Evolve Magazine

20/06/2022

If women's empowerment as a concept is perceived and understood in the right way by an average African man or girl, success will be assured.

15/06/2022

Let's talk about women’s access to equality under the law.
In 27 sub-Saharan African countries, women are legally barred from performing the same jobs as men. Workplace protection and parental benefits in the region are also weaker than the global average. Equally, many sub-Saharan African countries do not have laws that prohibit or invalidate child or early marriage, criminalize domestic violence, or address sexual harassment. Yet some countries have improved over the previous decade. Since the first Women, Business, and the Law report in 2010, 31 out of the 47 sub-Saharan African countries have improved gender equality in their legal frameworks. Countries with considerable legal advancements include Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Mauritius, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Zambia (World Bank, 2018).
In 27 sub-Saharan African countries, women are legally barred from performing the same jobs as men. Workplace protection and parental benefits in the region are also weaker than the global average. Equally, many sub-Saharan African countries do not have laws that prohibit or invalidate child or early marriage, criminalize domestic violence, or address sexual harassment. Yet some countries have improved over the previous decade. Since the first Women, Business, and the Law report in 2010, 31 out of the 47 sub-Saharan African countries have improved gender equality in their legal frameworks. Countries with considerable legal advancements include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Mauritius, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Zambia (World Bank, 2018).

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15/06/2022

We are happy to announce a chief guest for the Women Empowerment Report launch, H.E LAILA Rahhal EL ATFANI
She is an iconic African woman with the zeal to impact the lives of people globally.
She is:
-Global Goodwill Ambassador
-President & Founder Business Gate & I Am Africa Platform
-Vice President of the Voice Magazine
-Vice President & Founder of REFAI organization in Switzerland
-Vice President & Founder, Youth Gate, Cambodia
-Director of International Diplomacy Relations AACID
-Head of Protocol & Diplomacy (AACID) & (WPC)
-Special Adviser to the President of the Arab African Council for Integration & Development- AACID
-Global Inspirational Women Award 2022 Recipient
Join us on June 20th from 3 pm Universal Time and share your views on women's empowerment while learning from other women globally.
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15/06/2022

Did you know?

Women have limited access to property

Property rights for women are still compromised in many sub-Saharan African countries. In eight countries, only husbands can legally administer marital property. In nine, married women may not have equal ownership rights, and female and male surviving spouses do not have equal inheritance rights.

This is why women's empowerment is important.

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14/06/2022

Did you know that women have limited access to institutions?

Sub-Saharan Africa ranks sixth out of six groups for women’s ability to access institutions. The “access to institutions” indicator measures women’s legal ability to make their own choices and to transform their choices into economic outcomes. If laws prevent women from interacting with public authorities or with the private sector in the same way as men, then women’s economic activities will be limited, pushing them out of formality. For this indicator, sub-Saharan African countries outperform only Middle Eastern and North African countries (World Bank 2018).
Empowering women will enlighten them on how to overcome institutional barriers.
Join us on June 20th from 3 pm Universal Time and share your views.
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14/06/2022

Did you know that social norms curtail women’s competitiveness?

Social norms such as traditional gender roles, reduce women’s competitiveness in the formal labour market. Gender roles that impose significantly larger burdens on women prevent them from joining the labour force. Moreover, if women do enter the labour force, they often need to look for flexible opportunities to maintain the “double shift” of work inside and outside the home.
Reference: Women Transitioning Report
Empowering women across various sectors in society will enhance the journey towards bridging the gender gap and attaining gender equality.
Join us on June 20th from 3 pm Universal Time and share your views.
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13/06/2022

Has any progress been made?
The answer is yes!
According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM, 2017), women’s entrepreneurial activity had raised by 10%, closing the gender gap by 5% since 2014. In the course of one year, 163 million women started businesses across 74 economies worldwide, while 111 million were running established businesses. Among the 63 economies surveyed in both the 2017 and the last report produced in 2015, GEM found that Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) among women increased by 10%, and the gender gap (ratio of women to men participating in entrepreneurship) narrowed by 5%. These same economies indicated an 8% increase in women’s ownership of established businesses.
Empowering women across various sectors in society will enhance the journey towards bridging the gender gap and attaining gender equality.
Empowering women across various sectors of society will enhance the journey toward bridging the gender gap and attaining gender equality.
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13/06/2022

What does women's empowerment mean to the African girl?

