By Annie Sugrue
Annie Sugrue is a consultant focusing on sustainable development, gender empowerment and equality in access to finance and enterprise development services, and small, medium and micro enterprises (SMME) development.
Annie says: “Loans are not designed around women (who often need short-term, small-scale loans at low interest rates) – allowing the use of less formal proof of income from informal rental of rooms/backyards and for instance the use of moveable assets as collateral would help.”
