Introduction
Introduction
The Women’s Empowerment & Investment Group (WEIG) is a women-led Ghanaian Investment Holding Company set up to efficiently channel capital into high-potential Small & Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) that prioritise female empowerment & entrepreneurship. WEIG does this by making permanent capital investments of between $200K and $2.0M in women focused greenfield and brownfield business opportunities in Africa’s “KINGS” economies namely Kenya, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal of which Ghana is its launch and primary focus country. WEIG typically seeks majority or significant minority positions in the businesses it invests in and thus plays an active role in the management of these businesses by integrating them into the WEIG organization and providing world-class business development, management and back of-house support. Some of the WEIG’s goals and objectives include:
- To be Africa’s preferred SME investment partner in its chosen sectors
- Providing much needed capital & expertise to promising African SMEs
- Birth and grow innovative African businesses that prioritize women’s issues
- To create employment opportunities for women in Africa
- To create superior value for investors and stakeholders
- To be a catalyst for socially responsible African businesses
