Sub-Saharan Africa
Transforming Lives and Livelihoods through Eco-Entrepreneurship
At 38 years old and the widowed mother of 5, Namuddu Harriet had begun to feel weighed down by the compounding challenges she faced on a daily basis. That’s when she heard about a COVID & Climate Resilience Training being offered by WEA and the Uganda Women’s Water Initiative (UWWI). The training would support Ugandan grassroots women like Namaddu to build community resilience to address the impacts of the pandemic and climate crisis, by establishing green community-based micro-enterprises which would provide sustainable livelihoods.
Read MoreCatalyzing Women’s Climate Solutions in Kenya
Catalyzing Women’s Climate Solutions in Kenya The Kenya Accelerator In partnership with our longtime partner, Women in Water and Natural Resource Conservation (WWANC), WEA’s work in Kenya convenes women leaders fiercely protecting water, food, air, forests, land, sacred sites, and indigenous lifeways. By supporting these leaders to scale solutions for change, we are creating the…
Read MoreLighting a Clean Cookstoves Revolution in Nigeria
Lighting a Clean Cookstoves Revolution in Nigeria In 2015, WEA launched a partnership with Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Environment (WISE) to hold capacity-building trainings for women leaders from Kaduna State in Nigeria to promote and sell clean cookstoves. Through trainings that include clean cookstove business training, leadership and advocacy skill development, and financing for clean…
Read MoreWomen Building a Water Movement in East Africa
Women Building a Water Movement in East Africa The GWWI East Africa Women and Water Training supported 50 African women leaders from three East African countries—Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania—to learn and implement solutions to issues of water and sanitation. The GWWI East African Women and Water Training in Uganda launched in 2011, hosted in partnership with ICON…
Read MoreWest African Women Providing Safe Water and Sanitation
West African Women Providing Safe Water and Sanitation The West Africa Women and Water Training supported women leaders with water technologies, business opportunities, seed funding and leadership skills to design appropriate and long-lasting solutions to water and sanitation crises in their communities. The 2010 GWWI West African Women and Water Training, in partnership with Pro-Net…
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