Today, we celebrate Earth Day, which is an opportunity to highlight all the significant steps we have taken at MEDA to make the earth more livable for ourselves and future generations. It’s also an opportunity to highlight the steps we need to continue to ensure that climate change’s worst effects do not occur.
This year for World Creativity and Innovation Day on April 21st, we’re pleased to highlight an inspiring look into how MEDA’s Nigeria WAY farmer and women entrepreneur clients are innovating and building resilient and stronger farms and businesses.
Created in 1993, the UN World Water Day recognizes and raises awareness of the importance of water and of the 2 billion people living without access to this essential resource.
March 2018 marked the beginning of my journey with MEDA. Today – 4 years later – I am impressed and excited to see how the organization has grown, and it motivates me to continue working Towards an Equal World, while also Building for Impact.
To mark this year’s International Women’s Day theme of ‘Break the Bias’, MEDA’s Technical Directors of Impact Investment Gender Equality & Social Inclusion sat down together to talk about how their two technical areas overlap and what this means for MEDA’s work.
In December 2016, the UHBDP presented its customers with a unique resource for horticulture business development: a business calculator (b-calculator).
Climate change is having a severe impact on agricultural producers in Ukraine. The changing climate has resulted in extreme weather events, like droughts, floods, dry spells, and hailstones, that have become all too common.
Every day, we make financial decisions. This includes negotiating with a merchant, creating holiday plans, or watching a movie on its premiere release. Sound financial decisions can contribute to broader saving habits that boost earnings and increase savings.
Two years ago, countries around the world began implementing lockdowns and other restrictions to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These lockdowns resulted in an unprecedented disruption in global markets, a rise in food systems vulnerabilities, and a socio-economic crisis few of us have witnessed in our lifetime.
As the world struggled to contain the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, another sinister pandemic came to the fore: gender-based violence (GBV).
Untapped Potential: Overcoming Barriers for Female Fund Managers and Entrepreneurs was a roundtable event organized by MEDA as part of the Latin America Impact Investing Forum (FLII): Central America and Caribbean on November 19th, 2021. The event featured an interactive discussion with panelists from FinDev Canada, Add Value Management, Pro Mujer, IADB, and MEDA.
Agriculture in Ghana is essential — over half of the Ghanaian labor force works in the sector. Tree crops are vital to the country’s economy, but the industry has struggled. Less farmland, an aging workforce, and older trees mean less productivity.
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