Palestine
Landmark Projects
Portland seeks to identify value-adding economic development initiatives that the market, for whatever reason, falls short on. Our model is to catalyse, create and work with the best-placed partners to scale up and make projects sustainable, particularly around large scale financial and economic infrastructure, housing, trade, social investment, training and entrepreneurship.
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Development Impact Bond (DIB) for Type II Diabetes
Portland was instrumental in establishing the first DIB in the Arab world, to address the growing Type 2 Diabetes epidemic in Palestine. We worked with
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Loan Guarantees
Portland’s work saw a Palestinian Loan Guarantee Facility launched with $230m, providing loans from $10,000 to $500…
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Palestinian Agriculture Impact Fund
Portland spearheaded testing the feasibility of the first specialised agriculture impact fund in Palestine, in partnership…
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Microfinance
Together with PlaNet Finance Portland provided €550,000 in capacity building for the Palestinian microfinance sector, complemented…