The BRACE program empowers African agricultural entrepreneurs for sustainable growth and enhanced climate resilience. Their mission extends beyond skill-building to providing exposure to diverse opportunities within the agricultural ecosystem. They aspire to foster resilience in entrepreneurs, enabling them to contribute to sustainable practices and the long-term growth of the agricultural landscape across Africa. Through BRACE, they envision a future where agricultural entrepreneurs thrive, adapting to climate challenges and driving positive change in the industry.
Benefits
- Deployment of a diagnostic tool to assess participants level of awareness regarding the impact of climate change on their agribusinesses, familiarity with, and readiness to deploy, existing local solutions in the landscape
- A self-paced six (6) week online learning program with relevant and practical climate curriculum
- Access to industry experts, trainers and agripreneurs via live interactive and mentoring sessions.
- Opportunity to join the AFC hub community for additional resources, data, funding support and market linkages to enhance business visibility, profitability, growth, and success.
- Hands-on practical assignments that cumulatively result in the ‘greening’ of participants’ agribusinesses to better position them to leverage climate financing opportunities in the ecosystem
- Engagement in peer-to-peer learning, networking, experience sharing, group discussions, assignments, and co-creation of solutions.
- Provision of information, resources, and tools to enable investments and decisions that lead to sustainable climate solutions.
Eligibility
- 18 – 40 years
- Registered and operating agribusiness
- A citizen of an African country
- AgriSMEs owner /representative/decision maker operating in Crop Production, and/or Animal Production Sector as either Producer, Processor, Marketer, Aggregators, etc
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