{"id":175782,"date":"2024-07-03T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-african-development-fund-approves-20-million-grant-for-youth-and-women-jobs\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:11:41","slug":"sierra-leone-african-development-fund-approves-20-million-grant-for-youth-and-women-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-african-development-fund-approves-20-million-grant-for-youth-and-women-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone &#8211; African Development Fund Approves $20 Million Grant for Youth and Women Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, approved a $19.95 million grant for an initiative to provide livelihood for Sierra Leone&#8217;s women and youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The &#8220;Job Creation for Youth and Women in Climate Smart Agriculture Value Chains and Waste Management&#8221; project,&#8221; targets value chains where the youth and women are more active, such as cassava and fisheries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The grant, part of the Transition Support Facility&#8217;s Pillar 1, aims&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407030091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, approved a $19.95 million grant for an initiative to provide livelihood for Sierra Leone&#8217;s women and youth. The &#8220;Job Creation for Youth and Women in Climate Smart Agriculture Value Chains and Waste Management&#8221; project,&#8221; targets value chains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651009:92bcf78d48a12f78a012a26f169ff85b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,4380,8326,5989,5111,13356,6643,6572,5118,257,6571,1135,254,6524,6276],"class_list":["post-175782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-approves","tag-development","tag-fund","tag-grant","tag-jobs","tag-leone","tag-million","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651009:92bcf78d48a12f78a012a26f169ff85b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}