By way of coaching with the Worldwide Commerce Centre (ITC), girls entrepreneurs discovered to course of and protect vegetables and fruit together with getting ready and packaging jams, tomato ketchup, and chilies.
A primary cohort included 55 girls entrepreneurs, together with farmers and meals distributors. They have been educated on easy, acceptable, and reasonably priced methods of processing and preserving recent produce together with getting ready and packaging jams, ketchups, and chilies. Additionally they studied entrepreneurial abilities akin to taxation, branding, recordkeeping, and advertising.
On the finish of the coaching, the ladies demonstrated what they’d discovered by processing habanero peppers into chilli oil, and making tomato sauce and paste utilizing native components. 5 girls additionally learnt the best way to use electrical tools akin to a blender to organize the merchandise. By way of these sensible workouts, these entrepreneurs are actually in a greater place to develop into meals producers.
The coaching periods organised underneath the ITC South Sudan Jobs Creation and Commerce Growth mission supplied immense visibility throughout Juba. Most of the girls met with a consultant of the Juba Metropolis Council to debate methods of harmonizing tax assortment with the intention to encourage meals producers and merchants to develop their companies.
One of many trainees, Abuk Deng, was delighted that the coaching had improved her abilities and information in meals processing. Now she will broaden her enterprise and lift her gross sales to higher help her household.
‘My information and abilities in meals processing have improved after this coaching. Now, I will course of extra and at a low value and handle my youngsters’s wants,’ she stated. ‘I wish to thank ITC and the European Union for supporting us girls entrepreneurs. I hope this data may be prolonged to extra girls on the grassroots-level.’
The coaching was carried out in collaboration with the Authorities of South Sudan, and with funding from the European Union. The Worldwide Commerce Centre (ITC) carried out the five-day coaching from 13-17 November 2023.
Concerning the Mission
The Worldwide Commerce Centre’s South Sudan Jobs Creation and Commerce Growth mission goals to extend the competitiveness of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and employment alternatives for the South Sudanese inhabitants engaged within the fruit and vegetable subsector.
The European Union-funded mission contributes to addressing the worth addition, competitiveness, job creation and commerce improvement challenges of South Sudan. Particularly, the interventions of the mission are anticipated to enhance productive capacities and compliance to requirements for MSMEs, improve market linkages for MSMEs and improve employability and entrepreneurship capability for the South Sudanese labour pressure, focussing on youth and girls.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Worldwide Commerce Centre.
