Southern Africa

New App Features Help Women Across Mozambique to Control Their Own Savings

After separating from her husband, Albertina Chirindza turned to an innovative digital savings product to help her children get ahead. It’s helped her to diversify her business, buy land, and send her daughter to college. See here the story of Albertina Chirindza, a single mother of four who, when…

Delivering a Gender Awareness Training

How it can help your organization and how to do it Do you ever wonder how you can get the most from your workforce? Are you looking for ways to decrease absenteeism? Are you having difficulties reaching new customer bases to boost your sales?  Well, did you know that companies that pay attention to…

Gender Equality in Mozambique’s Private Sector

A GenderScope of 35 companies 80% of interviewed companies believe gender inclusion is a very important part of their company’s mission but only half have a gender policy, 63% do not disaggregate their data by sex and more than half have a workforce comprised of more men than women. To…

Mozambique Entrepreneurial Environment Report 2021

Understanding and working with micro-entrepreneurs in Mozambique Mozambique’s entrepreneurial culture is constantly evolving because of ongoing socio- economic, political, technological, and cultural changes. Harnessing Mozambique’s entrepreneurial spirit will be critical to driving the economy. This report sets out to fill in the missing information around micro-entrepreneurs in Mozambique and how…

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Escola do Agricultor: Transforming women through agriculture

“The practice of agriculture is important for us (women), because instead of depending on our husbands, we also fight to end hunger and earn some (money), for our livelihood, also helping the family (…) the woman in agriculture is very important, because we work, earn money and help our husbands…

Gender Equality Policy Development Toolkit Launched

According to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, 2011 “companies with more women on their boards outperformed their rivals with a 66% higher return on invested capital and a 53% higher return on equity.” As part of its initiatives, the WIN Program – Women IN Business, an initiative by…

IPSOS team gets involved with Unconscious Bias training!

In May 2021, WIN trained twenty-two members of IPSOS’s management and technical teams over two half day sessions in Gender awareness and Unconscious bias. The training was very well received and feedback was excellent, as always provoking a great deal of reflections, different perspectives and constructive dialogue around what can…