Institutional Partners Institucional Partners Financial Institutions Women's Entrepreneurship Enablers Donors Our Institutional Partners AFAWA works in partnership with institutions such as UN Women, International Finance Cooperation, African Guarantee Fund. Related News Institutional partners Access to Finance 17 July, 2024 TEST Botswana Institutional partners Special Projects 12 April, 2023 Burundi to receive support from the African Development Bank Group in key development sectors Burundi 23 March, 2023 Mauritania: African Development Bank and BCI Group Sign US$ 485,000 AFAWA Technical Assistance Agreement to Promote Financial Inclusion of African Women's Enterprises Mauritania 16 March, 2023 La Banque africaine de développement et le Groupe Attijariwafa bank s’associent pour soutenir les femmes entrepreneures en Afrique 15 March, 2023 International Women’s Month 2023: Abidjan-based women Investment Champions share their journeys with Africa Investment Forum 14 March, 2023 2020 Peace Forum: African Development Bank to fully engage on fragility and gender issues at the first “Finance in Common” summit 13 March, 2023 African Development Bank grants $1.4 million to Export Trading Group to strengthen entrepreneurship skills of women-owned & led businesses in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia Institutional partners For Financial Institutions Access to Finance 13 March, 2023 African Development Bank and African Guarantee Fund sign $110 million agreement with Tanzania’s CRDB Bank to boost access to finance by women’s SMEs Events, for financial institutions Access to Finance Technical Assistance Enabling Environment 8 March, 2023 International Women’s Day 2023: AFAWA Finance Series enhances gender focus of Ghana’s digital financial services policy, bolsters commitments to overcome financing gaps Institutional partners Technical Assistance Special Projects 14 February, 2023 Dakar 2 : en Côte d’Ivoire AFAWA et la plateforme digitale « BuyFromWomen » redynamisent les activités des femmes agripreneures Access to Finance 31 January, 2023 African Development Bank’s AFAWA hits $1 billion investment milestone in lending to women entrepreneurs in Africa Institutional partners 18 November, 2022 On Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, Lionesses of Africa’s Business Confidence Report celebrates African women entrepreneurs’ optimism about business Enabling Environment Access to Finance 11 November, 2022 Cameroon: The African Development Bank Engages in Dialogue with Cameroonian Financial Institutions to Bolster Women Entrepreneurs’ access to finance Cameroon Enabling Environment Access to Finance 26 October, 2022 AFAWA, AFI to boost financial inclusion for African women entrepreneurs African States 25 October, 2022 Afrique : 5 milliards USD pour le renforcement des entreprises dirigées par des femmes Events 21 October, 2022 Finance in Common: Let’s exploit the impetus around climate change to scale up agriculture – panelists Events Institutional partners Enabling Environment 20 October, 2022 AFAWA and Alliance for Financial Inclusion urge African Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors to boost financial inclusion for Africa’s women-led businesses Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs Enabling Environment Technical Assistance 18 October, 2022 African Development Bank’s AFAWA initiative asks business enablers to apply for second round of funding to support Africa’s women-led businesses Institutional partners Enabling Environment 7 October, 2022 AFAWA partners with 100 Lionesses of Africa to launch “Future of Work” Playbook for women entrepreneurs 28 July, 2022 African Development Bank and African Guarantee Fund Launch AFAWA Finance Series in collaboration with Tanzania Bankers’ Association 10 July, 2022 Statement on the death of Former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe Access to Finance 1 May, 2022 AfDB to fund 69,000 women entrepreneurs in Nigeria with $15m 1 May, 2022 #WorkersDay: Boost for Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative 21 April, 2022 Cote d’Ivoire: African Development Bank-supported digital platform will support women farmers to gain access to markets Special Projects 21 April, 2022 Cote d'Ivoire - African Development Bank-Supported Digital Platform Will Support Women Farmers to Gain Access to Markets