Deadline: 12 October 2017
Visionaria Network is currently accepting applications for its Empowered Entrepreneur Training Fund (EETF), a small grants fund designed to partially subsidize training programs for organizations working to sell cookstoves and other energy products in East Africa to train their sales staff or entrepreneurs in critical business, empowerment and leadership training.
The EETF will support organizations in conducting trainings using the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook for entrepreneurs and sales agents – particularly women – who sell or contribute to the improved cookstove value chain (manufacturing, sales, distribution, service, etc.). The Fund may also support organizations in conducting trainings using the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook for youth, with the purpose of having youth participants participate in and build clean energy markets through the sale of fuel efficient cookstoves or cleaner/alternative fuels.
Grant Information
- Organizations are required to cost-share part of the training: The EETF will cover the costs (up to USD 5,000) of certified trainers to lead the training and 50% of logistical costs of the training.
- Applying organizations must be able to organize and complete an Empowered Entrepreneur training program between November 1, 2017, and March 15, 2018.
Criteria
- Organizations must be actively supporting the sale and use of improved cookstove, including but not limited to the following aspects of the clean-cooking value chain: manufacturing, marketing, sales, distribution, maintenance, etc.
- Organizations must engage entrepreneurs or sales agents – preferably including women – in value chain activities; or be working with youth to market and sell cookstoves or other products in the clean energy value chain.
- Organizations must be based / working in the East Africa region.
- Organizations with cost-effective budgets will be prioritized.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must apply online via given website.
Eligible Countries: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Malawi, Somalia, South Sudan, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia.
For more information, please visit Empowered Entrepreneur Training Fund.