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  • Women Creating Wealth: Calling women entrepreneurs

    The Women Creating Wealth programme of the Graça Machel Trust is giving you the chance to fast-track your way to powerful business coaching. Apply before 24 June 2025.

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  • Cartier Women's Initiative 2025: Apply now

    Cartier's regional and thematic awards recognize and fund talented impact entrepreneurs from around the world who are leveraging business as a force for good.

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  • 50MAWSP implementing RECs hold coordination meeting

    COMESA, EAC and ECOWAS, the three regional economic communities implementing the 50 Million African Women Speak digital platform met 24-25 April in Arusha, Tanzania to review progress of the initiative.

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  • TiE Women Program 2025 for women entrepreneurs (Up to $50,000)

    Applications are now open for the TiE Women Program 2025, an incredible opportunity for women founders to showcase their innovative business ideas on a global stage and win up to $50,000 in cash prizes.

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  • Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa 2025

    Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa 2025 is Phase Two of an initiative to strengthen climate innovation across Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.

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  • Funding opportunity for women-focused tech solutions (Up to $100,000)

    The UNICEF Venture Fund is calling for applications from start-ups developing cutting-edge tech solutions to improve access to quality health care and services. Deadline: 8 May 2025

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  • Co-investment grants for women in Kenya

    Applications are open for the Women Entrepreneurship Incubator Program (WEIP) aimed at supporting Women-Owned Small and Growing Businesses (WO-SGBs) across Kenya. Application deadline: February 6, 2025

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  • Grant opportunity for SMEs and entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector

    The Agribusiness Challenge Fund calls for proposals from African SMEs and entrepreneurs that can create work opportunities at scale for young women and men, young persons with disabilities, and refugee youth.

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  • Call for Applications: Fashionomics Africa incubator and accelerator programs

    The Fashionomics program has opened its call for applications for the second cohort. Interested? Use the links below to register.

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  • NWEC organizes National Women Entrepreneurs Award

    The National Women Entrepreneurs Award 2024 will celebrate women entrepreneurs for their outstanding contributions to business and society.

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  • Madagascan women and youth get trained on regional trade

    COMESA holds a multistakeholder dialogue to sensitize women and youth in business about trade facilitation tools for regional trade.

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  • Ye! Youth Ecopreneur Programme: Support for green entrepreneurs

    The YECO Programme aims to support and nurture the next generation of green entrepreneurs by providing access to essential resources, mentorship, seed capital, and networking opportunities. Deadline: 22 March 2024.

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  • 50MAWSP - Training for African Women Entrepreneurs. Applications are open!

    The 50MAWSP Bootcamp for African Women Entrepreneurs is here. Applications for this program are open today: February 28, 2024. The Bootcamp will provide training and mentoring sessions to women entrepreneurs from 36 African countries.

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  • Calling women entrepreneurs leading innovative change

    Are you a woman entrepreneur driving change in Africa? The Bayer Foundation Women Empowerment Award (WEA) is looking for you. Deadline: 27 March 2024.

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  • 100 women and youth in Mauritius get sensitized about 50MAWSP

    The women and youth were equipped with the necessary tools to enhance their participation in regional trade.

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  • She WINS Africa: Opportunity for African women entrepreneurs

    The IFC has opened applications for the She WINS Africa programme, designed to assist women entrepreneurs across sub–Saharan Africa.

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  • NWEC holds sales exhibition for women entrepreneurs

    The National Women Entrepreneur Council organized a “Sales Exhibition for Women Entrepreneurs” whose key objective was to promote locally manufactured products.

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  • Empowerment of women and the fight against gender-based violence

    Collaboration between the Ministry of Population, Social Protection and Promotion of Women

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  • COMESA Meets Stakeholders at the Zimbabwe Trade Expo

    COMESA Secretariat is participating at the 62nd Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) which is being held in Bulawayo City from 26 – 30 April 2022.

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  • Zambia Deaf Society joins 50 Million African Women Speak platform

    The Ministry of Gender held a consultative meeting with the Zambia Deaf Society to discuss avenues of collaboration.

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  • Convention to promote trade in agriculture commodities

    COMESA Secretary General says diversification of agricultural exports away from primary commodities key to intra-African trade expansion.

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  • The 50 Million African Women have their say, the golden opportunity for Burundians

    In Burundi, as elsewhere in Africa, women entrepreneurs face several obstacles in their initiatives such as limited access to information and networking opportunities, low levels of education or training, weak property rights. … Funded by the AfDB, the 50 Million African Women Speak Up (50MAWSP) networking platform project aims to provide solutions to these challenges.

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  • EAC Launches the 50 Million Platform in Kenya

    As part of the International Women's Day celebrations, on 8th March 2021; the Kenyan government, in partnership with the East African Community, launched the 50 Million African Women Speak Project Networking Platform from the Kenya School of Government (KSG), Kabete Campus, Nairobi.

