Recently, WIDU introduced two new procedures on the platform to further increase the security of user accounts. Users are now required to renew their password every three months. In addition, it is now necessary to answer a security question.

Due to increasing demand, WIDU from now on will extend its score-based selection of projects to Togo and Ghana. the evaluation of projects is based on a neutral scoring system, outside the concerned country.

WIDU.africa to open application for African diaspora from the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden on 1 March 2022

In the coming months, we will invite entrepreneurs from Ghana and Cameroon to participate in our impact evaluation study. As a small thank you, participants will receive phone credit for each completed questionnaire.

New Cameroonian projects will be able to apply again from the 1st of August at www.widu.africa. Furthermore, WIDU.africa has recently started to moderate already registered projects from Cameroon.

Salaries, running costs, cash: WIDU is adjusting criteria for which expenses and purchases are and are not eligible for WIDU project funding.

WIDU.africa for Cameroon is currently working at full capacity and therefore no applications can be submitted right now.

WIDU.africa is changing the eligibility criteria for the Corona Business Grant. From Monday, 15 February, businesses no longer have to operate in certain sectors to receive the grant. Instead, creativity and innovation counts: business ideas must be economically viable and at the same time contribute in an innovative way to national and regional efforts to prevent the spread of the virus.

On 22.12.2020, radio author and director Nora Bauer presented WIDU.africa in the Zeitfragen feature of Deutschlandfunk Kultur. 

Panel discussion on integrating the diaspora in development cooperation