Empowering women and youth: Advancing opportunities through African Development Bank-supported initiatives

The SEDWAY project aims to economically empower youth and women in agricultural and small-scale mining sectors from situations of economic vulnerability. It seeks to harness the potential of youth and women by addressing their capacity gaps and enabling environment to stimulate value addition and beneficiation along the targeted value chains to improve decent job creation for the skilled and semi-skilled youth and women.

The project has three components, namely

• Strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem infrastructure; business development in the horticulture, dairy and small-scale mining value chains;
• Institutional support and enabling frameworks; and
• Project coordination and management.