Lionesses Business Confidence Index 2022

Across the African continent, women entrepreneurs are pivoting and reinventing themselves to address the multiple ongoing crisis including the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Ukrainian food crisis. As part of the reinvention process, they have and are adapting to new working models including remote work, e-commerce and all types of digital technologies and tools to make them more efficient, visible, and competitive.

As African Women SMEs pivot in this new era, access to financial services is critical to help them grow and reach scale.