Deadline: 06-Jul-21
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danish MoFA) and Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) have partnered to implement the GreenBiz Programme to support 300 businesses to create over 3,000 full time job opportunities.
The GreenBiz Programme will address key challenges that hinder climate technologies and related innovative business models from tapping into the immense potential in the cleantech sector.
Thematic Areas
- Agribusiness: Businesses focusing in any of the following areas will be considered but are not limited to:
- Resilient crops/seeds.
- Climate smart/energy efficient agricultural machinery
- Efficient irrigation mechanisms/Technologies.
- Efficient/value addition and food processing
- Climate friendly inputs/alternatives for example pesticides, fertilizers, and other field operations.
- Post-harvest management technologies
- Water Management: KCIC is focusing on businesses that are developing sustainable and innovative water management interventions associated with, but are not limited to:
- Solar filtration
- Desalination
- Innovative technologies in rainwater harvesting and storage
- Efficient irrigation technologies
- Biotechnology for water treatment.
- Smart Water Metering
- Supply and distribution of clean water
- Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: KCIC is looking to support innovative businesses that innovatively offers climate change mitigation or adaptation solutions through any or all of the following, but are not limited to:
- Off-grid technologies – solar PV, biogas, biomass and wind
- Micro-hydro – domestic and rural mini-grid use
- Bio-energy – bio-gasification, bio-diesel, biomass power and heating
- Energy Efficient Technologies; Cook stoves, Solar Lanterns,
- Energy metering and Energy Storage technologies.
- Waste Management: KCIC is interested to incubate innovative businesses falling within any of the following areas, but are not limited to:
- Efficient waste aggregation and processing
- Reduction of waste toxicity
- Upcycling waste materials
- Recycling waste materials
- Conversion of waste to energy
- Economic ways of composting waste
- Reduction of waste generation
- Commercial Forestry: KCIC is looking to incubate innovative businesses across all commercial forestry value chains that encourage growth of commercial forests, innovative processing technologies and manufacturing of value added as, this will focus on but not limited to:
- Planting Trees for commercial purposes on at least 3 acres of land
- Demonstrating sustainable practices in forest management and tree harvesting to build resilient forests
- Use of technologies to grow and monitor forest coverage that reduce deforestation and degradation
- Innovative best practices in agroforestry that enhance agricultural landscape resiliency, facilitate species movement to more favorable conditions, sequestering carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- Commercial tree nurseries and seeds production facilities
- Efficient production, processing and use of wood raw material
The expected outcome will be increased commercialisation and scale up of climate related companies, which create decent jobs, increased access to low carbon energy sources, increased community and household resilience to climate change as well as other environmental and social benefits.
Funding Information
- The support to KCIC (and KCV) under this engagement totals DKK 54,750,00, approximately Kes. 1 billion with a focus on climate technologies and related innovative business models.
- The applicant should be registered under the laws of Kenya.
- Limited Liability company
- Sole Proprietorship but willing to register the business as limited company within the first 3 months once a business is selected
- Location: The business must be located and legally registered in Kenya.
For more information, visit https://www.kenyacic.org/greenbiz-programme/