The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved financing of 9.51 million euros to the Comoros for implementation of the Project to Support the Digitization of the Comorian Economy. With a total cost of 22.53 [c]
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a $6.6 million grant to support the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) in strengthening the state capacity to build its financial architecture in order to promote inclusive [c]
The African Development Fund has approved, in Abidjan on February 27, 2024, $11.96 million Grant to speed up the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda. The financial support from the [c]
The World Bank is partnering with Smart Africa, to scale up the Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) initiative from a national to a regional focus as part of the Western Africa Regional Digital Integration Program [c]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit organization that coordinates the Domain Name System (DNS), has announced a global Grant Program that will enable innovators in Kenya to access a fund [c]
During the Consumers International’s Global Congress in Nairobi, held once every four years to bring together consumer advocates and marketplace leaders, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth (The Center) and Consumers International announced a new [c]
Spotify first partnered with Vibrate in September 2022 with a donation that facilitated the launch of the studio. Over the past six months, Vibrate has registered over 200 studio bookings, and hosted many more creators for events and classes. To help Vibrate achieve its robust plans to grow and support the creative economy in Ghana, Spotify is making a sizeable donation from its Creator Equity Fund which will be administered over multiple years. [c]
As part of its $200 Million Equitable Access Initiative, Visa Foundation commits $1 million to two local organizations – AfriLabs and Graça Machel Trust – building on its efforts to support gender diverse and inclusive small and micro businesses. [c]
Kenyan-based social enterprise firm One Acre Fund has launched a mobile application, Tupande app, that helps smallholder farmers order and access high-quality seeds and fertilisers. Introduced in April 2022 with financial support from a Cisco [c]
Swiss Re Foundation has announced a $500,000 grant for Africa’s insurance sector to spur innovation of insurance solutions for the underserved. The funding, to be distributed through the FSD Africa’s supported BimaLab insurance accelerator programme, [c]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced an initial grant of $50 million to support science and innovation in low- and middle-income countries at the ongoing 17th Grand Challenges Annual Meeting. The Grand Challenges [c]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a grant agreement with the Ministry of ICT and Innovation in Rwanda to support the Rwanda Coding Academy (RCA), set up to develop top technology talent to drive [c]
Ilara Health, the healthtech company which provides point of care diagnostic testing to small primary care clinics in Kenya, has received a $1.1 million (about Kshs 119 million) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates [c]
As part of its support to small businesses and women entrepreneurs, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth has extended a a grant to the Omaness Skinfood Company in Nigeria. The skincare company is a social impact [c]
Visa has announced a $2.4 million (Kshs 242 Million) grant to Hand in Hand Eastern Africa to support low-income business owners in Kenya. The program aims to help improve the livelihoods and resilience of 10,000 [c]
Google has issued grants worth US$1.93 million to media related projects across Africa, Middle East and Turkey. Among the beneficiaries is Ghana’s news portal, GhanaWeb, which has won the first Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation [c]
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