Location
Côte d'Ivoire
Topic
Access to Finance, Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups, Women's Economic Empowerment
Beneficiary
Banque Nationale d'Investissement
Status
Completed
Year
2023
BNI is an investment bank and a Société à Participation Financière Publique Majoritaire (Company with majority public shareholding), and is authorised as a banking institution by the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union) Banking Commission and the CBWAS/BCEAO. It performs the triple function of investment bank, refinancing bank and advisory bank in Côte d’Ivoire.
BNI has already carried out a gender audit and has a gender policy and a gender action plan for 2024-2026. The support of the ICR Facility will contribute to the implementation of this action plan.
The work plan developed jointly by the ICR Facility and BNI focuses on gender mainstreaming in the bank’s activities, and more specifically on the following topics:
At the end of this intervention, BNI will have financial products adapted to the needs of its female customers.
This intervention took place under ICR Facility project, co-funded by the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF), together with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the British Council. The ICR Facility was implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (German Development Cooperation, GIZ), the British Council, Expertise France, and Stichting Nederlandse Ontwikkelingsorganisatie (Netherlands Development Organisation, SNV).
