Strengthening the capacity of AWARFA-N in generating bankable business proposals

Six countries; namely, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Kenya with existing Africa Women in Animal Resources Farming and Agribusiness Network (AWARFA-N) have gathered in Naivasha, Kenya for a writeshop to prepare AWARFA-N proposals in response to African Development Bank Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) Call for Proposals.

One of the key challenges that women have identified as a key constraint to participating in the livestock sector is the bottleneck of the poor access to appropriate and sustainable financing mechanisms that address women’s felt needs tailored to their capacities. The writeshop is in response to a call made by the African Development Bank Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa to bride the financing gap.

The focus of the proposal is on three main streams that, if approved will strengthen the operations of the continental, regional and national networks.

These include:
-Advocacy for a more supportive enabling environment and regulatory framework to support women in animal resources farming and agribusiness;
-Support regional chapters harness technical advisory services through strategic entry points within the Live2Africa regional livestock value chain work that seeks to catalyse growth of the selected livestock vale chains and in the apiculture sector; 
-Support the AWARFA regional chapters to develop proposals for innovative financing mechanisms and programmes to move women from the informal to formal sector.

Reminding the participants of the African Union 2022 theme “Strengthening Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on The African Continent: Strengthening Agro-Food Systems, Health and Social Protection Systems for the Acceleration of Human, Social and Economic Capital Development”, Dr. Anne Lewe

Six countries; namely, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Kenya with existing Africa Women in Animal Resources Farming and Agribusiness Network (AWARFA-N) have gathered in Naivasha, Kenya for a writeshop to prepare AWARFA-N proposals in response to African Development Bank Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) Call for Proposals.

One of the key challenges that women have identified as a key constraint to participating in the livestock sector is the bottleneck of the poor access to appropriate and sustainable financing mechanisms that address women’s felt needs tailored to their capacities. The writeshop is in response to a call made by the African Development Bank Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa to bride the financing gap.

The focus of the proposal is on three main streams that, if approved will strengthen the operations of the continental, regional and national networks. These include:

Advocacy for a more supportive enabling environment and regulatory framework to support women in animal resources farming and agribusiness;

Support regional chapters harness technical advisory services through strategic entry points within the Live2Africa regional livestock value chain work that seeks to catalyse growth of the selected livestock vale chains and in the apiculture sector;

Support the AWARFA regional chapters to develop proposals for innovative financing mechanisms and programmes to move women from the informal to formal sector.

Reminding the participants of the African Union 2022 theme “Strengthening Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on The African Continent: Strengthening Agro-Food Systems, Health and Social Protection Systems for the Acceleration of Human, Social and Economic Capital Development”, Dr. Anne Lewe Kigezo, who spoke of behalf of AU-IBAR’s Acting Director Dr. Nick Nwankpa noted that the theme:

”brings the animal resources sector into great focus as critical to the achievement of the Malabo Declaration target of ending hunger in Africa by 2025 by improving nutritional status, and in particular, to the elimination of child undernutrition in Africa by bringing down stunting to 10% and underweight to 5% by 2025. “

In addition to responding the call for proposals, this writeshop is also providing hands-on capacity on proposal writing. The activity is being implemented under the Live2Africa Project with funding from the European Union.

Read more of Director’s speech: http://repository.au-ibar.org/handle/123456789/1200

, who spoke of behalf of AU-IBAR’s Acting Director Dr. Nick Nwankpa noted that the theme: ”brings the animal resources sector into great focus as critical to the achievement of the Malabo Declaration target of ending hunger in Africa by 2025 by improving nutritional status, and in particular, to the elimination of child undernutrition in Africa by bringing down stunting to 10% and underweight to 5% by 2025. “

In addition to responding the call for proposals, this writeshop is also providing hands-on capacity on proposal writing. The activity is being implemented under the Live2Africa Project with funding from the European Union.

Read more of Director’s speech: http://repository.au-ibar.org/handle/123456789/1200