A startup finance program organized by the Ecobank Group and the African Union Development Agency New Partnership for Africa’s Development produced more than 200 graduates (AUDA-NEPAD) More than 200 graduates of the inaugural Ecobank MSME Training for Financing Programme attended a virtual graduation ceremony hosted by the pan-African bank and the AUDA-NEPAD recently. Nigeria, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, and Togo were among the eight nations participating in the MSME Academy’s pilot phase. The MSME Academy is part of AUDA-transformational NEPAD’s “100,000 MSMEs” program, a continental reaction to COVID-19, which was launched in 2020 by the Ecobank Group […]