Grants for African Entrepreneurs | Find Funding for Your Business & NGO

The $1,500 Youth Innovation Challenge in Ethiopia supports young entrepreneurs developing solutions to challenges in Africa’s agrifood system.

The $28,000 Jasiri Talent Investor Cohort 9 is a 13-month entrepreneurship programme designed to support high-potential East African founders before their ventures are created.

AgDevCo Ventures is seeking high-potential early-stage agribusinesses in East Africa for investment of between US$1 million and US$3 million.

The $5,000 SPIA Small Grants Program provides funding to PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career researchers studying how CGIAR research influences national and regional agricultural policies.

The €300,000 Blue Ambition Fund aims to promote economic independence among marginalized youth (15-35) and women through suitable non-profit organisations and social enterprises operating in Uganda, Ethiopia, or South Africa

The £500,000 British Council Cultural Protection Fund is a major international grant programme supporting projects that protect cultural heritage at risk in vulnerable and conflict-affected regions.

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation is offering a €11,000,000 initiative to address humanitarian crises, natural disasters, and development challenges in Ethiopia and South Sudan.

The WPHF invites proposals from local women, young women, and civil society organizations in Ethiopia to strengthen humanitarian access, protection, and institutional capacity. Funding ranges from $2,500 to $200,000

The Strategies for Northern Development (SND), with support from GIZ through the African Union Border Programme (AUBP), is implementing the KES500,000 project “Building the Economic Resilience of Informal Women Cross-Border Traders in Moyale Kenya–Ethiopia Borderlands.”