The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative has reached a landmark $1 billion in approved funding designated for lending to African women entrepren...
Dedicated to supporting and empowering women and girls, NAMA Women Advancement (NAMA) is celebrating six years of striving to help the next generation reach their full potential. With a strong focus o...
A recent survey conducted by NAMA Women Advancement, in partnership with UN Women, found that 77.6% of women-owned businesses (WOB) in the UAE are led by those under the age of 40.
Women entrepreneurs are key to inclusive economic growth, and the top 20 GCC start-ups led by women are testimony that the Arab World females have established themselves as business leaders, and are i...
Though female entrepreneurs still face multiple barriers in accessing finance, however, the number of disrupting, lucrative women-run unicorns is growing exponentially. Unicorn, to state the overstate...
Standard Chartered and Falak Investment Hub has announced the launch of the first cohort of the ‘SC Women in Tech’ program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Applications for the program will begin from ...
The Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council received a delegation from the Women’s League of Central Asia (Kyrgyz Republic) to promote the development and diversification of economic and bilateral partnership...
Geidea is launching an open and fully sponsored training programme in partnership with The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF) to support women in fintech in Saudi Arabia.
Yspot has been placed second in the Martech category, making it to the final of North Star’s 2022 Supernova competition held at GITEX.