WEDGE Africa was created to address a structural gap, not a lack of women’s ambition.
Women already sustain households, food systems, and local economies, yet they often remain excluded from digital tools, green opportunities, fair markets, and decision-making spaces.
WEDGE Africa exists to change that. We combine women’s economic empowerment with practical pathways into climate resilience, enterprise growth, digital confidence, and market readiness.
The Gender-Green-Digital Gap
WEDGE Africa focuses on three connected barriers that limit women’s participation in the future economy.
Principles That Guide How We Work
Leadership, Grounded in Field Reality
An agriculturalist and food scientist with more than two decades of experience across food systems, gender, and rural livelihoods in Ghana. Elizabeth brings rare institutional depth and field-level credibility to WEDGE Africa, leading strategy, fundraising, partnerships, and programme oversight.
A development and agricultural specialist with 16 years of experience in programme design, implementation, and results management. PMP certified and holding an MSc in NGO Management, Kwabena brings rigorous delivery discipline shaped by his previous work with UNDP Ghana, leading programme architecture, MEAL systems, and donor-facing execution.
A specialist in agricultural extension and farmer facilitation with more than 12 years of experience in rural programme delivery across Ghana. Trained in smallholder community engagement, Solomon translates technical knowledge into practical, context-appropriate learning, strengthening GROW's field accompaniment model and its focus on knowledge farmers can apply.
A smallholder agriculture practitioner with more than 12 years of direct field experience working with farming communities across Ghana. Grounded in farmer group formation and peer accompaniment, Evans brings strong enterprise support expertise, leading farmer engagement, field delivery coordination, and accompaniment quality within the GROW programme.