The Africa Centre for Human Rights and Sustainable Development (AfCHuRSD), a gender-sensitive Non-governmental Organisation, has appealed to community-level influencers to lead the advocacy for ...

The topics we cover include sustainable development, climate action, agriculture, youth voices, women’s empowerment, health, the African Continental Free Trade Area and other regional ...

The Kano State government has announced its intention to domesticate and implement the Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) policy soon.

The story of women’s contribution ... s Banking Initiative” at the African Banking Awards, “Innovation in Financial Inclusion” from the Central Bank of Nigeria, and “Excellence in Women’s Economic ...

A Non-Governmental Organization, Bridge Connect Africa Initiative (BCAI), has trained 50 selected women from 11 local government areas of Kano state on ...

In the heart of West Africa, a groundbreaking initiative is challenging gender norms and transforming agriculture.

An African Diaspora Business and Development Stakeholders Workshop was held to ... showcasing the impact of empowerment initiatives aimed at uplifting women in business across the continent.

investing in women and girls’ empowerment is critical to transform economies and improve people’s lives, making sure that half the population has access to equal opportunities and is not left behind.

Feminist Africa, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2022), pp. 79-97 (19 pages) The popularity of development interventions as a tool for women’s empowerment, notwithstanding their ability to achieve targeted goals, has ...

COMMON WISDOM #6: Women provide the bulk of labor input in African agriculture ... cannot be a high return activity to reach other objectives, such as female empowerment or improved nutritional ...

Electricity and income generation: Evidence from Brazil To dig deeper into these complex relationships, we look at a sample of nearly 2 million women and men in rural Brazil—a country that saw a ...