Programme

Green Enterprise & Green Jobs

Growing women-led green businesses through skills training, access to finance, entrepreneurship incubation and routes into cross-border trade.

In design

Underrepresentation in green enterprise is not a capability gap. It is a gap in access to capital, networks, and the platforms where deals are made. This pillar addresses all three at once, because addressing only one of them does not move a business.

What this programme does

  • Green skills and sustainable entrepreneurship training
  • Business incubation for women-owned green enterprises
  • Access to green finance and investment readiness
  • Support for women-owned green enterprises trading across borders
  • ESG and sustainability advisory for small enterprises

How we will measure it

USAW is pre-launch, so these indicators have no baseline yet. Baselines will be set during Phase 1 research and reported annually, disaggregated by sex and age.

  • Women-led green enterprises supported
  • Enterprises still trading 12 and 24 months after support
  • Capital accessed by supported enterprises