Catherine Krobo-Edusei, founder and director of Eden Tree in Ghana, has delivered a keynote address during the International Forum for Women’s Food leadership, held in Washington DC on October 27-28.
Catherine Krobo-Edusei, founder and director of Eden Tree in Ghana, has delivered a keynote address during the International Forum for Women’s Food leadership, held in Washington DC on October 27-28.
Investisseurs & Partenaires has organized, mid-october, its 4th training seminar dedicated to its partners, with the support of the European Bank of Investment and the fund FISEA. About 50 entrepreneurs have participated to address CSR issues in African SMEs. Read more on the seminar ►
After a career in public education, Bakary Coulibaly decides to launch, with a couple of associates, a consultancy firm (started in 2000) and a microbiological laboratory (2012). Since its creation, the laboratory has gained a significant notoriety in the West African sub region.
A born entrepreneur
The crowdfunding platform Blue Bees, dedicated to agriculture, agroecology and sustainable food system, has recently launched a campaign to support the Madagascan company PhileoL. The objective is to finance the annual collect of castor oil seeds, ensuring stable income for 5,000 small producers in the region.
The microfinance network ACEP Africa Group is developping a formal CSR policy and social performance measurement tools. First developed in the ACEP institutions based in Niger, Burkina Fasob and Cameroon, this policy is meant to expand to the entire ACEP network in Africa.
HEC Alumni organizes, in partnership with Okan Consulting, a serie of conferences dedicated to Africa. The conference held on September 29 will focus on "three entrepreneurs who are transforming Africa". Among them stands Khadidiatou Nakoulima, the founder and director of the clinic NEST.
On Setpember 8, 2015, the director of the Madagascan company Nutri'zaza, Mieja Vola Rakotonarivo, participated to the workshop "What is a responsible social business?" organized by the Forum Convergences.
Gatien Adjagboni, a young Beninese entrepreneur, has started a few years ago a promising bakery activity in the capital city of Cotonou. He graduated from a French business school and started his career at the Brtitish America Tobacco Benin. In 2006, he launched his own consulting firm, Tincy.