• Upskilling Talent For Better Health, Eye Care Services

    Upskilling Talent For Better Health, Eye Care Services

    This interview is part of Ananke’s special spotlight edition on The Fred Hollows Foundation‘s 30 years of change-making in the fields of development and eye care health especially across the Global South.   Tell us about yourself and your journey as a doctor? What was the aspiration behind choosing...
  • Empower: Deepening media women’s understanding of the industry and ecosystems

    Empower: Deepening media women’s understanding of the industry and ecosystems

    The new year at Ananke – a digital media and development platform – begins with the commencement of its flagship capacity building program, Empower, on January 16th, 2023. The remote initiative will welcome the new cohort with participants from the African, South Asian and North American regions. Empower program...
  • Amendments Proposed for Reforms in the Justice Sector Pakistan with a Gender Lens

    Amendments Proposed for Reforms in the Justice Sector Pakistan with a Gender Lens

    January 5th, 2023 (Lahore, Pakistan): Diversity & Inclusion Advocate and Founder of Women in Law Initiative Pakistan, Nida Usman Chaudhary unveiled the cover of the proposed amendments for reforms in the justice sector in Pakistan with a gender lens in a tweet yesterday. The amendments proposed are based on...
  • 25 Women From Global South Shortlisted For Ananke’s Empower Program

    Working at the intersection of journalism, technology, communication, advocacy and development, Ananke – a digital media and development platform – has shortlisted 25 applicants for its Empower Capacity Building and Internship Program 2023. Final interviews and selection begin from Dec 15th, 2022. Ananke has partnered with leading organizations and...
  • Infusing Women’s Advancement at Work

    Infusing Women’s Advancement at Work

    I would love to begin with you telling us a bit about yourself. I’m originally from Canada, but I left home 25 years ago and never looked back. My hunger for doing my own thing took me around the world where I started multiple seven-figure businesses. My first foray...
  • Achieving full gender equality is still centuries away, warns the UN in new report

    Achieving full gender equality is still centuries away, warns the UN in new report

    September 6th, 2022, (New York, USA): At the current rate of progress, it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality, the Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): The Gender Snapshot 2022 shows. Global challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, violent conflict,...
  • Promoting digital & financial inclusion through 6th round of She Loves Tech Pakistan

    Promoting digital & financial inclusion through 6th round of She Loves Tech Pakistan

    Expressing her inspiration behind bringing She Loves Tech to Pakistan,  CIRCLE’s founder Sadaffe Abid says: “At CIRCLE we are committed to promoting digital and financial inclusion of women along with creating an enabling ecosystem for women startups and women in tech. HBL has been our key partner from early...
  • Highlighting Female Participation on Emirati Women’s Day

    Highlighting Female Participation on Emirati Women’s Day

    As a key pillar of the community, Emirati women are playing a vital role in the overall development of the UAE and have achieved many successes in various sectors, especially in the financial and banking sector, thanks to the support and guidance of our wise leadership which prioritised investing...
  • OneLoad Women Empowerment Project Signs MoU with Kashf Foundation Enabling Women Micro Entrepreneurs

    OneLoad Women Empowerment Project Signs MoU with Kashf Foundation Enabling Women Micro Entrepreneurs

    Lahore, Pakistan: OneLoad Women Empowerment Project (OWEP) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has signed an MoU with Kashf Foundation for a limited scale pilot targeting their beneficiaries. The pilot project will help Kashf’s beneficiaries to earn a supplemental income. Speaking on the occasion Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director...
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