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AWIEF 2024 Growth Accelerator: Empowering women entrepreneurs
Published date : 19 Feb 2024

The African Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) is a leading organization dedicated to promoting female entrepreneurship and innovation across the African continent. Since its inception, AWIEF has been at the forefront of economic empowerment and gender equality through various initiatives and programs.

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Irene Ochem : “women can increase their income by using technology”
Published date : 10 Nov 2023
The African Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) is holding its annual conference in East Africa for the first time. Its founder, Irène Ochem, who was born in Nigeria and has a career as an international civil servant, explains what is at stake in this ninth edition.
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Ethiopia – An application to support women entrepreneurs
Published date : 12 Nov 2020
In Ethiopia, an app is helping women entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 crisis. The application uses data from selling points to generate information and help those companies improve their operations, maximize their profits, and ease credit access.
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Is a digitalized Africa a driver of women’s inclusion?
Published date : 16 Oct 2020
On the 2nd of October, Digital Africa organized a round table on the theme: Women, Tech & Inclusion, perspectives from Europe and Africa. Attended by five high-level panelists, the debate focused on gender and digital issues, exploring ways to foster women’s inclusion into the real economy thanks to digital tools.
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E-Tontine – When e-commerce plays the financial inclusion game
Published date : 23 Jul 2020
E- Tontine offers unbanked Senegalese the opportunity to save in order to buy equipment or food products. A platform that revisits the traditional Tontine adapted to the needs of modern times.
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Joint interview Delphine REMY-BOUTANG – Camélia NTOUTOUME LECLERCQ “Training 500 women and launching among them 5 startups, by 2022”
Published date : 26 May 2021
Women’s innovation movement JFD inaugurated on March 23 its first growth accelerator in Africa, at the heart of Libreville, Gabon, the 6th most connected African country in the world and the future digital hub of Central and West Africa, according to a World Bank report. Delphine REMY-BOUTANG, CEO of JFD, President of the Global Entrepreneurship Network France and Camélia NTOUTOUME LECLERCQ, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology Transfer and JFD Ambassador tell more.
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Portrait – Nneile NKHOLISE “Young African women could be leaders in innovation”
Published date : 26 Mar 2021
A mechanical engineer, Nneile NKHOLISE, is co-founder & CEO 3DIMO, which automates livestock data analysis to monitor animal health. She is the 2021 winner of the Margaret Entrepreneur Africa Award. Portrait.
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