Boosting Profits For Female-Led Micro Agribusinesses With Digital & Financial Literacy Tools
During this programme with ESOKO, ScaleUp Africa trained almost 300 micro enterprises in the Agriculture sector on the full potential of the mobile phone. Due to low literacy rates, most agribusinesses are unable to access information pertaining to Climate, Market Pricing etc, limiting their productivity and profitability. Training content featured different mobile money, information, operational procedures and scenarios in the local language – enabling the women to leverage their mobile phones as a Business Tool for the first time.
Access to digital credit services and market information like commodity prices were some important outcomes of the since most of these women. The project enabled them to make informed decisions about when, where and at what price to sell their commodities – using their mobile phone to access real time market price information from district and regional markets to increase their profits.
