Flagship Programme

Growing Resilient Opportunities for Women

GROW is WEDGE Africa's flagship six-month agribusiness transformation programme for women vegetable farmers in Ghana. Through structured accompaniment and practical learning, it helps women build resilient farm enterprises.

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40
Women in the 2026 pilot cohort
6
Month structured accompaniment
40
Farm business plans developed
1,000+
Women targeted by 2030
Programme Overview

A field-based agribusiness transformation journey.

GROW works with women who are already farming and supports them as entrepreneurs on a structured development journey. It focuses on practical decisions: keeping records, understanding costs, reducing losses, negotiating confidently, using digital tools and planning for enterprise growth.

The 2026 pilot begins with women vegetable farmers in Mpatasie and Deikrom, Atwima Kwanwoma District, Ashanti Region, with tomato as the primary commodity for testing, refining and strengthening the model before wider expansion.

Programme form: Three-stage, six-month accompaniment model
Pilot cohort: 40 women vegetable farmers across 2 communities
Core output: Personalised Farm Business Plan for every participant
Market approach: Voluntary, fair, brokerage-based market linkage
GROW programme session with women farmers
6
Farm visits
per participant
The Programme Model

Three stages that build from foundations to enterprise growth.

Each stage adds a new layer of capability while reinforcing practical learning through field visits, peer accountability and participant-owned tools.

01
Stage 1 · Months 1–2

Foundations

Build agribusiness thinking, cost awareness, farm records and confidence with both digital and analogue tools.

Baseline assessment and Farm ID
Cost of production awareness
Farm record introduction
Digital tool onboarding
Peer cluster formation
02
Stage 2 · Months 3–4

Market Activation

Apply records to pricing, post-harvest decisions, buyer readiness and active market engagement.

Price floor documentation
Post-harvest loss reduction
Climate-smart practice adoption
Buyer network introduction
Negotiation confidence building
03
Stage 3 · Months 5–6

Enterprise Growth

Translate evidence and learning into a personalised business plan and long-term resilience strategy.

Farm Business Plan development
Market linkage formalisation
Financial identity building
Endline assessment
Next-season planning
Evidence by Design

The 2026 pilot is built to learn, test and improve.

The GROW pilot is designed to deliver results while generating evidence to strengthen future programme design and scale.

Baseline assessment for all 40 pilot participants using a 125-variable questionnaire
Comparison group baseline for stronger causal learning and attribution
Record book audits during every field visit to track adoption in real time
3-month and 12-month post-programme follow-up to track sustained behaviour change
Pilot Learning Report to inform Year 2 scale design and fundraising
GROW programme participant at Session 1
Live Data

Follow the progress of the 2026 pilot.

The GROW Impact Portal tracks adoption of farm recordkeeping, digital tools, climate-smart practices and market engagement throughout the 2026 pilot.

Updated after field data collection
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GROW programme participant speaking at community session
2026 Pilot Communities

Two communities. One model. Real evidence.

The 2026 GROW pilot operates across two communities in Atwima Kwanwoma District, Ashanti Region. Both communities were selected based on community readiness, farmer concentration and the potential to generate comparable evidence across different contexts.

Mpatasie

20 women tomato farmers in the first GROW cohort, Atwima Kwanwoma District

Deikrom

20 women tomato farmers, same district — enabling cross-community learning

Tomato was selected as the primary commodity for this pilot because of its economic significance to women farmers in the region, its post-harvest loss vulnerability and its potential for market linkage demonstration.

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