1.4bn
People in one African market under the AfCFTA, across 54 nations.
5.8
5.8
Average rise in women's share of manufacturing wages when countries open to trade
33% VS 24%
women's workforce share at firms in global value chains vs. non-trading firms.
Senior Counsel
Chaired board
Est. 2022
Companies Act No. 1 of 2012
Limited by guarantee
Not-for-profit, Kampala
SDG 5 · Agenda 2063
Mandate-aligned
Founded and chaired by Ruth Sebatindira SC : Senior Counsel, former President of the Uganda Law Society and former member of the Judicial Service Commission.
WHO WE ARE
Not inspiration. Income, trade and ownership.
The AfCFTA is the largest free trade agreement in the world by participating countries a single market of 1.4 billion people across 54 nations. But trade agreements are not gender-neutral. Without deliberate effort, women are left at the margins of the very economy they help drive.
Tindira exists to close that gap turning a continental instrument into practical economic opportunity for African women. And because economic power passes down, what women earn, trade and own today becomes the inheritance of the girls who come after them.
OUR FRAMEWORK
She begins with the end in mind.
One architecture, three readings. She writes the declaration of who she will be, claims the identity of an author, and walks the path that gets her there
She writes her
POEM
Her declaration of intent: Purpose, Opportunity, Enterprise, Mastery.
→
She becomes a
POET
The author of her own economic sovereignty: Prosper, Own, Earn, Trade.
→
She walks the
ETOP
The journey, in sequence: Earn, Trade, Own, Prosper.
The path she walks · ETOP
Four engines.One direction.
ETOP is the operational spine a ladder from a first income to lasting ownership. It is how the vision of POET is actually delivered.
Earn More : Access to the export sectors and value chains where trade lifts women's wages and formalises their work.
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Trade More : Practical capability to trade across borders under the AfCFTA : customs, standards, digital trade and finance.
Own More : Moving from trading to owning : businesses, brands, IP and equity within continental value chains.
Prosper More : Measuring whether integration is actually translating into prosperity for women, through the Tindira Prosperity Index.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The largest market in the world is opening. Women must be in it.
In February 2024, the African Union adopted the AfCFTA Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade placing women at the centre of the continent’s trade ecosystem
Tindira’s task is to turn that Protocol into income on the ground: to make sure the women who already move goods across borders, grow the food and make the products are the ones who benefit as the market formalises.
The Tindira Summit 2026, Kampala
ANNUAL CONTINENTAL GATHERING
A convening on women’s economic participation, bringing together the women earning, trading and owning across Africa with the partners, funders and institutions building the markets they trade in
A convening on women’s economic participation, bringing together the women earning, trading and owning across Africa with the partners, funders and institutions building the markets they trade in
Ask the Lioness
THE TINDIRA PODCAST
A daughter asks; the pride answers. A young interviewer draws out the women earning, trading and owning across Africa part of TINDIRA: Women Building Africa, mapped to the seven aspirations of Agenda 2063.
