Appy: AfDB Fashionomics Accelerator Programmes

Deadline: 22 February, 2023

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has opened applications for the 2023 Fashionomics Africa Online Incubator and Accelerator programmes.

Fashionomics Africa is an initiative that fosters the fashion industry in Africa as a lever to create jobs.

The objective is to stimulate regional integration, intra-African trade, entrepreneurship development and forge more equal societies.

Benefits

  • Finalists (two) will receive $20,000 each to scale up their operations

Eligibility

  • The competition is open to participants who can provide an identification document like a passport, national ID card or voters card issued in an African country, and/or domiciled in African countries
  • Applicants should be 18 years of age and above
  • Priority will be given to youths (18 to 35) and women-led fashion businesses
  • Any fashion micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) or fashion entrepreneurs operating in the fashion ecosystem, including fashion designing and dressmaking, accessories design and making, textile design, fashion illustration, fashion photography, technology-enabled fashion businesses, and service providers whose main sector of focus is fashion, are welcome to apply

To apply and for more information, click here.

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