CEDIL Global

05/02/2025

CEDIL Global Signs Collaborative MOU with CouldYou? USA to Tackle Period Poverty in Africa.

CEDIL Global and CouldYou? A New York-based non-profit dedicated to curating, proving, and scaling solutions to period poverty have closed the month of April 2025 with a new partnership pact to tackle period poverty in Africa. "Our goal is to reduce period poverty and contribute to reduced unmet need for menstrual hygiene management in African countries. We will enhance accessibility to the CouldYou? menstrual cup product and mobilize other philanthropic actors, donors, gov'ts, and civil society to join a long-term-period poverty reduction collaborative and financing mechanism to support a systems-leadership approach to tacking this public health and development challenge, Dr. Obed Kabanda shared after signing the MOU with Christine Garde Denning the CEO of Could You?". CouldYou? Cup is a proven, innovative, and user-friendly menstrual hygiene product designed to improve menstrual health among girls and women.
Period poverty, the inability to afford menstrual hygiene products, is a significant issue in Africa, particularly affecting women, and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies reveal high unmet needs for menstrual hygiene management (MHM), with percentages varying across countries and regions. Factors like lower education levels, rural living, and lack of access to sanitation facilities exacerbate this problem. Recent research in six African countries of Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Uganda, Niger, Kenya, and Ghana have established the unmet need for MHM as particularly being high in Burkina Faso (74.8%), followed by Ethiopia (69.9%) and Uganda (65.2%) with unmet need for MHM consistently higher among women living in rural areas than those living in urban settings.
To paint a clearer picture, in the Central African Republic for example, some areas have extremely limited access to menstrual hygiene products, with a single sanitary pad costing 1.5 euros, making it a luxury for many. In Kenya, 65% of women and girls cannot afford sanitary pads, and two out of three pad users in rural areas receive them from sexual partners. Periods make girls miss school, work, and negatively impact their health and is associated to poor health-related quality-of-life and adverse reproductive health outcomes.

The CEDIL Global and CouldYou? Partnership is a great step towards contributing to reduced period poverty in Africa. As May 28th approaches join the movement and consider supporting country mechanisms to promotion menstrual hygiene and reduce period poverty.
We are open to new partnership actors that are interested in being part or even contributing to this continental agenda.


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CEDIL Global Signs Collaborative MOU with CouldYou? USA to Tackle Period Poverty in Africa. CEDIL Global and CouldYou? A New York-based non-profit dedicated to curating, proving, and scaling solutions to period poverty have closed the month of April 2025 with a new partnership pact to tackle period....

05/02/2025

Welcoming Topher Wilkins on CEDIL Global International Advisory Board

Today we announce the appointment of Topher Wilkins the CEO of Opportunity Collaboration and Co-Founder, Conveners.org as a member of the CEDIL Global International Advisory Board.
Topher brings with him an international networking experience that is very key to fostering connections and partnerships for CEDIL Global in its mission of fostering innovative, locally driven collaboratives and solutions in Africa that address the continent's health, gender, economic and climate development challenges.
Topher is a global convener and has been convening and connecting people for the purposes of social change for 20+ years, starting at the Highland City Club, a membership community of 300 change-makers in Boulder, Colorado. Topher then managed Dunton Hot Springs, one of North America’s top all-inclusive resorts and retreat centers, and founded Conveners.org, a group of 150+ impact conferences and accelerators. In addition to Topher’s leadership of the Opportunity Collaboration’s global network of 3,000+ nonprofit executives, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers, impact investors, corporates, media and academics building sustainable solutions to poverty and injustice, he also leads Connective Impact, a comprehensive membership network providing critical connections, resources, and intelligence to help demystify the international development funding landscape. You can also ask Topher about the Lunar University!
Join us to welcome Topher as a Board Member.

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Welcoming Topher Wilkins on CEDIL Global International Advisory Board Today we announce the appointment of Topher Wilkins the CEO of Opportunity Collaboration and Co-Founder, Conveners.org as a member of the CEDIL Global International Advisory Board. Topher brings with him an international networkin...

05/02/2025

Our CEO &President participated as a panelist at a very intriguing panel hosted by East Africa Philanthropy Network-EAPN April 10th 2025 to discuss the reality of the need to transition philanthropy from just being a complementary actor to Africa's sustainable development to becoming a strong force that contributes to strategic and long-term systems-and locally-led development. The call to embrace The Partnering Initiative- Public-Private-Philanthropy-Partnerships (PPPPs) approach as a powerful tool to fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration for was emphasized at the conference. It was clear from existing evidence that the power of diaspora remittances needs to be harnessed. A revelation from a mapping report by Development Dynamics presented at the conference with data from Bank of Uganda figures indicated a whooping $1.4billion contribution from to Uganda's sustainable development compared to just $47m from philanthropy contributions in 2024 alone. There is need to harness and strategically engage inter-and intra-Africa diaspora communities as strategic actors to Africa's philanthropy and sustainable development.

Our CEO &President participated as a panelist at a very intriguing panel hosted by East Africa Philanthropy Network-EAPN April 10th 2025 to discuss the reality of the need to transition philanthropy from just being a complementary actor to Africa's sustainable development to becoming a stron...

05/02/2025

It has been a week of whirlwind engagement activities and glad that CEDIL Global was approved to attend the UN 11th Summit of the ( -11) that took place in Kampala, Uganda, from April 9 to 11, 2025, at the Speke Resort Convention Centre in Munyonyo.

This high-level event brought together over 2,000 delegates, including Heads of State and Government, policymakers, business leaders, civil society representatives and youth leaders.
The summit that was premised on the objectives of reviewing progress, addressing the $402M SDG financing gap, and promotion of sustainable solutions provided an opportunity to assess Africa’s progress towards achieving and , and to promote shared learning as well unlock opportunities for Africa peoples especially women, girls and youth.

It was exciting to hear most of the discussions highlighting the need for and between government, civil society and private sector entities including philanthropic organizations in order to accelerate the achievement of SDGs.

Whereas it was revealed that some African regions are doing better than others, the emphasis to continued learning and promotion of communities of practice coupled with enhancing localized financing mechanisms for SDGs remained high among other recommendations that will enable spur accelerated achievement of SDGs in the remaining time frame up to 2030.
With over $8billion USAID funding focused on Africa halted not more than two months ago, the need for innovative and multstakeholder country and regional financing mechanisms becomes necessary.
It was further observed during the summit that catalyzing real change on the Africa continent and accelerating progress toward middle-income status by 2044 has never been more important than it is now and it will take multistakeholder engagement and commitment.

And as CEDIL Global, we are pleased to continue contributing our efforts towards supporting co-creation processes of financing mechanisms and collaboratives that advance gender, health, economic and climate action for all in Africa within a to sustainable change.
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It has been a week of whirlwind engagement activities and glad that CEDIL Global was approved to attend the UN 11th Summit of the ( -11) that took place in Kampala, Uganda, from April 9 to 11, 2025, at the Speke Resort Convention Centre in Munyonyo.....

05/02/2025

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04/03/2025

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Africa-led solutions to dealing with Africa development challenges will go a long way in deepening sustainable systemic change on the continent. The Africa born foundation-The Tony Elumelu Foundation is shaping philanthropic mechanisms for empowering the young African entrepreneurs that are full of....

04/01/2025

Dr. Obed Kabanda Kabanda Obed takes on the role of CEO and President at CEDIL Global

A registered international and regional not-for-profit organization catalyzing systemic change across Africa through innovative and rights-based development models, technologies, and leadership development.