World Environment Day
2024-06-05 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
World Environment Day, held annually on 5 June, brings together millions of people from across the globe, engaging them in the effort to protect and restore the Earth. This year marks the event’s 50th anniversary.
THE COMMUNITY
World Environment Day is a global platform for inspiring positive change. People from more than 150 countries participate in this United Nations international day, which celebrates environmental action and the power of governments, businesses and individuals to create a more sustainable world.
The event has been led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since its inception in 1973.

World Nature Conservation Day
2024-07-28 08:00 - 17:00
World Nature Conservation Day is celebrated on July 28 every year. It’s a special day dedicated to spreading awareness about safeguarding our planet for future generations and promoting sustainable living. It encourages everyone to take action and collaborate individuals, organizations, and governments to make a positive impact.

Zero Emissions Day
2024-09-21
The purpose of Zero Emissions Day is to offer a preview of what a planet without the release of fossil fuels into the air would look like. A single day to raise awareness on the impact of our daily emissions, which are gases and particles emitted by electricity, agriculture, or transportation.
As we noticed during COVID lockdowns, a global shutdown of human activity allowed air pollution to lower drastically. Each individual needs to make an effort to limit emissions, as they directly affect human health and the environment, causing climate change, air pollution, extreme weather events, and more.
Theme: Giving our planet a day off a year
Purpose/objective: To promote Propcom+ as a programme supporting zero emissions
Approach: Social Media Campaign
Activities: Promote photos showing various activities and interventions supported by Propcom+ that are reducing carbon footprint

DCED Global Seminar
2024-10-01 08:00 - 2024-10-03 17:00
The DCED, with the BEAM Exchange – its knowledge platform on market systems development (MSD), is a forum for networking and practical information exchange on Private Sector Development (PSD). The 2024 Global Seminar will focus on using systemic approaches for growth, employment and resilience. Sessions will prioritise practical lessons emerging from PSD field experience, evidence of what is working well, along with analysis of the pitfalls.
Propcom+’s Team Lead, Dr. Adiya Ode, will be speaking in a break-out session on how to mobilise finance to scale impact on 02 October – Attend networking events and meet the right people with the Swapcard event app.
Our MERL Director, Gerald Umeze will also be facilitating a micro-clinic on: Measuring NAIC – Net Attributable Income Change: Quasi-experimental methods for measuring NAIC for smallholder producers and small-scale entrepreneurs – 12. Measuring NAIC – Net Attributable Income Change (swapcard.com).
Follow the links above for more details.

International Day of Rural Women
2024-10-15
The International Day of Rural Women (15 October) highlights the essential role that rural women play in the food systems of the world.
From production of crops to processing, preparing and distributing foods, women’s labour – paid and unpaid – feeds their families, communities and the world. Yet, they do not wield equal power with men, and as a result, they earn less income and experience higher food insecurity.
Despite our planet’s capacity to provide sufficient and good food for all, hunger, malnourishment, and food insecurity are rising in many parts of the world. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with climate crises, have made matters worse: some 2.37 billion people did not have enough to eat in 2020 –that’s 20 per cent more than the year before.

World Food Day
2024-10-16
World Food Day is an annual global observance that aims to raise awareness and take action against worldwide hunger and malnutrition. This day serves as a reminder of the need to ensure food security and access to nutritious food for all. It also highlights the importance of sustainable agriculture and food production to address global food challenges. World Food Day is an opportunity to come together as a global community and work towards a world where no one goes to bed hungry.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2024
2024-10-17
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is held annually on 17 October. It aims to promote understanding and dialogue between people living in poverty and wider society. The Day provides an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their concerns heard, and a moment to recognize that poor people are the first ones to fight against poverty.

Learning Event: "Learning and Adapting for Greater Impact"
2024-12-05
Propcom+ is hosting a Learning Event, “Learning and Adapting for Greater Impact”. The event brings together partner agribusiness firms to share the experiences gained while implementing Propcom+ interventions, including lessons learned and operational and technical adaptations made to the models. The event is tailored to inspire knowledge-sharing among agricultural market actors, including those working with Propcom+ to deliver market systems interventions in Northern Nigeria.
Click here to view the Event Agenda – Propcom_Learning_Event_Agenda_Final

Propcom+ System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Knowledge Sharing Event
2025-02-12 09:00 - 15:00
Propcom+ is hosting a Knowledge Sharing Event on System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The event brings together partner agribusiness firms to share the experiences gained while implementing Propcom+ SRI intervention, including lessons learned and operational and technical adaptations made to the model. The event is designed to foster knowledge-sharing among agricultural market actors, including partners collaborating with Propcom+ to deliver market systems interventions for rice cultivation in Nigeria.
Click here to view the Event Agenda – Propcom_Knowledge Sharing Event Agenda

