The initiative, overlaying the 2025-2026 interval, goals to boost youth employability and self-sufficiency in agriculture, La Nation experiences.
Massandje Litsé Touré, ECOWAS Commissioner for Financial Affairs and Agriculture, emphasised the strategic significance of this funding for West Africa’s agricultural sector. She famous that this grant follows a earlier $1 million allocation in 2023, which supported 24 coaching centres below ECOWAS’ Regional Technique for Youth Employability in Agriculture.
“This initiative aligns with ECOWAS’ imaginative and prescient for inclusive and revolutionary agricultural improvement,” Touré acknowledged. “Coaching younger folks is an funding in our collective future. It equips them with the instruments to rework agriculture, improve productiveness, and strengthen sector competitiveness. It additionally addresses youth unemployment by fostering self-employment and entrepreneurship.”
The grant distribution contains $936,000 for Songhai Facilities, $708,000 for the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Analysis and Improvement (CORAF) and its ten nationwide agronomic analysis centres, and $594,000 for agroeconomic and natural manufacturing centres implementing the Natural and Ecological Agriculture (EOA-I) initiative below the WASEOA secretariat.
