B-Space

Yunus Social Business intends to run their next investment readiness program for 2017 and are calling for applications.Application is online via the link below:

Investment Readiness Program

ENVenture is a mentoring program, designed to empower community based organizations that already exist in rural areas and turn them into entrepreneurs. By partnering with community based organizations (CBOs) in rural communities, entrepreneurial business solutions are created to bring solar lights, improved cook stoves, water filters, and energy-saving briquettes to communities that do not have access to these life-saving technologies.
ENVenture together with BSpace will be hosting a two days training Bootcamp 12th and 13th of July next week at Resilient Africa Network Kololo.

Aims of the bootcamp are two; One is to Appreciate the concept of running a business or profit making venture and two is learning about clean energy

ENVenture creates and expands sustainable goods ventures in developing countries in order to increase access to low cost, low carbon technologies that advance the health and sanitation of current living standards while improving the environment. creates new income-generating opportunities, which ultimately benefits local people. Participating SGVs will retail a variety of high quality products approved by ENVenture for distribution, including solar lights, non-electric water filters, improved cook stoves, and energy-saving briquettes.

https://www.enventureenterprises.org/

Financing clean energy l Uganda l ENVenture ENVenture finances and trains Community Based Organizations to launch rural clean energy enterprises in Uganda.

BSpace is a member of NUTIP (Netherlands Uganda Trade and Investment Platform) and is currently being represented at the ongoing AGM and B2B networking event going on right now at the DFCU towers.

UNDP is looking for strong qualified candidates that could submit proposals to bid for hosting and managing the online portal YAS! – the Africa Youth Entrepreneurship ( especially for women) gateway digital resource.

Please see the direct link to this exciting new UNDP innovation challenge grant award opportunity in the link below and apply to the email address indicated:

Open Innovation Challenge: Implementing a Sustainable ‘African Youth (especially women) Entrepreneurship Online Portal’ If implemented innovatively, this online portal can be at the very centre of facilitating the much-needed contribution by African youth towards SDG attainment – but UNDP does not have the financial resources or the expertise to directly implement this portal, ensuring that it is sustainable and rema...

CTA Releases a New Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Working to Modernize Agriculture Through ICTs
A guidebook designed for young people interested in developing e-agriculture businesses in African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries is launched today. Published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), An ICT Agripreneurship Guide – A Path to Success for Young ACP Entrepreneurs seeks to help young entrepreneurs to tap in to the massive scope offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs) for driving ACP economies, especially in the agribusiness sector. The handbook is being unveiled at the African Youth Agripreneurs Forum, to be held in Ibadan, Nigeria from April 25-26.
Taking a hands-on approach, the guide provides a number of case studies, as well as practical advice from young ACP entrepreneurs interviewed for the publication. It also presents common mistakes and ways to avoid them, and recommendations on how to scale up successful cases. A selection of business and product development tools and a comprehensive references section provide material for further inquiry.
Download a copy from the link below:
https://publications.cta.int/en/publications/publication/1984/

1984 : Management & entrepreneurship : CTA Publishing This Handbook provides a step-by-step roadmap designed to equip aspiring ICT entrepreneurs, with the information and knowledge they need to start an ICT-based business in the agricultural sector, outlining key opportunities and challenges that will be encountered along the way. Using real-life examp...