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May 14, 2020

Pioneer Facility approves USD 220,000 loan to TapEffect for piped water infrastructure in rural Cambodia

Phnom Penh, May 05, 2020 – The Pioneer Facility, an impact fund managed by Nexus for Development, signed a new financing agreement with TapEffect Co., a water utility [...]
May 11, 2020

Nexus for Development appoints Clarisse Kehler Siebert as Executive Director

Phnom Penh, May 11, 2020 – The Board of Directors of Nexus for Development is pleased to announce the appointment of Clarisse Kehler Siebert as the organisation’s next Executive Director. [...]
April 14, 2020

Meet Mrs. Phon Pov (46), Super Tunsai owner for 4 years

Discover how a simple water filter is bringing social and economic impacts to families [...]
March 31, 2020

Reinforcing Our Commitment to All Our Members, Partners and Friends

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 31st, 2020 – We are in unprecedented times and if anything positive has come out of the recent global events, it is the reminder that [...]
March 10, 2020

What’s the Real Risk in Investing in Climate-Smart Solutions?

Today, we still see risk appetite as one of the biggest market challenges, and the objective of the Pioneer Facility is to bridge financing gaps, which are [...]
February 25, 2020

Veolia Environment renews its commitment until 2023 to offer carbon neutral services in France supporting anti-deforestation project in Cambodia

Through the purchase of Hydrologic carbon credits [...]
February 4, 2020

EmPower: Women for Climate Resilient Societies Project

Consultation Workshop on Results Finding of Scoping Study and Pre-feasibility study [...]
December 5, 2019

Taro Works Webinar: Using Mobile Tech and Carbon Offsets to Fuel Business

Discover what it takes to turn carbon offset into cash [...]
November 28, 2019

Transparency is driving impact

The EVPA celebrated its 15th year anniversary with its annual conference in The Hague, marking another milestone in its history of work convening a community of venture [...]
November 27, 2019

Clean Energy Revolving Fund Handbook

Nexus for Development (Nexus) launched the Clean Energy Revolving Fund (CERF) as a climate change mitigation project; it commenced in 2016 and was scoped to end after [...]
November 1, 2019

Meet Mrs. Seung Sarin (28), drinking water filtered by Super Tunsai water filter since 2016

Discover how a simple water filter can bring positive impacts to an entire community [...]
September 26, 2019

RISE provides TA facility for high impact enterprises within the ASEAN region

The Regional Investment Support for Entrepreneurs (RISE) is a USAID funded pilot project implemented by Swisscontact in six ASEAN countries. Currently RISE provides pre- and post-investment business […]
September 3, 2019

USD 1M invested in collateral-free debt to deploy solar energy solutions in the Philippines

The Pioneer Facility has worked with OREEi to directly finance a project that replaced over 140 diesel generated irrigation pumps with over 250 solar-powered pumps. [...]
August 22, 2019

Inclusive Business and Impact Investment come together in Cambodia to scale businesses and reduce poverty

First Inclusive Business forum for Cambodia hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Handcraft with the support of the UN ESCAP and the iBAN [...]
August 14, 2019

Is it time to roll the dice on first-time fund managers?

Over the last year, it feels that philanthropists have become the new target group tasked with a responsibility of ensuring that impact investments continue to scale at [...]
August 6, 2019

Indonesia’s first water filter carbon credits issued by Nazava

Nexus for Development (Nexus) announced the issuance of over 28,000 carbon credits on behalf of Nazava Water filters under the Gold Standard. This is the first time [...]
July 24, 2019

Scaling up access to renewable energy financing in Cambodia

Scaling up access to renewable energy financing in Cambodia. Case Study Analysis for Small and Medium Agri-Food Businesses. Author by: Sarou Long. Financial Support: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) [...]
July 18, 2019

New Board Chair appointment: Jeffrey Lamb

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 17th, 2019 – Nexus for Development (Nexus) announced that it has appointed Jeffrey Lamb to join the Nexus Board of Directors as Board Chair [...]