Designing Africa’s Innovation Ecosystem for Women: A Blueprint for Inclusive Startup Ecosystems Across Africa
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )Africa holds the highest rate of female entrepreneurship in the world. Yet in 2025, women-led startups received less than 1% of total venture capital deployed on the continent.
UNDP launches e-course on sovereign credit ratings for African government officials
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Press Release )Targeted at officials from ministries of finance, central banks, debt management offices, statistical agencies, the course also draws on experiences from countries that have successfully improved their ratings.
COM 2026: Ministerial dialogue calls for urgent action to boost women’s financial inclusion for Africa’s growth
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )“Inclusion will never be complete without women being part of decision-making. We will not transform our economies by including women in numbers and excluding them from power,”Ms. Nadia Alaoui, Morocco’s Minister of Economy and Finance, said.
Statement by Mr. Claver Gatete at the 58th Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )"Without decisive action, we risk digital marginalization, widening productivity gaps and continued externalization of value from Africa’s economies: Gatete said.
CoM 2026, Committee of Experts - Opening remarks by Deputy Executive Secretary Mama Keita
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )"Africa is progressing in the adoption of frontier technologies but is clearly not doing so as quickly as other regions."Mama Keita said.
COM 2026: Stakeholders and partners join ECA at high level side events on innovation, inclusion and fiscal transformation ahead of ministerial conference
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )Showcasing concrete pathways to harness data, technology and innovation for Africa’s structural transformation.
Ahead of COM 2026 ministerial, experts spotlight innovation as driver of Africa’s structural transformation
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )Africa must move faster to harness data and frontier technologies if it is to turn economic growth into structural transformation, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa for Programme Support, Mama Keita, said
High-level policy dialogue explores how innovation, data, and frontier technologies can accelerate West Africa’s economic transformation
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )The dialogue took place at a critical time when African economies are seeking to accelerate structural transformation and build more resilient and diversified growth models.