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Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)
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US$1.2 million Innovation Fund launched to unearth emerging technologies

Fund seeks to support entrepreneurs using renewable energy to start or diversify existing businesses

The African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (www.AECFafrica.org) has today launched a US$1.2 million Innovation Fund to unlock the potential of renewable energy to create new business opportunities. Businesses and entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe can apply for funding. The fund is aimed at strengthening…

Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)
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Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) Launches US $8.5Million Grant to support Clean Energy Businesses in Somalia

This programme aims to enable 300,000 people access clean energy and create jobs for both youth and women

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (www.AECFAfrica.org) has launched a US$ 8.5 million grant facility to support adoption and diversification of renewable energy solutions in the Somalia and Somaliland. This is a component of the REACT Sub Saharan programme, that seeks to reduce poverty through a transformational increase in the…

Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)
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Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) Launches Results Based Financing Programme for Clean Energy Companies

The US$ 4 million programme will support commercially viable companies establish new markets and accelerate access to clean energy

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (www.AECFAfrica.org) has launched a Results Based Financing Programme aimed at unlocking new markets for clean energy companies in Kenya. The US$ 4 million programme will support commercially viable companies establish new markets and accelerate access to clean energy for 87,000 unserved and underserved households…

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The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), International Finance Corporation (IFC) launch Global Competition for Private Sector and Social Enterprises in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Hosting Area

Innovative businesses and social enterprises from around the world are invited to submit proposals for private sector projects at Kakuma

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (www.AECFAfrica.org) and its partners IFC (www.IFC.org), a member of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR, and the Turkana County Government today launched a global competition for private sector and social enterprise projects to support investment, development, and job creation in…

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Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) confirms Chief Executive Officer

Appointment of Victoria Sabula as its permanent Chief Executive Officer

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (www.AECFAfrica.org) announced today the appointment of Victoria Sabula as its permanent Chief Executive Officer. It follows her appointment as Interim Chief Executive Officer in August 2019 after serving as AGRA’s General Counsel and Corporation Secretary for five years and previously holding several positions at…