200 ladies artisans and entrepreneurs have graduated from HERTISAN Cohort 2.0, an enterprise improvement programme carried out by Emerging Communities to strengthen monetary literacy and enterprise administration expertise.
The commencement ceremony was held on Friday, October 16, 2026. The programme additionally allotted ₦5 million throughout 23 enterprise awards, offering micro-grants to chosen members to help funding of their companies.
Participants work in trades together with baking, floristry, hair styling, style design, furnishings making, inside ornament and occasion ornament. The programme focuses on serving to them flip their technical expertise into sustainable companies by means of higher pricing, record-keeping, money movement administration and planning.
According to Emerging Communities, HERTISAN addresses the hole between figuring out a commerce and having the monetary information wanted to run a viable enterprise. Its strategy encourages members to perceive manufacturing prices, assess profitability and make knowledgeable selections about reinvestment and progress.
Speaking on the ceremony, Dr Seyi Tytler, Executive Director of Emerging Communities, mentioned the programme’s goals prolonged past the variety of ladies skilled.
“It is to help more women build businesses that can grow, withstand financial shocks and create lasting economic value.”
The enterprise awards recognised excellent members and had been designed to join the enterprise coaching with sensible monetary help. Recipients are anticipated to use the micro-grants to spend money on their trades.
Fidelity Bank supported Cohort 2.0 as headline sponsor by means of its HerFidelity programme. Government companions included the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund and the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency.
Emerging Communities mentioned the partnerships introduced collectively financial-sector help and public-sector engagement to broaden alternatives for girls entrepreneurs. It recognized monetary establishments, improvement organisations, company foundations and authorities companies as potential companions for additional help.
The organisation mentioned the second cohort constructed on the programme’s first version, with a seamless give attention to serving to ladies artisans handle their companies extra successfully and strengthen their livelihoods.
Emerging Communities works throughout know-how, enterprise, schooling and social improvement, growing programmes geared toward addressing boundaries confronted by underserved communities.
