Headlines AfricaApr 1, 2025
Africa: African Women Entrepreneurs Changing the Narrative On Access to Public Procurement Opportunities: [Graça Machel Trust] As we celebrate this year's International Women's Month, we are reminded of the urgent need to accelerating action and opportunities for women. For women entrepreneurs to thrive, a supportive policy environment is crucial--one that ensures equal access to… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJsvhN #InternationalWomensMonth #WomenEntrepreneurs #GenderEquality #EmpowerWomen #AccessToFinance
EURACTIV AgrifoodNov 22, 2024
Europe’s broken food system, time to finance resilient and sustainable food systems [Advocacy Lab Content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/europes-broken-food-system-time-to-finance-resilient-and-sustainable-food-systems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #2030climateandenergytargets #accesstofinance #agriculture
Europe’s broken food system, time to finance resilient and sustainable food systems

Europe’s farmers are facing a chronic 62% financing gap. Many young farmers cannot get business bank loans.

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EURACTIV Global EuropeJul 2, 2024
EU and NATO sponsored programmes partner to increase defence funding opportunities https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/eu-and-nato-sponsored-programmes-partner-to-increase-defence-funding-opportunities/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #accesstofinance #EIB #EIF #EuropeanInvestmentBankEIB #Nato
EU and NATO sponsored programmes partner to increase defence funding opportunities

The EU and NATO’s programmes partner to support funding in the defence sector, to attract more private inves

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European Investment BankSep 9, 2023

Launch of #FinanceInCommon2023 Gender Coalition report 'Financing Programs for Women's Financial Inclusion & #AccessToFinance for Women MSMEs'.
We are proud of this partnership: #PDBs’ efforts to align financing with the #SDGs will only be sustainable if they include women.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EIB/status/1699685383385088070

European Investment BankSep 9, 2023

#PDBs play a key role in promoting gender-lens climate finance. Such investments not only often perform better financially, they also deliver better climate results. Women are key to climate solutions.
—Kristin Lang, #FinanceInCommon2023 'Innovative financing for Gender Equality'
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European Investment Bank: Launch of #FinanceInCommon2023 Gender Coalition report 'Financing Programs for Women's Financial Inclusion &amp; #AccessToFinance for Women MSMEs'.
We are proud of this partnership: #PDBs’ efforts to align financing with the #SDGs will only be sustainable if they include women.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EIB/status/1699685528835109222

European Investment BankMay 31, 2023

We support the transition to a #CircularEconomy, in line with the @EU_Commission's Circular Economy Action Plan.
Our main focus is to increase lending to projects and offer advisory services to project promoters to facilitate #AccessToFinance.
https://bit.ly/3WF2G86 #WCEF2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EIB/status/1663806383441997830

The EIB circular economy guide

The EIB Circular Economy Guide highlights the need and rationale for a circular economy transition, with the aim of inspiring circular change. The guide presents how the EIB supports the circular economy through financing, advisory and awareness raising. It is regularly updated in response to our evolving understanding of circular economy needs and opportunities, reflecting changes in the policy framework.

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Rachel StrohmMar 22, 2023
The question of whether mobile money providers should be regulated like banks has a long history, and in the latest twist #Kenya's Safaricom is being sued for lending out MPesa deposits as overdraft protection despite not being registered as a bank (by Faustine Ngila) // #africanpolitics #accesstofinance https://qz.com/why-safaricom-is-being-sued-by-its-customers-1850194457
Why Safaricom, east Africa's biggest telecom, is getting sued by its customers

Unable to prove that M-Pesa is a bank, Safaricom has been sued for using customer money to lend out as overdrafts, and doing little to curb SIM swap fraud

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Show threadMargareteDec 13, 2022
@globalecoguy welcome here and thank you for the inteoduction. I am a #developmentfinance specialist. Working primarily on #accesstofinance aling agricyltural value chains and climate smart agri is a big topic.
European Investment BankNov 10, 2022

🔴 Live from #COP27
EIB President Fayolle signed a €300m loan with @afreximbank to promote private investments & the global supply chain, boost intra-African trade, improve #accesstofinance and finance projects requiring medium term tenors. #TogetherForImplementation

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EIB/status/1590644345904193536

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🔴 Live from #COP27 EIB President Fayolle signed a €300m loan with @afreximbank to promote private investments & the global supply chain, boost intra-African trade, improve #accesstofinance and finance projects requiring medium term tenors. #TogetherForImplementation

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European Investment BankOct 20, 2022

#FinanceInCommon2022
Through SheInvest & under the African Women Rising Initiative, we are signing a new cooperation with @BRDbank CEO @Ksayinzoga to increase #accesstofinance for women and develop targeted advisory service for women entrepreneurs
➡http://bit.ly/3ggPJQJ

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EIB/status/1583095699272507393

Boosting gender equality around the world: EIB expands SheInvest initiative and strengthens cooperation with Development Bank of Rwanda

Speaking at the Finance in Common Summit in Abidjan, Thomas Östros, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), announced the extension of the Bank’s SheInvest initiative to mobilise another €2 billion of gender-responsive investment across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In less than three years since the launch of SheInvest at the end of 2019, the EIB has mobilised a total of €2 billion of investment to boost gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in Africa, together with its partners on the continent and through Team Europe.

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