Sithembiso Nyoni, Minister of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development of Zimbabwe, said in the presentation of the report … - Sithembiso Nyoni

I call upon all stakeholders to join us in this nationwide effort to improve the lives of women, knowing that empowering a woman means empowering a village, empowering a village means empowering communities and therefore empowering the nation.

Women have a spirit of servitude, ministry, providing for food and bringing solutions where there are no solutions. Women make things happen. It's important to be deliberate. It's a 'you and me' drive that says women matter. We make up 51 percent of the population so we can't continue to say women are disadvantaged.

She said women have been known to be at the lower end of the food chain but the bank recognises that women have big ideas which need funding.