


IDW 2025: Partnership in Action with ENGAGE! Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship
This International Development Week (February 2–8, 2025), we celebrate how partnerships and community-led action drive meaningful change. The ENGAGE! Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship initiative is a powerful example of global partnership in action...
‘Engage’ Leaders Convene in Antigonish and Ottawa
The Executive Directors from each of the five Engage partner organizations arrived at Coady Institute in early October. We were thrilled to welcome Tsigie Haile of Women in Self Employment (WISE), Ethiopia, Smita Bhatnagar of Self-Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA)...
Tsigie Haile (WISE) receives Katherine Fleming International Development Award
Tsigie Haile, founder of Women in Self Employment (WISE), received the Katherine (Katie) Fleming International Development Award at Coady Institute’s StFX Homecoming event. The award is presented annually to an African woman leader in memory of Katie, who...
Event: Conversations with Coady (StFX Homecoming)
Join us as we present the Katherine Fleming International Development Award to Tsigie Haile, founder and director of the Organization for Women in Self Employment (WISE), in Ethiopia. Friday, October 46:00pm – 8:00pmLOCATION: Antigonish Community Foyer &...