This is to inform all interested qualified applicants that the application for Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Agribusiness Challenge Fund for SMEs across Africa is currently ongoing.
The right steps and procedure to apply for Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Agribusiness Challenge Fund for SMEs across Africa is updated below. Do well to follow up on the right steps below.
How to Apply for Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Agribusiness Challenge Fund for SMEs across Africa
Requirements for Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity
Benefits of Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Agribusiness Challenge Fund
Interventions
The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity aims to address a broad spectrum of SME-specific challenges as well as macro issues using four interventions:
Challenge Fund
Offering direct financial support through a challenge fund to address the resource flow barriers faced by SMEs looking to scale-up and, in turn, create and sustain employment opportunities for young women and men.
Connect Fund
Providing investor readiness support to the SMEs and negotiation of partnerships with potential financiers to ensure sustainability and growth.
Technical Assistance (TA)
Adding value beyond financial support through technical assistance and capacity building to address the barriers concerning human capital and access to markets.
Convening and influencing
Convening relevant stakeholders to encourage an enabling business environment through experienced partners and digital platforms to drive systematic change and address the issues that impede the creation of work opportunities for the youth, especially young women.
Requirements for Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Agribusiness Challenge Fund
Each challenge fund sector is different. However, all challenges will seek proposals from SMEs that are innovative, commercially viable, and that will create dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young women and men, young people with disabilities or refugee youth. In each challenge, applicants will be required to meet certain criteria.
Selection will be based on applications meeting a certain threshold of the Fund selection criteria. Read more about this on the specific challenge page.
Selection Process
Countries of Focus
The Fund’s objective is to support SMEs in 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This will ensure a distribution of SME-based solutions that can sustainably create dignified and fulfilling work for young men and women, young people with disabilities and refugee youth even after the end of the program.
The countries are Benin, Burundi, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
How to Apply
All Interested and qualified Applicants should visit Mastercard Foundation on frp.org to apply
For more details,visit Mastercard Foundation website
Application Deadline
November 22, 2024
About
The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity is the second phase of a program from the Mastercard Foundation. The first phase was the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity, an eight-year program established in 2014. That Fund supported 38 participants from 15 countries in Africa innovating and scaling financial products and services targeting the rural population with a large focus on agriculture. One major highlight is the Fund enabled over 5.3 million people to have access to financial products and services, exceeding an initial target of 1 million.
As a result of this success and the learnings gathered, the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity, a new, seven-year, US$ 126 million Fund was established in 2023. This Fund aims to support Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) across the agriculture, climate adaptation, and digital economy sectors in 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main objective of the Fund is to unlock enterprise growth and catalyze, scale up, and sustain the creation of dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young women and men.
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