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.
We-Fi was launched in 2017 with initial contributions of $350 million — with a goal of leveraging those funds to over $1 billion. These goals were surpassed in the first round of funding of $120 million, which leveraged over $1.6 billion.