Outcome NGA_D_2.7

Nigerian Women agribusiness owners (WOABs) have strengthened capacities in business and financial management, and knowledge of agribusiness opportunities and innovative technologies, to increase their access high-value markets, by 2022

In 2021, UN Women signed MOU with the Nigeria Agribusiness Register (NAR) to provide the women smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs with complimentary listing on the Agribiz platform, including complementary access to the ‘Top Deals’ service, which would enable them have access to premium markets and increases competitive advantage. The digital company will also link the smallholder farmers to offline markets and ensure their sustainability by leveraging their partnerships with Global Shea Alliance (GSA), National Shea Products Association of Nigeria (NASPAN), Small Scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria (SWOFON), Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) and Paddy Rice Dealers Association of Nigeria

Nigerian Women agribusiness owners (WOABs) have strengthened capacities in business and financial management, and knowledge of agribusiness opportunities and innovative technologies, to increase their access high-value markets, by 2022

The implementation of a Women Enterprise Digital Platform has the aim of strengthening all the components of the CSA project, which supports women small holder farmers and entrepreneurs to enhance their participation in two value chains: rice in Ebonyi state and Shea in Niger state. Essentially there are three target groups for the WEDP within the two states. First there are the women small holder farmers in Ebonyi state, secondly there are the women processing Shea butter in Niger state and thirdly women entrepreneurs producing an array of Shea cosmetic products in Niger state. The CSA project has provided support both on the production side and the processing side. It has also supported women to organise into collectives and cooperatives. i. In Ebonyi state approximately 5,000 women smallholder farmers have been organised into 30 cooperatives. The 30 women cooperatives will be clusters into 3 cooperatives for the purpose of the platform. 10 in each LGA from the 3 LGAs where the project is being implemented ii. In Niger state there are 21 women entrepreneurs on the Shea value chain producing an array of shea cosmetic products. iii. In Niger state also, we are also working with approximately 1,200 women processing shea butter, who have been organized into 7 collectives.