African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) Cohort 9 – YOA

Deadline: February 1, 2026

Applications are open for the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) Cohort 9. The African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative is an revolutionary, 12-month management and enterprise administration capability constructing program that accepts 200 feminine entrepreneurs yearly.

Through sensible studying, mentorship, and a strong pan-African group, you’ll acquire the instruments to beat challenges and seize new alternatives in and for your enterprise. This is greater than a program, it’s a motion of ladies remodeling their companies, communities, and the continent.

Eligibility

Open to girls who’re:

• Founders of companies which were in operation for at the least two years in any trade and have at the least two staff (both full time or part time). Aspiring entrepreneurs usually are not eligible.
• Citizens of any African nation, at the moment dwelling on the continent or within the diaspora. For these dwelling within the diaspora, your enterprise should clearly influence Africa via the creation or supply of its services or products or primarily based on the place its clients reside.
• Comfortable with distant teamwork and collaboration, particularly utilizing digital instruments.
• Proficient in verbal and written English.
• Able to frequently (at the least weekly) entry the Internet via a pc or pill.

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

Application

Here are some tricks to bear in mind:

• Be your self: The application is designed to get to know you and your enterprise. There aren’t any proper solutions. They need to know the actual, genuine you.
• Be clear and concise: Read the query rigorously. Answer THAT query and solely that query. No want to make use of fancy buzzwords.
• Know your numbers: Revenue, staff, clients, capital – what knowledge is the application asking for? This is just not a spot to make up numbers. If it’s essential to approximate, accomplish that through knowledgeable guesses.
• Don’t copy and paste from ChatGPT or the web site: Know that they’re very accustomed to this system you’re making use of for and scan the purposes for plagiarism of ChatGPT. They need your responses in your personal phrases!
• Proofread: There’s all the time room to enhance a primary draft! Did you totally reply every query? Did you reply the query being requested? Are there any obvious typos to right?

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to AWEC.