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We believe business solutions are effective interventions to address poverty. Through a market systems approach and strategic partnerships, MEDA enables access to finance and provides business and technical expertise to build transformative agri-food market systems that create decent work, allowing traditionally excluded groups to become active participants in a sustainable economy.
Our nearly 70 years of experience have proven that inclusive, sustainable agri-food market systems are built upon the cross-cutting themes of gender equality and social inclusion, innovation and technology adoption, partnership and contextual knowledge, and environmental sustainability and climate action.
We are responding and adapting to help alleviate the impacts of inequality, climate change, market isolation, and exclusion from markets through our work to create business solutions to poverty. Social inequalities, climate change, inequitable access to economies and markets, and lack of foreign investment are challenges our world is facing. In order to respond to global changes with sustainable and successful solutions, we have a comprehensive plan that is designed to be intersectional in its solutions. Our Theory of Change directs and guides our work. It lays out how we create business solutions to poverty.
We provide advisory services and create linkages to build stronger supply chains that benefit all types of market actors
We provide debt, equity and incentive financing to create more and better jobs
We provide advisory services and create linkages to build stronger supply chains that benefit all types of market actors
We provide debt, equity and incentive financing to create more and better jobs
MEDA provides business and technical expertise: advisory services and linkages for building and strengthening supply chains, including:
AND blended finance: concessional debt, equity and incentive financing to help firms and entrepreneurs grow their businesses sustainably and equitably, creating more and better work
Small-scale food producers and Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) within agri-food market systems
IN partnership with South and North-based organizations, businesses, and networks such as:
MEDA will contribute to sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth).
This will result in a variety of positive outcomes for:
Small-scale Food Producers
Small & Medium-sized Enterprises
MEDA – Mennonite Economic Development Associates – is an international economic development organization that creates business solutions to poverty.
MEDA International is a Canadian non-share capital not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act.
Mennonite Economic Development Associates is a 501(c)(3) status non-profit organization in the United States: EIN 23-7398678. Mennonite Economic Development Associates of Canada is a registered charity in Canada: No. 107 691 057 RR0001.
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