When women rise, economies move.
Women advancement is SMART ECONOMY. Building women's leadership, economic agency, digital capability and networks for women to discover their inner strength to unleash their untapped potentials.
Talent is not the gap. Access is.
Look at any sector across Africa and count the women in the room where decisions are made. The number is too low. Not because women lack ability, but because too many never get the training, the mentor, the network or the first opportunity.
African ChangeMakers WOMEN exists to close that gap. We inspire women, develop them, and help each one discover the strength she already has, through training, support and mentoring.
"When we empower women, we empower communities, nations, and the entire human family."
Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General
Four areas. One direction.
Lead
Leadership and confidence.
Build
Entrepreneurship and economic capability.
Augment
AI and digital capability.
Connect
Mentorship, networks and opportunities.
ENGAGE - EDUCATE - EMPOWER.
Women Entrepreneurs
Training for economic and financial power, to start an enterprise and stay financially independent.
Women Mentorship
Accelerating career, business and personal development through learning, unlearning and re-learning.A career path, access to resources, a mentor and the skills for the next step.
Women + AI
ACi is building Women + AI as a focused pathway, so more women learn to think with AI, work with AI and build with AI on their own terms. Digital and AI capability for women who want to work and build with the tools shaping the next decade.
Women Opportunity Network
Online and in-person meet-ups where women share skills and create more opportunities for each other.
ACW On Telegram
Connect with other women on Telegram for some of our activities - webinars, resources,where women share skills and create more opportunities for each other.
ACW On Whatsapp
Connect with other women on Whatsapp for some of our activities - webinars, resources,where women share skills and create more opportunities for each other.
WOMEN SUPPORTING EACH OTHER.
Recognised. Committed.
#EQUALSinTech Awards
Leadership in SME category, for empowering women and girls through digital technology.
Our SDG commitments
In their Own words.
"This past one month has been an awesome, timely, revealing, educative and capacity building experience."
Bioku Precious Oluwasemilore · Nigeria"The program has educated me how to set attainable goals that I could achieve."
Sasaki Vannisa · Uganda"Now I have direction of my future and knowing where am going."
Rehema Omary · Tanzaniawomen championing change across africa & the diaspora.
African ChangeMakers WOMEN country representatives carry the movement into their own communities.
Learn. Grow. Belong.
We do not run a second academy. Each part of the ecosystem does what it does best.



