Business Support Organisations

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

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

Business enterprises exporting goods out of Uganda

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

• Women in business
• 18+

All entrepreneurs looking to build sustainable businesses.

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.

Entrepreneurs loacted in East Africa.

• 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

Smallholder farming households and other value chain actors.

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.

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

• 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.

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. 

• 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

All businesses that face high risks in their operations

• 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.

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

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.

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