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    • Video interview: Charlotte Oades

    Coca-Cola to women entrepreneurs: Become our partners

    Coca-Cola is increasingly realizing the benefits of helping women entrepreneurs in developing countries — not only to empower them but also engage them as business partners. Learn more in this video interview by Devex Impact reporter Adva Saldinger.

    By Adva Saldinger // 18 March 2014
    Devex reporter Adva Saldinger interviews Coca-Cola’s Charlotte Oades

    Making soft drinks to empower women?

    Not exactly, but Coca-Cola is increasingly realizing the benefits of helping women entrepreneurs in developing countries acquire the skill sets and training they need to break down the social, cultural and economic barriers they still face to become first pillars of their communities — and then business partners with one of the world’s corporate giants.

    Charlotte Oades, Coca-Cola’s global director, women’s economic empowerment

    “We think women are absolutely crucial, they are already pillars of the local communities … and of our own business. If we can encourage [them] to thrive, then the communities will thrive … and business will thrive,” Charlotte Oades, Coca-Cola’s director for women’s empowerment, told Devex Impact reporter Adva Saldinger at the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s International Women’s Day Forum in New York.

    Click on the above video for more insights from Oades on how Coca-Cola is helping women entrepreneurs overcome myriad challenges and do business with the company through projects like its own 5by20 Initiative and a new 7 million pound partnership with the U.K. Department for International Development in Nigeria.

    Want to learn more? Check out She Builds and tweet us using #SheBuilds.

    She Builds is a month-long conversation hosted by Devex in partnership with Chemonics, Creative Associates, JBS International, the Millennium Challenge Corp., United Nations Office for Project Services and U.K. Department for International Development.

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    • Adva Saldinger

      Adva Saldinger@AdvaSal

      Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.

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