We are excited to announce the expansion of the Graça Machel Trust’s Women Creating Wealth -(WCW) in partnership with the Finance and Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority (FASSET). The programme is dedicated to African women entrepreneurs to enable them to thrive
Published: 2024-01-11 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: February 16, 2024
Standard Chartered seeking to recruit the best entrepreneurial minds of women-led startup teams using digital technology as a key driver of innovation in business.
Published: 2024-01-09 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Zambia Value: $10,000 Deadline: January 12, 2024
The United States African Development Foundation (USADF), in partnership with the United States Department of State Africa Bureau, invite applications for the 2024 African Women Entrepreneurs Program-Reimagined grant. This is the second application cycle for this grant and only applicant
Published: 2024-01-03 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: January 21, 2024
The Women Digital Entrepreneurship Program {WDEP} is an initiative of Access , with implementation from Nerdzfactory Foundation aimed at equipping business women with the skills for the digitization of their business processes and to further position their businesses for long-term market relevance a
Published: 2024-01-02 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: January 7, 2024
WIN Leadership Accelerator is an intensive, nine-month long career and leadership programme for journalists and editors working in Africa, the Arab Region and Southeast Asia. The programme accepts 100-150 applicants, annually. Women media professionals from the following countries are eligible
Published: 2023-12-22 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: January 15, 2024
The Asia Foundation, together with its partners in the Cross-Border Conflict: Evidence, Policy, and Trends (XCEPT) program, will support six women researchers from across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to undertake independent research projects and grow their professional skills and networks.
Published: 2023-12-18 Type: Fellowship Deadline: January 15, 2024
The Africa Women Journalist Project is thrilled to announce a 6-Month Fellowship Program designed exclusively for women journalists. This fellowship offers a unique opportunity to receive comprehensive skills training, personalised mentorship for both professional and personal development, smal
Published: 2023-12-15 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 18, 2023
JFD have officially opened submissions for this year’s Margaret Awards, which give women and young girls who are changing the world with tech the chance to showcase their ideas and win prizes in six categories The French organisation brings together economic actors, media, public and p
Published: 2023-12-08 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: January 8, 2024
The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) gives enterprising women the knowledge, networks, and access they need to launch and scale successful businesses. AWE uses a hybrid model that combines the online platform DreamBuilder (developed through a partnership between Arizona State University’s
Published: 2023-12-06 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: December 31, 2023
The Open Doors Fellowship Program for women researchers in Africa is a holistic program that shall target women researchers in Africa to help them acquire the necessary hard and soft skills to strengthen their placements within their hosting institutions and, ultimately, avoid the dropout befor
Published: 2023-11-27 Type: Fellowship Deadline: January 10, 2024
Since November 2021, Standard Bank in partnership with Giving Wings launched the Basali Development Programme. The name Basali (pronounced Basadi) is derived from Southern Sotho which means ‘women’. Each year we travel a journey of business development with female entrepreneurs
Published: 2023-11-24 Type: Internship Study in: South Africa Deadline: November 30, 2023
The Christopher Kolade Foundation SHE Soars Scholarship Program provides need-based financial sponsorship and mentorship to female graduates of public secondary schools in Nigeria who have secured admission into a Nigerian public university.SHE Soars launched in 2019 with five SHE Soars Scholars ben
Published: 2023-11-23 Type: Undergraduate Deadline: December 13, 2023
Applications are now open for the Standard Chartered Women in Technology Incubator, Africa’s leading incubator programme for female-led and founded businesses.
Published: 2023-11-21 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Zambia Deadline: January 12, 2024
CyberGirls Fellowship is a free 1-year fellowship program that equips girls and women aged 18-28 years old with globally sought-after cybersecurity skills, positioning them to start a career in cybersecurity and helping them to seize decent work opportunities within Africa and across the
Published: 2023-11-21 Type: Fellowship Deadline: December 11, 2023
As a female-owned business, we understand the challenges entrepreneurs face when scaling their businesses. That’s why we’ve partnered with leading fintech powerhouse, Flutterwave, to give female entrepreneurs who own small and medium-sized businesses across Nigeria the opportunity to get
Published: 2023-11-16 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: November 17, 2023
The Adara Foundation, a non-profit social enterprise in Nigeria, focuses on empowering women and advancing education in Africa. The Foundation shares Saïd Business School’s commitment to greater gender parity in education and supports our aim to foster a global MBA community with represen
Published: 2023-11-03 Type: Masters Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: Not Specified
The Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, BIGSAS, invites outstanding African women scholars based on the continent to join an international community of early career researchers working in the field of African Studies. BIGSAS provides a centre for creative and innovative d
Published: 2023-11-03 Type: Masters Deadline: December 31, 2023
Are you a female tech founder, developer, or tech enthusiast? This is your opportunity to step into the limelight and shape the future of tech in Nigeria. The National Information Technology Development Agency, through its subsidiary office of Nigerian Digital Innovation (ONDI), is inviting you t
Published: 2023-11-02 Type: Training Study in: Nigeria Deadline: November 7, 2023
MTN Uganda Limited, in partnership with MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited, American Tower Company, UN Women, dfcu Bank, Innovation Village and National Social Security Fund (NSSF) HI Innovators is committed to launching Advancing Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) project. The purpose of this project is to emp
Published: 2023-10-27 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Uganda Deadline: November 1, 2023
Launched in 2019, the Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton programme is the first women-in-business support initiative of its kind in the industry offered by Access Bank’s W Initiative. The programme was designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access finance, world-clas
Published: 2023-10-25 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Ghana Deadline: October 29, 2023