April 10
South Africa: Opening Doors for Women in Farming - Key Highlights From the Fair4all Project Workshop
The Graça Machel Trust team recently visited Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, to host a two-day capacity-building workshop for women-owned small, medium and micro… Read more »
March 27
South Africa: Igniting Change - Highlights From the Pan-African Adolescent Girls Jubilee
On March 19, 2023, the Graça Machel Trust's Adolescent Girls Movement Programme hosted its 3rd annual Pan African Adolescent Girls Jubilee. The hybrid event provided a… Read more »
September 19, 2023
Southern Africa: Graça Machel Trust's SADC Regional Convening Explores Digital Finance for Women's Financial Inclusion
The Graça Machel Trust (GMT) convened the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Convening to discuss the importance of digital finance in promoting women's… Read more »
June 30, 2023
South Africa: Leadership Transition At the Graça Machel Trust
The Board of the Graça Machel Trust wishes to announce the resignation of our much-respected CEO, Melizsa Mugyenyi, who came on board in 2021 to lead the Graça Machel… Read more »
May 23, 2023
South Africa: Graça Machel Trust Partners With FASSET to Transform Women's Businesses
On 22 May the Graça Machel Trust's Women Creating Wealth (WCW) Enterprise Development Programme is proud to partner with the Finance, Accounting Services Sector Education… Read more »
April 04, 2023
Southern Africa: The Fair4ALL Project - Supporting Efforts to Increase Opportunities for Women Small-Scale Producers
For many years, the Graça Machel Trust has worked with women-led farmers to propel them beyond subsistence farming into viable businesses that participate equitably in the… Read more »
September 29, 2022
Zambia: Meet Jacqueline Dube, a Driving Force Contributing to the Growth of the Textile Cooperative in Zambia
Five inspiring facts about Jacqueline Dube. Read more »
September 27, 2022
Zambia: How Cooperatives Are Enabling Women to Take Advantage of Large-Scale Textile Business Opportunities
It has been over 29 years since the Zambian Federation of Associations of Women in Business (ZFWAB), which hosts the Graça Machel Trust's Network of Women in Business… Read more »
September 21, 2022
Southern Africa: Ground-Breaking Partnerships Critical Pathway to Achieving Impact for Women Access to Finance, Graça Machel Trust CEO Tells Panel
Women's financial inclusion should include a collective effort to ensure all women have adequate access to appropriate financial products. "Women are significant contributors and… Read more »
September 01, 2022
Zimbabwe: Actions Needed to Close the Gender Financing Gap Post-Covid-19
The past two years have shown us that challenges in the financial inclusion gender gap exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic need to be closed for women to have equal access to… Read more »
August 01, 2022
Zimbabwe: Unpacking the Impact of Covid-19 Reports From Zimbabwe and Uganda
According to a UN Women Report on the impact of COVID-19, it not only had a profound shock on our societies and economies, but the pandemic also underscored society's reliance on… Read more »
Zimbabwe: To Have a Voice Is Power - Women in Finance Leadership Series
"Women will come in their thousands and millions but will have no face. When the moment of truth comes but they will have no voice. To have a voice is power. It allows one not only… Read more »
July 17, 2022
Africa: "Why Has Society Normalized Inequality in All Aspects of Life?" - Graça Machel
Everyday inequality-related issue contributes to the death of 21,300 people. And this is a conservative estimate of the victims resulting from hunger, extreme weather events due to… Read more »