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East Africa Social Business Ecosystem Builders Program for East African Entrepreneurs 2023

The East Africa Social Business Ecosystem Builders program, initiated by YY Ventures and Yunus Centre, aims to increase the capacity of the existing ecosystem builders in East Africa by giving them access to new knowledge, technical skills and network.

The program will support ten (10) social business support organisations by enrolling them in a two-month-long learning journey. Through this program, two young professionals from each selected organisation (a total of 20 participants) will attend five workshops, design their own social business support programs with experts’ coaching and guidance, and they can apply for a matching fund of up to EUR 25,000 to implement their program activities.

About YY Ventures

In February 2016, Shazeeb M Khairul Islam launched the YY Goshthi Incubation Program with his team of volunteers to inspire and support a new generation of social business entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. After three successful years, this initiative was later established as YY Ventures Limited in March 2019, with a renewed focus to incubate and invest in early-stage social businesses in Bangladesh and beyond. Today, we have supported 70+ entrepreneurs who have collectively improved the lives of 200,000+ people - and we are only getting started!... read more... continue reading

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East Africa Social Business Ecosystem Builders Program

Application Deadline10 Mar 2023
Country to studyKenya, Rwanda, Uganda
TypeEntrepreneurs
SponsorYY Ventures
GenderMen and Women

Aim and Benefits of East Africa Social Business Ecosystem Builders Program

The selected participants will:

  • Receive world-class training from a network of experts to learn the technical know-how to design and implement social business support programs.

  • Have access to funding support of up to EUR 25,000 to implement their proposed ideas.

  • Have access to a global network of social business experts and other regional ecosystem builders, including microfinance institutions, social business funds, Yunus Social Business Centres and incubators/accelerators.


Requirements for East Africa Social Business Ecosystem Builders Program Qualification

  1. Only an organisation can apply; therefore, no individual application will be eligible for the learning journey workshops and later matching fund;

  2. Local business support organisations, such as incubators/accelerators, co-working spaces, microfinance institutions, Universities, and Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC), are eligible to apply;

  3. Applicant organisations must be based in one of the four East African regions – Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda;

  4. Each organisation should nominate at least two early-stage professionals (one male and one female);

  5. Nominated early-stage professionals should be passionate about designing and implementing incubation programs and innovation challenges for young people within their communities; and

  6. Participants should commit at least 5 hours per week for two months of the Learning Journey Workshop series and submit an activity plan to improve the social business ecosystem in their country/region.



Application Deadline

March 10, 2023


How to Apply

Each organisation can nominate two early-stage professionals from their organisations – who are already involved and engaged with the social business ecosystem or want to design, implement and manage social business support programs.

They will have to submit their application by completing an online application form along with the CVs of the two early-stage professionals. An assessment team will review the applications and select the top 10 organisations for the learning journey.

Interested organisations can submit their online application by visiting our Website

For more details, visit YY Ventures website.

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