(Togo First) – Ecobank announced it will launch a program to finance and support female African entrepreneurs. The program baptized Ellever mainly aims to help the businesswomen, in all 33 countries where the Lomé-based group is present, boost their turnover through financial solutions and added-value services.
Ellever will also allow its beneficiaries to “secure loans at favorable interest rates as well as value-added services such as training and networking opportunities,” said Joséphine Anan-Ankomah, group executive for commercial banking at Ecobank.
“ We are pleased to see that Ecobank group, through the Ellever program, gives women a chance to take their rightful place in the economic development of our country, and the whole continent even. We will work with the private sector to maximize the potential of African women and create inclusive business opportunities ,” said for her part Myriam Doussou-d’Almeida, minister of grassroots development, youth and youth employment, present at the program’s launching ceremony.
Let’s recall that Ecobank already runs, in partnership with AUDA-NEPAD, a project which is aimed at supporting 100,000 businesses in Africa. The latter was announced last June.
Ayi Renaud Dossavi