Deadline: 30-Apr-23
African Food Changemakers has launched the “Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks” (BRACE), a three-month capacity development program.
BRACE is an intensive capacity development program designed to support African small and medium entrepreneurs (agriSMEs) in the agribusiness landscape to be aware about how their businesses are affected by climate change and to enable them develop strategies to adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change through climate-smart practices. Leveraging on ICT, data, and innovation, BRACE will empower agriSMEs through training and technical support, to implement sustainable solutions to scaling their agribusinesses.
Courses
- Climate Change and your Agribusiness
- Adaptation and mitigation strategies in logistics, distribution, retail and consumption
- Adaptation and mitigation strategies in primary production
- Gender and Climate
- Adaptation and mitigation strategies in processing and packaging
- Climate Policy and Shaping the Ecosystem
- Optimizing Opportunities in Climate Smart Agriculture (Carbon farming, carbon markets and climate financing)
Benefit of Program
- Deployment of a diagnostic tool to assess their level of awareness regarding the impact of climate change on their agribusinesses, familiarity with, and readiness to deploy, existing local solutions in the landscape.
- A self-paced six (6) week online learning program with relevant and practical climate curriculum.
- Hands-on practical assignments that cumulatively result in the ‘greening’ of participants’ agribusinesses to better position them to leverage climate financing opportunities in the ecosystem.
- Engagement in a community of practice for networking, peer-to-peer learning, experience sharing, group discussions, assignments, and co-creation of solutions.
- Provision of information, resources, and tools to enable investments and decisions that lead to sustainable climate solutions.
- Opportunity to join the AFC hub community for additional resources, data, funding support and market linkages to enhance business visibility, profitability, growth and success.
Participant Commitments
- This training program is valued at over $1,000. However, with the support of the funder, the cost has been fully covered. However, participants must commit to:
- Attending all the six weekly live interactive sessions.
- Completing the online training modules.
- Submitting all assignments and actively engaging in interactions with other participants in the learning community.
- Completing all pre and post program surveys and sending periodic updates and reporting about their Agribusiness climate adoption and greening process six months, a year and two years after the program.
- Only participants who complete the full prorgam requirements will receive formal certificates of participation and benefit from on-going support that AFC offers.
Eligibility Criteria
- A citizen and resident of any African countries.
- Agribusinesses operating in Africa and any part of the Agribusiness sector’s value chain.
- Participants are expected to:
- Attend all the weekly webinars/check-in sessions scheduled Thursday or Friday evenings across African time zones.
- Complete the self-paced online modules in 6 weeks.
- Submit all online courses assignments and tasks
- Spend a minimum of four (4) hours per week completing the modules and assignments.
For more information, visit African Food Changemakers.