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Mastercard Foundation, 1 March 2021
The Entrepreneur Support Program (ESP) is designed to support grassroots MSMEs across the Nigerian agriculture and food landscapes to rebuild and strengthen their businesses. Read more »
Grassroots and small businesses in Nigeria continue to struggle for survival due to a range of challenges which the Covid-19 pandemic has only exacerbated. The MSMEs' lack of visibility often impairs their access to market, training, capacity building, and funding opportunities. To truly realize the potential of the food and agriculture sector in Nigeria, which is driven by these underserved MSMEs, Nourishing Africa, the Mastercard Foundation, and U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) have joined forces to train and provide technical support and catalytic financing to the entrepreneurs. Learn more.
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Nourishing Africa mission is to "drive the profitable and sustainable growth of the African agriculture and food landscapes by attracting, empowering, equipping, connecting and celebrating over 1 Million dynamic and innovative young agri-food entrepreneurs"
The Mastercard Foundation is committed to supporting economic recovery programs in Africa to enable states to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the first French edition of the "Dialogue for the Future" conversations,
Read more »The Young Africa Works-IITA training program has begun. The training program is a collaboration between Mastercard Foundation's Young Africa Works and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) based in Nigeria, and the training will focus on building the capacity of 40,000 young Nigerian women and men between the ages of 18-35 years to become self-employed or gain employment in agri-food systems. The training
Read more »Mastercard Foundation's Young Africa Works program, in Nigeria, aims to see 10 million young people, most of them women, in dignified work opportunities by 2030. In line with this strategy, the collaboration between Young Africa Works and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) based in Nigeria is designed to advance agribusiness opportunities to over 40,000 Nigerian young women and men with a special
Read more »"Agriculture is at the heart of Africa's economic transformation. It will profoundly define the future of work...," says Chidinma Lawanson, Nigeria Country Head at Mastercard Foundation. The International Institute of Topical Agriculture (IITA), through its Youth in Agribusiness office, is partnering with the Mastercard Foundation in Nigeria to implement the Young Africa
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