Tag: Women in Trade

Leaders target investments and polices for African farmers and enterprises to meet rising food demand in an urbanizing Africa The rapid rise of urban food markets across sub-Sahar...

Sub-Saharan Africa is a study in contrasts when it comes to women’s economic advancement, says the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law 2016 report, released on 9 Sep...

The “Raising Voices for Women Cross Border Traders in West Africa Project” seeks to map women’s organisations in the ECOWAS sub-region and their potential to support the capa...

The office of the Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG) and the Department for Agriculture and Agro-industry (OSAN) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched a new report, “Econom...

A new report on Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Africa has called for a policy overhaul in the mining sector for inclusive and active participation of women. The...

Women entrepreneurs are meeting in Nairobi to explore strategies that would see them step up their participation in business across East Africa. “This conference on women ...

Can we use the revenues generated from oil, gas and minerals to reduce the gender gap in countries with abundant natural resources? We found a statistically significant negative c...

Closing persistent gender gaps is vital to boosting sustainable growth and ending poverty by 2030, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said Tuesday, calling for scaled-up effor...

We, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, having met at our Twenty Fifth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 14 to 1...

Heads of State and Government of the 54 member states of the African Union (AU) met in Johannesburg, South Africa from the 14th to 15th June. The Assembly meeting was the last in t...

“Where a woman rules, streams run uphill” Ethiopian Proverb   2015 is the African Union declared “Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Age...

Statement of the Chairperson of the AU Commission, delivered by HE Mrs Fatima Acyl, Commissioner of Trade and Industry, to the Gender Is My Agenda Pre-Summit Conference: 8-9 June 2...

Are women and men on a level playing field? That was the question of debate on Monday, May 25 as the African Development Bank (AfDB) unveiled its first-ever Gender Equality Index f...

“Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights” launches in seven cities A major report from UN Women, released on 27 April 2015 in seven...

This week the African Development Bank has organized a series of events at its headquarters in Abidjan leading up to International Women’s Day (IWD) 2015 on March 8. On Tuesday M...

Concrete steps should be taken by the government and the Tanzania Women’s Chamber of Commerce (TWCC)  to reduce red tape at Tanzania’s borders and enhance women’s cross ...

The Expert Group Meeting (EGM) organized by the Land Policy Initiative (LPI) on 4 and 5 February 2015 in Entebbe, Uganda, was successful in reviewing and validating the Gender Stra...

The 24th Session of the Summit of the African Union has concluded in Addis Ababa on 31st January 2015, with closing remarks from the newly elected Chairperson of the African Union,...

ECOWAS Ministers in charge of Gender issues have adopted three key documents for the promotion of gender equality in the region. The text adopted by the Ministers at the end of th...

Economic development and social and cultural shifts have led to the decline of many gender-related inequalities across the world. Prominent among them is the rise in female educati...