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  • Loan Successfully Funded On 13 Dec 2021 and Fully Repaid

CAVR 6 Months Working Capital Q1 Q2 2022

CAVR

  • Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • 40,000 AUD

Loan has been fully repaid

The Centre for Armed Violence Reduction requires six months of working capital to smooth out lumpy cash flow as they continue to grow and win new contracts for their armed violence reduction services in new countries. Their customers (i.e. UN type agencies) are unreliable with their payment terms which can threaten continuity and growth.

  • 3 Lenders

Committed

  • 6 months

Loan Period

  • 8%

Interest Rate

  • BACKGROUND
Borrower

CAVR

  • Sydney, NSW, Australia
Loan summary

To maintain cashflow as the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction grows the impact of its arms control solutions through ArmsTracker (especially in conflict-affected countries in Africa) and GunPolicy.org. 

Borrower's mission

CAVR is a not-for-profit public health charity which seeks to make the greatest impact wherever needed. Its mission is to optimise solutions to implement international arms control standards and to enable investment in armed violence reduction. Ultimately, CAVR wants to reduce armed violence as much as possible, and applies all its resources and finances in pursuit of this goal.

The activities funded by this loan are helping to achieve the above Sustainable Development Goals as defined by the UN.

This loan is listed by Impact Intermediary

Red Hat Impact​

  • Australia
Intermediary's experience with impact enterprises
For more than 8 years, Red Hat Impact has helped impact enterprises by raising capital and providing other kinds of business and strategy support. We have raised more than $3M from our network of impact investors, and loaned this capital to support 30 enterprises. We use a crowd-lending model to raise loan capital. As of May 2024, we maintain a 98% success rate on loan repayment. We establish close working relationships with all of the impact enterprises we raise debt capital for, and co-manage risks with them during the loan term.
  • IMPACT
Impacts and how they are measured

The loan provides cash flow support in a period of growth for CAVR. The loan will give CAVR more certainty and stability as it pursues the rollout of ArmsTracker and GunPolicy.org solutions in Africa and Small Island States.


What the loan over the next 6 months can help CAVR achieve:


  • Completion and launch of the new platform for ArmsTracker, including mobile and cloud versions.
  • Engaging on ArmsTracker with representatives across all West African countries and 33 other States (mainly Africa and the Pacific) requesting assistance on record-keeping, stockpile management, transfer management and collection capacity.
  • Development of the community reporting on suspected illicit arms function in ArmsTracker to manage follow-up and seizure.
  • Millions more reached through the media and online, including researchers, advocates and policy-makers, about arms control and how to achieve it.
  • ArmsTracker will be translated into additional languages.

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