Cambodian women are among over half a million Southeast Asian women who will be able to access credit from the $8 million Women’s Livelihood Bond, guaranteed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), to improve their livelihoods.
According to a USAID press release yesterday, funds from the Women’s Livelihood Bond would be made available to a group of microfinance institutions and social enterprises in Cambodia to help low-income women transition from subsistence livelihoods and “build their resilience to socio-economic stress”. Read More.
