WEAP
Women Exporter Accelerator Program
Trade support partnership
Builds the capacity of women MSMEs to access international markets in Canada, America, and Europe through trade facilitation, buyer missions, and market linkages.
Current projects
AWAN's existing initiatives already cover trade, nutrition, inclusion, and post-harvest infrastructure.
These initiatives show how AWAN works with partners to expand market access, strengthen export readiness, improve nutrition-sensitive enterprise models, and support climate-smart agribusiness.
Incubator
Women Agribusiness Incubator
Supported by Oxfam
Supports women in refugee-hosting districts in West Nile through skills development, financial literacy, and market linkages.
WCW
Women Creating Wealth
Graca Machel Trust
AWAN Uganda develops strategies that increase access to markets for women MSMEs in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and South Africa.
WICER
Women in Coffee Export Readiness
Supported by ENABEL
Builds the capacity of women SMEs to export to EU markets in ways that are sustainable and respectful of decent work and human rights.
Cold Storage
Solar Powered Cold Storage Technologies
GIZ Energizing Development Programme
Improves the fruits and vegetables value chain by promoting solar cooling systems among women in horticulture.
MAPS
Market Access Program for Smallholder Farmers
DanChurch Aid
Supports 3,000 smallholder farmers in the Teso sub-region, 60% of them women, to access formal markets for soya beans, groundnuts, pumpkins, and avocados.
WINS
Women in Nutrition Sensitive Value Chains Accelerator
Funded by GAIN
Supports 200 women-owned MSMEs to develop nutritious products and adopt nutrition-sensitive business models in Uganda.
WLFI
Women's Leadership and Financial Inclusion
Graca Machel Trust
Strengthens women's leadership for economic recovery strategies across the African continent over a three-year period.