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MiDA Associate Director Yeabsira G. Zewdie co-authored an article with Southern African Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SAVCA) Program Manager Melanie de Nysschen on the importance of women inclusivity in the financial sector: "In our professional experience, we’ve both worked with female entrepreneurs and have seen how they can use small amounts of seed capital to grow successful SMEs. Imagine what women could do if we played a larger role in distributing capital to female founders, helping them scale and bring more products, services and jobs to the market with women in mind." Read more:

Changing the Gatekeepers: Why Female Fund Managers Are the Key to Unlocking More Inclusive Capital - NextBillion Just around 10% of senior investment professionals are women – here's why increasing that number would benefit female entrepreneurs.

Among our many successful 2021 events, MiDA was honored to co-host the launch of the Asset Owners Forum South Africa, which includes some of the largest pension funds in South Africa aiming to collaborate on investments that support local econ development: https://bit.ly/3sDj6AP

USAID INVEST’s Vanessa Holcomb-Mann and MiDA CEO Aymeric Saha discuss an innovative bond issuance that will help boost homeownership across West Africa earlier this month. Read more:

This Bond Could Be a Breakthrough in Combatting West Africa’s Housing Shortage For most West Africans, homeownership is out of reach. Rapid population growth and urbanization have created a housing shortage…