Financial Access/Gender Lens Investing

According to the World Bank and International Financing Corporation, Women-owned businesses currently face a 1.7 trillion dollars financing gap.

In Africa, today, women entrepreneurs remain the highest in number but still are unserved or underserved with about 42 billion USD gap to access capital.

WISE promotes innovative ways for financial access and linkages to women in various stages such as; business ideas, early stage to growth stage in green business sectors such as agribusiness, creatives, clean energy, technology, waste management, health, and retail among others.

We partner with local banks, Microfinance Institutions, SACCOs, Private equity firms and Investors.

We believe that investing in women is the most unrealized asset towards sustainability.