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SAME Development & Mentorship
The development of cannabis entrepreneurs is one of the most effective ways of broadening participation and ensuring a substantial involvement of disenfranchised and vulnerable communities in the emerging global cannabis market.
AfriCanna Inc. recognises that growing SMME sector is vital for Stimulating economic growth, transformation and job creation in our communities and delivering on our country’s economic development objectives. AfriCanna Inc. supports SMME development in the following ways:
AfriCanna Inc’s in-house consulting and advisory service, provides social responsibility, transformation, and economic empowerment solutions to corporate clients and multinationals along the cannabis value chain.
They engage, transform and inspire their clients to develop and communicate a strategic, value-based view of social and economic enfranchisement. Their focus is coupled with solutions that meet the challenges of carrying out successful corporate strategy, empowerment, transformation, and sustainability programs.
The newly legislated cannabis industry is poised to stimulate Local Economic Development (LED), which is an outcome, based on local municipal initiatives and driven by local stakeholders. It involves identifying and using local resources, ideas and skills to stimulate economic growth and development.
The aim of their cannabis LED initiative is to create employment opportunities for local residents, alleviate poverty and redistribute resources and opportunities to benefit all local residents.
AfriCanna Inc’s strategic investment is directed in the following areas of intervention namely:
By achieving the above, strategic intent is created that reflects the needs of the provinces/sectors in which they operate.
Training and Leadership Development
AfriCanna Inc is committed to growing both people and businesses. They recognize that skills development on all levels within an organisation is critical if any business is to achieve its goals. They take a comprehensive Skills Development approach for both external and internal implementation, ensuring that Skills Development forms part of the priority growth area of the organisation.
Their competitive edge is drawn from their dedication and approach in helping their customers build a more creative and productive workplace through innovative products and services in the areas of training & development, employee engagement, communication, and cultural change.
They convert and redesign traditional learning material into content that is engaging, trackable and which leads to improving employee performance and building unified organisational cultures.
AfriCanna Inc has an intimate understanding of the complexities and challenges faced by SMMEs in respect to access to funding. AfriCanna Inc has developed lasting relationships and partnerships with most finance service providers, development agencies and government institutions in South Africa.
They are also uniquely positioned to gain access to the myriad of funding resources available to their corporate clients in respect of joint funding initiatives, public/private sector partnerships, access to human capital, and the confluence of locally sponsored funding initiatives and sovereign wealth funds that are available.
To this end, AfriCanna Inc are able to compliment their clients’ pool of resources with other funding mechanisms to play a central role in the success and support of SMMEs with common purpose and mutual benefit.
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