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Using MEDA's Program Plus approach, which calls for partnership, to drive sustainable change around the world.

We’re creating global change in two powerful ways

MEDA Programs

We partner with local entrepreneurs to remove barriers, increase profits and productivity, and build thriving agribusinesses.

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MEDA Investments

We invest directly or indirectly in promising small and medium enterprises that create jobs and strengthen local economies through the MEDA Risk Capital Fund.

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Impact data for new programs will not be reflected until the next fiscal year.

Data from our past fiscal year: July 2024 - June 2025
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Countries where MEDA Programs are active
Countries where MEDA Programs and Investments are active
Countries where MEDA Investments are active
Decent Jobs Data
Decent Jobs: individual entrepreneurs or smallholder farmers if their work achieves at least one of the following:
  • Increased yield of 25% or more compared to baseline
  • Increased revenue of 50% or more compared to baseline
  • Increased net income of 25% or more compared to baseline
Client Data

Clients: individuals, businesses and other organizations directly benefiting from financial or technical assistance from a MEDA intervention as part of a formal contract, including the following sub-categories:

  • Smallholder farmers or entrepreneurs registered by MEDA, partners, service providers, or lead firm or business receiving matching grant from MEDA.
  • Micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs)
  • Other entities, such as alliances directly benefiting from a MEDA intervention (e.g. market alliance, cooperative of farmers, chamber of commerce, financial institutions that receive grants)
Investment type

MEDA is directly or indirectly invested in businesses through the MEDA Risk Capital Fund.

Indirect investment: An investment where MEDA’s interest in an enterprise is held through another entity rather than by MEDA itself.

Direct investment: An investment where MEDA provides capital through a loan or acquires an ownership interest in an enterprise.

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Closed Project

Adaptation and Valorization of Entrepreneurship in Irrigated Agriculture (AVENIR)

  • Countries: Senegal
Active Project

Creating Employment Opportunities for Young People in West Africa’s Rice Value Chain (RIZAO)

  • Countries: Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Togo
Closed Project

Ethiopians Motivating Enterprises to Rise in Trade and Agri-Business (EMERTA)

  • Countries: Ethiopia
Active Project

Feminist Entrepreneurs Growing Green Economies (FEGGE)

  • Countries: Tanzania
Active Project

Greater Rural Opportunities for Women 2 (GROW2)

  • Countries: Ghana
Active Project

Leveraging Equality for Gender-Inclusive Economic Development (LEGEND)

  • Countries: Kenya
Active Project

Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund (The Fund)

  • Countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda
Closed Project

Moving Towards Inclusive Prosperity in Nicaragua’s Agri-Food and Export Sectors (Technolinks+)

  • Countries: Nicaragua
Active Project

Opportunities for Circular and Inclusive Diversification in Agriculture (OCIDA)

  • Countries: Honduras
Closed Project

RAPID Banana

  • Countries: Tanzania, Uganda
Active Project

Resilience and Inclusion through Investment for Sustainable Agrikultura (RIISA)

  • Countries: The Philippines
Active Project

Resilient and Inclusive Agri-food Systems Empowering Women and Youth in Nigeria (RISE)

  • Countries: Nigeria
Closed Project

USAID ATTEINDRE

  • Countries: Haiti
Closed Project

ViRCA Plus Cassava Seed Distribution

  • Countries: Kenya
Active Project

Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa Deployment (ViRCA Deployment)

  • Countries: Kenya, Rwanda
Active Project

WEAVE Africa

  • Countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda
Active Project

Women’s Empowerment for Central America (WE4CA)

  • Countries: Guatemala, Nicaragua
Closed Project

Youth Entrepreneurship and Women’s Empowerment in Northern Nigeria (Nigeria WAY)

  • Countries: Nigeria

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