Harare, May 29th. The Women’s Desk of ZNCC, the chamber of commerce in Zimbabwe, has successfully completed the first year of its Mentor programme, where 28 advanced business women have mentored 28 very skillful talented business women to empower them and to see their businesses grow. Chamber Trade Sweden is a very proud partner to ZNCC […]
Chamber Trade Sweden’s Chamber Academy WEE conference 2015. “Working together in partnerships and coalitions! We can’t do it on our own!” states Dorothy Tuma from Uganda and the East African Women in Business Platform. The 43 participants of the WEE conference agree with her. The fourth Chamber Academy on Women’s Economic Empowerment for business member […]
The women leaders and role-models that take part in the CTS WEE network have made changes in their organisations to have women economic empowerment as part of the agenda. CTS are extremely proud of being the host for this network of change-makers and therefore we would like to share on some of the results achieved […]
By Madeleine White, capacity building specialist and co-founder of Nina Magazine Last month’s Middle East Congress held in London, cited the region’s richest oil resources as belonging to Iraq. I would argue strongly that in order to tap these amazing reserves another form of resource needs to be tapped also – that of its people. […]
During the last weeks of January African Women in Agribusiness Network (AWAN) launched their mentorship programmes in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya Focus for the programmes varies from growth (Kenya), going for export (Uganda) and in Tanzania for women entrepreneurs wanting to take the next step but also focusing on job creation for youths by supporting […]
Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) is one of CTS key goals that we are pursuing together with all our partners. Next year our WEE network will gather in Jakarta, Indonesia hosted by APINDO (Indonesias Employers and Business Association) to share results, discuss and share best practices for advocacy and improving business services and networks for member companies and the business community. We also look forward to […]
The African Women in Agribusiness Network are working for a better business climate for women entrepreneurs in East Africa and also starting in Southern Africa. A policy platform was established and produced in 2013 with representatives from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Since then the work has continued, sometimes slow and sometimes moving very fast. The […]
Chamber Trade Sweden welcomed women entrepreneurs from Africa, Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and North and South America to celebrate the Eighth Annual International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge Conference (IWEC) November 16-19th. This represented a major geographical expansion for IWEC’s since it is the first time the conference will be held in Scandinavia. The conference recognized successful […]
On November 16-18th more than 100 successful business women will meet in Stockholm for the 8th annual IWEC, International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge. The theme of this year’s conference is “Ensuring the health of your business in a global competitive world” where the focus will be on the world economy, the health of your business and […]
Chamber Trade Sweden first introduced the concept of mentoring at our Chamber Academy Women’s Economic Empowerment meetings in South Africa. Mentoring is not only a great tool for improving leadership skills and performance in your business. It is also a service that chambers and business organisations can provide to their member companies. Since our latest […]