Entries for The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) are open and you can nominate yourself or anyone for the 2021 annual AWIEF Awards. The AWIEF Awards recognize, honor, and celebrate women entrepreneurs and business owners in Africa. These women are from across various industry sectors and AWIEF celebrates them for their achievements and contribution to Africa’s inclusive economic growth and social development.
AWIEF Awards target women both private and not for profit sectors. They consider all categories of entrepreneurs ; whether established or starting up as long as they have showed outstanding vision and inspiration and have overcome challenges to make a significant social impact and/or become successful in their businesses in line with AWIEF’s core areas of innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and socio-economic development.
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The eight AWIEF Awards categories open for nominations are:
- Young Entrepreneur Award
- Tech Entrepreneur Award
- Agri Entrepreneur Award
- Creative Industry Award
- Empowerment Award
- Energy Entrepreneur Award
- Social Entrepreneur Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award
You can either nominate yourself or by someone else. Nominations for the 2021 AWIEF Awards opened on July 15th 2021 and they will close on 23rd August 2021.
Winners of the 2021 AWIEF Awards will be announced and celebrated at the 7th Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Virtual Conference and Awards happening on 2-3 December 2021. The theme for the conference will be ‘Advancing inclusive, resilient and sustainable growth in the post-COVID-19 African economy’.
Click here to nominate yourself yourself or someone you know.
Follow the following steps to submit your nomination.
1. Register an entrant profile by clicking “if you are a new user, please click here” in the top right corner of the page.
2. Start your nomination.
3. Submit your entry for your nomination to be in the running.
Remember Submissions of Entries will close on 23rd August.
