Open Call for Applications: SME Investment Window Round 2.
Open Call for Applications: SME Investment Window Round 2.
The SME Investment Window Round 2 is a component of the Investing in Women in Nigeria (IIW-Nigeria) programme, a CAN $15.7 million programme funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). This element of the fund comprises non-repayable grants totaling CAN $7.75m. Implemented by the AECF, the programme seeks to enhance women’s economic empowerment by promoting women’s participation in the traditional and non-traditional agribusiness sectors.
The programme seeks to:
Enhance private sector engagement of women as economic actors across the key agricultural value chains.
Increase private and public sector investment in women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as well as other businesses that create economic opportunities for women.
Reduce systemic gender inequalities that hinder women’s effective economic participation in climate-smart agriculture.
Fund objectives
Provide finance for small and medium-sized enterprises and finance institutions that use innovative technologies and other novel solutions to create gender-transforming, climate-smart economic opportunities for women, e.g., through employment creation, market linkages, and suppliers of inputs/produce/services along the value chain.
Provide targeted business development technical assistance and capacity building on gender mainstreaming for businesses.
Advocate and increase awareness of the business case for investing in women in Kano.
Provide incentives for innovations that will lead to sustainable widespread adoption of climate-smart practices in the agriculture sector and increase the resilience of both companies and the women that they work with to climate shocks.
NB:Don't make any payments at any stage
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