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The Ouagadougou Partnership has called for stronger national leadership, sustainable financing and regional cooperation to sustain family planning gains in Francophone West Africa amid changing global health financing.
Across Africa, growing attention to sustainable finance is creating new opportunities to mobilise capital towards development priorities, including gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
The ECOWAS Centre for Gender Development (ECGD) organised an institutional retreat from September 9 to 11 in Saly, on Senegal’s…
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says the gender gap in Nigeria’s agricultural productivity costs the country $2.3 billion annually, about 2 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Nigerian President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in partnership with the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), has empowered 500 women in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, has joined Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to launch an economic empowerment programme targeting vulnerable women.
The Union Bank of Nigeria’s dedicated proposition for women, has partnered with Zuri Circle Network (ZCN) to empower 98 female entrepreneurs through the Fearless Female Founders (FFF) 2.0 Accelerator Programme.
The Federal Government of Nigeria/International Fund for Agricultural Development Value Chain Development Programme (FGN/IFAD-VCDP) says that supporting women farmers is not a favour, but an investment in development, food security, stronger families, stronger communities and stronger nations.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has called on Malian authorities to adopt specific legislation against female genital mutilation (FGM), following the dissemination on social media of messages supporting this practice, which remains widespread in the country.
In Nigeria’s Benue State in northern Nigeria, rural women are experimenting with new farming practices to cope with the effects of climate change while seeking to ease the burden of unpaid domestic work that limits the time they can devote to their farms and income-generating activities.