Asha Namugambe is an alumni of yher Africa, a program designed to support women entrepreneurs on the continent to thrive. Asha generously agreed to share her story as we ask for your help to support more women like her to succeed in business. …

Lilian Nakigozi is a 2019 alumni of yher Africa, a program designed to support women entrepreneurs on the continent to thrive. Lilian generously agreed to share her story as we ask for your help to support more women like her to succeed in business. Read on for Lilian’s story, in…

Sometimes we spend so much time thinking about the issues we’re trying to solve that we forget to zoom out and see the progress being made. …

At ygap, one of our key values is “We challenge barriers to equality”. We know that inequality isn’t accidental; it exists as a result of systems that support the success of some people over others. We strive to bring down those barriers that exist in the entrepreneurial space, and reimagine…

Written by yher Africa Regional Director, Katleho Tsoku When we started working on the yher Africa Invest Pilot, I kept asking myself, ‘how is this going to make a real difference to women-led ventures?’. I believed we needed to be radical and change the system! I recently read an article…

This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is Break the Bias, to raise awareness on the role that unconscious bias plays in stopping women from getting ahead. …

Towards the end of 2021, the Argidius Foundation released their #SCALEReport, an exciting new standard for how entrepreneur support organisations like ygap can better support small and growing businesses to succeed. Argidius has been a partner of ygap for the last five years as they’ve supported our Kenya-based team in…

Making time to reflect When it comes to our programs, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) processes and the collection of qualitative data is something that we put a lot of time and energy into. Insights gathered from these data allow us to understand how we are tracking against our intentions with each body of…

‘For the first time in our thirteen-year organizational history, we are updating our vision to better reflect the evolution of our work and the significant global challenges facing us all. Rather than focusing on “a world without poverty,” we are striving towards achieving “an equitable and sustainable world” through the…