Japan ASEAN Women Empowerment Fund (“JAWEF”)
Information for existing investors / illustrative purposes
- Empowering women in the ASEAN region
- First gender lens strategy in that area
- Fighting poverty, advancing inclusion

Our investment goals and strategy
Female entrepreneurs
We provide loans to microfinance institutions that help female entrepreneurs in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, empowering women in business.
Mobilising investors
With its blended finance structure, this fund leverages first-loss and mezzanine tranches to minimise risk and encourage institutional investors.
Stronger economies
Empowering women financially and socially not only benefits them and their immediate families and communities, but also leads to stronger economies in the long-term.
Fund characteristics
Fund inception | 2016 |
Asset class | Private debt (blended finance) |
Status | Closed |
Liquidity | Closed-end |
NAV frequency | Quarterly |
Domicile and legal structure | Luxembourg, SICAV-SIF |
SFDR classification | Article 9 |
External AIFM | BlueOrchard Asset Management (Luxembourg) S.A. |
Investment manager | BlueOrchard Finance Ltd |
Depositary | Banque de Luxembourg S.A. |
Administrator | UI efa S.A. |
SDGs addressed
Core SDGs



Aligned SDGs


Core SDGs: Core SDGs are those that address the impact intent and/or sustainability investment objective of a given fund.
Aligned SDGs: Aligned SDGs are those that the fund’s investees promote through responsible ESG management practices.
Impact KPIs
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