NEPAD’s Gender Programme works to tap into one of Africa’s most untapped assets….. Women. Gender development within the NEPAD Agency is primarily driven by the Gender programme and its flagship project, the NEPAD/Spanish Fund for women empowerment, a fund of 20 million Euro provided through the Spanish Government to support women’s projects in more than 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The goal of the NEPAD/Spanish Fund is to empower African women with financial resources to unlock their economic potential, fight poverty, create wealth and contribute to the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The year 2015 is a very important year for the NEPAD Gender Programme and the NSF because it has been declared by the African Union the official year for “African Women’s Empowerment and Development towards Agenda 2063. Tune in to this edition of “Tam Tam Express” as we chat to Rosalie Lo, Head of Gender Programme at NEPAD.
