The program aims to strengthen the capacity of 150 women entrepreneurs through training, to enhance business productivity and growth, in a period of 3 years. This will be achieved by equipping them with skills, knowledge and tools to optimise and refocus their businesses for growth and scale up.
The WONDER investor readiness and business development accelerator program is designed to build 30 formal women-led enterprises with special regard to their innovative potential, as well as to their social and environmental sustainability for the next one year.
This will be achieved by equipping them with skills, knowledge, and tools to optimize and refocus their businesses for growth and scale-up.
The impact of the project will be demonstrated through an innovative approach to improve African enterprises’ access to finance, and delivery of training/services to combine skills enhancement and business acceleration, and individual mentorship.
Benefits
- Access to expert coaches and mentors to optimise their idea.
- Access to potential investors.
- Participate in a 9 month tailored accelerator program
- Collaboration opportunities with peers in the industry.
- Networking opportunities across the region.
- Recognition and publicity through the WONDER website page and related publications.
- Women-owned enterprises or enterprises with women as majority shareholders
- Preferably, enterprises with women at management level; CEO/COO
- Where a Board of Directors exist, at least 50% of the composition should be women
- Enterprise should have the capacity to absorb a loan size from $ 5,000
- Enterprise has a minimum of 5 employees, with at least 50% being women
- Have annual sales of $100,000