African Food Changemakers BRACE Capacity Development Program 2024

The African Food Changemakers BRACE Capacity Development Program for 2024 is now accepting applications.An extensive capacity building program that helps agripreneurs (SMEs) in the agribusiness sector understand how climate change affects their companies and helps them create plans to adapt and lessen the effects of climate change by adopting climate-smart practices and taking advantage of climate financing opportunities. In order to engage agripreneurs through training, peer learning, interactive sessions, and real-world applications, BRACE uses a hybrid learning environment.

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
• 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.

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

Commitment:

• Attend all the weekly live interactive sessions scheduled for Thursday or Friday evenings across African time zones.
• Complete the self-paced online modules in 6 weeks.
• Submit all online course assignments and tasks
• Spend a minimum of four (4) hours per week completing the modules and assignments.

Click here to apply