The AFAWA award recognizes financial institutions’ outstanding achievements towards closing Africa’s $49 billion gender access to finance gap NAIROBI, Kenya, June 4, 2024/APO Group/ — A...
This innovative programme aims to make up to $3 billion available for women-led small and medium-sized enterprises, via guarantees to financial institutions to mitigate lending risks...
The AFAWA initiative seeks to increase women’s access to finance in the continent by bridging the $42 billion financing gap for women-led and owned small and...
The series of events will bring together representatives of government, policymakers and financial institutions for an introduction to AFAWA’s partnership services for the Nigerian market LAGOS,...
The Leshego Microfinance Bank Nigeria, also known as Letshego MFB Nigeria, received the award named after the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in...
The project aims to strengthen BCI’s financing capacity for trade and industry and to better support women small and medium enterprises in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal and...
AFAWA was launched in 2015 in Dakar during the first Feed Africa conference (Dakar 1 Africa Food Summit) ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, January 31, 2023/APO Group/ — ...
With financial inclusion high on the agenda of African countries, many nations are setting concrete targets for women’s financial inclusion WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America,...
AFAWA is offering grants of up to $250,000 to organizations helping prepare African women-led businesses to drive the continent’s economies ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, October 18, 2022/APO...
The new AfDB funded AWIEF programme aims to accelerate efforts to address gender inequality and drive inclusive economic transformation JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 20, 2022/APO Group/...