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The City of Munich’s Innovation Challenge is an invitation to submit innovative ideas to solve specific challenges the city is facing. The …
Madrid Emprende is the first Economic Development Agency managed of Madrid City Council's General Directorate for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They are located …
A programme to support London’s goal of Net Zero by 2030. Currently funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Better Futures …
SPEED UP is a project devoted to supporting the creation, development and growth of SMEs. The project addresses the issue of the …
2,100 entrepreneurs and real estate owners in Eindhoven Center invest €800,000 annually for 5 years. For entrepreneurs, the BIZ replaces the annual …
An integrated action plan was created to define the solutions to the problems of gender inequalities in the entrepreneur ecosystem and to …
Public-private partnership with City of Amsterdam strengthening the reputation of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area among residents, visitors and businesses by deploying the …
The Mayor’s Open Innovation Programme brings innovators together with local authorities and communities to co-design, test and scale solutions to London’s most …
The PIESS 2021-2023 follows and adapts the roadmap set out by the Barcelona 2030 Social and Solidarity Economy Strategy (#ESSBCN2030 Strategy) while …
During Niger's 2010 food crisis, Concern Worldwide ran a randomized trial paying cash transfers via mobile money ('Zap') against manual cash and …
The Digital Self (Digitala jag) is a nationwide educational initiative that helps small and medium-sized businesses grow with the help of the …
Canada-funded 'Build Back Equal', launched in Saint Lucia in May 2022 by UN Women and UNFPA, drove the country's first-ever National GBV …
A Philippine Commission on Women programme funded by Global Affairs Canada backed over 14,000 women micro-entrepreneurs in two phases (2006–2022); Phase 2 …
Since piloting in rural Uganda in 2010, Solar Sister has trained women as door-to-door clean-energy sellers; an independent 2016 ICRW study found …
L'OCCITANE's Fair Trade shea-butter partnership with Burkina Faso's Nununa Federation cooperatives has empowered over 42,000 rural women, generating around US$1.23 million a …
Amel Association built MENNA, a network of 13 Lebanese civil-society groups that trained over 1,000 rural and Syrian refugee women in handicraft …
Kenya's M-Pesa, launched 2007, lifted an est. 194,000 households (2% of Kenyan households) out of poverty by 2014, with female-headed households gaining …
Jordan's largest microfinance institution, Microfund for Women (MFW), has since 1994 extended 1.2 million loans worth USD 827 million across 60 branches …
One of the first co-operative banks created by women in the world, WCB is a non-profit lending institution focused on supporting women’s …
Women remain significantly underrepresented in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation in Greece. Recent research conducted by Women on Top (WoT) highlights …
Orange's digital skills hub in Ouagadougou delivered 243,000 training hours to 4,869 young Burkinabe in 2025 alone, 1,255 of them women, placing …
Bottom-up rural e-commerce clusters on Alibaba's Taobao platform, reinforced by Alibaba's top-down Rural Taobao service-station network, grew from 3 villages in 2009 …
Initiative of Dublin's four local authorities (since 2016) that runs real-world testbeds and SBIR challenge procurement so startups and SMEs pilot solutions …
Over 100 women-managed argan cooperatives in Morocco's Sous-Massa region have given rural Amazigh women income and financial autonomy since 1996; a peer-reviewed …
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