Women-Owned Businesses Provide Clean Water in Nigeria
An innovative retail model is allowing women business leaders like Charity Dangana to sell safe and affordable water in their communities.
An innovative retail model is allowing women business leaders like Charity Dangana to sell safe and affordable water in their communities.
Innovations in the cashew value chain provide women the opportunity to become leaders in their families and communities.
With the right kind of support, women entrepreneurs can unlock the potential to transform their livelihoods, their families and their community.
With technical expertise and training from TechnoServe, a Benin-based company has established a world-class cashew processing facility that prioritizes social and environmental responsibility.
Launched in late 2014, TechnoServe implemented a business plan competition program with funding from the World Bank and working in conjunction with the Government of Benin. This partnership aimed to create jobs by strengthening formal small and medium enterprises.
Owners of mom and pop shops in Nairobi are making small changes that add up to big profits.
Using a market-based approach, TechnoServe is helping coffee farmers and cooperatives in Jimma, Ethiopia, turn coffee husk into a thriving market.
Despite a high volume of of entrepreneurial activity, Ghana has a low rate of success in transforming small enterprises into larger, more productive companies, which can help to promote economic growth and create jobs.
Tumi Mphahlele struggled to find beauty products for her sensitive skin in South Africa, so she turned to her knowledge of biochemistry and began her own business.