Capacity Building fact sheet - USAID West Africa Trade and

WEST AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HUB
Capacity
Building
& Training
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jean-Didier Nacoulma
Gender Specialist
West Africa Trade and Investment Hub
[email protected]
Egnon Lawson
Capacity Building & Training Specialist
West Africa Trade and Investment Hub
[email protected]
Head Office - Accra, Ghana
Marvel House, 1st Floor
148-A Giffard Road
Cantonment, Accra, Ghana
+233 (0)302 798865/6 | 798893/4
Online Resources:
www.usaid.gov/west-Africa-regional
www.watradehub.com
Contact: [email protected]
SATELITE OFFICES
Abidjan
Plateau, 20-22 Bd. Clozel
Résidence Les Acacias
9e étage porte 904, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Dakar
N# 8639 Sicap Sacre Cœur 2
Dakar, Senegal
+221 33 8694570
Ouagadougou
Secteur 5
Kamsonghin Avenue de l’Aeroport 01
BP 722, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso
+226 503 00034
OUR PARTNER NETWORK
African Cashew Alliance
Borderless Alliance
Global Shea Alliance
Confédération des Fédérations Nationales
de la Filière Bétail et Viande d’Afrique de
l’Ouest (COFENABVI-AO)
West African Grains Network
Reseau des Systemes d’Information des
Marches en Afrique de l’Ouest
Working to boost trade and investment
with and within West Africa
Strengthening Capacities to Lead Trade
At its heart, the West Africa Trade and Investment Hub is a capacity building effort.
Strengthening capacities cut across all the strategic components of the project. We
enable actors in our focus value chains to develop the institutional, managerial, and
technical capabilities essential for generating continuous innovations to expand trade
in livestock, cereals, cashew, shea, mango, and apparel.
The Trade Hub Capacity Building component will support regional value chain associations to improve the nature and quality of business services provided to their members.
We will use a systems approach to capacity building, employing proven tools for organizational capacity assessments to identify needs, design complementary, genderresponsive interventions, and implement tailored activities to strengthen core competencies for market success.
Core Organizational
Capacity Areas
Complementary, Gender-responsive
Capacity Building Support
Governance
Trainings in critical value chain function
Administration
Learning events (study tours, exchange visits)
Human Resource Management
Market Information Systems development or
improvements
Financial Management
Access to Finance and market linkages
Organizational Management
Facilitated self assessment and reflection, capacity
development planning, performance measurement
Program Management
Mentoring and coaching
Project Performance Management
Advocacy campaigns
Leadership
Membership drives as means to promote financial
sustainability
Gender Forward Programming
Gender responsiveness is an imperative in all Trade Hub’s capacity building programs, in
recognition of the critical roles of both men and women in the focus value chains. Specifically, all activities are designed to assure women’s equal participation in the trade and
transportation of the target value chains. Emphasis is placed on building the capacities of
our partner network to develop gender strategies and implement entrepreneurship
training activities that strengthens women leadership roles, supply chain management,
business and market linkages, and in regional and export trade.