Access Bank’s Womenpreneur supports 500 SMEs in PH, Abuja, Lagos

About 500 Nigerian women in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have benefited from the capacity building of Access Bank plc.

Access Bank’s W Academy, in partnership with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Lagos Business School (LBS), organised a professional business capacity-building workshop for 500 female entrepreneurs in Port-Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos.

These capacity building initiatives across the three states held in the last four months and served as the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the Second Season of the bank’s Womenpreneur Business Workshop training.

Speaking on the initiative, Ope Wemi-Jones, group head, product sales of Access Bank Plc, said, “Since 2006, the bank has maintained its commitment to drive women’s economic empowerment in the nation. The Womenpreneur Business Workshop is intended to educate and enlighten Nigerian women on the fundamentals in business which will eventually help them attain their full potential.”

The Womenpreneur Business Workshop, a flagship training of the W Academy under Access Bank’s W Initiative, is designed to address issues of skills, finance, networking, and management skills, which are key barriers to women’s economic inclusion.

The objective of the Womenpreneur Business Workshop is to provide a discounted and practical capacity building programme that exposes female business owners to the nation’s economic reality as well as help them simplify processes and hone the requisite skills needed to grow their businesses.

So far, over 2,300 business women in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Abuja, Kaduna & Enugu have benefitted from the workshop with testimonials around increasing their business network, improving their business model and thriving through the economic constraints.

The workshop is highly discounted and targeted at women entrepreneurs.

Wemi-Jones disclosed that plans have been concluded to hold the next editions of the workshop in Kano and Ibadan in July and August respectively.

HOPE MOSES-ASHIKE