Developing women capacities through transformation programmes is critical. Women are the backbone of the economy and having agribusiness transformation programmes would help in the creation of new jobs and translate into economic growth.
Dr. Elke Stumpf said this during the 4th graduation and the 5th enrolment ceremony of 2020 and 2021 igniters at Accra.
She commended Guzakuza for such a significant programme designed to add value to women in the agribusiness space and GIZ is happy to be part of it.
”We cherish immensely the partnership with organizations like Guzakuza and the ignite programme because they promote women and youth in agribusiness, that is one of the visions we share to promote”, she explained.
Guzakuza has shown that African led, African homegrown initiative for African development can work and has worked in the past 5 years and the gathering here is to unleash the power of innovation of the mind in the field of agribusiness. Dr. Sylvia Olanyinka BYDEN OOR
She cautioned them to be brave to withstand every challenge that would come forth as they undergo the training. “Out of one hundred and twenty (120) enrolled last year for ignite 2020, only seventy-one (71) were able to graduate, indicating the rest could not withstand the test of life but, I urged you all to over the challenges that you will face during this year’s training”.
She inspired the new igniters to commit everything to God in prayers and develop a strong faith in God and prioritize unland the unprogressive tendencies in their lives to bring out the opportunities to develop the African continent.
Giving a graduation speech, FadeKami Onasanwo, 2020 igniter extolled Guzakuza for such an inclusive and insightful programme designed to orient and develop women in the agribusiness space.
To her, being in a midst of 120 women under a single programme and mentored by someone who has 20 years of experience in agriculture has given her more skills, knowledge and understanding to expand her business.
She underscores the need for the igniter to be resilient in the training and learn keenly all the modules from the mentors and ascertain the needed skills to develop their business.
She advised the new igniters to; make every day count, dream it do it and remember the right decision to make in life might not always be the popular ones and should not be rigid their knowledge.
2021 ignite programme has enrolled eighty (80) agribusiness women from eighteen (18) African countries for capacity building to rethink, refine and refire the Female led agribusinesses in Africa.
So far Guzakuza for its Ignite programme has trained one hundred and thirty (130) women from eight (8) African countries for the past four years.
