AXA Mansard empowers 200 female SMES with financial literacy, digital skills
As part of its continued investment in advancing the inclusion of women’s social and economic endeavours, AXA Mansard, a member of AXA, has empowered 200 female Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with financial literacy and digital business skills.
In collaboration with SME 100 Africa, the two-day training, which was held in Lagos, was part of AXA’s lined-up programmes to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day.
In addition to the series of women empowerment initiatives, AXA Mansard in a statement said that it had been training female SMEs over the past few years as part of its plan to increase financial and digital literacy amongst female-owned SMEs in Nigeria.
According to Olusesan Ogunyooye, the Head of Marketing, AXA Mansard, the training aimed to empower female SME owners with skills to improve business output and position them for the increasing economic opportunities available in an increasingly digital marketplace.
Ogunyooye noted that the move was in line with AXA Mansard’s sustainability agenda, explaining that the company was convinced that support for women through its inclusive protection programmes was pivotal to its purpose of acting for human progress by protecting what matters and its mission of moving from being a payer to a partner.
He furthered that focusing on digital skills is important because the company realises the importance of digital skills to the growth of the SME sector in Nigeria and wants to ensure that women are empowered enough to be a consequential part of that growth.
