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BIO's response
16-06-2022
BIO’s response to the article by Mr Raphael Meulders, Feu nourri contre la société publique BIO, published in La Libre, 15 June 2022
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Launch FEFISOL II
01-06-2022
Launch of the new European solidarity financing fund for Africa, FEFISOL II, with a first closing of 22.5 million euros and a technical support envelope of 1 million euros.
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NGO Policy briefs
09-05-2022
BIO welcomes the briefing notes published today by 11.11.11, CNDC-11.11.11, and the NGO Coalition Contre la Faim on BIO as a sustainable development actor with respect to agriculture, climate, and governance.
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SDG Frontier Fund Final Closing
29-04-2022
First-of-its-kind Belgian impact fund mobilises additional private resources to support African and Asian SMEs in their growth.
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Investment in candi solar
22-02-2022
responsAbility Investments, the Swiss impact investment manager, and BIO, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries, have provided a USD 10 million equivalent multi-currency loan to candi solar, a visionary financial and clean energy platform through which distributed energy infrastructure in emerging markets can be built at scale.
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Call for tender - Development Effectiveness Evaluation
20-12-2021
BIO has just published a call for tender for the next 3 Development Effectiveness Evaluations (period 2022- 2024), including a detailed Terms of Reference for the next evaluation that will focus on “BIO’s contribution to SDG10 – Reduced inequality and inclusive businesses”.
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Belgian impact fund backs the entrepreneurial spirit on the Indian countryside
18-11-2021
Belgian impact investor Incofin IM raises 45 million euros in a first investment round for its new impact fund focused on rural development in India.
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BIO has launched its first African office in Abidjan which is now open for business
20-10-2021
During a launch ceremony at Résidence de Belgique in Abidjan, last Thursday, October 14, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO) celebrated the opening of its first African office in Abidjan.
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BIO’s investment in Maple Etanol SRL
20-10-2021
On the 27th of September 2021, Oxfam Belgium published the report ″Fuelling human rights violations″ addressing the problematic consequences of a bioethanol project co-financed by BIO. Oxfam's testimonies on the excesses concerning environment and health are mostly dated after 2015, two years after Maple Etanol prematurely reimbursed BIO and left our portfolio. Since then BIO no longer had access to the monitoring reports either.
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