# Academy for Women Entrepreneurs 2024 Cameroon

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/emb-yaounde-pds-awe-fy24-03-academy-for-women-entrepreneurs-2024-cameroon/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/351338

> U.S. Mission to Cameroon offered grants of up to $38,000 (at least $25,000) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make one award worth $38,000 in total. Applications closed on January 6, 2024.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | EMB-YAOUNDE-PDS-AWE-FY24-03 |
| Agency | U.S. Mission to Cameroon |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | January 6, 2024 |
| Award ceiling | $38,000 |
| Award floor | $25,000 |
| Expected awards | 1 |
| Total funding | $38,000 |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 19.022 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

•Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks, community associations, and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience •Alumni of U.S. government exchange programs •Non-profit media organizations •Professional trade organizations •Non-profit or governmental educational institutions •Private educational institutions

## What the grant funds

The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to implement the 2024 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in Cameroon. AWE is a U.S. Department of State-led initiative around the globe to support gender equity and equality by promoting women’s economic opportunities and giving enterprising women the knowledge, networks, and access they need to launch and scale successful businesses. The U.S. Embassy Yaounde Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) invites proposals to design and implement a three-month training program in the summer or fall of 2024 to train 40 women social entrepreneurs for AWE in Cameroon. The program will be a hybrid model, combining the U.S. online platform DreamBuilder or Thunderbird’s 100 Million Learners courses, with localized in-person mentorship and facilitation. Successful projects will harness the power of public-private sponsors, local partnerships, and U.S. exchange alumni networks to help participating women and their business grow, driving localized prosperity. Please carefully follow all instructions below. Program Objectives: · Equip participants with knowledge and skills from both U.S. and Cameroonian training materials to build and scale up sustainable businesses. · Expand participants’ understanding of social enterprise models. · Foster participants’ ability to promote economic opportunities for women and increase the number of women-led businesses. · Facilitate the development of a network of female entrepreneurs and investors to grow women businesses and drive local partnerships. Project Activities: Phase 1: Develop and Recruit · Develop a curriculum and training materials. · Identify, recruit, and train facilitators and mentors from the USG alumni community, American Chamber of Commerce, and African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) network. · Announce, conduct outreach, and recruit participants. · Produce a facilitation guide for business incubators and social entrepreneurs to use in supporting women’s economic empowerment. Proposals should provide a recruitment strategy for recruiting target participants and specify how the Embassy would be involved. Phase 2: Train the Cohort Organize a 3-day AWE Bootcamp with an official launching ceremony in Yaounde.

## Questions people ask

### Is EMB-YAOUNDE-PDS-AWE-FY24-03 still open?

No. It closed on January 6, 2024.

### Who can apply for Academy for Women Entrepreneurs 2024 Cameroon?

U.S. Mission to Cameroon accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Academy for Women Entrepreneurs 2024 Cameroon?

Closed January 6, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $38,000 each. About $38,000 in total for one award.

### Who has won Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, Georgetown University, Persatuan Gaya Hidup Lestari Biji Biji Kuala Lumpur. The program made 3,361 awards worth $57.2 million in that time.