Expression of Interest for Investing in Women in Nigeria Programme Cooperative Window

Investing in Women in Nigeria (IIW-Nigeria)

The IIW-Nigeria Programme seeks to transform the roles of women operating in various agricultural value chains in Kano State, Nigeria, to increase incomes, improve climate resilience and transform livelihoods. The target is women owned/led businesses and women cooperatives operating in the agricultural space that demonstrate high impact for women in their value chains.  

Window 2: Women Cooperatives 

The Window 2 Competition will support 40 successful cooperatives with funds to gain access to productive assets, i.e., land, agricultural technologies, and markets that would benefit their members. The grants to women’s cooperatives would also enable investment in the activities of the associations that would lead to increased incomes for their women members, such as investing in better technology or processing inputs. Finance will be accompanied by capacity building support provided through local service providers to ensure that the targeted cooperatives have the financial and operational management capacity to deliver to their members. 

This competition window was launched in October 2024 and will be completed in April 2025.  

Guidelines

The AECF team invites you to fill out this Expression of interest (EOI) as part of the competitive process to request for supply of raw material/ distributorship of your product (s) from the programme cooperatives. 

This application will determine whether an applicant meets the basic requirements to participate in the IIW – Nigeria programme and submit full details of his/her requirements for either the supply of raw materials or distributorship.   

You must fill in all the mandatory fields to complete the application process. The mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*)  

You can save your progress and return to the application at any time by clicking the “Save Draft” button at the bottom of the form. The form autosaves your progress, however, we recommend that you manually save your progress.  

The deadline for your expression of interest submission is [insert date] at [insert time and time zone]. The system will not allow you to submit your application after this time has elapsed.  

Remember to click the “Submit” button at the end of the form. The AECF can only access your eligibility answers after you submit your application. We will send you a confirmation email once you submit it.  

This application process will require the applicant to share personal data. AECF complies with Nigeria’s data protection laws and regulations; hence, this data will be processed in accordance with the subject’s right to privacy.   

If you are seeking further clarifications regarding the EOI, please e-mail iiwnigeria@aecfafrica.org or call +2348080804040 

The AECF does not ask for any sort of payment at any point in the application process.