{"id":13787,"date":"2020-11-25T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T12:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/?p=13787"},"modified":"2020-11-25T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:03:46","slug":"ifeyinwa-ugochukwu-global-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/news\/ifeyinwa-ugochukwu-global-perspectives","title":{"rendered":"Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu discute de l&#039;autonomisation des femmes au salon des perspectives mondiales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, TEF CEO, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu joined a virtual panel organised by the Global Perspectives Initiative to discuss the important role of women empowerment in creating sustainable economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the event themed Strong Women \u2013 Strong Economies, she highlighted the Foundation\u2019s role in empowering women:\u00a0 \u201cThe Foundation has been committed to empowering women from 2010 when we started. In 2015, when we launched the largest private sector-led entrepreneurship programme to empower, to train, fund and mentor 10,000 businesses across all 54 African countries, we committed to ensuring that we do not have female participation less than 30%. I\u2019m glad to say that today, our female participation stands at 36% but we are working furiously to ensure it gets up to 50%.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ifeyinwa also stressed the importance of capacity building and funding to ensure that women businesses thrive on the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWomen are not only reliable entrepreneurs, she said, but they empower the family and their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She joined other speakers including Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Senior Economic Advisor AEDPI, Co-Founder of Transparency International; Heike Bergmann, Senior Vice President Sales Africa, Voith Hydro; and Silvana Koch-Mehrin, President and Founder of Women Political Leaders (WPL), former Member and Vice-President of the European Parliament in the panel moderated by Elisabeth Niejahr, Managing Director for the area &#8220;Strengthening Democracy&#8221;, Hertie Stiftung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Generation Equality Forum, is a global civil society event, using its notable anniversary as an opportunity to mobilize for equality and provoke transformative change around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_49829\"  width=\"1220\" height=\"686\"  data-origwidth=\"1220\" data-origheight=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ETFvXL13dNo?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"Lecteur YouTube\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le mardi 24 novembre 2020, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, PDG du TEF, a rejoint un panel virtuel organis\u00e9 par la Global Perspectives Initiative pour discuter du r\u00f4le important de l&#039;autonomisation des femmes dans la cr\u00e9ation d&#039;un d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique durable. 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