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Initiative for Youth in Agricultural Transformation (I.Y.A.T)

Target Impact

163,512 (50% Women) Youth in Work

In partnership with KIC, the Initiative for Youth in Agricultural Transformation (I.Y.A.T.) program is a four-year USD 16-million commitment to expand KIC’s proven and successful model nationwide. The program trains and equips the next generation of young leaders and entrepreneurs in Ghana’s agriculture sector to drive solutions that unlock growth barriers in key agriculture value chains and create work opportunities for young Ghanaian women and men. The partnership pushes for system-level changes that position Ghana as a continental demonstration of agriculture innovations suited to the African context.

Status: Active

Country

Ghana

Period

Dec 2021- Dec 2025

Industries

Agriculture

Innovation

Impact to Date

8

8 start-ups in incubation.

215

215 young women’s capacities have been built under the Women’s Entrepreneurial Bootcamp.

718

718 students have been trained and exposed to opportunities in agriculture through the AgriTech Challenge Classic competition.

15

15 teams have created start-ups, with one of the winning teams championed by a young person with a disability.

118

18 entrepreneurs have participated in the KIC Business Booster program and have created market linkages for their start-ups.

317

317 smallholder farmers have been impacted across the value chain.

Partnership Focus

Scaling KIC’s transformational model and initiatives across the sixteen (16) regions of Ghana, from the previous three (3).

Enabling young entrepreneurs in the agriculture and agriculture-adjacent sectors to benefit from business scaling opportunities, access to finance, and capacity building for 900 agri-MSMEs and creating work opportunities for 163,000 young Ghanaian women and men in the process.

Attracting, equipping, and training approximately 4,800 young entrepreneurs, 360,000 junior high school and senior high school students, tertiary students, graduates, agri-startups, agri-MSMEs and 378,000 smallholder farmers.

In Partnership With

The Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) is a non-profit organization that invests in young entrepreneurs
and small businesses in the agriculture and agriculture-adjacent sectors. The Foundation partnered with KIC to expand their proven and successful model nationwide, to train and equip the next generation of young leaders and entrepreneurs in Ghana’s agriculture sector to drive solutions that unlock growth barriers in key agriculture value chains and create work opportunities for young Ghanaian women and men. The partnership pushes for system level changes that position Ghana as a continental demonstration of agriculture innovations suited to the African context.

 

Contact Information

URL: https://kicghana.org/

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