World Environment Day 2025 Webinar
2025-06-05 10:00 - 11:30
World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations’ principal platform for encouraging global awareness and action to protect the environment. It presents an opportunity for development programmes, particularly those focused on agriculture, to promote environmental sustainability while fostering agricultural productivity.
In line with this year’s celebration, Propcom+, in partnership with Heifer International, is hosting a multi-stakeholder Webinar on the theme “Balancing Agricultural Productivity with Environmental Sustainability: Innovative Business Models to Watch.”
This Webinar presents an exciting opportunity to join some Propcom+ and Heifer partners in an insightful conversation that will explore some of the best of Nigeria/Africa’s innovative business models that are shaping the agricultural landscape while being environmentally sustainable. This is an opportunity to learn about and share what works for these businesses, and for you, how they are shaping the narrative, improving market access, and leading growth in the agricultural sector. This promises to be an engaging session with lots of lessons for every stakeholder working to promote food security in Nigeria.
The Webinar is scheduled as follows:
Date: Thursday, 5 June 2025
Time: 10:00AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Virtual – Microsoft Teams.
Click this registration link to reserve your spot now – https://bit.ly/ppwedweb.

Business Readiness, Organisational Capacity Improvement, Access to Finance Strategy Dissemination Workshop
2025-06-19 08:00 - 16:00
Propcom+ is delighted to host a Business Readiness, Organisational Capacity Improvement, and Access to Finance (A2F) Strategy Dissemination Workshop, scheduled to hold in Lagos on 19 June 2025, in Lagos, Nigeria.
The overall purpose of the A2F Workshop is to create awareness and sensitise current and potential partners of Propcom+ about the finance and investment facilitation support component of the programme and the opportunities for collaboration and partnership in developing and delivering appropriate financial products and services for smallholder farmers and businesses. The event will expose the participants to the available opportunities that exist in the larger financial sector and markets, particularly from selected agri-friendly financiers and investors.

Mobilization of CSOs, BMOs and farmer groups and organized private sector for action on agricultural budget allocation, release and tracking
2025-07-23 08:00 - 2025-07-24 17:00 | Kano, Nigeria, Nigeria
Agriculture budgets and expenditures serve as the means through which agricultural policies are translated into tangible and targeted developmental actions. Government decisions on how to allocate and spend financial resources directly affect the agricultural programmes adopted and the well-being of citizens. However, misallocation, incorrect prioritisation, abuse, and mismanagement of funds pose significant challenges to the efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural service delivery. Citizens’ participation and civil society involvement in the processes of agricultural budgeting and financial management are essential for: promoting transparency and accountability regarding agricultural expenditures, creating safeguards against corruption, and ensuring that public funds are allocated fairly and disbursed in ways that adequately address the interests and needs of the private sector, including women and marginalised groups.
Propcom+ is bringing together CSOs, BMOs, farmer groups, and organised private sector actors to:
1. Strengthen platforms of market enablers for improved agricultural governance, policy implementation, planning, and service delivery, while supporting climate-resilient and conflict-sensitive agricultural practices at subnational levels.
2. Facilitate linkages between governments: State, LGAs, private sector actors, and non-state actors to scale and sustain market system solutions, while addressing existing challenges.
3. Provide a roadmap for state and LGA-level focused engagement processes with key actors on the implementation of agricultural development: (Policies, plans, and budgets).
4. Integrate strategic advocacy and communication to promote informal rules, norms, and practices that influence agricultural market behaviour, aiming to improve market functionality, promote inclusive participation, and strengthen transparency in rural agricultural systems.

Seed Industry Practitioners’ Forum
2025-07-30 08:00 - 2025-07-31 17:00
As part of its policy reform agenda, Propcom+ is supporting efforts to improve the performance and coordination of regulatory institutions within Nigeria’s seed sector. Nigeria’s seed sector is constrained by fragmentated regulations, bureaucratic delays, weak institutional coordination, and underdeveloped enforcement and policy implementation systems. These issues limit the availability and accessibility of quality-assured seeds for smallholder farmers and undermine the scale-up of innovations such as biofortified and climate-resilient crop varieties. The National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) and the National Variety Release Committee (NVRC) play critical roles in seed certification, standard setting, and the release of improved seed varieties, but are often constrained by systemic inefficiencies, lack of coordination, and limited stakeholder engagement.
To help address these systemic constraints, Propcom+ in partnership with HarvestPlus will be convening key stakeholders in a Seed Industry Practitioners’ Forum aimed at identifying core regulatory gaps, operational challenges, and institutional weaknesses in the seed sector. This will then inform the development of a Joint Action/ Improvement Plan and Accountability Framework to guide reform implementation, and technical support provided to NASC, NVRC, and other regulatory agencies.

Environmental Compliance and Management Training for Partners
2025-08-19 08:00 - 2025-08-20 17:00
Reducing Propcom+ Environmental Impact and Carbon Footprint

Media Training on Climate-Smart Agriculture Reporting for Selected Media Representatives
2025-08-26 08:00 - 2025-08-27 17:00
The media plays a crucial role in shaping public opinion and influencing policies and decisions. To this end, Propcom+ is organising a two-day training for selected media representatives on climate-smart agricultural reporting and developing human-interest stories. The training will help to solidify the programme’s relationship with media actors, having long recognised them as partners in development.

