African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) Cohort 8 – YOA

Deadline: February 2, 2025

Applications are open for the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) Cohort 8. The African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative is an modern, 12-month management and enterprise administration capability constructing program that accepts 200 feminine entrepreneurs yearly.

Fellows ought to count on to spend a median of 4 to six hours per week taking part in AWEC actions (primarily on-line), for one 12 months. Fellows are anticipated to take part in not less than one AWEC exercise per week all through this system. Seriously think about this time dedication earlier than making use of and/or accepting a proposal to take part in AWEC. The program is designed for each particular person and collaborative, suggestions-primarily based work. Fellows work together with their mentors, Program Advisors, different individuals all year long in numerous curriculum actions.

Benefits

Upon profitable completion of the 12-month program, Fellows will:

• Form connections with a various community of African ladies entrepreneurs.
• Establish a relationship with a senior enterprise mentor.
• Strengthen technique, management and enterprise administration abilities.
• Gain abilities in finance, advertising, and technique wanted to develop and scale their enterprise.
• Develop a toolkit of sentimental abilities, together with self-confidence, resilience, collaboration, and cross-cultural communications.

Eligibility

• Open to Female entrepreneurs.
• African nation of origin, at the moment residing on the continent or within the diaspora. For these residing within the diaspora, your online business should clearly affect Africa via the creation or supply of its services or products or primarily based on the place its prospects reside.
• A for-revenue enterprise proprietor in operation of not less than 2 years in any business with not less than 2 full-time or part-time staff. You should be the one one in your online business making use of. Founders of social enterprises are eligible to apply. Founders of NGOs or nonprofit organizations should not eligible.
• Access to a dependable web reference to ample bandwidth for video calls over the 12-month interval.
• Professional working proficiency in English.
• Comfortable with distant teamwork and collaboration, particularly utilizing digital instruments.

AWEC admissions don’t discriminate primarily based on race, faith, age, incapacity, marital standing, schooling, enterprise income, business or geographic location.

Application

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For extra info, go to AWEC.