Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Practical digital training and online tools designed by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, CW (Cambridge Wireless), Synergy Solutions and contributors from Kings College London, Kings Business School and the business sector.
Faced with coronavirus, the biggest global crisis in decades, many women entrepreneurs within low and middle income countries are experiencing severe impacts on their businesses, with the risk that this will lead to significant negative effects on their families and their economies. Many businesses are being forced to change the way in which they operate or suspend their services.
A new survey of women entrepreneurs in low to middle income countries, conducted by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, paints a challenging picture of the landscape and depth of need:
Impacts vary from access to customers being reduced or stopped completely, production or service reduction and supply chain problems. When paired with reports that they are also pivoting and adapting their offers and operations to address these impacts, women entrepreneurs are both struggling and innovating tremendously in the face of COVID-19.
In response to this challenging environment, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, in association with CW (Cambridge Wireless), Synergy Solutions and contributors from Kings College London, Kings Business School and the business sector, have built a programme of support for women business owners in low to middle income countries focused on helping them combat the effects of COVID-19 whilst preparing them to operate in the new landscape that they are faced with. The new programme, led by CW Board Member Olu Orugboh, CEO and Founder of Synergy Solutions, combines practical digital training with online tools.
We are pleased that we are able to respond by putting together an urgent programme of support, across 70 countries with our partners, focussed on helping women entrepreneurs to safeguard their business and better respond to the new normal that they are now facing.
This event brought together business, government and development leaders from around the world to champion women entrepreneurs and to provide practical insight and best practice on the tools, support and services needed to help women entrepreneurs to survive COVID-19 and thrive in the growing digital economy.
Speakers included:
In low and middle income countries, millions of SMEs are turning to mobile technology to help them digitalise and adapt in response to the impacts of COVID-19. Mobile handsets are powering entire businesses like never before, connecting entrepreneurs to customers, finance, information, skills training, networks and other vital services. But not everyone is able to take up these opportunities. The second event brought together an esteemed panel of speakers including:
Topics of discussion included:
We are really excited to be empowering thousands of women entrepreneurs in over 70 countries through technology and our relationships.
Through its combined approach of programmatic delivery and advocacy, the Foundation supports women to start and grow successful micro, small and medium businesses, with training, technology, mentoring and networking at the heart of its work. This opens doors to finance, markets, contacts and more, and enables women to create better futures for themselves and their families, enable their communities to prosper, contribute to strong economies, and move the world in a whole new direction.
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Synergy Solutions is a specialist digital innovator and consultancy practice focused on helping companies stay at the forefront of evolving technology and the ever-changing world of customer expectation.
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