IDEA BUILDERS INITIATIVE

Idea Builders Initiative
1st Floor Jabitha Court
Plot 136 Alake Onile-Ere Crescent
Gbagada Phase II, Lagos P.O.Box 52392, Falomo-Ikoyi
Nigeria
ph: +234 1 7400 848
alt: `+234 806 5936 238
info@ideabuilders.org

Women Empowerment

The Women Empowerment Programme seeks to establish a connection and build a sense of responsibility to the next generation of women leaders and the local community. The added purpose is to develop and implement citizen-based mentoring partnerships that benefit young Women & Girls. It serves to identify and develop a support structure for aspiring young women leaders.

Graca Machel

Graca Machel is a renowned international advocate for women's and children's rights, and has been a social and political activist for decades. She is President of New Faces New Voices, the Foundation for Community Development.

She was made a British dame for her humanitarian work in 1997. Graca Machel currently serves as the chair of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) Executive Committee.

FORTUNE/US Department of State Dept. Global Women's Mentoring Partnership

Clarisa Eseiza -Argentina; Zoe Ka-lima -South Africa; Lucy Kanu -Nigeria; Nermeen Nosseir -Egypt

2011 Mentoring Dinner

The 2011 WMW Partnership Mentors and Mentees welcome Dinner at the Zen Restaurant, Ikeja

2010 Women's Forum -Deauville, France

Alyse Nelson

President and CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership

Alyse Nelson has witnessed a change in the perception of impoverished women since she co-founded Vital Voices Global Partnership, an organization mentoring women leaders and social entrepreneurs worldwide, in 1997. Increasingly, new decision makers, particularly in the private sector, are taking an interest in the work Vital Voices and other like-minded groups do to promote women's well-being.

Lucy Kanu

Founder & Executive Director, Idea Builders Initiative

Lucy Kanu founded Idea Builders Initiative, her first exercise in social entrepreneurship in 2003. In 2007 she became an Ashoka Fellow and in 2009, elected to the Commonwealth Fellowship. In 2008, Lucy was selected as one of the Emerging Most Powerful Women in Africaand was published on CNN Money. She serves as Country Representative for Interface Africa, Regional Coordinator New Faces New Voices and Council Member of ICCO West Africa. Recently, she is a founding member of Media Matters for Women.

Melanne Verveer

United States Ambassador

Melanne Verveer is, since April 6, 2009, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues. She is the former Chief of Staff to First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton and co-founder and chairman of the board of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international non-governmental organization that supports global women's leadership. Ambassador Verveer most recently served as Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international nonprofit she co-founded.

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