Scale Accelerator 2025 for East Africa – YOA

Deadline: March 26, 2025

Are you a longtime NGO or social enterprise working in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania? Do you will have a confirmed answer that advances the financial resilience of girls working in rural settings? Apply for Scale Accelerator 2025 and get totally-funded consultancy assist that can assist you broaden your affect.

Women partaking in rural-primarily based financial actions throughout East Africa face vital systemic boundaries – restricted entry to sources, precarious employment, and societal discrimination – that hinder their financial potential and perpetuate cycles of inequality.

To sort out these challenges, Scale Accelerator will assist established nonprofits in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to scale confirmed options that strengthen the financial resilience of girls working in rural sectors. The programme presents totally-funded consultancy and coaching to assist organisations develop the methods and expertise to scale sustainably and create lasting change.

Programme Routes

Participants can take part in both of two totally-funded programme routes:

• Expert Consultancy: Up to 2 years of tailor-made consultancy for a choose group of NGOs with a confirmed answer that has excessive potential to scale. The workforce will work collaboratively with you, offering technical help that can assist you work out the best way to obtain scale.
• Leaders of Scale Training: a web based 6-month intensive coaching programme for a gaggle of organisations. The workforce will coach two members of your management workforce within the expertise, instruments, and frameworks wanted to allow them to construct the methods, plans, and fashions required to attain higher affect.

Benefits

Scale Accelerator has helped set over 120 organisations firmly on the highway to scaling their important work. Through arms-on assist and professional teaching, you’ll be guided by way of all key milestones on the best way to higher affect:

• Strategy growth: Build and check a transparent, strong technique for scale that aligns together with your affect targets.
• Sustainable affect: Implement approaches that guarantee enduring advantages for girls working in agriculture and different rural actions.
• Up-skilling groups: Optimise inner buildings and processes and equip your workforce with the talents and instruments to drive and handle scaling successfully.
• Financial sustainability: Develop monetary and scaling fashions for lengthy-time period affect, and establish approaches that can guarantee sustainability as you scale.
• High-quality supply at scale: Identify companions and design methods for them to ship with high quality.

Eligibility

• Open to established NGO or social enterprise working in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
• You have a confirmed answer that advances the financial resilience of girls working in rural settings.

Essential Criteria

The programme is intensive and works finest the place the organisation is nicely established, financially secure, and is ready to commit vital time to the work. 

• Programme, intervention or service should show clear proof of affect and have been confirmed to work, and it ought to have been operating for not less than 1 yr
• The programme, intervention or service should be a core part of your organisation’s technique
• Be capable of dedicate a number of days per 30 days for 2-3 employees, together with not less than one individual from the management workforce.
• You needs to be eager to have a look at the best way to take this to new places, goal teams or to have a higher affect on these you might be already reaching.

If your initiative demonstrates clear affect, you might be eager to scale the affect of your answer, and may dedicate the mandatory sources, you’re a super candidate.

Application

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For extra info, go to Scale Accelerator.