Application for AWIEF USAID-funded program is ongoing!
AWIEF is excited to announce their new program in partnership with USAID Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub (USAID TradeHub).
The USAID-funded ‘Enhanced Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Investment and Export Readiness Through a Digital Platform’ program aims to increase the investor, export readiness, and competitiveness of 100 SMEs in nine Southern African countries: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia.
The program leverages the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a United States Trade Act that significantly enhances market access to the US for qualifying Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, and is valid until 2025, to drive export trade for the SMEs. Priority industry sectors include Agriculture, Agro-processing, Textiles, Apparels.
About AWIEF USAID-funded program
The objectives of this new AWIEF program are to:
- (a) increase exports from the Southern African countries to South Africa;
- (b) increase exports from all the nine targeted Southern African countries to the United States, leveraging AGOA; and
- (c) support firms seeking specific trade-related technology transfer (e.g. labeling, branding, laboratories). The program will help strengthen participants’ governance, regulatory compliance, and risk management capabilities.
The 8-week program will be implemented as an online training course through the AWIEF digital platform – the AWIEF Community.
AWIEF USAID-funded program- Applicant requirements
- Are you an SME registered and operating in one of these Southern African countries: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia?
- Are you either already exporting or interested in exporting your products to South Africa and/or to the United States leveraging AGOA?
- Are you seeking to raise capital for business expansion and international trade?
- Priority industry sectors include Agriculture, Agro-processing, Textiles, and Apparel.
Program Timeline:
- Applications open: Thursday, March 31, 2022
- Program Starts: Tuesday, May 3, 2022
To submit your application, please follow this link: https://awieforum.typeform.com/exporttrade
Application Deadline
The deadline for entry submission for this award is Monday, April 11, 2022 at 11:59pm Central African Time (CAT).
For more information, please contact: info@awieforum.org
To learn more about AWIEF, please visit: https://www.awieforum.org/
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