A BLOG POST BY STEPHENIE FOSTER
I just spent the last week in Accra, attending meetings sponsored by Vital Voices Global Partnership, the Africa Businesswomen’s Network (the ABWN) and the ExxonMobil Foundation. These organizations aim to build and support a network of businesswomen organizations in Africa to expand the number of women succeeding as entrepreneurs and [...]
By Stephenie Foster
Accra, Ghana — Just landed in Accra and went directly to the African Businesswomen Network (ABWN)/Vital Voices meeting focusing on supplier diversity.
The 30 women (and one man) attending were just finishing a four day intensive session on how women owned businesses can prepare themselves to make the best business case possible for supplying [...]
Advocacy and Running for Office: A Training Manual for Women brings together materials from across the globe to focus on helping women develop critical advocacy and political skills. Published by Vital Voices, and supported by the ExxonMobil Foundation, the manual provides pragmatic advice on how to build skills and inspire women to engage in public [...]
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, Baroness Goudie hosted her first blog breakfast in Washington, DC. There were over 40 high powered Washington women and men in attendance, all of whom are committed to global women’s issues and effective action. The breakfast was very much like a blog – spirited, with lots of back and forth, [...]
A BLOG POST BY WENCHI YU
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton often says, “Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.” During my recent trip to a rural village in Nepal, I witnessed how a girl can have a hopeful future when given the opportunity to education.
Thanks to Room to Read, an international NGO that [...]
Baroness Goudie: My Lords, talent is universal but opportunity is not. I welcome the Minister’s statement that the coalition Government will continue to support the millennium goals. The coalition Government and the opposition need to put pressure on Governments, as did our former Prime Ministers, Mr Blair and Mr Brown. We need to have the [...]
In the House of Lords on the 14th of June 2010, Baroness Goudie asked the following:
Baroness Goudie: My Lords, I welcome very much the Statement by the Leader of the House and the Prime Minister today, and the commitment to funds for the future of the Ministry of Defence. More importantly, however, there is [...]
A POST BY STEPHENIE FOSTER
On Monday, June 7, Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile (2006-2010) addressed a packed room in downtown Washington, DC, at an event co-sponsored by the Aspen Institute Council of Women World Leaders and the Bertelsmann Foundation, and moderated by Dr. Julia Sweig of the (U.S.) Council on Foreign Relations. [...]
From June 7th to 9th, Washington DC was host to the 2010 Women Deliver Global Conference, a global event dedicated to deliver socio-cultural, economic, technological and political solutions to improve women’s health and particularly maternal health. The event hosted remarkable speakers and representatives of political groups, civil society groups, NGO’s and international organizations from 146 [...]
I would like to thank Neena and Lady Aruna Paul for giving me the opportunity to be here today.
Invest in women, Improve the world.
‘There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military’s
Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the
most effective way [...]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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