Business Support Organisations

• Business development support service
• Accelerator or Incubator
• Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups

• Women-led enterprises

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales

• Business must a member of the association.
•  Must be a woman-led business

• Not For Profit
• Advisory services or training
• Business development support service
• Accelerator or Incubator

• Women-led enterprises

• Information technology and IT enabled services

• Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales

This program is specifically for Ideas and Early Stage women owned businesses.

• Government enterprise or a government agency
• Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups

• Enterprises trading internationally

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Business enterprises exporting goods out of Uganda

• Business development support service
• Not For Profit
• Providing advisory services or training/Donor-funded development project

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales

Young entrepreneurs whose businesses are not getting the desired business results because of challenges that they may not know how to handle them

• Business development support service
• Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups

• Women-led enterprises

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Audited accounts

• Women in business
• 18+

• Accelerator or Incubator
• Business development support service

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

All entrepreneurs looking to build sustainable businesses.

• Business development support service
• Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups

• Enterprises delivering services

• Other services –Financial service providers

• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Organizations whose core activity is delivery of microfinance services to the final consumers/clients, and those that support activities of microfinance institutions in one way or another.

• Accelerator or Incubator
• Business development support service

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Audited accounts

Entrepreneurs loacted in East Africa.

• Accelerator or Incubator
• Advisory & Information Services
• Business development support service
• Not For Profit

• For profit social enterprises
• Not for profit community and social enterprises

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales

• Be a social enterprise that emerged from a licensed SINA Community.
• Be a legally registered entity.
• A monthly revenue exceeding 150 USD.
• At least two full time committed team members

• Not For Profit
• Business development support service
• Accelerator or Incubator
• Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups

• Farmers' cooperatives

• Agri-food and Agri-business
• Agriculture

• Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Not yet registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Smallholder farming households and other value chain actors.

• Accelerator or Incubator

• For profit social enterprises

• All sectors

• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

To qualify for the programme, an incubator must have at least three staff members, have funding for the next two years and commit to bringing forth ten start-ups per year.

• Business development support service
• Accelerator or Incubator
• Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups

• Farmers' cooperatives
• Individual farmers and farming communities

• Agriculture
• Agri-food and Agri-business

Agro-businesses that produce, process or export agri-products

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

• Individuals can apply if they are Ugandan.
• You can apply collectively as a group and at least one of the members is a Ugandan citizen.
• Any Ugandan company can apply but must be fully licensed to operate in Uganda.

• Business development support service
• Government enterprise or a government agency

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old

• Agri-food and Agri-business
• Construction, raw materials & services
• Tourism & travel services

• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Targets disadvantaged youths between the ages of 18 and 24 years from families living below or slightly above the national poverty line of US$ 1.90. 

• Accelerator or Incubator
• Business development support service

• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old

• Agri-food and Agri-business
• Education, training, academia
• Information technology and IT enabled services
• Consumer goods retail and distribution
• Renewable energy
• Healthcare: Personal protective equipment and consumables
• Healthcare: medical care, hospitals and care infrastructure

• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

• For profit, post revenue business.
• The business must have full time and dedicated core team.
• The business should have existed for two or more years.
• The business should have a full-time founding team.
• Business turnover USD of 50,000 plus.
• Business should be open to raising external investment

• Business development support service

• Individual farmers and farming communities
• Enterprises trading internationally

• Trading services
• Agriculture

• Stable business, Registered, Audited accounts

All businesses that face high risks in their operations

• Not For Profit
• Advisory services or training
• Business development support service

• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Enterprises trading internationally
• Enterprises delivering services

• Healthcare, pharmaceuticals and bio-pharmaceuticals

• Stable business, Registered, Audited accounts, > 10 employees

• Company must be privately owned.
• Over 50% of ownership of the company is in local hands.
• The company needs to be operational for at least two years .
• The company has between 10 and 250 employees.
• Both the annual turnover and the balance sheet total should not exceed 10 million euros.
• Organisations that are not SMEs (business support organisations, Chambers of Commerce etc.) can apply, but only if they have an enabling role for the private sector.

• Accelerator or Incubator

• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Enterprises trading internationally
• Enterprises delivering services

• All sectors

• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales

Business is required to be in first stages of early development and an expanding MSME

• Business development support service
• Accelerator or Incubator

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old

• All sectors

Youth economic empowerment programming provides employable skills, incentives, mentorship and connections that enable disadvantaged youth in Kampala's slums to transit from lives of crime and poverty to lives of productive occupation.

• Accelerator or Incubator
• Business development support service
• Sustainability and Socail Inclusion advice and training services to SMEs and green business development for start-ups

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old

• Agri-food and Agri-business
• Agriculture

• Start-up business, Not registered, No regular sales
• Start-up business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Registered, Regular sales
• Stable business, Not yet registered, Regular sales

Economically disadvantaged young men and women (aged 15-24years) in Uganda and Tanzania.