Globally, women make up 43 percent of the agricultural labour force, yet they face significant discrimination in various areas, including land and livestock ownership, decision-making, and access to farm inputs, credit, and financial services.

In Ghana, less than 1% of the 500 women who received training from the Social Enterprise Ghana’s (SE Ghana) Green Entrepreneurship Initiatives were able to start their businesses due to financial constraints.

However, through the Australian High Commission’s Direct Aid Program (DAP) in Ghana, 40 women have received start-up kits and 6 months of business development support to start their own green ventures in climate smart agribusiness.

The project aims to empower women and combat discrimination in the agriculture sector.

Background

Social Enterprise Ghana through its Green Entrepreneurship Initiatives has trained and supported about 500 young women, women with disability and female refugees to start and grow their green ventures in climate smart agribusiness, sustainable forestry, organic waste management, plastic waste management, textile upcycling, mushroom production, snail farming and seedling production with support from World University Service Canada (WUSC) and the European Union.

SE Ghana through this project is providing support in the form of start-up kits to 40 women, to kick start their green ventures.

The project also sought to organize 6 months continuous business development support to 100 women-led green businesses in areas including business management training, financial literacy, credit management, digital literacy market access support, exhibitions and trade shows and investor readiness support.