Deadline: 29-Jul-22
Applications are now open for the Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests (MCHF) Accelerator Program to promote sustainable forest management in Malawi and promote sustainable energy options to maintain forest cover and reduce land-based emissions.
The Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests (MCHF) Accelerator Program is a capacity building initiative implemented by mHub in coordination with the Government of Malawi with support from the USAID and UKaid co-funded MCHF Activity. This is a 6 months long program, aimed at supporting targeted commercially viable products that are promoted by Malawi Clean Cooking Fund grantees in Zomba, Blantyre, Lilongwe, and Mzuzu.
This cohort will be provided with support in distribution, marketing, and business training throughout the program. The early-stage entrepreneurs who will participate in the program will be linked with the Malawi Clean Cooking Fund (MCCF) Grantees (i.e. Dziwani Investments, Kawandama Hills Plantation, Emerging Cooking Solutions, Phata Outgrower Cooperative, 265Energy, UpEnergy, and other MCHF partners) so that they can get business of marketing and distributing commercially viable cooking solutions that they produce and distribute in major cities.
Funding Information
Applicants will be encouraged to apply via a web portal. Selected finalists will undergo a 6 months’ acceleration program and receive training on how they can scale-up their businesses. Those who successfully complete the program will be eligible to apply a seed grant of up to $5,000.
How the MCHF Accelerator Works?
- mHub will advertise MCHF Accelerator Program cohort 3 acceleration opportunity call for application for qualified , Alternative Energy and Fuel-Efficient Cooking Technologies(AEFCT). . In this cohort forty applicants will be chosen from a pool of applications for the next round of the challenge. The forty shortlisted applicants will then go through a pitching workshop before pitching to a panel of judges, and the chosen applicants will go through a due diligence process before the final 20 candidates are chosen to be a part of the program.
- Lastly, the final 20 participants will receive business development trainings, mentorship, and access to finance opportunities over the course of six months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any person, group or business in the category of early-stage that is willing to be a distributor of Alternative Energy and Fuel-Efficient Cooking Technologies (AEFECT).
- This is open to all Malawian entrepreneurs, particularly youth and women, and/or any business registered in Malawi willing to distribute commercially viable Alternative Energy and FuelEfficient Cooking Technologies (AEFECT) products to provide an alternative to illegal charcoal.
For more information, visit https://mchfaccelerator.com/