Enhancing Capacities of Women and Youth-led Enterprises for Regional Trade (ECoWYERT) Program 2027 – YOA

Deadline: On Rolling Basis

Applications are open for the Enhancing Capacities of Women and Youth-led Enterprises for Regional Trade (ECoWYERT) Program 2027. The Enhancing Capacities of Women and Youth-led Enterprises for Regional Trade (ECoWYERT) Program is inviting functions from younger individuals, entrepreneurs, merchants and enterprises searching for to strengthen their expertise, develop their companies and discover alternatives in regional commerce.

The Training will present sensible, market-targeted assist tailor-made to individuals at totally different phases of their employment, enterprise and commerce journeys from younger individuals making ready to enter employment or begin a enterprise to established enterprises searching for to develop into regional markets.

In partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), this system can be co-applied by the COMESA Federation of Women in Business (COMFWB), the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) and the Trade and Development Fund (TDF) throughout six international locations: Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwefrom 2025 to 2030.

Benefits

Depending on their chosen class, individuals will acquire:

• Practical employability, entrepreneurship and enterprise-administration expertise
• Financial literacy, administration and file-retaining expertise
• Business planning and development methods
• Marketing and buyer-improvement expertise
• Digital enterprise and promoting instruments
• Business formalisation steerage
• Cross-border commerce and export-readiness expertise
• Knowledge of regional markets and alternatives underneath the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

Eligibility

Applicants ought to choose the class that greatest displays their present employment, enterprise or commerce stage.

New-to-Trade Youth 

This class is for:

• Young girls and males aged 16–35
• Youth not in schooling, employment or coaching (NEET)
• Aspiring entrepreneurs
• Youth transitioning from schooling or vocational coaching into employment or entrepreneurship
• Young individuals searching for to show farming or different earnings-producing actions into sustainable companies

Participants will acquire sensible employability, entrepreneurship, monetary-administration and enterprise expertise, in addition to an introduction to cross-border commerce and regional market alternatives.

Existing Traders 

This class is for:

• Sole merchants
• Rural and peri-city merchants
• Small-Scale Cross-Border Traders (SSCBTs)
• Informal companies

The coaching will assist individuals strengthen their enterprise-administration and monetary file-retaining expertise, enhance advertising and marketing and buyer engagement, discover digital enterprise instruments and higher perceive enterprise formalisation and regional commerce.

Growing Trade Enterprises

This class is for:

• Micro companies
• Small companies
• Home-based enterprises
• Small-scale processors

Participants will acquire sensible expertise in enterprise planning, monetary administration, advertising and marketing, buyer improvement and market entry, serving to them strengthen their operations and put together for future development and commerce alternatives.

Scaling Trade Enterprises

This class is for:

• Medium-sized companies
• Formal enterprises
• Aggregators
• Growth-oriented companies

The coaching will assist established enterprises to enhance their export readiness, strengthen their provide chains and enterprise methods, establish regional market alternatives and put together to develop throughout Africa.

Application

Applications will proceed to be obtained on a rolling foundation. Applicants are inspired to supply full and correct data. Submission of an application doesn’t assure choice. Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted.

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For extra data, go to ECoWYERT.