FUND DESIGN: BUILDING FOR THE UNDERSERVED AFRICAN MARKET WITH A GENDER LENS
UN Women, Findev Canada and the African Fintech Advisory – Lelapa, facilitated in November 2019 a co-creation workshop bringing together investment officers from Development Finance Institutions and female Fund Managers from across Africa, specialized in financing women-led businesses. This report, which presents the results of the workshop, includes perspectives of both constituencies on blockages to make DFI finance flow to women SMEs in the continent, and identifies concrete proposals of actions to change that through Fund design using a gender lenses.
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Bibliographic information
Geographic coverage:
Africa
Subject areas:
Businesses and foundations
Economic empowerment
Entrepreneurship
Gender equality and inequality
Resource type(s):
Policy papers
Publication year
2021
Number of pages
24
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)