The African Development Bank Group’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative is launching its second call for proposals for the Women Entrepreneurship Enablers program, targeting women’s business associations, incubators, accelerators, women-led cooperatives, and civil society organizations that promote the development of women entrepreneurs on the continent. AFAWA is offering grants of up…
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Standard Bank Group, with the support of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), the Motor Industry Retirement Funds (MIRF) and Copartes Pension Fund and the African Union Commission (AUC), have announced the African Women Impact Fund (AWIF) Initiative’s achievement of its first commitment of USD$60 million. The announcement was made at…
Deloitte Africa has appointed Jayne Mammatt and Jyoti Vallabh, two renowned sustainability and climate change specialists, in its Audit & Assurance division. Both women will join the firm as Partners – forming part of Deloitte’s effort to help clients to develop, execute and report on their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives. This includes the…
Dubai Investment Fund (DIF), one of world’s largest global independent investment funds and asset manager, that effectively manages financial resources through diversification into new asset classes, today announced the creation of ESG Investment Department. “Investing in areas, that will bring not only profits, but also long-term benefits for the whole community is one of our…
RMB successfully arranged a R1.143bn gender-linked bond issuance across 3-year and 5-yeartranches for industrial group Barloworld, acting as Arranger and Sustainability Coordinator.“The gender-linked bonds have been issued in alignment with our gender transformation strategyand something that we as Barloworld are committed to and have been monitoring for years. We areproud to have pioneered this landmark…
