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Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Launches Online Entrepreneurship Certificate Programme for Women Around the World
NEW YORK/GENEVA – (January 11, 2022) – The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator (WEA), today announced the global launch of its online entrepreneurship curriculum designed to inspire, educate, and empower women entrepreneurs around the world. The Online [...]
Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Publication Establishes the Business Case for Gender-Responsive Procurement
NEW YORK (May 5, 2022) – WEA today announced the publication of an Advocacy Brief titled “Procurement’s strategic value: Why gender-responsive procurement makes business sense” which presents compelling evidence of the benefits for strengthening the [...]
Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Event at the 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women Calls for Investing in Women Entrepreneurs to Tackle Climate Change
NEW YORK/GENEVA – (31 March 2022) – Recognizing the intersecting relationship between climate change and gender inequality, on March 18 the Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator (WEA) brought together senior representatives of its founding partners to discuss [...]
WE Empower Media Announcement as a new WEA partner (November 2021)
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Partners with the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge to Maximize the Development Impact of Women Entrepreneurs NEW YORK – (November 20, 2021) –The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator (WEA), a strategic multi-partnership convening [...]
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Welcomes International Telecommunication Union as New UN Partner in Bridging the Digital Gender Divide in developing and least developed countries
NEW YORK, NY – GENEVA. – (February 8, 2022) – A landmark McKinsey Global Institute report finds that $12 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 if underserved women around the world are given access [...]
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Partners with the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge to Maximize the Development Impact of Women Entrepreneurs
NEW YORK – (November 20, 2021) –The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator (WEA), a strategic multi-partnership convening five United Nations agencies and Mary Kay, Inc., in support of last week Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, [...]