The Women in TVET Business Competition provides technical and financial support to women graduate trainees and entrepreneurs (start-ups and established businesses) to help incubate and/or scale their enterprises in key male-dominated trades. This includes access to business development services geared towards entrepreneurship enhancement, peer support networks and start-up capital (for competition winners). Participants will have opportunities to grow their business acumen and enterprises in an enabling environment, whereby they’re exposed to major private sector and industry players in technical sectors through activities such as pitching competitions…..

ELIGIBILITY

• 1. Applicants must be women aged 18 years and above.
• 2. Applicants must be a graduate trainee or entrepreneur (including start-up) in one of the competition’s eligible TVET sectors
• 3. Applicants must reside or operate their business in Accra/Tema, Kumasi or Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis.
• 4. Applying TVET business should be owned and operated by a woman.
• 5. Aspiring participants should either have an idea that requires support to develop into a business, or an entrepreneur that needs business development services to scale.
• 6. Applicants should have an interest in advancing the involvement and progression of young women in non-traditional TVET trades.

 

ELIGIBLE TVET CENTERS

• 1. Manufacturing & Engineering (Example: Welding & Fabrication, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Auto-Electrician, Auto-Mechanic etc.)
• 2. ICT, Electronics & Automation (Example: Programming, Network Administration, Database Administrator etc.)
• 3. Extractives (Example:. Mining, Oily & Gas, Quarry, etc.)
• 4. Construction (Example: Masonry, Carpentry & Painting etc.)
• 5. Energy (Example: Electrical Installation, Solar Installation, Biogas, etc.)