14 Could 2025, Nairobi – ABSA BANK KENYA has right now introduced a strategic partnership with Ladies’s World Banking, aimed toward deepening monetary inclusion and selling financial empowerment of ladies entrepreneurs throughout Kenya.
This partnership was signed on the sidelines of the Ladies’s World Banking companions breakfast held in Nairobi. It’ll concentrate on enhancing Absa’s Ladies in Enterprise (WIB) proposition by leveraging on Ladies’s World Banking’s worldwide experience in women-focused monetary inclusion to offer modern monetary and non-financial options tailor-made to the wants of feminine entrepreneurs. This collaboration is anticipated to assist the expansion of women-led enterprises by delivering modern merchandise, constructing their entry to credit score and capability.
Talking concerning the partnership, Absa Financial institution Kenya’s Director of Enterprise Banking, Elizabeth Wasunna – Ochwa, described the collaboration as a step in the precise course within the Financial institution’s efforts to champion inclusion in banking.
“This partnership creates the proper platform that mixes Absa’s native expertise with the Ladies’s World Banking’s international experience to empower girls enterprenuers with the instruments, coaching and monetary increase they should develop sustainable companies. At Absa Financial institution, we’ve been investing in applications and partnerships that assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a selected concentrate on girls entrepreneurs. We’re enthusiastic about this partnership with Ladies’s World Banking as we work in the direction of reinforcing Absa’s function as a pacesetter in inclusive finance,” mentioned Ms. Wasunna.
Because the launch of the Absa SHE propositions, Absa Financial institution has supported over a million girls entrepreneurs in Kenya, offering them with the requisite monetary and non-financial assist to scale up and take their companies to the following stage.
In accordance with an MoU signed by the 2 companions, the settlement permits for a number of collaborative tasks, every guided by a selected Assertion of Work (SOW), with the primary proposed SOW targeted on supporting girls in agribusiness- an important sector that has remained largely underfinanced significantly for girls from underserved communities.
Talking concerning the partnership, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Ladies’s World Banking, mentioned it is going to convey inclusive monetary companies to extra girls, particularly these from underserved societies.
“At Ladies’s World Banking, we’re thrilled to accomplice with Absa Financial institution on this modern initiative to increase girls’s entry to finance and capacity-building. This collaboration displays our shared dedication to assist girls entrepreneurs at each stage of their journey, unlocking the market alternatives they should develop sustainable companies. As we sit up for the primary mission targeted on empowering girls within the agricultural sector, we see super potential to drive long-term financial development, resilience and prosperity for girls and their communities.”
As extra monetary establishments work in the direction of gender-responsive banking fashions, the Absa-WWB alliance not solely seeks to function a catalyst for significant change by delivering sustainable options, but additionally break systemic limitations that ladies face in accessing monetary and enterprise assist.
About Absa Financial institution Kenya:
Absa Financial institution Kenya Plc is listed on the Nairobi Securities Alternate and is one in every of Kenya’s main monetary establishments. The Financial institution has been a serious participant in Kenya’s monetary panorama, engaged in private and institutional banking, bancassurance and asset administration.
The Financial institution’s regional and international footprint allows it to supply end-to-end monetary options to retail and institutional purchasers. It has additionally been related to a number of market firsts, such because the launch of the primary ATM, WhatsApp banking, Sharia-compliant banking, and unsecured lending.
Absa Financial institution Kenya has a presence in 38 counties. It has 83 branches, 208 ATMs and a strong Web and cellular banking platform. The financial institution’s function is to empower Africa’s tomorrow, collectively… one story at a time.
For extra data, write to: communications@absa.africa
About Ladies’s World Banking:
For over 45 years, Ladies’s World Banking has been devoted to serving the practically 1 billion girls excluded by the formal monetary sector. As an NGO, we accomplice with monetary establishments and policymakers to design, develop and implement options and applications that facilitate systemic change for girls. As an investor, we advance girls within the office and as prospects by means of direct fairness – to convey them safety, prosperity, and independence. Since 2018 Ladies’s World Banking has reached greater than 86 million girls serving to to alter not solely their lives but additionally of their households, communities, and nations. To study extra about Ladies’s World Banking, go to womensworldbanking.org.
For extra data, write to: er@womensworldbanking.org
