Tag: Tanzania

• Apply: $500,000 for Investigative Projects

  Africa’s first data-driven investigative journalism initiative launches today with $500,000 in grants and technical support for reportage that changes lives. The initiative grows out of a partnership between CfAfrica and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). A consortium of donors led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank and CFI Media Cooperation. The new impactAFRICA initiative…

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  January 18, 2016

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Data, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, girls, grants, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investigative journalism, journalists, Kenya, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technical support, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia

• Attend: The Miss Culture Intercontinental Pageant

  

  Therapeutic Interventions Inc.  and Women’s Leadership Empowerment presents the “Miss Culture Intercontinental Pageant.” The pageant provides the African woman and women of African descent a voice to showcase her leadership abilities, character, intelligence, values, inner beauty and to inspire other outstanding women to succeed on an international stage. Come out and “represent your country” – Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone,…

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  May 19, 2015

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  African women power, Angola, AWP Network, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Fatima Koroma, Fatmata Koroma, Howard University, Mary Olushoga, Miss Culture Intercontinental Pageant, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, The AWP Network, Therapeutic Interventions Inc., Women’s Leadership Empowerment

• Apply: Pivot East 2015

  

  PIVOT EAST is East Africa’s premier mobile startups pitching competition held annually since 2011. It is an m:lab East Africa initiative set to amplify and consolidate the gains of East Africa’s Mobile developer and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Participating startups must be domiciled in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, or DR Congo. Objectives of PIVOT…

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  April 10, 2015

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, DR Congo, East Africa, ecosystem, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ethiopia, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile innovation, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, Rwanda, small business, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Women’s World Banking Introduces Africa Advisory Council

  

                  As Women’s World Banking strives to broaden the horizons for low-income women across Africa, it developed the council with two main goals in mind: to draw upon council members’ insights to refine Women’s World Banking’s strategic work, and to recruit council members to serve as ambassadors for…

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  February 20, 2015

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  Ade Ashaye, African Women Power Network, Anne-Marie Chidzero, Arunma Oteh, AWP Network, business, Debra Mallowah, development, education, Elisabeth Medou Badang, Financial Sector Deepening Africa, Frannie Léautier, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, growth, Jennifer Riria, Luke Mckend, Malawi, Mary Olushoga, Monique Nsanzabaganwa, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria, Nomkhita Nqweni, strategy, Tanzania, The AWP Network, Women’s World Banking

• Sharefair 2014: Inspiring Change for Rural Women

  

  The Sharefair 2014 on Rural Women’s Technologies to Improve Food Security, Nutrition and Productive Family Farming invites submissions of technologies and innovations that support rural female smallholder farmers. Eligible Countries: Burundi, D.R. of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. The objectives expected to…

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  July 1, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, agribusiness, agriculture, AWP Network, Burundi, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, D.R. of Congo, development, Djibouti, education, employment, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Farmers, Gender, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Kenya, leadership, Malawi, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Mozambique, Nigeria, program, progress, Rural Women, Rwanda, small business, solutions, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, strategy, Sudan, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, youth unemployment, Youths, Zambia, Zimbabwe

• Apply: USADF – Power Africa Off-Grid Energy Challenge

  Are you an entrepreneur or part of a dynamic organization or company that works on off-grid technologies in one of the six Power Africa countries? Do you have a winning idea to provide energy to underserved communities in your country? USADF is accepting proposals for Off-Grid solutions from the following countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Liberia, Tanzania,…

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  May 15, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ethiopia, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, leadership, Liberia, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Power Africa, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, USADF, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs

• Apply: Mara Mentor Tanzania Program

  Mara One-on-One aims to support the start-up and growth of young businesses in Dar es Salaam by connecting successful businessmen and businesswomen with passionate entrepreneurs for six (6) months. The Mara Mentor initiative is designed to help young enterprises survive the cut-throat world of business by creating alliances with strong players who have already succeeded in…

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  April 10, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, growth, idea, Innovation, Mara Foundation, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, Nigeria, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, women, women entrepreneurs, Youths

• Apply: PIVOT East 2014

  PIVOT East aims to catalyze the growth of mobile startups, so as to amplify and consolidate the gains of East Africa’s Mobile developer and entrepreneurship ecosystem.  The key objective for this year’s event is “to facilitate discovery of the next wave of high potential mobile startups in the region.” The competition has five categories which…

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  March 3, 2014

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  Africa, AWP Network, business, change, competition, development, DR Congo, Ethiopia, growth, Kenya, Mary Olushoga, mentorship, mobile technology, PIVOT East, progress, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Startup, strategy, Tanzania, technology, training, Uganda

• Apply: 2014 SEED Awards

  Do you have an entrepreneurial and innovative idea that is locally-driven and has the potential to contribute significantly to sustainable development in countries with developing or transition economies? The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurs in Sustainable Development is an annual awards scheme designed to find the most promising, innovative, and locally led start-up social and environmental…

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  February 12, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ethiopia, growth, idea, Innovation, Malawi, Mary Olushoga, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, progress, SEED Award, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, Uganda, UN Women, women and girls, Youths