Ruta N, in alliance with Finaktiva, has created the financing line for women entrepreneurship with high impact. This is a product focused in entrepreneurial women, whit an automatic granted guarantee and without previous loan analysis. This facilitates not only the access to credit, but also lowers the costs of financing that the women entrepreneur has at the moment of funding her project. This line has 2.135 Millions of Pesos and it will grant loans up to 100 Millions, to repay in upto 36 months and 6 months of grace period.

Find below some measures available in Trinidad and Tobago to support people and companies during the COVID-19 pandemic:

Find below some measures available in Barbados to support MSMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic:

• $200 Million COVID-19 Recovery Fund For Tourism

According to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, the Barbados Tourism Fund Facility will be a loan entity designed to provide urgent working capital, investment loans, and where possible blended finance for the upgrade of Barbadian hotels and tourism businesses.

Find below some measures available in Jamaica to support MSMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic:

Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA) propels the growth of women in business and women’s wealth creation, while generating superior business outcomes for member financial institutions. 

Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmericas) leverages public, private and non-governmental efforts to increase women’s economic participation and address the main barriers that they confront when starting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In other words, access to training and to business networks, access to markets and to finance.