Tag: Zambia

• Pitch Your Business At the South African Innovation Summit in Cape Town – Apply For the $18,000 FemBioBiz Acceleration Program

  

  The FemBioBiz Acceleration Program aims to develop the leadership, technological and business skills of women-owned businesses in the SADC region to support deal-making and business acceleration in the Biosciences arena. Leading women entrepreneurs or senior managers in bioscience-based companies in any of the 12 SANBio member states can apply; South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Seychelles,…

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  April 6, 2017

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  Accelerator program, Africa, African youths, Angola, awards, AWP Network, bioscience, Botswana, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FemBioBiz, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, Lesotho, Malawi, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mauritius, mobile technology, Mozambique, my voice matters, Namibia, Nigeria, program, progress, senior managers, Seychelles, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Swaziland, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia, Zimbabwe

• Apply: Women in Science STEAM Camp in Malawi

  

  Internationally, there is a strong gender imbalance in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The WiSci Camp aims to bridge that gap through access to education, mentorship opportunities, and leadership training. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Design, and Mathematics. The camp will include a STEAM curriculum led by experts…

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  January 9, 2017

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  Africa, African youths, Arts&Design, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Engineering, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, girls in technology, girlstech, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, Liberia, Malawi, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mathematics, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, Rwanda, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEAM, STEM, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Women in Science, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia

• Meet 17 African Social Entrepreneurs Addressing Maternal & Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

  

  The healthymagination Mother and Child Program—launched in March 2016 by GE and Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship to address maternal and child mortality by supporting African social entrepreneurs operating in the health sector—has taken the first big step toward achieving its objective: selecting the first group of social enterprises that will receive training and…

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  September 23, 2016

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Access Afya, Adeloye Olanrewaju; Telemed Medical Services, Africa, African youths, Anne Gildea, Ash Lauren Rogers; Nurture Africa, awards, AWP Network, Brian Iredale; Outreach Medical Services, Burundi, business, business support, challenge, change, Charles Kalonga; Lwala Community Alliance, collaboration, competition, development, Dr Segun Ebitanmi; Peach Health, Dr. Daphne Ngunjiri; ayzh, DRC, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ethiopia, Ghana; Cobby Amoah; PurpleSource Healthcare, girls, growth, Habib Anwar, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Julius Mbeya, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Matthew Rehrig; Village Hopecore International, mobile technology, my voice matters, Natalie Angell-Besseling; Tulip Imaging, Nigeria, Olufemi Sunmonu; SaferMom, Pratap Kumar; Hewa Tele, program, progress, Rwanda, small business, solutions, South Africa, Stefanie Weiland; Live Well Social Enterprise Business, Steve Alred Adudans; LifeNet International, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tyler Nelson; Health-E-Net, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Yohans Emiru; The Shanti Uganda Society, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia, Zubaida Bai; Health Builders

• Interested in Investing in Africa? This is for YOU!

  Rendeavour, Africa’s largest urban land developer, announces a business matchmaking tour to the United States to attract American exporters and service providers to the company’s satellite city projects which will house over 500,000 people and major companies in Africa over the next 20 years. With over 30,000 acres of satellite community developments in Kenya, Ghana,…

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  April 6, 2016

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  Africa, African youths, American exporters, awards, AWP Network, business, business matchmaking, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Construction, DC, Democratic Republic of Congo, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, girls, growth, Healthcare Facilities, ICT, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kansas City, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, Los Angeles, marketing, Mary Olushoga, matchmaking, Miami, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Preston Mendenhall, program, progress, Rendeavour, Renewable Energy, Security Systems, small business, Smart Community Technology, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Washington, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia

• Win 1 Million Euros For Your Project

  The Energy and Environment Partnership Program of Southern and East Africa is focused on projects in all fields of renewable energy, bridging the gap between a good idea and a bankable project by providing part-financing to project proposals. These projects include various types of feasibility studies, as well as pilot, scale-up and demonstration projects. As…

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  March 29, 2016

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, Botswana, Burundi, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, East Africa, education, Energy, Energy and Environment Partnership Program of Southern and East Africa, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Environment, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, leadership, Lesotho, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Mozambique, my voice matters, Namibia, Nigeria, program, progress, Rwanda, Seychelles, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Swaziland, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths, Zambia

• DIY Solar Pumps in Africa

  Pumpmakers Platform is a virtual marketplace that provides individuals, local companies, NGO’s and volunteers with free access to the easy-to-use Do-It-Yourself Solar Pump and a global network to implement projects for everyone where there is a need of water. This helps to reduce the global water shortage, strengthens the local economy, creates jobs and prevents…

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  March 16, 2016

  Business, Education, Events, Interviews

  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Cameroon, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, Dietmar Stuck, DIY Solar Pump, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Morocco, my voice matters, Nigeria, PM Pumpmakers, program, progress, Pumpmakers, small business, solutions, Somalia, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Tanzania, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia

• 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

• 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