• Development Finance Institution or Donor Agency

United States African Development Foundation

The Youth Entrepreneurship Program goal is to catalyze young people to launch and expand their social and business ventures. USADF will award up to 75 business plan competition winners in 2016 with $1.25M in seed capital, mentoring and business support.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Co-working space
    • Competitions / prizes

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Sector development

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Provide financial support to intermediaries
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Education
    • Information and communication technology
    • Supply chain services
    • Financial services
    • Sector agnostic

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Social enterprise
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Accessibility
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Youth entrepreneurs

  • Impact objectives

    • Access to education
    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Access to information
    • Access to financial services

  • Verticals

    • FinTech
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