WOCEN Women Climate Entrepreneurs

13/08/2024

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01/03/2024

Es war sehr besonders, Salma Abdulai kennenzulernen, die Mitbegründerin und CEO der AMAATI Company in Tamale, Ghana. Wir waren begeistert zu erfahren, wie sie ihr soziales Unternehmen rund um das neu entdeckte Fonio-Korn aufbauen, hauptsächlich in Zusammenarbeit mit Frauenbauern. Derzeit ermöglichen sie mehr als 6.000 Frauen den Anbau von Fonio und schaffen nachhaltige Lebensgrundlagen.

AMAATI verfolgt einen marktorientierten Ansatz, um ländliche Frauen in der Northern Region von Ghana dazu zu ermutigen, Fonio auf verlassenen degradierten Flächen anzubauen. Fonio, ein Vollkorngetreide aus Westafrika, ist reich an Aminosäuren sowie wichtigen Nährstoffen wie Eisen, Calcium, Protein, Magnesium und Ballaststoffen. Es eignet sich ideal für den Anbau in halbariden Regionen, da es resistent gegen Dürre ist und in acht Wochen reift. Sein Anbau ist besonders vorteilhaft für die Umwelt, da er den Boden ohne Verwendung von Düngemitteln oder Bewässerung regeneriert. Es verspricht daher, das Einkommen der lokalen Bevölkerung sowie deren Ernährung und Gesundheit zu verbessern.

20/02/2024

Hilda Addah: “The face of the waste collectors in Accra (Ghana) is a woman. They are poorest of the poor”.

In Accra, only 20% of household garbage waste is collected and only 2% of the waste is recycled resulting in 78% of garbage ending up on the streets. Due to heavy rainfall, the garbage drains into the oceans, washing up on the shores or being ingested by the animals in and around Accra. Also, plastic bags and containers often clog gutters causing hazardous flooding. These are endangering people’s lives and causing an environmental issue.

ASASE Foundation was created by Dana Mosora and Hilda Addah on March 25th, 2017 in Accra. The ASASE Foundation aims to start small recycling plants and set them up as social enterprises in communities suffering from the effects of plastic waste littering. They empower women entrepreneurs, to build their own plastic recycling business and cash in on the value of the waste for a profit. The social enterprise model will help create jobs and keep most of the value generated by recycling plastic in the community. This will engage in collecting all the waste plastic before it is littered.

ASASE Foundation is running community-based collection models with six collection centres. They also run three Cash-it Recycling Plants with a capacity of each to transform 2000 tons of plastic waste per year. One plant is producing Plastic Lumber. https://asasegh.com/

15/02/2024

During our Ghana exploration tour, we visited the office of Oxford Africa Women Leadership Institute (OAWLI) in Accra, Ghana and met Odelia Ntiamoah, Global Director OAWLI and Boahemaa Ntim, Board Member OAWLI and Prince Ntiamoah Boampong BA, MA, Board Member OAWLI.
Peninnah Osei-Poku, Country Lead PIRON Global Development is also in the picture.
OAWLI is a network of 10,000 women business owners and professionals in Africa, which trains, connects women to opportunities and supports them to make their businesses sustainable. They have 2,100 members across 36 African countries.
The Sheconomy hub is training platform and is their flagship project.
OAWLI’s mission: To provide technical, financial, networking, mentoring support services and access to markets to women leaders across Africa, helping to bridge the gender gap and create more opportunities for women to succeed in their businesses and careers. https://oawli.org/

12/02/2024

Dr Eva Agana introduced us to Talmond, an innovative Ghanaian-German company founded and led by Dr Elie Fink. They produce a delicious drink out of the nuts of the fast-growing Tropical Almond tree (Terminalia cattapa), which has two fruit bearing seasons per year. In comparison to the conventional almonds, Tropical Almonds use much less water and no irrigation. 987 small holder farmers, many of them women, look after the carefully selected and planted Tropical Almond trees and supply Talmond with the nuts. www.talmondfoods.com

26/01/2024

Bin gespannt die Arbeit von WOCEN kennen zu lernen.

WOCEN ist vor Ort. Besuch im Büro unseres Liaison Büros in Accra. Danke Penny für alle Vorbereitungsarbeiten!

26/01/2024

WOCEN ist vor Ort. Besuch im Büro unseres Liaison Büros in Accra. Danke Penny für alle Vorbereitungsarbeiten!

16/11/2023

Who is WOCEN?

• WOCEN is an independent Swiss organization for international cooperation with a focus on promoting the private sector, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as climate protection, women's empowerment, and poverty reduction.
• WOCEN is a non-profit association with growing community support in Switzerland.
• WOCEN collaborates with civil society, private sector, and government actors.

16/11/2023

Board members of WOCEN

16/11/2023

Mission of WOCEN

• Business Support
WOCEN strengthens small and medium-sized social businesses led by women. We support female entrepreneurs in building green social enterprises through personal guidance, business, and technical expertise, as well as long-term equity financing.

• Climate Protection and Climate Adaptation
WOCEN supports and empowers women entrepreneurs in developing and implementing business ideas in the field of climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas reduction. Their business value chains are as carbon neutral as possible.

• Women's Empowerment
In collaboration with selected social enterprises, WOCEN empowers disadvantaged girls and women. They are empowered to assert their rights, gain education and participation, and engage as entrepreneurs and climate activists.

• Poverty Alleviation
WOCEN's partner companies offer their employees regular and secure incomes with fair working conditions. This, in turn, creates resilient livelihoods and promotes economic independence for many people. The social impacts extend far beyond the employees and their families, reaching their neighborhoods and communities.

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Vision of WOCEN

WOCEN empowers small and medium-sized social enterprises in the Global South led by women. We accompany selected partner companies on a growth path that significantly enhances their economic, social, and ecological impact. Women entrepreneurs transform their businesses into catalysts for change, making a significant contribution to promoting climate justice, gender justice, and social justice.