We’re excited to wrap up this International Women’s Month with the announcement of our 4th annual 100 Women Creating a Better Africa (100WCBA) list. What we love most about this year’s list, as with previous editions, is the diversity of the nominations. The list features former presidents, CEOs of organisations as well as students leading

As the name implies, the ‘100 Women Creating A Better Africa’ is a list of 100 women making a difference on the continent in their various fields of endeavour. As part of the criteria for selection, each woman on the list must be contributing her quota to the achievement of one or more of the 17 UN SDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) in Africa.

In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship

In celebration of Global Week to #Act4SDGs, WeForGood held the Turn Up For SDGS event to bring together social innovators, SDG advocates and development enthusiasts across Africa in a party-like format to discuss the power of the Sustainable Development Goals to create solutions to the continent’s pressing challenges.

In commemoration of the UN World Youth Skills Day, WeForGood launched the Sustainable Solutions Africa Project, an initiative to promote skills for sustainable development, specifically for reducing unemployment and poverty alleviation on the continent, starting with Nigeria.

Project Empower is an initiative aimed at empowering people to start small businesses through skill acquisition. A flagship project of IHS Nigeria, the initiative is not only focused on reducing unemployment, as these small business owners create opportunities for themselves and others, but also on adding to the country’s economic development.

Teach the SDGs with WeForGood is a volunteer-driven campaign aimed at propagating the knowledge of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to young people so as to entrench sustainable leadership in them from an early stage. Initiated in support of the efforts of the World’s Largest Lessons, the project uses a two-pronged train-the trainer approach where volunteers (youths themselves), are taught the goals and they in turn teach students in secondary, primary schools and communities.

The aim of the project was to create awareness and buttress Ijora Badia community’s, and specifically the children’s understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while unleashing their creativity through arts.