Do you want to replicate a tested and proven business model to set up your own eco-inclusive enterprise?

SEED and SWITCH-Africa Green are pleased to invite applications for our upcoming SAG-SEED Replicator Connect Workshops in Uganda, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa.

The SEED Replicator supports future entrepreneurs by replicating proven eco-inclusive business models from around the world. Based on the SAG-SEED Replicator Workbooks, the Replicator Connect Workshops offer hands-on support to take the first steps towards the development of an individual business idea and a unique opportunity to gain insight into eco-inclusive business models around the world. Workshop participants are provided with a variety of business options in order to set up their own eco-inclusive enterprise in a chosen sector.

Each date is a separate workshop. Participants may choose one of the two topics in each workshop:

Uganda:

• 22 June in Kampala: waste to industrial resources or plastic upcycling
• 23 June in Kampala: waste to biogas or agricultural product processing

Deadline for applications: 13 June 2017

Kenya:

• 27 June in Nairobi: agricultural product processing or waste to industrial resources

Deadline for applications: 13 June 2017

Ghana:

• 30 June in Accra: waste to industrial resources or plastic upcycling
• 1 July in Accra: briquettes from biomass or collaborative business models for smallholder farming

Deadline for applications: 13 June 2017

South Africa:

• 3 July in Durban: ICT for agriculture or irrigation solutions for smallholder farming
• 4 July in Durban: waste to industrial resources or plastic upcycling
• 6 July in Bloemfontein: waste to biogas or local clean cookstove enterprises
• 7 July in Bloemfontein: collaborative business models for smallholder farming or agricultural product processing

Deadline for applications: 20 June 2017

The number of workshop participants is limited. Motivated individuals, teams or NGOs are invited to send their application before the deadlines above.

For more information, please visit: https://www.seed.uno/support/replicator.html

Do you already have a business idea and need some capacity-building support to refine it? You're in luck! Today, applications for the SAG-SEED Starter in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa also open. You can also apply for both programmes.

To learn more about the project components implemented under the SWITCH-Africa Green multi-country project “Promoting Eco-Entrepreneurship in Africa” visit: www.seed.uno/sag.