The women engineering Africa’s next generation of practical solutions

Across Africa, women engineers and entrepreneurs are developing practical technologies to address everyday challenges in healthcare, water, mobility, education and essential services. Designed around local realities, from limited infrastructure and specialist shortages to affordability constraints, their innovations focus on solving real problems for communities that cannot wait for systems to catch up. As International Women in Engineering Day is marked this June, their work offers a timely reminder that women are not only entering engineering in greater numbers, but they are also helping define what engineering is for: practical solutions that improve lives, strengthen communities and respond to urgent local needs.

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