Mennonite Economic Development Associates

As an association of Christians, faithful in daily work and committed to sharing abilities and resources, MEDA creates business solutions to poverty.

Our Values

We seek to create, sustain and innovate.

We treat clients, colleagues and partners with respect and dignity.

We promote justice for the poor by helping them develop entrepreneurial skills and seize economic opportunity.

We value partnerships with the poor and others regardless of gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality or religion.

We carefully manage human, financial and environmental resources by emphasizing accountability, discipline and sustainability.

Stimulate market demand and response from targeted audiences using incentives and smart subsidies delivered through rapid deployed technologies, such as e-vouchers.

Implement technology into operations, gathering real-time intelligence, to increase scales, extend client reach and improve project effectiveness.

Design and implement technologies that extend timely information to people in disconnected and marginalized markets, especially those in rural areas.

Building and improving supply chains for health products;

Stimulating demand and usage of health products and commodities, such as our experience with  Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs);

Implementing and operating vouchers and coupon systems, using paper and/or electronic means, to promote uptake of specific commodities by targeted population segments (e.g., pregnant women, children under five);

Assisting entrepreneurs to invest in developing, producing and marketing healthy products (e.g., transforming traditional foods into value-added micro-nutrient fortified products that fill nutritional deficiencies); and

Identifying new business opportunities in the broader health sphere and mobilizing resources to enable entrepreneurs to deliver health solutions (e.g., private sector channels for hypertension therapies, clean cookstoves).

Whether linking women to maternal health services with insurance products, or alternative livelihoods for people with HIV/AIDS, MEDA brings a creative approach.