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Ecobank Foundation and United Nations (UN) Women Form Historic Partnership to Promote Women's Empowerment in Africa

Ecobank Foundation and UN Women will jointly carry out a series of awareness raising, advocacy and action activities to combat violence against women and girls in several African countries

The Ecobank Foundation (https://EcobankFoundation.org)   and UN Women's Regional Office for West and Central Africa today signed a partnership agreement to strengthen their respective agendas for promoting women's empowerment in Africa. For the first time, these two key actors in the development of the continent have established a framework for cooperation…

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UN initiative UNITLIFE and Ecobank Foundation work to prevent chronic malnutrition amongst children in Africa and protect its human capital

Launch of ‘’Make the Connection’’, a pan African Campaign

UNITLIFE, the United Nations initiative dedicated to fighting chronic malnutrition through innovation, and the Ecobank Group’s Foundation (www.EcobankFoundation.org) - the pan-African banking group with operations in 33 countries across the continent-announce the launch of the “Make the Connection” campaign, which aims to raise awareness and funds to prevent chronic malnutrition…

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Infrastructure is so much more than bricks and mortar (By Carl Manlan, Chief Operating Officer at Ecobank Foundation, and Michael Mapstone, Director of External Affairs and Global Engagement at the Charities Aid Foundation)

Five years ago, the Ecobank Foundation collaborated with the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) to design a strategy that would help us become the ‘go-to’ partner in Africa

By Carl Manlan and Michael Mapstone Often when people speak about the need for infrastructure development in Africa, they are discussing bricks and mortar, improved physical structures such as transportation links, hospitals and schools. But creating a world in which the African continent can truly flourish and provide long term stability and…

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The African Union Covid-19 Response Fund: a new social contract (By Ebba Kalondo, Carl Manlan)

We need African resources for African transformation, and the fund is a significant step in that direction

The African Union recently rolled out the Partnership to Accelerate Covid-19 Testing (PACT) (https://bit.ly/2BoT9wh) building on the lessons from past outbreaks and epidemics. In early 2014, when Ebola cases were first reported in the West African nations of Guinea and Liberia, Africa was taken by surprise. The spread of the…

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Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s ‘Miraculous Weapons’ scoops Ecobank Foundation Prize at Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou Film Festival (FESPACO)

“Miraculous weapons” provides an enthralling story of quest of human freedom, freedom of expression, in a spirit of absolute dignity

The Cameroonian “Miraculous weapons” produced by Jean-Pierre Bekolo was judged to be the film giving the most positive image of Africa, at the influential 2019 Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ougadougou (FESPACO). As winner of the Ecobank Foundation’s (EcobankFoundation.org) Sembène Ousmane prize, Jean-Pierre Bekolo received XOF…