Project Partner: African Development Fund

This is a project aimed to create and deploy a social media platform, the 50 Million Women Speak platform that enables women to access business training, mentorship, financial services, and locally relevant business information while building their own networks of contacts. It will build on the ubiquity and popularity of mobile phones so that the burden of learning and accessing information and services is limited allowing women to manage their businesses and their social circumstances. In doing so, it will address the key development challenges: Women-owned SMEs face in accessing finance and the ability to grow their businesses Women-owned SMEs face in accessing information relevant to their business needs Women entrepreneurs face in creating important business networks.