Topics: Social issues, General

Mohizi is a small-scale, women-led plantain chips producer in Côte d'Ivoire that has been able to formalise and grow its business with loans and support from COFINA. Photo: Axel Hallgren/Swedfund

Closing MSME finance gap in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal

Swedfund has invested EUR 20 million in Compagnie Financière Africaine (COFINA), a leading mesofinance institution that provides loans to micro, small and medium-sized businesses in West and Central Africa to enable them to develop and grow their business.

Reducing poverty through sustainable investments

Swedfund is the Swedish government’s Development Finance Institution, contributing through sustainable investment to economic and environmental development as well as a positive impact to society in the world poorest countries.

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