Business is a powerful tool. It creates opportunity, uplifts communities, and drives the economy.

For 70 years MEDA has been focused on harnessing the power of business to create sustainable and lasting solutions to poverty for entrepreneurs around the globe. From MEDA’s first investment in Paraguay in 1953 to today, we’re honored to have worked with hundreds of thousands of business owners and farmers over the last 7 decades. Brilliant, innovative and resilient entrepreneurs who, with access to the right business supports, have lifted themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty.

So many people have contributed to MEDA’s journey to our 70th year. From donors and investors to business partners, to staff, board members, and volunteers. We haven’t done this alone!  With your support MEDA has equipped entrepreneurs around the globe with access to the resources they need to fulfill their God-given potential to earn a livelihood. 

Friday November 3rd - Hybrid event (online and in-person)
MEDA@70: Innovation and Leadership in International Development

Moderator: Lindsay Wallace (MEDA)

Panelists: Joy Anderson (Criterion Institute), Alejandro Escobar (IAD Bank), Christina Juhasz (Women’s World Banking), Calvin Miller (Food and Agriculture Organization), Dorothy Nyambi (MEDA)

MEDA has been a leader in international development since its establishment 70 years ago. Many of the current ideas and best practices in international development have been central to MEDA’s practice for over fifty years. Examples include microfinance, agricultural finance, impact investing and locally led development. In this session, panelists will explore early programmatic interventions, MEDA’s leadership, how these interventions have evolved over the years and lessons learned along the way.