Partners

Cisco Entrepreneur Institute

The Cisco Entrepreneur Institute* is focused on fostering entrepreneurship around the globe. Cisco believes this initiative will create significant long-term benefits and help transform the economic landscape for their customers and partners, while enabling Cisco to further expand its business and social impact on a global scale. Entrepreneurs have the potential to be the greatest source of innovation and growth in an emerging economy. Their success has significant economic and social implications, particularly in developing countries. By helping entrepreneurs succeed, Cisco is driving the prosperity of individuals, communities, and nations.



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Edexcel

  	      
Edexcel* is the UK’s largest awarding body and a part of Pearson, the world’s largest education services company. It offers a range of services, including curriculum and qualification development, training support, testing, assessments and certification. Edexcel International operates in 112 countries and every year more than four million people trust its respected learning programs and qualifications. It has bases in Beijing, Colombo, Delhi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and South Africa. Plans are also in hand for a launch in Bulgaria. Edexcel is leading the way in e-learning with flexible and accessible courses, and in the use of using technology to cut bureaucracy by spearheading online marking and administration.






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Pearson Education

  	      
Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson* is the global leader in educational publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital programs to help students learn at their own pace, in their own way. Pearson’s businesses and brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cumminngs, Cisco Press, Wharton Press and Family Education Network. Pearson's other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. Pearson Education's reach extends across the globe through its seventy regional Web sites and twenty-five publishing centers, developing educational products for children, schools, universities, adults and corporations in thirteen languages.






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U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)

  	      
The MENA BWN is funded through the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) under Cooperative Agreement Number S-NEAPI-07-CA-250. The opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of State. 

MEPI supports efforts to expand political participation, strengthen civil society and the rule of law, empower women and youth, create educational opportunities, and foster economic reform throughout the Middle East and North Africa. In support of these goals, MEPI works with non-governmental organizations, the private sector, academic institutions and governments. More information about MEPI can be found at www.mepi.state.gov.

      

  


  





  

  

    


    
	

  	
Vital Voices Global Partnership

  	      
Vital Voices Global Partnership is the preeminent non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, trains, and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all. Our international staff and team of over 1,000 partners, pro bono experts and leaders, including senior government, corporate and NGO executives, have trained and mentored more than 5,000 emerging women leaders from over 150 countries in Asia, Africa, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East since 1997. They have equipped these women with management, business development, marketing, and communications skills to expand their enterprises, help to provide for their families, and create jobs in their communities. These women have returned home to train and mentor more than 100,000 additional women and girls in their communities. 

View the Vital Voices video.