Client Story: Digital Financial Services Gives the Doughnut Business a Boost in Côte d'Ivoire
Channel: UNSGSA
Date: 2021-07-02

UNSGSA Queen Máxima conducted a virtual country visit with Côte d'Ivoire in June 2021. This included a virtual client visit, where the Special Advocate spoke directly with a representative from Advans, Côte d’Ivoire’s third largest microfinance institution with a focus on digitization, and learned about how the company helped enabled Guillaume Gnankou, founder of a small business selling donuts called Gnank Inspiration, access formal financial services. This video, highlighting Miss Gnankou's business in the Abidjan neighborhood of M'pouto, was played during the virtual country visit. Learn more: https://www.unsgsa.org/stories