Vision:
Nurture a caring societies that value social justice, promote and protect the rights of women and children.
Mission:
Amplify women’s movements, influence governance and promote women’s contributions and leadership in the economic, social and political development of Africa; and advocate for the protection of children’s rights and dignity.
How We Work:
We convene and connect people and groups who should know each other and work together to Expand Equality and Inclusive Growth.
Purpose Statement
We believe women
have the potential to lead thriving, impactful and wealth creation businesses.
And, when women have more wealth, they invest to transform the lives of
families, communities, and the world.
A World Bank research finding is women’s entrepreneurship in is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else in the world and yet women’s businesses remain survivalist, micro and small with very little prospect of scaling without targeted interventions.
The Graça Machel Trust Women’s Economic and Social Advancement programme conducted 2 significant research in 2017 to inform an intervene that will target women entrepreneurs who have the potential to not just create income but build businesses that create jobs and wealth for the families and communities
Women Creating Wealth (WCW) is a women-focused entrepreneurship development programme designed to transform women’s mindset and businesses from income generation to wealth and employment creation.
In partnership with Virgin Unite, the WCW was successfully piloted in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia with 30 entrepreneurs in 2016 and scaled to 100 in 2017 thus completing the programme with 300 entrepreneurs
Virgin Unite has partnered with us again in South Africa in 2020 to replicate the program with 120 entrepreneurs. And, with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are digitising the program which will also support our aim to scale the programme in existing countries and replicate in 6 other targeted countries.
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Expected results:
Approach: AIM – Accountability, Inspiration & Mastery
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