News and Updates

There are two new procedures on the platform to increase account security: users need to renew their password every three months and answer a security question.

Due to increasing demand, we will extend the score-based selection of projects to Togo and Ghana. The project evaluation is based on a neutral scoring system.

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

We will ask entrepreneurs from Ghana and Cameroon to participate in our impact evaluation study. They will receive phone credit for each completed questionnaire

New Cameroonian projects will be able to apply again from the 1st of August. Furthermore, we have 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.

From Monday, 15 February, businesses no longer have to operate in certain sectors to receive the Corona Business Grant. Rather, creativity and innovation count

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