The African girl child needs to fully understand and identify with the concept of women empowerment if we intend to achieve any considerable level of success and meet the SDG goal of gender equality
Join us on the 20th of June from 3 pm Universal Time as we launch our Women Empowerment Report and share your views on what can be done differently, especially within the African context.
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12/06/2022

Access to funding is a real challenge for women globally and especially in Africa where women operate largely in the informal economy.

If women are given the same opportunity to access finances for their businesses as men, most of them will be able to grow their businesses and transition to the formal economy. According to the results obtained during a survey leading up to our report on Women Transitioning from the informal to the formal economy, our respondents were all unanimous (100%) on the fact that women remain in the informal factor because of factors related to financing- that if women were granted more access to finance, the percentage in the informal sector will be greatly reduced.

This time around, we will be looking at how women's empowerment can serve as a vector to bridge this gap.
Join us on the 20th of June at 3 pm Universal Time as we launch our Women Empowerment Report and sample the views of women and men globally on what women empowerment means to them.
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12/06/2022

The majority of women globally operate in the informal economy.

Here's why:

Reasons for women's informality stem from complex start-up procedures, legal impediments, women’s limited access to institutions, and limited access to credit among others. To reduce the gender gap and empower women towards taking up a more meaningful part in the formal economy, women need to have equal access to all institutions and instruments just like men- the legal ones inclusive. Women need to be schooled on legal instruments governing their businesses and why it is important for them to regularise their business.
This can be made possible with incentives that are good enough to encourage them to do so. From the results of our women transitioning report survey (a report published in January), 75% of our respondents said having some form of legal assistance will be very useful for women in small businesses who want to transition to the formal economy. If women are empowered with the right knowledge, this can be achieved.

Join us- Regina Huber on the 20th of June from 3 pm Universal Time as we launch our Women Empowerment Report and share your views on what can be done differently, especially within the African context.
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12/06/2022

Why women's empowerment?

Women play a vital role in society and will contribute a lot more should they be given the chance to do so.
Closing the 5% gender gap in entrepreneurship, eradicating poverty, and attaining the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals for example is highly dependent on women’s ability to assume their full position in society.
If we much rally more support for women, we must make sure everyone understands concepts around gender-related issues from the same perspective. Women empowerment is one of those concepts that is heavily misconstrued in Africa.

Join Monica Taylor McCoy and others globally on the 20th of June at 3 pm Universal Time and add your voice to the discussions.

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02/06/2022

Join us!
Our intention during this event is for women and men to share their opinion on how far Africans have adapted to the concept of Women's empowerment and other related concepts like feminism and gender equality.

Women empowerment has since been perceived as a gateway to achieving gender equality at all levels- through the concept is perceived differently by varied schools of thought and scholars have over time proposed different models to facilitate the empowerment of women. A few years ago, the average African man translated the word women empowerment to mean teaching women to disrespect men/ their husbands. With time, this perception has gradually changed among the younger generation of men who are beginning to understand what women's empowerment could imply. However, there is still a greater percentage of men and even women who interchange women empowerment for feminism.

Initiating this discussion does not in any way mean all previous efforts at empowering women and the girl child have failed, on the contrary, these efforts have contributed greatly towards building a new breed of women, especially in Africa who increasingly work towards the realization of their goals. We believe that this additional perspective could help to enhance the process and ensure a new paradigm shift in the way women get involved in society, especially at the formal level.
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If women's empowerment as a concept is perceived and understood in the right way by an average African man or girl, success will be assured.

10/05/2022

Great news from one of Cameroon's amazing start-ups!

Ejara Investment and Savings App Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum:

Ejara, the Cameroon-based investment and savings app, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”. This was announced in a press release early this morning.
The press release was issued following the World Economic Forum's announcement of its list of 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2022 - companies tackling issues from sustainability and climate change to healthcare and more.
This year’s cohort includes representation from 30 economies on six continents with a reach far beyond traditional tech hubs like Silicon Valley. The full list of Technology Pioneers can be viewed here.
Ejara offers mobile-first investment and savings services to Francophone Africa and its Diaspora, intending to re-imagine African Wealth through blockchain technology.
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