Women Entrepreneurship: JFN Hightech To Support 60 Businesses

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Women Entrepreneurship: JFN Hightech To Support 60 Businesses

This was revealed during an information and communication day for the Investing in Young Businesses in Africa programme held at the JFN Centre in Yaounde on October 12 2026.

14 Oct 2026 08:07

T he JFN Centre in Yaounde played host to the over three hour exchange organised by JFN High- Tech association guided by its motto “Innovate - Share - Act” in partnership with the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) on the Investing in Young Businesses in Africa: Women Entrepreneurship For Africa (IYBA WE4A) project. The session bringing together pros pective applicants and govern ment officials schooled about 60 women entrepreneurs on the initiative and its vital finan cing partner. As a Cameroonian non-profit organization specia lizing in innovation, education, technology, and entrepreneurship development, JFN High-Tech is spearheading this drive across four key regions namely, the Centre, Littoral, South, and East. This support is part of a broader plan by the IYBA WE4A project to ac company 270 women entre preneurs across six cohorts over a 13 month dura tion from August 2026 to August 2027. Implemented by GIZ on behalf of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African, Carib bean and Pacific States (OACPS), the initiative focuses on strengthening women who already run active enterprises, as the vice president of the JFN Centre emphasized during the event, “two in three women in Cameroon are entrepreneurs. This support program is here to assist women who already own businesses. With the financing received, JFN will help them scale up, build prosperous en terprises, and connect them to partners. This will go a long way to contribute to their economic growth by generating wealth and creating jobs.&rdqu...