WEDP

Women Entrepreneurship
Development Programme

Our Goal

Expand access to finance for urban

women business owners in Ethiopias
missing middle.
Large

Loans > 1M Birr

Missing
Middle
Loans < 100k
Micro

What We Do
Provide technical assistance to MFIs to
enable them to disburse a credit line of:

$45.9M
Results as of April, 2015
In the second year of lending

Where We Work

4
12

Regions and six

Ethiopian cities.

2560

Entrepreneurs Trained

Our Partners

MFIs

pre-selected by the
World Bank.

WEDP Coordinates With

Clients.

Figures provided by FEMSEDA

80% of participants
rated the training
as excellent, 19% as
good, and 1% as
average.

WEDP Serves the Missing Middle

WEDP Impact
Avg Loan Size by Sector (ETB)

300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
-00

Average jobs
created by WEDP
borrowers1:

Collateral Coverage Required by

MFIs Reduced from 200% to 125%
300%
200%
100%
0%
Before WEDP
Collateral Required

Self-Reported Skill
Improvements from WEDP
Training
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Customer Service Accounting and
Bookkeeping

Understanding
Income and
Expenses

Today
Loan Requested

Reaching New Borrowers

First-time
borrowers as
a portion of
the
portfolio:

66%

For more information, contact

Fran Toomey-Mys at:
frances_toomeymys@dai.com
Or Francesco
Strobbe at:
fstrobbe@worldbank.org

As projected by WEDP borrowers over time, as a result of

the WEDP loan.