International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Funding/Assistance For Target Group / Eligibility Programme Dates
  • Improvements to business environment
  • Reaching under-served people
  • Investments in clean technology
  • Participation in infrastructure
  • Increasing access to finance
Company or entrepreneur, foreign or domestic, seeking to establish a new venture or expand an existing enterprise.

Ongoing

Funded/Executed by:
Funded by: World Bank & Contributors
Executed by: International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Examples of Funded Projects:
  •  Up to US$45 million to National Commercial Bank of Jamaica to support expansion plans, working capital needs, as well as the growth of the Bank’s lending operations
  • Estimated US$6.3 million in support of Bel Air Plantation Ltd, Grenada, a tourism resort that will be constructed and operated consisting of
  • 24 villas and a central complex
  • Equity investment from IFC to strengthen the balance sheet of Guardian Holdings Ltd, Trinidad & Tobago, and improve its growth potential in order to increase access to insurance products (e.g., life, property, casualty, etc.) in underserved regions such as the Caribbean and Central America
  • Expanding the level of credit being made available to low income households and SMEs operating in the local market
Implementing Agency Contact:
Pedro Andres-Amo, Operations Officer, Investment Climate, IFC Advisory Services
Sagicor Financial Centre
16 Queen's Park West, Port of Spain, Trinidad
T: +868 628 5074
Website: http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/lac.nsf/Content/Caribbean