The supply chain is an important space for gender lens investing, where there is opportunity to reduce gender-based violence and unfair working conditions. In this interview, we meet Lim Ponny who runs a fish feeding enterprise in Cambodia, and has used her access to finance to help employ and educate women in her community. 

Ponny tells us about her life growing up in Cambodia, passing her final exams despite having to work to support her family. After getting married, she wanted to use her knowledge of fish farming to start a business but could not access finance through traditional banks. With the help of Chamroeun Microfinance, and international development agencies Good Return and Palladium, Ponny was able to take a loan and build an ethical business within a supply chain focussed on supporting the rights of women working within it.  

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From running a business with her mother in the 3rd grade, Jakarta-based entrepreneur Laras Widyaputri has founded her own ecommerce social enterprise committed to workplace equity. Laras is driven to support more home-based businesses just like her mother’s and grandmother’s.  

Laras tells us about her business Ecodoe, an e-procurement platform that gives micro-SMEs in Indonesia access to microfinance and markets. She tells us how her experience helping her grandmother to sell things from her home garage drove her to support women who are participating in the shared economy or ‘gotong royong’ economy of Indonesia. When she connected with BIDUK, a gender lens investor, she was able to build on her dream to fuel the women-led SME economy in Indonesia.  

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For too long, investment has been considered a man’s world. Now a growing number of investment platforms are tailored to women and led by women. We speak to Afifa Urfani from Indonesian fintech CROWDE on how she has worked to create such a space to build investments in local female agripreneurs, such as chili farmer Dede Nuryani.

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