ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire — Last week, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative held its first regional summit in Côte d'Ivoire, bringing together entrepreneurs, the private, and public sector and a U.S. delegation, including the daughter of U.S. president, Ivanka Trump.
Just weeks before We-Fi is expected to announce its second allocation of funding, Devex sat down with the head of the We-Fi secretariat, Priya Basu, to learn more about how We-Fi operates and what it looks for in proposals.
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Sara Jerving
Sara Jerving is Devex's East Africa Correspondent based in Nairobi. She is a reporter and producer, whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Vice News, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Nation magazine, among others. Sara holds a master's degree in business and economic reporting from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow.
