Building the media, capital and reach women’s economic power deserves.
• financing gap for women-owned businesses in sub-Saharan Africa (IFC)
• GDP Africa could unlock by narrowing gender disparities (UN Women)
• women worldwide remain unbanked
Women in emerging markets are entering the formal financial system at unprecedented rates. Audience trust, not distribution scale, has become the scarce resource in media. Development finance has shifted decisively toward gender-lens investing. Femina Finance is built to meet all three.
'A multilingual editorial platform, launching in English and French, covering markets, policy, business and wealth-building with the financial lives of women at the centre. Publication, newsletter, podcasts, community and structured learning. Reach, trust and brand: the top of every funnel in the system.
'Debbo Fund: Debbo means woman in Fulani, is our gender-lens investing vehicle, targeting businesses, funds and instruments that serve, are led by, or are built around women. Pipeline informed and pre-qualified by the Media and Reach pillars
Cowrie is the consumer investing on-ramp, designed for women who have never invested before and want to learn by doing, safely, before committing real capital. Finance in the Village delivers grassroots financial literacy to women outside the formal system, in their own languages, in their own communities.