Janet Nkubana

Gahaya Links’ Janet Nkubana, USAID’s Alex Thier to Speak on European Development Days Gender Panel

Very excited to announce our lab presenters:

Janet Nkubana, the co-founder of Rwanda-based Gahaya Links, will be one of four speakers at the upcoming European Development Days conference, November 26–27. She will be part of a DAI-sponsored innovation lab addressing women’s economic empowerment called “Harnessing public private partnerships to connect women’s businesses to international supply chains.” This lab includes Alex Thier, the Assistant to the Administrator for Policy, Planning, and Learning at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and DAI’s Anne Simmons-Benton and Katja Silva-Leander.

Gahaya Links’ story of how as a small business in Rwanda it has been able to reach the international marketplace with the assistance of a donor project is inspirational.

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