The Canada-African Development Bank Climate Fund (CACF) is aimed at providing concessional loans to climate change-related projects with a strong gender-responsive component. The funds will be capitalised through a combination of a $104,8 million (CAD122.9 million), repayable contribution.
World ORT is leading an innovative training project in Ghana to promote computer courses led by women for young girls.
The Paramount Young Women Initiative, with support from the Feminist Humanitarian Network, has provided a zero-interest loan for sixty-two (62) women to improve their businesses as a means of giving them economic empowerment amidst the COVID-19 lockdown.
By Miracle Nwankwo
On what was going to be a fateful day in his life, Shali, a Namibian who became blind after a poisonous snake spat into his eyes, sat on his hospital bed as he anticipated the miracle that was to happen to him having undergone a successful eye surgery performed on him by a miracle doctor.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.
Samia Suluhu Hassan is the woman set to become Tanzania’s next president. She will become the first female president of the East African Nation, Africa’s only current female political head of government – the Ethiopian presidency is a largely ceremonial role – and joins the shortlist of women on the continent who have made it to the top.
By Kembet Bolton
Most businesswomen in Africa are stuck at the “micro” level, limited in their expansion quest because they lack credit and new technologies. However, Africa’s women are defying all odds as they contend with cultural issues, harsh investment climate and fears to build successful enterprises.
