AFC’s Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) Program
📖 About the Program
The Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) program is an intensive capacity development initiative by African Food Changemakers (AFC). It supports agripreneurs (SMEs) in the agribusiness landscape to:
- Understand how climate change impacts their businesses.
- Develop strategies to adapt and mitigate these impacts through climate-smart practices.
- Tap into climate financing opportunities.
The program leverages a hybrid learning experience, including training, peer learning, interactive sessions, and practical applications.
📅 Opportunity Details
- Date Published: July 12, 2025
- Application Deadline: July 27, 2025
- Category: Entrepreneurs, Training
- Eligible Locations: Africa
🎁 Benefits of the Program
Participants of the BRACE program will gain access to the following benefits:
- Deployment of a diagnostic tool to assess participants' awareness of climate change impacts on their agribusinesses and readiness to implement local solutions.
- A self-paced six-week online learning program with a practical and relevant climate curriculum.
- Hands-on assignments that result in the "greening" of participants' agribusinesses, positioning them to leverage climate financing opportunities.
- Engagement in peer-to-peer learning, networking, experience sharing, group discussions, and co-creation of solutions.
- Access to industry experts, trainers, and agripreneurs through live interactive and mentoring sessions.
- Provision of resources, tools, and information to enable sustainable climate solutions.
- Opportunity to join the AFC hub community for additional resources, funding support, market linkages, and enhanced business visibility and growth.
✅ Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the program, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Be aged 18–40 years.
- Be a citizen of an African country.
- Own or represent a registered business in Africa.
- Be an AgriSME owner/representative/decision-maker operating in the Crop Production or Animal Production sector as a producer, processor, marketer, aggregator, etc.
⏳ Time Commitment
Participants are expected to:
- Attend all weekly live interactive sessions scheduled for Thursday or Friday evenings across African time zones.
- Complete the self-paced online modules within 6 weeks.
- Submit all online course assignments and tasks.
- Dedicate a minimum of 4 hours per week to completing modules and assignments.
🗓 Application Date and Process
- Application Deadline: July 27, 2025
- To apply, visit the official application portal.
🌟 Additional Information
For more details about the program, visit the AFC BRACE Program website.
This program is a fantastic opportunity for African agripreneurs to enhance their resilience against climate change while positioning their businesses for sustainable growth and success. Don't miss out—apply before the deadline!
- Deployment of a diagnostic tool to assess participants 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 peer-to-peer learning, networking, experience sharing, group discussions, assignments, and co-creation of solutions.
- Access to industry experts, trainers and agripreneurs via live interactive and mentoring sessions.
- 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.
