African Food Changemakers BRACE Program Cohort 3 For Agri-SMEs in Africa

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Are you an Agripreneur determined to scale your business and tackle climate challenges head-on? The Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) Program, an exclusive opportunity, is back, bigger and more impactful than ever! They invite you to join —a game-changing opportunity tailored for visionary Agri-SMEs like YOU. And the best part? It’s completely FREE and offered in both English and French.

An intensive capacity development program supporting agripreneurs (SMEs) in the agribusiness landscape to be aware of how their businesses are affected by climate change and to enable them develop strategies to adapt and mitigate the impact of climate change through climate-smart practices adoption and tapping into the climate financing opportunities. BRACE leverages a hybrid learning experience to engage agripreneurs through training, peer learning, interactive sessions, and practical applications.

BRACE Program Components

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
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
A self-paced six (6) week online learning program with relevant and practical climate curriculum
Engagement in peer-to-peer learning, networking, experience sharing, group discussions, assignments, and co-creation of solutions.
Access to industry experts, trainers and agripreneurs via live interactive and mentoring sessions.
Provision of information, resources, and tools to enable investments and decisions that lead to sustainable climate solutions.
Opportunity to join the AFC hub community for additional resources, data, funding support and market linkages to enhance business visibility, profitability, growth, and success.

Benefits

By applying for the Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) program, you’ll gain access to:

A supportive network of agribusiness innovators.
Valuable resources to fortify your business.
Strategies to build resilience against climate shocks.
Insights to take your agribusiness to new heights.
Gain Insights into opportunities in Climate Smart Agriculture Adoption and how you can benefit from them

Eligibility Criteria for BRACE Program

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, Aggregator, etc.