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  • 50 Million African Women Speak platform launched in Eswatini

    Eswatini became the fifth COMESA Member State to launch the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MAWSP) platform on Thursday 15 October

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  • National launching of the 50 Million African Woman Speak Platform in Togo

    Women entrepreneurs in Togo now have the opportunity to promote their products internationally in record time. The Minister of Social Action, Promotion of Women and Literacy, Adjovi Lonlongno Apedo-Anakoma, chaired the launch on March 18, 2021 in Lomé. .

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  • President Zewde launches 50 Million African Women Speak platform in Ethiopia

    President urges women to embrace it and use it to grow their businesses.

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  • Guiné-Bissau Lança Oficialmente a Campanha Mediático da Plataforma Digital 50 MAWSP.

    Cerimónia do Lançamento Oficial da Campanha Mediático da Plataforma Digital 50MAWSP.

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  • GUINEE BISSAU : DAY 8 MARCH: VISIT THE STRUCTURES OF WOMEN IN THE REGION OF CACHÉU - NORTHERN COUNTRY

    WOMEN'S MINISTRY, FAMILY AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY OF GUINEA-BISSAU, CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (MARCH 8), WITH WOMEN'S RURAL STRUCTURES

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  • UNFPA Prepares the VII Country Development Program (CPD) with the Government of Guinea-Bissau (Ministry of Women, Family and Social Solidarity

    UNFPA started today, February 26, 2021, a working meeting with technicians from the Ministry of Women, Family and Social Solidarity, with a view to the elaboration of the VII Country Development Program valid for the next 5 years (2022 - 2027).

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  • COMESA launches 50MAWS platform in Sudan

    The platform will help Sudanese business women to connect with local regional markets

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  • COMESA Launches 30 Days of Women in Business Campaign

    The campaign will offer women in the region an opportunity to connect with their role models

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  • Empowerment of Women in West Africa

    African Development Bank allocates US $ 320,000 grant for gender mainstreaming in ECOWAS digital financial operations

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  • Malawi unveils 50 Million African Women Speak platform

    The platform will help women to develop market intelligence skills and build networks, says Minister of Trade.

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  • Mauritius launches 50 Million African Women Speak platform

    We are duty-bound to find solutions to ensure that women become part of the transformation in the COMESA region...

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  • Collaboration between the Ministry of Population, Social Protection and Promotion of Women

    Empowerment of women and the fight against gender-based violence

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  • Are you based in Seychelles? This is for you!

    Check out this short video guide on how to sign up to 50MAWSP.

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  • 50MAWSP Nigeria rolls out ‘Pink Trade Fair’ for women entrepreneurs

    50MAWSP Nigeria Pink Trade Fair held at Abuja, Nigeria on 4th-5th December, 2020

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  • The Republic of Uganda launches the 50 Million African Women Digital Platform

    The Women Economic empowerment Platform launched this 1st of December comes when Uganda is seeking come at a moment when Uganda is seeking to increase ICT penetration and use of ICT services for social and economic development including narrowing the gender digital divide

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  • Qualities to build a more economically productive society

    The Lance d'Afrique Burundi Foundation (LAB Foundation) in partnership with the IPREBAD Association is organizing a meeting with businesswomen to raise women's awareness of self-esteem and confidence, which are personal qualities for building a more economically productive.

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  • From informal to formal

    400 women have been trained in the management of Associations and, as a result, 16 associations recognized by law have been created.

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  • Vocational training skills for transformation

    Under the support from the United States (US) based Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the Women Empowerment Program (WEP) is helping vulnerable women to move away from back breaking labourrhelping women

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  • Women Empowerment Agency organizes a training on Financial Education in Burundi

    This training was organized for Women Entrepreneurs from various production sectors. The topics covered were related to budgeting, debt management and savings.

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  • Creation of the women's factory in CI (USIFEM)

    Women's industrialization funded

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  • National Launch of the 50 Million African Women Platform in Rwanda

    As part of the International Rural Women’s Day celebration, on 15th October 2020; the Rwandan government in partnership with the East African Community launched the 50 Million African Women Speak Project Networking Platform in Musanze, Northern Rwanda

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  • The Economic Empowerment of Rural Women at the Heart of the Burundian Government

    The Minister of National Solidarity calls for more support for the work of women, encouraging them to work in association in order to increase production and entrepreneurship and strengthen solidarity between members of associations as well as national cohesion.

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  • Official Launch of the “50Million African Women Speak Out” Project in Burundi

    The quot50Million African Women Speak Outquot project was officially launched in Burundi on September 28, 2020 by the Minister of Human Rights, Social Affairs and Gender, Mrs. Imelde SABUSHIMIKE

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  • Togo celebrates rural women

    The Togolese rural woman is in the spotlight

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  • Training of Trainers on the use of the 50 Million African Women Platform

    On the 13th and 14th October 2020, the East African Community in Partnership with the Rwandan Ministry in charge of Gender Affairs organised a training of trainers on the use of the 50 Million African Women Platform

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  • The Gambia has a new Women Enterprise Fund Bill

    The Gambia Women Enterprise Bill passed

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  • Training of Women Entrepreneurs on Business Plan

    Training of Women Entrepreneurs by GWCC

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