{"id":215971,"date":"2025-12-07T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-business-skills-market-gaps-hinder-weavers\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:50:35","slug":"botswana-business-skills-market-gaps-hinder-weavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-business-skills-market-gaps-hinder-weavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Business Skills Market Gaps Hinder Weavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Maun \u2014 Limited business skills and lack of market access have been identified as some of the challenges that hinder basket weavers&#8217; cooperatives in the Northwest from running successful enterprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">This transpired at the just-ended two-day workshop on innovative product training and fair trade accreditation for members of cooperatives from the villages of Shorobe, Matsaudi, and Nxaraga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The workshop was organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512010486.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maun \u2014 Limited business skills and lack of market access have been identified as some of the challenges that hinder basket weavers&#8217; cooperatives in the Northwest from running successful enterprises. This transpired at the just-ended two-day workshop on innovative product training and fair trade accreditation for members of cooperatives from the villages of Shorobe, Matsaudi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[4338,258,256,4718,2462,10441,15870,4356,257,6781,254,53059],"class_list":["post-215971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-gaps","tag-hinder","tag-market","tag-news","tag-skills","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weavers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215971","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}