Women, Innovation and Green Growth
Women are the future of Green and Agrifood Systems
Despite women’s central role in agrifood systems and community development, young girls and women remain significantly underrepresented in leadership, advocacy, and funded agribusiness and green initiatives. Many women possess innovative ideas and practical experience but are constrained by limited access to credible digital opportunities, weak grant-writing and financial management skills, lack of mentorship, and low confidence in pitching ideas to donors, investors, and policymakers.
Additionally, women’s participation is often concentrated at the production level, with minimal influence over decision-making, resource allocation, and policy processes that shape agribusiness and green economy systems. As funding opportunities increasingly move online and become more competitive, women without the necessary digital literacy, proposal development skills, and networks are further marginalized.
Without targeted, integrated capacity-building and advocacy interventions, women’s innovations remain underfunded, their voices unheard, and their potential contribution to inclusive, climate-resilient development unrealized.
Resilience is the New Competitive Advantage
“Empowering women is not optional—it is essential for achieving inclusive, climate-resilient development and securing the future of Africa’s food systems.”
About the ElevateHer Fellowship
ElevateHer is a flagship women-focused leadership and capacity-building program implemented by KingsCombo Ltd. It is designed to equip young women with the skills, confidence, and access they need to thrive as entrepreneurs, advocates, and leaders across green and agrifood systems.
Across Cameroon and similar contexts, women are deeply involved in agricultural production, processing, and environmental initiatives. Yet many lack access to funding opportunities, mentorship, proposal-writing skills, and platforms to confidently pitch their ideas. ElevateHer bridges this gap.
Delivered as a three-month hybrid fellowship (January–March), the program combines practical training in green agribusiness, climate-smart practices, leadership development, advocacy, digital opportunity navigation, grant writing, financial management, and pitching skills. Participants engage in both onsite sessions in Buea and virtual learning experiences.
A key highlight of ElevateHer is its Pitch and Demo Session, where participants present their enterprises or advocacy initiatives before government officials, development partners, private sector actors, and mentors—gaining visibility, strategic feedback, and potential partnerships.
Beyond training, ElevateHer builds a community. Graduates join the ElevateHer Alumni Network, ensuring continued mentorship, ecosystem access, and long-term growth.
Through ElevateHer, KingsCombo is positioning women not just as beneficiaries—but as:
Our Objectives
Why ElevateHer
To build women’s capacity in green and climate-smart agribusiness development
To equip women with skills to identify credible digital funding opportunities
To strengthen women’s grant writing, financial management, and pitching skills
To enhance women’s leadership, advocacy, and policy engagement capacity
To connect women to mentorship, networks, and funding ecosystems
To establish a sustainable ElevateHer Alumni Network for continued growth and impact