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ABOUT WSME: The Project’s goal is to reduce gender inequality and to give all African women access to economic development. The Project’s specific goals include enhancing the effectiveness and sustainability of enablers that assist women-led small and medium-sized businesses (WSMEs), as well as expanding WSMEs’ access to mentorship, funding, and exposure.
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To do so, the Project has designed a range of initiatives, such as providing targeted training and access to capital.
Over the past years, many promising entrepreneurship support programs (ESOs) such as incubators, accelerators, university-based innovation hubs, maker spaces, technology parks, and co-working spaces, have been launched across the continent to help build more sustainable and successful startups that are relevant in Africa’s economy. However, these enablers are often limited in the support they are able to provide WSMEs due to a lack of funding and network access, and a lack of well-positioned services.
Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship in Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Angola, Mali, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Gambia, Namibia, Cape Verde, and Mauritius.
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Enablers should register if they are:
- Based in one of the above countries
- Enhancing the viability and sustainability of WSMEs,
- Providing innovative approaches to ecosystem support designed to close the financing gap for WSMEs,
- Introducing innovative ways to provide capacity building for WSMEs,
- Providing digital presence and visibility to WSMEs,
- and Enhancing access to mentorship for WSMEs.
- Between Seed and Growth Stage
- Based in one of the above countries
- Have at least one woman on the founding team
Have a digital element in their product (example: Mobile application, Online Shop, SAAS product, etc.)
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