From Collateral to Cashflow: Expanding Access to Finance for Nigeria’s Female Business Owners
Case study providing insights into the successes and challenges of disbursing loans to women-led SMEs…
Suzanne PerezApril 2, 2024
Solving the access to finance challenge for Nigerian women entrepreneurs
Siegfried Zottel, who leads the World Bank We-Fi program in Nigeria, spoke with We-Fi about…
We-Fi SecretariatJuly 17, 2022
Boosting Opportunities for Women in Fruit and Vegetable Value Chains in Côte d’Ivoire
This policy note is a rapid assessment of women in the horticulture industry in Côte…
Suzanne PerezJune 2, 2022
Integrating Gender into the Market Information System in Cote d’Ivoire
This policy note first reviews the role of sustainable agricultural market information systems in promoting…
Suzanne PerezJune 2, 2022
Helping WSMEs Pivot Toward E-Commerce
During the pandemic, the We-Fi World Bank project in the MENA region initiated a partnership…
We-Fi SecretariatApril 20, 2022
Building resilient and inclusive value chains for women entrepreneurs in Senegal
Systemic gender inequality affects value chains; women-led businesses are often excluded from the supply and…
We-Fi SecretariatDecember 13, 2021
Bangladeshi entrepreneurs expand business opportunities through new corporate networks
Bangladesh has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, many small…
We-Fi SecretariatDecember 2, 2021
Digital lending expands opportunities for women-led businesses in Nigeria
In 2003, Yetunde Adeyemi started Active Foods, a food production and distribution company, based in…
We-Fi SecretariatNovember 17, 2021
Female entrepreneurs challenge social norms in Senegal
Traditional attitudes toward marriage and family still prevail in many parts of the world. Going…
We-Fi SecretariatSeptember 21, 2021
