Worldwide SHEroes: An organization’s quest to empower women globally
Sahera Sumar is the epitome of what a global citizen represents. Having travelled to over 25 countries and delivered programs ...
Tag: women entrepreneurs
African Development Bank partner’s with African Guarantee Fund to provide loans to women entrepreneurs
The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) program agreed to partner with the African Guarantee ...
OPEC Fund woos SMEs in East Africa
Agri-SMEs in East Africa face an acute need for finance tailored to their specific requirements.
Lifting women entrepreneurs in African agriculture
The female economy is the world’s largest emerging market and could potentially add US$12 trillion to the global GDP by ...
Funding women’s innovative projects revs Africa’s economy
The disproportionate and negative impact of the pandemic on women and girls, especially in the economic sphere, creates a need ...
Absa Kenya’s US$ 100 million kitty for women entrepreneurs
Absa Bank Kenya has announced a Ksh10 billion fund to advance credit to women-owned small and medium enterprises over the ...
Angel investors to fund women entrepreneurs in Uganda and Ethiopia
RENEW and the Impact Angel Network (IAN) have committed capital to a fund dedicated to investing in women-owned and led companies in ...
The business of being fat in Africa
When Susan Ndung'u was struggling with her weight, she didn’t think it would give rise to her now most precious ...
Africa’s trading blocs roll out platform to boost women entrepreneurs
In mid-June this year, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) launched a women economic empowerment initiative. Dubbed the ...
SheTrades aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to market by 2020
Women empowerment has been a key ingredient in most countries, giving them total support to better their lives in one ...
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