50 Million African Women Project conducts user training on Digital Platform
East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, Tanzania, 30th March 2019: The 50 Million Speak Project (50MWS) conducted a user training on the Digital Platform from the 25th to 29th March 2019, in Lusaka-Zambia, aimed at providing women with access to information on financial and non-financial services while creating a community of women who will act as peers, advisors and mentors to each other.
The training was organized by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), which is the Coordinating Regional Community in the implementation of the 50MWS Project.
The objective of the training was to equip the users with the required skills in managing the Platform ahead of the official launch planned in a few months.
Opening the Workshop, the COMESA Assistant Secretary General in charge of Finance and Administration, Dr Dev Haman described the platform as a “game changer” in the agenda of women economic empowerment across the African continent.
“Women like any other person on the planet are experiencing profound changes that modern technologies bring to the way they live, work, interact and do business” Dr Dev Haman said.
This reality compels us to share knowledge among ourselves if we want to be efficient in our interventions, the Assistant Secretary General continued.
COMESA has recruited Izertis, a Spanish software vendor to help develop the platform and provide capacity building to users.
Knowledge gained by the participants will be transferred to end-users who are women in business to allow them access the information on financial and non-financial services that will provide the platform.
COMESA indicated that they have started engaging different partners around the implementation of this Project who have promised to bring in their contribution to allow women entrepreneurs to access much needed information to efficiently do their businesses.
The 50 Million Women Speak Project is a project that excites everyone, Dr Dev concluded.
The 50MWS Project aims to transform the role of women entrepreneurs in Africa. It is in alignment with the gender policies and frameworks of respective implementing Regional Economic Communities (RECs) namely East African Community (EAC), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Economic Community of the Western African States (ECOWAS).
All these implementing RECs have put in place tools which aim to contribute towards the achievement of the gender equality and empowerment of women.
The training workshop was attended by Project Regional Content Managers, Coordinators, Gender Experts as well as Corporate Communications Experts.
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For more information please contact:
Achel Bayisenge,
Content Manager for the 50MWS Project
Tel: +255 786726230;
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About the East African Community Secretariat:
The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of five Partner States, comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.
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