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When women rise, economies move.

Building women's leadership, economic agency, digital capability and networks across Africa.

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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.

Programs

Lead

Women Entrepreneurs

Training for economic and financial power, to start an enterprise and stay financially independent.

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Connect

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.

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Augment

Women + AI

Digital and AI capability for women who want to work and build with the tools shaping the next decade.

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Connect

Women Opportunity Network

Online and in-person meet-ups where women share skills and create more opportunities for each other.

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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.

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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.

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Women + AI

AI will reshape work across every sector. Women must not be watching from the outside. 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.

We already know digital works: ACi won the #EQUALSinTech Award for empowering women and girls through digital technology.

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WOMEN SUPPORTING EACH OTHER.

NIGERIA
GHANA
NIGERIA
NIGERIA
NIGERIA
TANZANIA
NIGERIA
CAMEROON
KENYA

Learn. Grow. Belong.

We do not run a second academy. Each part of the ecosystem does what it does best.

Learn by BwB

The learning

Structured courses for women who want new skills.

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Growth by BwB

The business

Practical support for women turning skills into income.

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African ChangeMakers

The movement

Community, mission, access, leadership and opportunity.

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Recognised. Committed.

WINNER

#EQUALSinTech Awards

Leadership in SME category, for empowering women and girls through digital technology.

Our SDG commitments

SDG 1No poverty
SDG 3Good health
SDG 4Quality education
SDG 5Gender equality
SDG 8Decent work

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 · Tanzania

Rise with us.

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Women, mentors and allies. Learn, connect, find opportunity.

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Become a mentor

Give a woman or girl the hour you wish somebody had given you.

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Fund women and girls

Sponsor a program and help ACi reach more of them.

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women championing change across africa & the diaspora.

African ChangeMakers WOMEN country representatives carry the movement into their own communities.

Olutope Olatilewa E. [Nigeria]
VISIONARY
Modupe Olajumoke Adu · [Nigeria]
CO-ORDINATOR
Selena Aboyinga · [Ghana]
Bonolo Molebotasi · [Botswana].
Kameni Deumani Lila · [Cameroon].
Ayan Y. Nour [Djibouti]
Sarah El Shatby [Egypt]
Mekides Berhanu Alemu [Ethiopia]
Rose Doreen [Kenya]
Miator Vululleh [Liberia]
Ajayi Mary Abiola [Nigeria]
Sasaki Vannesa [Uganda]
Khitambo Ruth Kayukwa [Zambia]
Stephanie Arama Gabriel [Nigeria]
Peris Kiboi [Kenya]
Zegeyesh Tayo Mammo [Ethiopia]
Inimfon Solomon [Nigeria]

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Questions

Who are the programs for?
Women Only at every stage of life, career, business and leadership.
Is it only for women?
Women are the focus and they pay-it-forward by empowering and advancing more women and girls in their communities.
Is it online or in person?
Most activities are online because of 54 African countries and the diaspora coverage and access.We do have in-person events once in awhile

Every woman who rises pulls the next one up.

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Image brief: women of different ages walking side by side on a city rooftop at dawn, gold and orange horizon behind them.