The Tony Elumelu Foundation BeGreen Africa Entrepreneurship Programme 2025
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Application Deadline: 1st of March 2025
Applications are actually open for the 2025 Tony Elumelu Foundation BeGreen Africa Entrepreneurship Programme.
Eligibility
- The Programme is open to all residents of the Selected Countries (as outlined) who’re aged 18 years and above. The submitted age of all Applicants have to be supported with authorities permitted technique of identification.
- All Applications have to be for a Green Business Idea or a Business that have to be for revenue, centered on one enterprise space solely, and have to be the unique thought of the Applicant.
- The Business or Business Idea should not be for an unlawful or unethical function.
The Programme is made up of the next levels all of which type the Programme cycle:
Verification & Onboarding
Applicants shall be verified and onboarded by the Promoter. Verification will contain the submission of required paperwork by the Applicant in an effort to allow the Promoter to establish the state of the Business or Business thought in addition to the id of the applicant.
Successful Applicants who don’t meet the verification necessities shall be faraway from the Programme and notified of removing through e-mail.
Successful candidates who meet the verification necessities shall be enrolled within the TEF Business Management Training programme.
Unsuccessful Applicants shall be directed to take the TEF General Business Training on TEFConnect and shall be eligible to reapply for different TEF Programmes.
Business Plan Preparation & Submission
Programme Participants who’ve accomplished the TEF Business Management Training Programme will obtain a marketing strategy template to develop a marketing strategy doc for overview and evaluation. This overview and evaluation shall be primarily based on related metrics together with feasibility and sustainability. Programme Participants should submit their Business Plans by the required deadline to be eligible for consideration for the following stage of the programme.
The prime scoring Programme Participants from this stage shall be notified through e-mail and can proceed to the Pitching Competition stage.
Any Programme Participant who doesn’t full this stage of the Programme inside the prescribed timeline or isn’t profitable at this stage shall be faraway from the Programme and notified of removing through e-mail.
Pitching Competition
Top scoring Programme Participants shortlisted from the marketing strategy stage will take part within the Pitching Competition the place they are going to pitch their enterprise plans to a panel of judges bodily or submit their pitch movies to the Promoter.
Top scoring Programme Participants from the Pitching Competition shall be chosen primarily based on predetermined choice standards and shall be eligible to obtain the Seed Capital.
Programme Participants who usually are not chosen from the Pitching Competition to obtain the Seed Capital shall be notified through e-mail and shall be categorised as TEF Trainees.
Any Programme Participant who doesn’t full this stage of the Programme shall be faraway from the Programme and notified of removing through e-mail.
Seed Capital
The Selected Entrepreneurs from the Pitching Competition shall be notified through e-mail.
Disbursement of the Seed Capital shall be made through digital switch into the Selected Entrepreneurs’ Business Bank Account. Banking and different costs could apply and shall not be borne by the Foundation. The whole quantity obtained could due to this fact be lower than US$5,000 equal. TEF Partner funded entrepreneurs will obtain seed capital in keeping with the companion commitments and this shall be communicated in the end to Programme Participants who shall be funded by companions.
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Background for The Tony Elumelu Foundation BeGreen Africa Entrepreneurship Programme 2025
The Tony Elumelu Foundation launched a first-of-its-kind Green Entrepreneurship Programme to address African youth unemployment, in partnership with UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU) and IKEA Foundation.
The application portal for BeGreen Africa is now open on TEFConnect, the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s digital platform, to all waste management start-ups in Kenya, and green start-ups in Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa.
BeGreen Africa is a green entrepreneurship pilot programme co-created by The Tony Elumelu Foundation, UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU), IKEA Foundation, and young green entrepreneurs.
The key objective of this mission-aligned partnership is to create a holistic, sustainable, and youth-led green entrepreneurship initiative in the waste sector [in Kenya], and the green sector [in Nigeria, Morocco, Senegal and South Africa], to advance marginalized youth’s social and economic prosperity, while addressing the triple planetary crisis by reducing inequalities, and creating sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their peers.
The founding partners of BeGreen Africa will leverage their collective expertise, close relations with government, the private sector and youth networks, and extensive field presence across Africa and in Kenya to: a) develop a green-focused curricula that addresses the gaps and capacity needs of the identified target youth, b) engage expert trainers to deliver the trainings via www.TEFConnect.com, c) facilitate mentor and alumni network connections, and d) provide seed capital funding that will empower the identified entrepreneurs to kickstart, develop, and scale their green businesses.
In this pilot, #BeGreenAfrica aims to train 1,000 Kenyan youth in the waste management sector, and economically empower 120 of them, as well as empower 25 green sector entrepreneurs in Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa, all under the age of 35, with new or existing green businesses. The initiative will build evidence around youth entrepreneurship in high-impact green sectors, exploring how young entrepreneurs can contribute to circular economies and a sustained green revolution in Africa.
The multilingual Application Portal is open on www.TEFConnect.com from August 10 till August 31, 2023.
About the Tony Elumelu Foundation:
The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation across all 54 African countries, and increasing women economic empowerment. Since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, the Foundation has provided over 1.5 million young Africans with access to training on its digital hub, TEFConnect, and disbursed nearly USD$100 million in direct funding to 18,000 African women and men, who have collectively created over 400,000 direct and indirect jobs. The Foundation’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the African continent.
About UNICEF GEN-U:
Launched by the UN Secretary-General at the 2018 UN General Assembly, and anchored in UNICEF, Generation Unlimited is a leading global Public-Private-Youth Partnership, bringing together global organizations and leaders including Heads of State, CEOs, Heads of UN agencies, and civil society champions with young people to co-create and deliver innovative solutions on a global scale.
Generation Unlimited is on a mission to skill the world’s 1.8 billion young people and connect them to opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship, and social impact.
About IKEA Foundation:
The IKEA Foundation is a strategic philanthropy that focuses its grant making efforts on tackling the two biggest threats to children’s futures: poverty and climate change. It currently grants more than €200 million per year to help improve family incomes and quality of life while protecting the planet from climate change. Since 2009, the IKEA Foundation has granted more than €1.8 billion to create a better future for children and their families.
In 2021 the Board of the IKEA Foundation decided to make an additional €1 billion available over the next five years to accelerate the reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions. In 2023, IKEA Foundation has already provided more than € 31 Million in emergency funding.
