A new peer mentorship-based programme designed to support high-potential women entrepreneurs in the Caribbean targets Guyanese as well as counterparts from several other countries in the region.
Launched earlier this week in Kingston, Jamaica, the eight-month intensive Acceleration Programme will provide participants with a wide range of support services to innovate their businesses, improve competitiveness and boost their growth. Those services will include peer-learning, personal development, one-to-one mentoring/ coaching, technical workshops, and motivational sessions. They will be delivered by successful entrepreneur role models.
The new initiative is part of the Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Program in the Caribbean (EPIC), funded by the Government of Canada and implemented by the World Bank Group and its infoDev program for entrepreneurship. It will be delivered by certified facilitators in 12 Caribbean countries: Antigua & Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts & Nevis, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Women entrepreneurs in the named countries are eligible for selection provided that they have a firm that has been in business for several years, has demonstrated significant business growth and has realistic plans for future growth. Each country-based programme will support up to 15 women entrepreneurs over eight months starting in early 2016.
The call for applications from qualified women entrepreneurs ends on 27 November.
Interested women may visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WINC-AP,
https://www.facebook.com/WomenInnovatorsNetworkCaribbean or
www.infodev.org/EPIC for the full eligibility criteria and application details.
