📚 Training on Creditworthiness & Digital Record Keeping Empowers

📍 Mekelle | 📅 June 21, 2025 – June 22, 2025

Following the successful launch of the Tigray Women Business Resource Center, ACSOT, in collaboration with CIPE and TWEA, hosted a practical training session titled “Creditworthiness & Digital Record Keeping” on June 21, 2025 – June 22,2025.

The training brought together 31 women entrepreneurs from diverse sectors across the region which are Mekelle, Axum, Adigrat, Abi Adi, Wukro, Maichew, and Adi Shuhu. Participants gained hands-on knowledge in key areas including:

• Understanding creditworthiness and building financial trust
• How to keep digital business records effectively
• Basic tools and platforms for small business financial tracking

Through interactive sessions, group discussions, and real-life case studies, the women were equipped with essential skills to help them access finance, organize their records, and build more bankable businesses.

We also invited some financial institutions (FIs) in Mekelle to present their women‐focused loan products and the requirements women entrepreneurs need to fulfil to access credits from their respective FI. Accordingly, CBE Mekelle District, Oromia Cooperative Bank Tigray District, Semien Microfinance, and Amigos SACCO Tigray District conducted brief presentations and we had also brief interactive sessions as well. These discussions were concluded with agreement initiate collaboration that may lead to strategic partnership between TWEA and the respective FIs.

💬 Participant Reflection:

“Now I know how to prepare myself to qualify for loans and keep proper digital records. This is what I needed to grow.”

ACSOT, together with its partners, remains committed to providing women entrepreneurs with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in today’s economy.