All You Need to Know About Access Bank’s Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Season 3
As part of Access Bank’s mandate, to empower female entrepreneurs with financial and business skills, the Bank has unveiled the third edition of the Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa programme.
The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa programme is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access finance, world-class business trainings as well as mentoring opportunities. This programme has been designed to create an enabling environment for female entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.
Launched in 2019, the Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa was the first women-business support initiative of its kind in the industry offered by the Access Bank W initiative. The program in its maiden edition provided financial grants worth ₦9 million to the top five applicants with a free MBA certification for 50 women entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Benefits:
The 2021 Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton which started on Monday, the 21st of June will end on the 13th of August 2021. The programme will offer financial grants, an exclusive certified capacity building program and business coaching aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs.
Criteria:
Interested female entrepreneurs who meet the criteria of having an existing business for at least one year with at least 50% female ownership and between the age range of 18-45 years are eligible and required to fill an online application on www.womenpreneur.ng.
Screening:
All online applications will be reviewed and screened by independent business experts to 500 candidates who will be required to send in a sixty-seconds video pitch for the opportunity to be selected as part of the final top 100 candidates who will benefit from an exclusive and certified mini-MBA and grant prize.
Duration:
The programme is designed as a 3-month period comprising 12 weeks of mini-MBA training in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and pitching sessions to a Pan-African Jury panel where the top one hundred (100) finalists will pitch their businesses, infusing learnings from the mini-MBA and will stand an opportunity to win financial grants and other consolation prizes.
The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa Programme is the first women-in-business support initiative of its kind in the industry. To learn more, please visit www.womenpreneur.ng