200 ladies artisans and entrepreneurs have graduated from HERTISAN Cohort 2.0, an enterprise growth 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 contributors to help funding of their companies.
Participants work in trades together with baking, floristry, hair styling, trend design, furnishings making, inside ornament and occasion ornament. The programme focuses on serving to them flip their technical expertise into sustainable companies by way of higher pricing, record-keeping, money circulate administration and planning.
According to Emerging Communities, HERTISAN addresses the hole between understanding a commerce and having the monetary data wanted to run a viable enterprise. Its strategy encourages contributors to perceive manufacturing prices, assess profitability and make knowledgeable selections about reinvestment and development.
Speaking on the ceremony, Dr Seyi Tytler, Executive Director of Emerging Communities, stated the programme’s aims 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 contributors and have been designed to join the enterprise coaching with sensible monetary help. Recipients are anticipated to use the micro-grants to put money into their trades.
Fidelity Bank supported Cohort 2.0 as headline sponsor by way of its HerFidelity programme. Government companions included the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund and the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency.
Emerging Communities stated the partnerships introduced collectively financial-sector help and public-sector engagement to increase alternatives for girls entrepreneurs. It recognized monetary establishments, growth organisations, company foundations and authorities companies as potential companions for additional help.
The organisation stated the second cohort constructed on the programme’s first version, with a unbroken concentrate on serving to ladies artisans handle their companies extra successfully and strengthen their livelihoods.
Emerging Communities works throughout know-how, enterprise, training and social growth, growing programmes aimed toward addressing limitations confronted by underserved communities.
