African Food Changemakers BRACE Program Cohort 3 (Batch 2)

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Applications are open for African Food Changemakers BRACE Program Cohort 3, Batch 2. Is your agribusiness truly climate-smart? If you’re an agripreneur navigating today’s climate challenges with yesterday’s strategies — it’s time for a change. That’s where BRACE comes in. BRACE is designed to equip agripreneurs with the skills, tools, and community to build sustainable, climate-resilient businesses.

BRACE is an annual intensive capacity development program designed to support African small and medium-sized enterprises (agriSMEs) in the agribusiness landscape. The program aims to raise awareness about how their businesses are affected by climate change and to enable them to develop strategies for adapting to and mitigating the impact of climate change through climate-smart practices.

BRACE Program Component

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
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.
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

Join a thriving network of agribusiness innovators.
Access valuable resources to strengthen and scale your business
Get a chance to attend study visits in selected African countries.
Build resilience against climate and environmental shocks.
Gain insights to take your agribusiness to the next level.
Explore opportunities in Climate-Smart Agriculture and discover how to benefit from them.
Don’t miss this chance! Be part of a movement shaping the future of climate-resilient agribusinesses in Africa.

Eligibility Criteria for BRACE Program

18 – 40 years
A citizen of an African country
A registered business in Africa
AgriSMEs owner/representative/decision maker operating in Crop Production, and/or Animal Production Sector as either Producer, Processor, Marketer, Aggregators, etc.