Support to the Veterinary Council of Nigeria to review the Veterinary Act
2025-10-13 08:00 - 2025-10-14 17:00
The purpose of this workshop is to review, update and harmonize Nigeria’s existing veterinary act to ensure that the practice of veterinary medicine in Nigeria is efficiently governed.

Nutritous Food Fair
2025-10-16 08:00 - 17:00
This year Propcom+ is supporting HarvestPlus’ 11th Nutrious Food Fair happening in Kano, Nigeria.

Unlocking Cold Chain Innovations: Lessons from the Solar Refrigerator Pilot Intervention for Poultry/Livestock Vaccine Storage and Distribution A Propcom+ Learning Event
2025-12-04 08:00 - 17:00
2025 Learning Event Agenda

National Feed and Fodder Investment Framework Validation Session
2026-02-12 08:00 - 17:00
The validation session aims to review and refine the National Feed and Fodder Investment Framework to ensure its goals, strategies, data, investment priorities, and implementation plans are realistic, evidence‑based, and aligned with stakeholder needs.

Public-Private Dialogue
2026-02-19 08:00 - 17:00
This is aimed at reviewing and discussing the findings from (i) Study on the Review of Existing Policies, Regulations, and Administrative Bottlenecks Affecting Vaccine Importation and Licensing in Nigeria and (ii) Livestock Vaccine Demand and Supply Market Study by a wider group of stakeholders to ensure alignment with current realities. This will frame our support towards vaccine commercialisation.

Agricultural Value Chain Finance and Risk Management Training
2026-03-03 08:00 - 2026-03-04 17:00
This training is designed as a practical and participatory programme aimed at equipping partner financial institutions with the technical knowledge and tools required to enhance agricultural financing operations.
Training Objectives:
The two‑day session will strengthen the capacity of partner financial institutions to:

Expand agricultural lending,
Apply value chain finance approaches,
Integrate climate‑smart agriculture financing,
Deploy risk mitigation strategies,
Improve loan pricing strategies,

Increase financing access for women‑owned agribusinesses.

Stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop on HQCP substitution for Maize in poultry feeds
2026-03-05 08:00 - 17:00
The workshop will employ structured presentations, video documentaries, interactive stakeholder engagements, problem identification, rapid value chain mapping, and validation of the initially scoped opportunities and challenges for HQCP substitution in maize-based poultry feeds.

International Women's Day
2026-03-08 08:00 - 17:00
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender equality.

International Day of Forests
2026-03-21 08:00 - 17:00
With the theme “Forests and Economies” in 2026, this day highlights sustainable forest management for economic prosperity, supporting family agriculture, and protecting watersheds.

NCGC–Propcom+ Validation Workshop on the Climate Smart Agricultural Financing Framework.
2026-03-24 08:00 - 17:00
Bringing together stakeholders from across financial institutions, regulators, derisking institutions, etc. to refine our approach to climate financing, and provide a structured mechanism for derisking CSA and increasing access to finance.

International Women's Day Dialogue
2026-03-30 08:00 - 12:00
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated globally every year on March 8 to recognise women’s achievements and advocate for gender equity. For Propcom+, this occasion presents a strategic opportunity to highlight our commitment to breaking gender barriers, promoting inclusive market systems, amplifying the voices of women entrepreneurs and professionals, and fostering meaningful connections that drive long-term, transformational change in Nigeria. The theme for IWD 2026 is “Give to Gain”, which calls for individuals, organisations, and communities to collectively contribute resources, knowledge, and support to foster gender equality, knowing that when women thrive, everyone rises.
Propcom+ is bringing stakeholders together for a dialogue themed “Women, Agency and the Power of Giving for Gender Transformation.” This dialogue will bring together women agribusiness leaders, government agencies, and professionals to share experiences, lessons, and success stories in driving gender-transformational change in Nigeria’s agricultural markets and beyond. It will highlight inspiring achievements of women supported by Propcom+ and celebrate those advancing gender equality across communities and markets.
See Agenda below:
Agenda for IWD Event 2026

International Mother Earth Day
2026-04-22 08:00 - 17:00
For this International Mother Earth Day, let’s remind ourselves – more than ever – that we need a shift to a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet.

World Environment Day
2026-06-05 08:00 - 17:00
Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually on 5 June since 1973, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach and is celebrated by millions of people across the world.

Micro Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
2026-06-27 08:00 - 17:00
Micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises are key sources of jobs, income, and local growth—especially for women, young people, and vulnerable groups. Their size and flexibility help build strong, fair, and sustainable communities.
However, many of these businesses face serious challenges. They often struggle to get loans, deal with poor infrastructure, and work under tough conditions. Many operate informally, which limits their access to funding, legal rights, and government support.
Today’s global challenges—like political tensions, climate change, and digital shifts—make it even harder for them to survive. Supply chain issues, higher costs, and uncertain markets have left many at risk. A huge global funding gap remains, despite clear opportunities to grow.
To help these businesses succeed, better policies and more accessible funding are crucial. Support for skills training, innovation, and fairer rules can also make a big difference. Since many operate outside the formal system, making it easier to register, access benefits, and follow labor laws will help create better jobs and stronger economies.
