The EAC 50 Million Project team meets the Project Country Team and Women empowerment organizations in Kigali to prepare the launch of the Platform.

The EAC 50 Million Project team meets the Project Country Team and Women empowerment organizations in Kigali to prepare the launch of the Platform. The East African Community (EAC) Secretariat conducted workshops for Project Country Teams and Women empowerment organizations on the status of implementation of the 50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform. The workshops took place on the 7th and 8th of November 2019 in Kigali for Country team Members and Women Empowerment Organisations respectively. The main objective of the workshops was to showcase the content already collected and uploaded into the platform for the country team and women empowerment networks members to share their feedback in order to know where to improve as implementers are getting ready to launch the platform in the next two weeks. Bosco Murangira, the Director of women empowerment in the Ministry in charge of Gender (MIGEPROF), said to be happy with the step on which the project has reached now. He appreciated to see that the platform is hosting already acceptable content as an initial content that can be presented to women in business for use. ‘’The Platform comes to join other initiatives by the Rwandan government in the area of women’s economic empowerment’’ He said Mr Muyenzi Wilson, the Project Coordinator who took participants through registration on the platform requested them to be ambassadors of the Project in their respective institutions The 50 Million African Women Platform breaks a new ground in the sense it enables women in business to meet in one place; Ms Nayebare Naomy, a participant from the Gender Monitoring Office in Rwanda, appreciated It is high time women of the African continent time grow and advance together, leaving no one behind, she expounded. She recommended the implementing teams to focus on awareness raising soon after launch to make the platform known to the end users. Participants to these workshops were drown from different Organisations including Government Institutions, Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) -END- By Olivier KABALISA, 50 Million Project National Content Developer, Rwanda.