioners' Network for European Development Cooperation http://bit.ly/40h2SON

🌍 This week, SNV is lending its voice to the 5th Annual Clean Cooking Week, themed Strategy to Action: Partner, Invest, and Implement. Key discussions are focused on unlocking investment 💼, building strong partnerships 🤝, and driving the successful implementation of the Kenya National Cooking Transition Strategy (KNCTS) to achieve universal access to #CleanCooking solutions by 2028. The event offers a fantastic platform for knowledge exchange, experiential learning, and media engagement to raise awareness about the critical role clean cooking plays in achieving sustainable energy access. This week also saw the launch of several important strategies, including: ➡️ Kenya National Cooking Transition Strategy (KNCTS) ➡️ Kenya National eCooking Strategy (KNeCS) ➡️ Kenya Cooking Sector Knowledge Management Strategy ➡️ Kajiado County Energy Plan Laura Clough, Global Technical Advisor for Clean Cooking at SNV, stressed the importance of partnerships in advancing the clean cooking agenda: 'Partnerships are crucial to our work and operational approach. We are focused on creating an enabling environment through policy development and ensuring that clean cooking is integrated into County Energy Plans.' Additionally, Ashington Ngigi, KOSAP Facility Manager at SNV, highlighted: 'To make a meaningful impact, we must involve underserved, vulnerable, and marginalised communities in the clean cooking value chain. Households need genuine support at every stage.' 🔗 Learn more about SNV's work in sustainable energy markets: https://lnkd.in/djdm75iD #CleanCookingWeek #SustainableEnergy #Partnerships #EnergyAccess

🌎 Achieving a nature-positive world by 2030 is not just a goal - it’s a necessity. But are we ready to take the urgent action required?  Regenerative, landscape-level approaches are essential, yet the real challenge is rallying collective effort. 🤝   🌱 With growing populations, social crises, and shifting consumption patterns, biodiversity is under immense pressure. Climate change is accelerating the depletion of natural resources, while efforts to boost agricultural productivity have led to deforestation, water pollution, and ecosystem degradation. Vulnerable landscapes are suffering, and communities, especially remote indigenous groups, are disproportionately affected. The future of our ecosystems and communities is at risk, and the time for coordinated global action is now critical. ⌛   📈 SNV and its partners will unite at #COP16Colombia to advocate for increased blended finance for biodiversity and nature-based solutions. 🍀 Now is the time to be at #PeaceWithNature 🦋 Find more details here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebUT5bZm Dutch Fund for Climate and Development FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank Regen10 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People Global EverGreening Alliance