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Supporting small and growing businesses
Hi-Innovator is set out to support small and growing businesses within the Ugandan ecosystem over a 5-year period. The program looks to impact 132,000 youthsattached to 20 hubs/ESOs across the country, with a direct intention of touching the lives of 92,400 women employers and employees in the five regions of Uganda. To achieve this target, we are embarking on a women accelerator to give women entrepreneurs across all sectors an opportunity to improve their business skills, grow their businesses to be resilient while also making them more competitive and better placed to receive financial services. For this call, our target is to fund 100 women-owned or women-led businesses with each getting USD 20,000 grant funding, technical assistance, market linkages and support to raise follow-on financing.
The program will be open to women running businesses with the potential to grow that have been in operation for at least 2 years.
During the program, businesses will get: