Category: Business Development Services

The Swedish-funded Social Entrepreneurship Forum (SE Forum). Call for Applications: Accelerate your impact!

SE Forum will arrange a two-week Mini-Accelerator program in Nairobi together with Action Aid aimed to build business capacity amongst social entrepreneurs. The event will take place on November 25 – December 6 this year.

The call for applications is open for social entrepreneurs irrespective of nationality and both for-profits and non-for-profits are welcome to apply. Main requirements include that the entrepreneur should address a social and/or environmental problem facing the East African Region (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi). For more information on eligibility and instructions for how to apply, please see below and SE Forum’s website http://se-forum.se/se-outreach-mini-accelerator/.

Any additional questions are to be posed directly to the SE Forum team via email: outreach and please note that the deadline for application is November 8.

Solar phone charging businesses

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I am visiting some solar PV businesses in Mwanza thia week. A lot of development has happened in terms of increased supply of equipment.  But there are also concerns on the quality of some products. I went to villages to see business application of the PV technology. Already there are some entrepreneurs running phone charging services and barber shops and earn good money. They need however considerable amoujt of support in sourcing the right equipment, building customer base and manage technical issues if they happens once they have bought the systems.