AFC’s Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) Program Cohorts 3 Batch 3 for young Agripreneurs.

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Application Deadline: July 27, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the AFC’s Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) Program. An intensive capability growth program supporting agripreneurs (SMEs) within the agribusiness panorama to concentrate on how their companies are affected by local weather change and to allow them to develop methods to adapt and mitigate the influence of local weather change by way of climate-smart practices adoption and tapping into the local weather financing Opportunities. BRACE leverages a hybrid studying expertise to interact agripreneurs by way of coaching, peer studying, interactive periods, and sensible purposes.

Eligibility Requirements

• 18 – 40 years
• A citizen of an African nation
• A registered enterprise in Africa
• AgriSMEs proprietor/consultant/determination maker working in Crop Production, and/or Animal Production Sector as both Producer, Processor, Marketer, Aggregators, and many others.

Benefits

• Deployment of a diagnostic software to evaluate individuals stage of consciousness relating to the influence of local weather change on their agribusinesses, familiarity with, and readiness to deploy, present native options within the panorama
• A self-paced six (6) week on-line studying program with related and sensible local weather curriculum
• Hands-on sensible assignments that cumulatively outcome within the ‘greening’ of individuals’ agribusinesses to raised place them to leverage local weather financing Opportunities within the ecosystem
• Engagement in peer-to-peer studying, networking, expertise sharing, group discussions, assignments, and co-creation of options.
• Access to business specialists, trainers and agripreneurs by way of reside interactive and mentoring periods.
• Provision of data, sources, and instruments to allow investments and selections that result in sustainable local weather options.
• Opportunity to affix the AFC hub neighborhood for extra sources, information, funding help and market linkages to reinforce enterprise visibility, profitability, development, and success.

Time Commitment

Participants are anticipated to:

• Attend all of the weekly reside interactive periods scheduled for Thursday or Friday evenings throughout African time zones.
• Complete the self-paced on-line modules in 6 weeks.
• Submit all on-line course assignments and duties
• Spend a minimal of 4 (4) hours per week finishing the modules and assignments.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the AFC’s Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) Program