Inviting applications from women-led and women-focused digital enterprises and innovators in Africa offering up to USD 1m.
Location: Africa
Sector: Health, education, and agriculture/livelihoods.
Stakeholders: Care
Deadline: 8th July
Accepting applications from impact entrepreneurs for their leadership development programme.
Location: Global
Sector: Leadership development
Stakeholders: Watson Institute
Deadline: 12th July
Inviting distributed renewable energy or clean cooking companies to attend a webinar on 13th July 12pm EAT to learn more about their call for proposals.
Location: East and Southern Africa
Sector: Clean energy
Stakeholders: World Bank, COMESA Secretariat and Cygnum Capital
Deadline: 13th July
Inviting applications from women-led entrepreneurs to apply for a six-month accelerator offering tools, networks, and business expertise.
Location: Kenyan counties – Meru, Makueni and Kitui
Sector: Clean cooking and sustainable energy innovation
Stakeholders: Safi Jiko
Deadline: 20th July
Welcoming applications from clean energy companies for finance advisory services and investment readiness support.
Location: Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe
Sector: Clean energy
Stakeholders: GET.invest
Deadline: 28th July
Welcoming applications from CSOs working on environmental solutions that champion leadership of women, youth, Indigenous People, offering up to US$300k grants, TA, and more.
Location: Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus & Central Asia
Sector: Environment
Stakeholders: IUCN and the GEF
Deadline: 31st July
Welcoming applications from women aged 18-35 for a programme seeking to build sustainable Africa–Japan relationships.
Location: Specific African countries
Sector: Specific sectors
Stakeholders: UNITAR
Deadline: 31st July
Inviting applications from women, youth and PwD-led SMEs, offering impact investment readiness and catalytic funding of over US$100k.
Location: Africa
Sector: Women, youth and PwD-led
Stakeholders: 1 Million AfCFTA Impact Hub
Deadline: Rolling
Providing procurement subsidies and enterprise development grants (EDGs) to accelerate the sale of productive use equipment (PUE) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Location: Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria
Sector: Energy access, productive use
Stakeholders: CLASP
Deadline: N/A
Accepting applications from entrepreneurs and business leaders in the clean cooking sector for a Clean Cooking Venture Community for networking, resource sharing and more.
Location: Global
Sector: Clean cooking
Stakeholders: Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications from companies working on SDG 7 or 13 for a loan volume of at least €200K.
Location: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Singapore
Sector: Energy and climate action
Stakeholders: Bettervest
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications from women-led businesses in Africa with an annual turnover of more than $25K to grow their business sustainably and up to $100K investment fund.
Location: Africa
Sector: Energy
Stakeholders: CSI Energy Group
Deadline: Rolling
Actively seeking to fund social enterprises working on innovative solutions for a better world.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: DOEN Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Accepting applications from early-stage, locally owned, renewable energy companies for a pilot program on a new financing facility.
Location: Africa
Sector: Energy
Stakeholders: IKEA Foundation, CLASP and Charm Impact
Deadline: Rolling
Actively seeking to invest debt and mezzanine capital in leading companies throughout the clean cooking value chain, including cooking fuels, biofuels, electric appliances, and efficient biomass stoves.
Location: Africa
Sector: Improved cooking
Stakeholders: Spark+
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications to this on-demand, free accelerator programme for social enterprises.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: TRANSFORM
Deadline: Rolling
Looking for women-led businesses working in non-tech enabled sectors (such as personal care and hygiene), who would benefit from debt investment and business advisory.
Location: Kenya
Sector: Non-tech enabled
Stakeholders: LendHer Capital
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting early-stage companies with high developmental impact to scale up.
Location: Africa and India
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: DEG
Deadline: Rolling
Helping companies that have been hit by unexpected obstacles to keep on track with impact aims.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Open Road Alliance
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications from social enterprises keen to access coaching and partner with corporations.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: MovingWorlds
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