Investing in Young Businesses in Africa - Women Entrepreneurship for Africa: Business Development Services and Access to Finance (IYBA WE4A)

About this project

Contract related to: Investing in Young Businesses in Africa - Women Entrepreneurship for Africa: Business Development Services and Access to Finance (IYBA WE4A) - Building into the logic of the flagship Team Europe Initiative ¿ Investing in Young Business in Africa (TEI IYBA), the WEE-FI Africa programme will support fostering decent job creation and socio-economic resilience and inclusion in SSA, by supporting the improvement of women-friendly entrepreneurial ecosystems and ensuring greater access to finance, including for youth.This Action will include more concretely the two following components:1.Women Entrepreneurship (EUR 25 million): Building on the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) programme supporting female entrepreneurs in selected countries in Africa with entrepreneurial training, improvements of the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women and increased access to finance. The action will have three main building blocks : (a) support to women entrepreneurs via entrepreneurship training and access to seed finance, (b) reinforcing the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women entrepreneurs (including working with ecosystem actors such as chambers of commerce, private sector organizations and especially those women led, women entrepreneur networks, accelerators, sector specific entrepreneurship training initiatives as well as financial institutions) and (c) improving access to finance for women entrepreneurs. This component will directly contribute to building blocks 1…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 5Gender Equality
• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 9Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 12Responsible Consumption and Production
• 17Partnerships for the Goals

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships · Other public sector

Sectors

Business development servicesSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SME) developmentInformal/semi-formal financial intermediaries

Focus

Gender equality · Main focusEnvironment · Also contributesGood governance · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributes

Places

289 - AFRICA

Funded by

European Commission

Implemented by

DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ) GMBH

Accountable

Other multilateral institution

Passes funds through

Directorate-General for International Partnerships

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 29 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2024-PC-28499.

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