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Empowering women

Expanding financial access for female

entrepreneurs in Senegal

In the rural community of Taiba N’Diaye, many

women entrepreneurs face barriers to growing

their businesses due to limited access to credit

and financial services. In 2024, we launched a new
To achieve gender equality, women need Our programmes invest in women as key drivers of
initiative to change that – linking local women’s
economic development. We support women-led
to be economically empowered and groups with financial institutions and providing
enterprises, removing barriers to finance, improving
included in economic opportunities for training to support their long-term success.
access to education and credit, and enabling long-term

growth across Africa. economic prosperity.
Through this programme, women received

hands-on support in business planning, financial
This includes access to education, skills, jobs and Egypt
management, and market access. In Ndomor
financial resources, so women can improve their
• Provided STEM education and training for girls
village alone, more than $14,000 in credit was
prospects, support their families, and contribute fully to
and young women in Ras Ghareb, raising female
disbursed, helping women expand their ventures in
their communities and local economies.
participation in science subjects to 52%
vegetable trading, food processing, and retail.

• Created pathways for women to enter technical roles
Empowering women has always been a key focus for
in the renewable energy workforce By unlocking access to capital and building
all our community investment projects. We aim for at
business skills, this initiative is strengthening
least 50% female participations in all our projects. Senegal
household incomes, creating new jobs, and laying
This year we met this target, with 33% of the 415 jobs
• Launched a financial inclusion programme for the foundation for women-led economic growth
created through our community programmes being
women’s groups in Taiba N’Diaye (see case study) across rural Senegal.
held by women.

• Installed solar and battery systems for women-owned

Here we share some examples of how our community businesses to reduce costs and carbon emissions

investments are empowering women.
South Africa

Empowering women through business • We supported 100% Black-owned, women-led

opportunities enterprises to deliver monitoring and evaluation

services across our socio-economic development
In 2024, we continued our commitment to creating
projects. Through our M&E program, we’ve trained 24

sustainable business opportunities for women across
local data collectors in surrounding communities, with
our operating regions.
women representing 83% of participants.