MTN Ghana, in collaboration with Geisha Soap and Charter House, has reaffirmed its commitment to women’s empowerment by sponsoring the National Women’s Summit 2025.
The event was held on Friday, March 7, at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC).
Speaking at the event, The Chief Enterprise Business Officer at MTN Ghana, Angela Mensah-Poku, highlighted the company’s dedication to supporting women entrepreneurs, particularly those in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector.
Madam Mensah-Poku stated that economic parity cannot be achieved without empowering women, particularly in Ghana’s informal sector, where a significant number of businesses are female-led.
To bridge this gap, she announced that MTN Ghana will soon launch a new digital product designed specifically for women entrepreneurs.
“We’ll be launching a new product in the next few weeks that seeks to support women on their digital journey, give them access to markets, give them access to mentorship and capability training, as well as exciting products and services from MTN business,” she stated.
“We thought, what better place to come and outdoor this than the summit today, and with International Women’s Day being tomorrow, we said that now is the time. We believe that accelerate for action is one of the calls to duty, and we’re excited to be part of this summit.”
One of the biggest barriers to growth for women in business, Madam Mensah-Poku noted, is limited access to capital.
She noted that many women-led SMEs struggle to secure funding due to the informal nature of their businesses and lack of required financial documentation.
To tackle this, she stated that MTN Ghana is working closely with banks, SME Ghana, and Nova to provide training in areas such as bookkeeping, marketing, and tax compliance.
Additionally, the company is exploring innovative financial solutions that leverage mobile money transactions as an alternative credit assessment tool.
“For example, if you’re a Momo user, a merchant user, can you use those statements to go and get a bank loan? Can you use some of our technology that looks at how we predict if you pay your loans back?
“If you’ve taken SOS credit, and you pay it back every two days, we have technology and algorithms that can actually see this,” she explained.
Madam Mensah-Poku stated that MTN Ghana’s strategy also involves collaborating with banks, insurance companies, and the MTN Foundation to offer comprehensive support to women-led SMEs.
She said the company believes that by equipping women with the right resources, the ripple effect will extend to entire communities, fostering national economic growth.
“That for us, is a priority, and will continue to be a priority from now till when. So that’s the reason why we’re focusing on it, as well as that, we’re focusing on women in particular.
“Once you empower a woman, you empower a community. And so therefore, how can we do that better as MTN Ghana and as MTN business? That’s why we’re here. That’s why we’re willing to support,” she added.
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