Xoese
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Francophone
Forum 2025

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Register to the Forum

Forum 2025 will be held in a hybrid format: face-to-face in Lomé (Togo) and simultaneously online from September 23 to 26, 2025 on the theme:

« Financial autonomy for the French-speaking women’s and young women’s movement: how to get there? »

Exchanges over the four days of the Forum will be structured around the following sub-themes:

  • Resources and Movements
  • Economic empowerment and professional leadership of women and young women
  • Promoting the expansion of entrepreneurial initiatives by women and young women
  • Environment, Climate Change and Business: How to combine ecology and profits (for Responsible Ecological Enterprises)

Goals

The general objective of the Forum Francophone 2025 is to:
Promote reflection and exchange on the financial empowerment of women-led non-profit organizations and their movements.

Its specific objectives are as follows:

  • Promote the economic empowerment and entrepreneurial emergence of women’s and young women’s leaders and organizations;
  • Foster the development of individual and/or collective entrepreneurship initiatives, or even organizational initiatives, among the leaders of women’s organizations and women’s rights movements;
  • Explore together the possibilities and solutions for collaboration and partnership to expand our micro-initiatives, micro-enterprises on the sub-regional, regional and international markets through our movement and existing mechanisms (ZLECAF, … )
  • Invent solutions together to meet the challenges, and identify resources and support to boost the entrepreneurial efforts of women and young women.

Subtopics

• Resources and Movements
• Economic empowerment and professional leadership for women and young women
• Promoting the expansion of entrepreneurial initiatives by women and young women
• Environnement, Changement climatique et Affaires: Comment allier l’écologie et les profits (pour Entreprises écologiques responsables)

Sessions

• Plenary sessions,
• Self-organized sessions,
• Round tables,
• Dialogue with donors,
• Dialogue avec les spécialistes, et bien d’autres…

Agenda

The provisional agenda will be available from the end of August 2025.