
Deetken Impact Blog

Financing for Social Entrepreneurs in Peru
Social enterprises in Peru face various challenges among them access to financing.
Investing for Climate Action to Advance the SDGs: Views from the Caribbean
Climate change is the risk on everyone’s radar. Following high profile losses like the PG&E “first climate-related bankruptcy”, more investors are considering strategies to protect their portfolios. Great strides have been made in recent years to better...
Mobile Money Improving Lives in Haiti
The Artibonite Valley outside of Saint-Marc in Haiti is peaceful, lush and humid. It’s a stark contrast to the colourful and frenetic streets of Port-au-Prince a few hours to the south. Instead of traffic jams, “tap-taps” - modified pickups that act as public...
Reinventing Financial Inclusion
Last week the impact investing community descended on Barranquilla, Colombia to advance the cause of financial inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean at the annual FOROMIC (Microfinance and SME Forum). The city of Barranquilla, humid as its people are...
Canada launched its development finance institution
Earlier this week the Deetken Impact team was invited to participate in the launch of FinDev, Canada’s very own development finance institution (DFI), in Montreal. It was an honour to share ideas with some remarkable people including Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN...
Beyond the buzzword: Can the 2X Challenge empower women for real?
If you haven’t heard of the 2X Challenge, you will soon. Announced during the 2018 G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, it’s a call for development finance institutions (DFIs) to collectively mobilize $3 billion in commitments that provide women in developing countries...
Deetken Impact attends 2018 RIA Conference
Deetken Impact attended the 2018 Responsible Investment Association (RIA) Conference in Toronto in full force. In addition to a couple of members from our team, we were joined by our strategic partners for women entrepreneurship and sustainable energy,...
A primer on renewable energy in Honduras
Over the past 2 years Deetken Impact has travelled extensively in Honduras, from Omoa in the North to Choluteca in the South to Danli, east of Tegucigalpa, the country’s capital. The starting point of our current journey is the town of Omoa, a small fishing village of...
Maximizing your impact per dollar: a global approach to impact investing
When it comes to activism or community involvement, we often think of the saying “Think Global, Act Local”. It was coined over 50 years ago as a call to take action in our own communities and cities to drive social and environmental change. And it still makes sense;...
Meet Deetken Impact’s newest Investment Analyst
Deetken Impact is excited to welcome Cristobal Aguirre as an Investment Analyst to the team. Cristobal brings over five years of experience in the asset management industry. His responsibilities have ranged from asset allocation and portfolio management to risk...
“Change finance to finance change”
At the GABV 2018 Annual Meeting in Arequipa, Peru. On a pleasant March evening in the courtyard of a centuries-old home in Arequipa, Peru, I moved from a conversation about value-based banking in Nepal, to another one with a colleague based in Chile who works with a...
How do we achieve sustainable development in Latin America?
An evening stroll down Paseo Montejo, a beautiful boulevard that maintains its colonial architectural charm near downtown Merida, makes you reflect on what many Latin American towns aspire to be: safe, clean and prospering communities. That's where we had the...
How Pragmatiqus is increasing access to credit in Ecuador
It is a cool morning as I hop out of the car in northern Quito, the beautiful capital of Ecuador. Quito is nestled on the Eastern slopes of Pichincha in the Andes mountains nearly 3,000 meters above sea level. We’re in an industrial district of the city and stroll...
Help Us Spread The Word!
Join Us On: