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EMB-YAOUNDE-PDS-AWE-FY24-03: Academy for Women Entrepreneurs 2024 Cameroon

Closed Closed January 6, 2024 Opportunity EMB-YAOUNDE-PDS-AWE-FY24-03 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$38,000
• Award floor$25,000
• Total funding$38,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• 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

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants awards averaged $17,021; this notice allows up to $38,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

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.

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