Work closely with YMCA Belize City to offer enterprise development training leadership training and capital to small businesses to increase families' incomes in high-risk neighborhoods and prepare them to operate in the formal economy.

final approved 9/10/20 BEST- Belize Female entrepreneurs in low-income neighborhoods around Belize City in Belize operate in an informal economy with little access to capital or financial services to improve their businesses. They often lack the financial literacy they need to make their businesses efficient and profitable.

At the IAF we support community-led approaches to expand economic opportunity by encouraging small business growth and strengthening excluded communities such as women so they can participate equally in their nation?s economy.

Our grantee partner Belize Enterprise for Sustainable Technology (BEST) will work closely with YMCA Belize City to offer enterprise development training leadership training and capital to small businesses to increase families? incomes in high-risk neighborhoods and prepare them to operate in the formal economy.