{"id":20244,"date":"2022-08-10T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/visa-standard-bank-launch-grant-to-help-african-women-grow-their-businesses"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:38:53","slug":"visa-standard-bank-launch-grant-to-help-african-women-grow-their-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/visa-standard-bank-launch-grant-to-help-african-women-grow-their-businesses","title":{"rendered":"Visa &amp; Standard Bank Launch Grant to Help African Women Grow Their Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Visa has today announced the launch of a grant towards the African Women Impact Fund (AWIF), formed from a collaboration between Standard Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).<\/p>\n<p>The grant will be utilized to fund the working capital needs of women fund managers across South, East, and West Africa and will target 55 women who responded to AWIF\u2019s call to action and have been part of their programme since 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"outbrain_widget_0\"><\/a>Visa\u2019s grant to the AWIF is an extension of the She\u2019s Next program, a global advocacy program for women-owned businesses that has been expanded to Sub-Saharan Africa to further champion and strengthen African women business owners as they build, sustain, and advance their businesses.Addressing challenges faced by women in the financial sector<\/p>\n<p>Women fund managers in Africa continue to face numerous challenges in building sustainable businesses. Research shows slow-moving progress in the visibility and inclusion of women fund managers due to systematic barriers and investor bias.<\/p>\n<p>With African women accounting for just 7.6% of private equity and women-led businesses receiving only 7% of Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) in emerging markets, this highlights the opportunities that exist to reduce the current gender gaps.<\/p>\n<p>This is further reflected in the less than 1.3% of the $69.1-trillion global financial assets that are managed by women and people of colour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim of She\u2019s Next is to help women-owned businesses thrive and our ambition with this grant is to enable access in a space where women-owned firms are under-represented. Through this programme we aim to ensure that women are not only recipients but become decision-makers where institutional funding for businesses is concerned\u201d said Aida Diarra, Senior Vice President &amp; Head of Sub-Saharan Africa at Visa.<\/p>\n<p>Accelerating funding to drive impact<\/p>\n<p>Visa says that its funding will be directed towards activities that will assist the business owners with improving their technical skillsets, becoming investible to larger institutional investors, and running profitable businesses that will in turn invest in others including small and medium businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe funding will ensure that these business owners are able to focus on growing their enterprises without the burden of managing short-term debt and other operational costs related to building a successful business\u201d added Diarra.<\/p>\n<p>The areas of development to be addressed by the grant include:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are elated to have Visa partner with Standard Bank and grateful for their meaningful contribution to the African Women Impact Fund,\u201d adds Lindeka Dzedze Global Markets Head, Strategic Partnerships at Standard Bank Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group believes that the economic empowerment of women is essential to raising Africa\u2019s economic output and creating sustainable jobs, especially within the small enterprises that drive growth on the continent,\u201d she concludes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. 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