Coaching, networking and training programme for African female entrepreneurs from companies distributing products in a country within Africa.
Location: Africa
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC)
Applications open: 17th January
Deadline: 30th January
Inviting applications from enterprises that leverage digital technology, particularly mobile, to deliver climate resilience and adaptation solutions to low-income or vulnerable populations.
Location: Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: GSMA
Deadline: 23rd January
Welcoming applications from women-founded businesses looking to raise capital, to participate in a Female Founders’ Showcase at the Sankalp Africa Summit 2022.
Location: sub-Saharan Africa
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Sankalp
Deadline: 31st January (applications reviewed on a rolling basis)
Accepting concept notes for high-impact partnerships implementing innovative business models to accelerate achievement of the SDGs.
Location: Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa and Vietnam
Sector: WASH, energy access
Stakeholders: P4G
Deadline: Rolling
Offering a rigorous business mentoring programme for social businesses offering an innovative service, product or operational model that are keen to scale.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Marico Innovation Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications from organisations whose innovations cover at least one of five priority areas: mechanisation, digitalisation, energy access, agriculture research and private sector.
Location: Global
Sector: Agriculture, energy access
Stakeholders: GIZ
Deadline: Rolling
Providing loans starting at $50k to viable energy access companies facing liquidity challenges due to COVID-19.
Location: Africa and Asia
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: SIMA and 16 partners
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting the development of innovative approaches to solving a challenge faced by people living on less than US$5 a day e.g. a new business model, technology, or new ways of delivering products.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Global Innovation Fund
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
This webinar will explore the final two innovation pilots from our 2020 Innovation Challenge. Feel free to join for the entire hour, or just for the pilot that most interests you!
Date: Thurs 27th Jan, 1pm GMT
Showcasing success stories and sharing technical and funding advice and opportunities, Global Scale Up X helps women entrepreneurs to connect and learn from one another.
Networking / peer learning
Exploring two tools developed by service providers as part of the GDC Innovation Challenge that help distributors to manage their sales agents remotely; plus an accompanying blog on how to embed such a new digital tool across your salesforce!
Webinar Recording
Offering guidance on how to support female entrepreneurs to manage their stress and time through suggested exercises, backed up by theory and a case study.
Tool / Resource
Offering guidance, toolkits and a geographical funders map to help companies with a focus on WASH or agriculture find and successfully secure investment.
Tool / Resource
Diagnosing and evaluating water system viability across East Africa through an app and field evaluations.
Tool / Resource
Exploring the improved cooking sector and access to cooking solutions around the world. A four-part online course from the World Bank Group.
Date: Rolling
Offering four modules in both English and Spanish, covering different approaches and benefits of inclusive business practice. An online course from iBAN.
Date: Rolling
Sharing findings from CGAP’s global review of credit risk management practices in asset finance, including the importance of managing credit risk with industry leaders.
Webinar Recording
Offering a step-by-step process for companies wanting to implement Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting processes.
Blog
Showcasing inspiring stories of women agribusiness entrepreneurs in Ghana. A webinar from Bopinc and AYA.
Webinar Recording
Exploring ways to manage currency risks in the off-grid solar market. This is the second episode of GOGLA’s new podcast series.
Podcast
Highlighting ways in which companies can integrate strategies for better gender equity, this interactive catalogue is relevant for companies working in the agriculture, energy access and health sectors.
Tool / Resource
Mapping the high potential locations for solar irrigation pumps across sub-Saharan Africa. This interactive tool is from IMWI.
Tool / Resource
Generating a personalised gender scoring card for your company, this sector-specific questionnaire was produced for companies in the agriculture, energy access and health sectors.
Tool / Resource
Highlighting where gender issues or opportunities may impact the financial condition or operating performance of companies, these maps help companies identify business smart priority actions.
Tool / Resource
Offering guidance and tools to help companies measure their social impact. This guide is from MovingWorlds.
Exploring six lessons from TRANSFORM’s experience supporting enterprises around the world; from sales agent recruitment and training, to the importance of smart incentives and quality after-sales services.
Exploring how 20 social enterprises are extending clean energy access services across the globe. All featured enterprises are participants of Moving World’s accelerator programme, including GDC members Altech Group, Grassroots Energy, Jiro-Ve and Potential Energy.
Offering data findings from a 14 month pilot monitoring 100 electric pressure cooker users across six solar mini-grid sites in Tanzania.
Exploring, through a range of articles and interviews, how inclusive business can build resilient communities and help towards climate action and social impact.
Following the journey of a group of rural micro-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh to showcase their experiences of working in last mile distribution.
Advocating for clean cooking to be prioritised and acknowledged as essential to achieving the SDGs. ~50 sector partners have pledged their support, and organisations are invited to work with CCA to develop their own commitments on improved cooking.
Advocating for energy access for all by 2030. Over 100 sector partners have pledged their support, and organisations are invited to sign-up to show their commitment.
Exploring women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and whether the emphases, structures, and goals of social enterprises might make it easier for women to participate economically.
Enabling companies to quickly identify and compare hundreds of high-quality off-grid solar solutions. VeraSol is the leading independent source for product performance data on certified solar energy kits and off-grid appliances.
Power for All draws on 35,000 customer interviews to deep dive into why off-grid renewable energy matters to customers and how to increase its impact.
iBAN explores how off-grid companies could reduce solar home system (SHS) costs while maintaining quality; including embracing innovation and increasing collaboration.
GOGLA’s blog highlights the issues of stock shortage, product performance, and increasing prices currently faced by the off-grid solar industry.
Exploring the solar irrigation sector and welcoming companies to become involved in a collective effort to expand small-scale irrigation in Africa.
This blog highlights the societal factors, individual biases and mindsets influencing the adoption of SHS across Africa.
GOGLA explores the opportunities and challenges that greater standardisation and enhanced interoperability might have on the off-grid solar industry.
Exploring the emergence of many new models for circularity in the off-grid solar industry.
Providing the latest market intelligence from EforA on off-grid products such as solar water pumps and refrigerators, whilst offering pathways to scale on 11 technologies.
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