TRENDS
- UN Agencies Launch a Joint Programme in Zanzibar to Accelerate Women Empowerment. Details here
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African Development Bank launches scheme to improve livelihoods for youths in three African countries. Details here
- Inter-generational collective of African women leaders champion young women’s role in global HIV response. Details here
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AFAWA and Alliance for Financial Inclusion urge African Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors to boost financial inclusion for Africa’s women-led businesses. Details here
- From where I stand: Information sharing and skills training equips women in rural Uganda to participate in peace building and conflict prevention. Details here
- International Day of Rural Women: Rural women confront the global cost-of-living crisis. Details here
FUNDING
- Project Title: [Research Funding] MECS Challenge Fund supporting Clean Cooking and ModernEnergyCookingServices.|Country:Benin|BurkinaFasoBurundi|Cameroon|Congo|Côted’Ivoire|Ethiopia|Gambia,Ghana,Indonesia|Kenya|Lesotho|Liberia|Malawi|Morocco|Mozambique|Niger|Nigeria,Rwanda|Senegal|SierraLeone|SouthSudan|Tanzania|Togo,Tunisia|Uganda|Zambia|Zimbabwe | Deadline: 9-Nov-22 | Link HERE
- Project Title: UNDP Small Grants on Human Rights and Justice in South Sudan. | Country: South Sudan | Deadline: 28-Oct-22 | Link HERE
- Project Title: Call for Proposals: Mapping Capacities of Women-Owned/Led businesses in Nigeria. | Country: Nigeria | Deadline: 2-Nov-22 | Link HERE
- Project Title: USAID: Achieving and Sustaining HIV/TB Epidemic Control in South Africa. | Country: South Africa| Deadline: 4-Jan-23 | Link HERE
- Project Title: Funding Opportunity: Academy of Women Entrepreneurs 2023 in Namibia. | Country: Namibia| Deadline: 18-Nov-22 | Link HERE
- Project Title: Get up to $250k Each: AFAWA Initiative 2nd Round open for African Organizations. | Country: Africa | Deadline: 11 November 2022| Link HERE
- Project Title: GAIN Request for Proposals in Kenya.| Country: Kenya | Deadline: 28-Oct-22 | Link HERE
- Project Title: Wild Animal Initiative Call for Proposals: Large Grants Program (up to USD $200,000). | Country: Worldwide | Deadline: 28-Oct-22 | Link HERE
- Project Title: FY 2023 BridgeUSA Africa Polytechnic Collaboration Initiative. |Country: Burundi| Comoros| Djibouti|Congo |Ethiopia| Kenya| Madagascar| Malawi| Mozambique| Rwanda| Somalia| South Sudan| Tanzania| Uganda|Zambia| .Deadline: Nov 28, 2022 | Link HERE
- Project Title: Growth Poles Activity. | Country: Malawi| Deadline: Nov 14, 2022 | Link HERE
- Project Title: IFRA announces Fieldwork Grants Program. | Country: East Africa | Deadline: 30-Nov-22 | Link HERE
LEARNING
- Delivering Desert to Power in the Horn of Africa: Enhancing Regional Power Trade in Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia. | Date: 25 to 27 October, 2022 | Venue: Online (via Zoom) | Details here
- The Diversity Of Deprivations: 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index shows how people experience poverty in very different ways. | Details here
