The training also exposed members to issues relating to how to share experience and build partnership to enhance their entrepreneurial capacities.
The five-day capacity building, held at GHE Agro Food Processing and Packaging Hub, also exposed participants to practical aspect with funding from by Karpowership, a Turkish energy giant.
Welcoming participants, Naffie Barry, president of GWCC underscored the importance of the training, saying the experience from the training would help participants in addressing some of the challenges women in business face.
“It will also provide participants with a platform for peer learning from successful businesses that have overcome business challenges.”
Barry also highlighted the objectives of the training, which she said, seeks to boost participants’ skills to produce quality products and visibility.
“It will develop the brand of participants to reflect quality products, will establish business linkages between participants and supermarkets for the sale of their products.”
The training, she added, would thus minimise post-harvest losses, promote made in Gambia foods as well as provide market linkages and proper packaging.
Maimuna Sanyang, Business Development Officer at GWCC, said the training forms part of their mandate to build capacity of its members because most of them do not know the procedures of processing which is why GWCC deems it necessary to train members.
She explained that they have conducted similar trainings in the Kanifing Municipality, Upper River Region and now in the West Coast Region.
She spoke of their plans to organise similar training for their members in the North Bank and Lower River Regions.
Delivering a vote of thanks, Isatou Njie, a participant thanked the GWCC for their efforts and foresight in empowering women of the Gambia on ways to expand and advance their businesses.
