5.8
Average rise in women's share of manufacturing wages when countries open to trade
33% VS 24%
women's workforce share at firms in global value chains vs. non-trading firms.
Source:
WTO & World Bank
Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality (2020).
WHO WE ARE
Africa's platform for women's economic participation in continental integration.
Tindira Foundation helps African women and girls earn more, trade more, own more and prosper more through the opportunities created by the AfCFTA, regional value chains, finance, digital trade, culture, sport and enterprise.
Mission
To equip, connect and position African women and girls to participate in, trade across, and prosper from Africa's integrated markets.
Purpose
To convert Africa's integration into practical economic opportunity for women.
Vision
To convert Africa's integration into practical economic opportunity for women.
Our emblem a lioness and her cub carries the purpose: strength passed from one generation of African women to the next, and the fierce protection of opportunity.
We turn Africa's integration into practical economic opportunity for women not inspiration alone, but income, trade and ownership.
How can African women and girls earn more, trade more, own more and prosper more through Africa's integration?
Everything we do answers this question.
Earn More : Access to the export sectors and value chains where trade lifts women's wages and formalises their work.
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Trade More : Practical capability to trade across borders under the AfCFTA : customs, standards, digital trade and finance.
Own More : Moving from trading to owning : businesses, brands, IP and equity within continental value chains.
Prosper More : Measuring whether integration is actually translating into prosperity for women, through the Tindira Prosperity Index.
AFCTFTA FOR WOMEN
Africa's platform for women's economic participation in continental integration.
The African Continental Free Trade Area is building a single market across the continent. But trade agreements are not gender-neutral without deliberate effort, women are left at the margins of the very economy they help drive.
Tindira exists to close that gap: to make sure African women are not bystanders to integration but earners, traders and owners within it equipped to use the new instruments built for them.
PROGRAMME ARCHITECTURE
How we deliver.
A foundation of financial capability, then four engines that move women and girls from the margins of trade to the centre of ownership.
Tindira Money Lab
Money matters so the Money Lab builds financial capability and access to capital for women and girls: savings, credit, digital finance, investment and financial literacy, taught from school age. It is the foundation beneath everything else.
Tindira Trade Academy Practical learning on the AfCFTA, exports, customs, standards, digital trade,
e-commerce and trade finance.
Tindira Market Access Hub Connecting women to buyers, trade routes, regional markets, distributors and continental value chains.
Tindira Ownership Lab Moving women from participation to ownership: businesses, brands, IP, land, cooperatives, equity and family enterprises.
Tindira Prosperity Index Tracking whether African women are earning more, trading more, owning more and prospering more and holding the work to account.
CREDIBILITY & GOVERNANCE
A serious, professionally governed African institution.
Registered in Uganda
Tindira Foundation Limited a company limited by guarantee, incorporated under the Companies Act of Uganda, 2012.
Governed by a board
A constituted board, transparent rules and not-for-profit by design income applied solely to the mission.
Aligned to Africa's agenda
AU Agenda 2063, the AfCFTA Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade, and SDG 5 on gender equality.
Evidence-led Programmes
Measured against the Tindira Prosperity Index earning, trading, owning, prospering.
The Tindira Summit.
✦ Speaker profiles & programme
✦ Delegate registration
✦ Sponsorship & partnership opportunities
✦ Post-event reports & media
A continental convening on women's economic participation the women earning, trading and owning across Africa, with the partners, funders, governments and institutions building the markets they trade in.
ANNUAL CONTINENTAL GATHERING
TINDIRA: Women Building Africa
Stories of African women turning integration into income through trade, technology, ownership and enterprise. Part of our growing library of research and thought leadership.
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Trading Across Borders Under the AfCFTA Trade · Coming soon
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From Market Stall to Boardroom Ownership · Coming soon
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Building in Code: African Women in Digital Trade Technology · Coming soon
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Owning the Value Chain Enterprise · Coming soon
THE FLAGSHIP PODCAST
Evidence, not just advocacy.
Tindira publishes research, thought leadership and data on African women's economic participation and tracks progress through the Tindira Prosperity Index.
We measure one thing above all: whether women are earning more, trading more, owning more and prospering more as Africa integrates.
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Earn Women's incomes & wage parity
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Trade Women's intra-African trade participation
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Own Women's business & asset ownership
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Prosper Generational economic mobility
RESEARCH & INDEX
PARTNERSHIPS
Strategic partners we seek.
Tindira seeks collaboration with the institutions shaping Africa's trade and prosperity agenda.Partnerships sought, not yet endorsements Tindira is building these relationships.
Tindira is not about inspiration alone. It is about income, trade, ownership and prosperity.
Partner with us, fund the work, or join a continental platform for women's economic participation.