African Alliance for Women Empowerment

AFRAWE

 Objectives

      Economic Empowerment of Women

      Political Empowerment of Women

• Building the Entrepreneural Culture among Women in Africa.

• Capacity Building and Training of Women Entrepreneurs.

• Lobbying and Advocacy for African Women to have access to land and property.

• Support of Women in the Informal Sector to Grow their Businesses and Formalize it.

• Supporting of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises owned by women.

• Promoting Women to add Value to their products through packaging, designing, branding and have product development.

• Organizing Conferences, Seminars, Lectures and Workshops to raise the awareness of women in different fields.

• Conduction of Market Survies to study needs of domestic market and to encourage the establishment of new appropriate projects contributing in Community Development.

• Convening Training programs in different fields targeting development of skills and talents of Women.

• Providing financial, accounting and legal services to women.

• Issuing of a newsbulletin to act as a tool to disseminate information and exchange of experience among women in Africa.

• Organizing exhibitions and trade fairs locally regionally & internationally for marketing of women products

• Promotion of Women in innovation and Science and Technology and the use of Sicence & Technology in their Businesses.

• Promotion of the advancement of Certain Sectors in Africa eg. Agnibusiness, Garments and Texhiles, Mining, Cultural Industries etc.

• Promotion of preservation of Heritage and intellectual property rights for Women of Africa.

• Promoting women in industrialisation.

• Promotion of Women in Trade & Marketing and mainstreaming of Women in the Global Market.

• Promotion of Women to have Access to ICT.

• Promotion for creating new enterprises & Creating new job opportunities and descent work.

• Training & Capacity Building for Cross border women Traders.

• Lobbying and advocacy and raising awarness to meet the challenges met by Cross Border Women Traders.

• Capacity Building and Training for Economic Empowerment of Women in conflict zones and Creation of Developmental Projects.

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