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The Africa Investment Forum will hold its 2024 Market Days from 4-6 December in Rabat, Morocco.

The event will bring together investors, transaction sponsors, heads of government and development finance institutions to advance investment-ready deals toward market close.

Since its founding in 2018, the Forum platform has mobilized nearly $180 billion in investment interest for transformative energy, infrastructure and agriculture projects, cementing its standing as Africa’s pre-eminent investment platform for global investors.

Market Days 2024 will feature transactions in a range of sectors that have been sourced from the investment pipelines of the Africa Investment Forum’s partners. They are the African Development Bank, Africa50, Africa Finance Corporation, Afreximbank, Development Bank of Southern Africa, European Investment Bank, Islamic Development Bank, and Trade and Development Bank.

Please check the Africa Investment Forum web site(link is external) regularly for more information and updates about the 2024 Market Days.

Between the late teen and early adulthood years, many young women in low-income countries undergo critical transitions – leaving school, entering the workforce, marriage, motherhood – that shape not only the rest of their lives but often those of future generations as well. Research has shown that well-designed financial inclusion initiatives can help them successfully navigate these transitions. But what exactly does “well-designed” mean?

To answer this question, CGAP has compiled insights from two decades of industry experience showing how to offer customized financial inclusion strategies for different segments of young women. Join us to learn more about five key components of these strategies – product design, product delivery, financial capability building, social intermediation, and commercial viability – and hear firsthand practitioner perspectives on applying these strategies to reach young women at different stages of financial independence. Together, we will discuss how we can help more young women rise up the financial inclusion ladder.

Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST