Sharjah (UAE)h, October 10th, 2017: NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA) has launched its Badiri Business Entrepreneurship Virtual Academy with 16 episodes and four e-books that aim to empower entrepreneurs and equip them with the skills to reach their highest potential. The platform was launched in partnership with Bel Pesce, a Brazilian entrepreneur and Founder of...
Category: Region
Post
Post
ME Organizations Rank Closing Skills Gap as Top Business Priority
DUBAI (UAE) October 9th, 2017: Closing the skills gap is the top business priority for 40 percent of Middle East and North Africa organizations, one of the worlds leading digital skills enablers, SAP, announced today at GITEX Technology Week 2017. In the Digital Economy, where the only certainty is change, the one source of lasting...
Post
Teachers: influential changemakers
Abu Dhabi (UAE) October 8th, 2017: Her Excellency Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, UAE Minister of State for Tolerance, highlighted the importance of teachers as mentors and agents of change in a Meet the Mentor session on the opening day of the Qudwa 2017 Global Teachers Forum. The Q&A session, moderated by Sultan Sooud...
Post
Investing in equality
UAE, August 28th, 2017: Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, today marked the third annual Emirati Womens Day with the launch of an online trading programme for UAE women which aims to further enhance women empowerment in the country. Launched in 2015 by HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairperson of the General...
Post
Bodour Al Qasimi, UNESCO Sign MoU to Enhance Cultural Cooperation
Paris, France, August 10th, 2017: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has recently been signed by Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, President of the Emirates Publishers Association (EPA), Head of Sharjahs World Book Capital Organising Committee; and Irina Bokova, Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in Paris. The MoU...
Post
Ambreen Musa: Surpassing the FinTech Frontier
Tell us about yourself and how you started your professional journey. Originally from Mauritius, I moved to Australia to pursue my undergraduate degree in business. Even before I embarked on my corporate career, I was already smitten by the idea of becoming an entrepreneur. At the age of 21, I launched my first online business...
Post
Mumzworld Takes the Lead in Bringing Mumz Back into the Workplace
Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Mumzworld, the regions leading e-commerce platform for everything mother, baby and child, takes yet another step in helping to empower mothers, this time with the unique introduction of a returnship programme for those qualified professional mumz looking to re-enter the workplace. The initiative introduced by the award-winning company that was founded...
Post
NAMA Calls for Strengthening Empowerment Programmes for Refugee Women
Amman, Jordan, May 24th, 2017: NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA) has called for the intensification of international efforts to support refugee women professionally, economically and socially. The women empowerment organisation, which works to move the status of women beyond equality to ensuring they become fully productive members of society, made the plea during a visit...
Post
Reach Mentoring, Lebanese League of Women in Business join forces to empower women
Dubai, UAE: A first-of-its-kind agreement has been signed between Reach, the first non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring and leadership of women professionals in the Middle East, and the Lebanese League of Women in Business (LLWB), a socio-economic association committed to developing and supporting womens leadership initiatives in Lebanon. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding agreement,...
Post
NYU Abu Dhabi engaging women via weSTEM
Scientific innovation is essential in all fields of life in the contemporary, globalized world. The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial to the worlds economic competitiveness and innovative capacity. Ironically, women who make up approximately 50 percent of the workforce of the developed world are disproportionately absent in this field. According to...