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MTN Uganda Limited and the World Wide Fund have partnered to launch the PachiPanda Challenge for Uganda in 2025, an initiative that encourages youths and youth-led SMEs to create new ideas that tackle current environmental challenges and promote sustainability through technological solutions.

The ₦6,500,000 Nigeria PachiPanda Challenge is an innovation initiative designed to provide young people and youth-led SMEs the opportunity to develop innovative, long-term solutions and ideas to pressing environmental challenges and promote sustainability in Nigeria.

View upcoming opportunities for West African entrepreneurs, closing in August and September.

The GET Compass is a grant program that supports small and medium-scale businesses, providing up to 2 million Naira in grants to help them scale up while also facilitating programs that build expertise for improving business processes.

The Investment Readiness Program will provide you with ₦20m in funding, advisory, market exposure, and exclusive ecosystem access to grow your agritech business.

Ready to transform your business with cutting-edge digital solutions? We’re excited to announce the rollout of our intensive 4-Day Digital Business Optimization Workshop – designed specifically for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises in the Federal Capital Territory.

Are you a young Nigerian entrepreneur with a bold, innovative business idea? The ₦1,000,000 SME Pitch Competition at NGM Conference 4.0 offers you the opportunity to pitch your idea, win seed funding, receive expert mentorship, and connect with top investors and business leaders.

Fidelity is inviting eligible businesses to register and benefit from ₦1 million worth of digital transformation tools and expert capacity building.

To increase the impact of the €250,000 AfriFOODlinks incubation project, one Open Call is launched as part of the Cascade Fund and FSTP mechanism.

The Lab for Ethics, Policy and Scaling of AI (LEPSAI), of the African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) invites eligible AI innovators to express their interest in participating in the $100,000 AI4D Innovation scaling challenge.