Seeking positive change through impact investing

SVX Colombia provides capital and capacity supports for enterprises, organizations and funds seeking to start or scale their impact, particularly focused on rural regions in Colombia, women, and climate action

OUR STORY

Seeking positive change through impact investing

SVX Colombia provides capital and capacity supports for enterprises, organizations and funds seeking to start or scale their impact, particularly focused on rural regions in Colombia, women, and climate action

OUR STORY

Seeking positive change through impact investing

SVX Colombia provides capital and capacity supports for enterprises, organizations and funds seeking to start or scale their impact, particularly focused on rural regions in Colombia, women, and climate action

OUR STORY

The PAIIC Program is implemented through:

Support Programs

Hands-on capacity building support to launch enterprises, organizations, projects, intermediaries and investors.

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Granting Streams

Tactical grant funding to enterprises, organizations, funds, and capacity building organizations.

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Partners

The program will have both core and delivery partners to ensure successful program delivery.

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Target Impact Areas

Rural Development

Rural regions in Colombia have tremendous natural, human, and cultural assets. However, they have face significant challenges in a post-conflict Colombia, where they continue to experience significantly greater levels of social, economic, and environmental challenges. Rural communities experience significant underinvestment in comparison to their urban peers. Renewed focus and investment in rural Colombia could realize the potential of communities from the Pacific Coast to the Amazon.

Gender Equality

It is a longstanding fact that women experience higher levels of poverty, and Colombia is no exception. This structural inequity grew during the pandemic. Yet, families where women have economic power and businesses that are led by women are more economically productive and beneficial, while also advancing greater social equality. Investment has the power to help accelerate gender equality in the region by attracting resources to support more businesses that advance a gender lens.

Climate Action & Biodiversity

Colombia is one of the world’s “megadiverse” countries, hosting close to 10% of the planet’s biodiversity. But it also has high risks of climate change impacts, from melting glaciers and extreme rainfall to water scarcity and land degradation having an impact on the food supply, health and natural ecosystems. Impact investing offers an approach to tackle these challenges by getting capital to organizations, funds and enterprises that advance biodiversity, sustainable management and ecosystem restoration from regenerative farming to conservation financing.

Our Goals

SVX Colombia’s goal is to restore ecosystems, improve sustainable livelihoods, and promote economic well-being — particularly for women, their families, and communities in Colombia.

1. Enterprise

Greater scale, viability, and investment readiness amongst enterprises and organizations in rural regions. Promote effective and fluid capital flows to enterprises.

2. Systems

Start-up and scale-up of impact capital and capacity infrastructure. Greater impact fund readiness.

3. Capital

Greater scale and effectiveness of impact investing including improved investor readiness. Private sector leverage through new grants ($3M) and investment capital ($10M).