Multinational - Creating Sustainable Youth MSMEs Through Urban Farming – Technical Assistance Request

This intervention is designed in response to the high demand in African cities for affordable, locally sourced, healthy and nutritious food. The project will address unemployed youth and those youth in early start-up stage who have not gained traction due to limited skills and financial resources. It will offer them the opportunity to accelerate their businesses. The project will advance the uptake of modern and climate smart technologies for urban food production and processing, and accelerate their scaling up to attain positive health, economic, environmental and social impacts as well as build resilience against climate shocks which are increasing in frequency and intensity. It comprises four main components namely: (1) Agripreneur Incubation and Training (On-farm), (2) Youth Agripreneurs Skills Development (Non-farm), (3) Catalyzing Access to Finance and Market and (4) Project Implementation (including Coaching, Mentoring, Outreach, Reporting and Audit).