The UNDP Enhancing Capacities of Women and Youth-led Enterprises for Regional Trade (ECoWYERT) Program 2026

Application Deadline: Ongoing

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

The Training will present sensible, market-focused help tailor-made to members 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 in search of 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-implemented 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

Depending on their chosen class, members will acquire:

• Practical employability, entrepreneurship and business-management abilities
• Financial literacy, administration and record-keeping abilities
• Business planning and development methods
• Marketing and customer-development abilities
• Digital enterprise and promoting instruments
• Business formalisation steering
• Cross-border commerce and export-readiness abilities
• Knowledge of regional markets and Opportunities underneath the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNDP ECoWYERT Program