Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA)

MEDA works alongside our partners and clients to help: i) alleviate poverty, ii) support sustainable business growth and livelihoods, iii) women move into more valued and equitable roles in their economies, iv) businesses and small entrepreneurs gain access to financial services including investment, adopt clean technologies/climate-smart approaches, and minimize their environmental footprint, and v) improve their economies. MEDA's development programs include a full range of economic development tools: financial services, improved technology, business training and better access to markets. Our development program work most often focuses on women, youth and people living in poverty in rural areas.

MEDA programs facilitates the connection of faith and work through discussions, publications and conventions for participants.

MEDA develops and invests in vehicles that assist low-income persons in developing countries through the provision of credit and equity financing that creates businesses and income generation to assist the poor.