Investing in Young Businesses in Africa - Women Entrepreneurship for Africa: Business Development Services and Access to Finance (IYBA WE4A) Contract related to: Investing in Young Businesses in Africa - Women Entrepreneurship for Africa: Business Development Services and Access to Finance (IYBA WE4A) - Building into the logic of the flagship Team Europe Initiative ¿ Investing in Young Business in Africa (TEI IYBA), the WEE-FI Africa programme will support fostering decent job creation and socio-economic resilience and inclusion in SSA, by supporting the improvement of women-friendly entrepreneurial ecosystems and ensuring greater access to finance, including for youth.This Action will include more concretely the two following components:1.Women Entrepreneurship (EUR 25 million): Building on the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) programme supporting female entrepreneurs in selected countries in Africa with entrepreneurial training, improvements of the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women and increased access to finance. The action will have three main building blocks : (a) support to women entrepreneurs via entrepreneurship training and access to seed finance, (b) reinforcing the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women entrepreneurs (including working with ecosystem actors such as chambers of commerce, private sector organizations and especially those women led, women entrepreneur networks, accelerators, sector specific entrepreneurship training initiatives as well as financial institutions) and (c) improving access to finance for women entrepreneurs. This component will directly contribute to building blocks 1,2 and 3 of the TEI IYBA. &nbsp;2.Financial Inclusion (EUR 2 million): This component aims at reinforcing financial inclusion policies and support policy makers and regulators in SSA through four main building blocks ¿ (a) Digital Financial Services (DFS) and Consumer risks: activities will aim to advance an enabling and safe regulatory environment for DFS; (b) Targeted financial inclusion policies for women and youth through activities that will aim at strengthening capacity of financial sector policymakers and regulators; (c) Address climate risks and improve green climate policies through activities that advance conceptual and practical understanding and skills on Inclusive Green Finance (IFG) policies and (d) Amplify public-private dialogue and exchange to tackle the financial inclusion agenda to deepen engagement and collaboration between the private sector actors and regulators; It has a clear link to the IYBA TEI and will contribute to building block 3, by enabling an inclusive and attractive business environment for investors and businesses.The Action will contribute to the realisation of the EU Gender Action Plan 2021-2025 GAP III, in particular to its thematic area of engagement ¿Strengthening economic and social rights and empowering girls and women¿.