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Application portal is open

International public relations, communications and business development agency, C.Moore Media has announced the Launch of The Future is Female Mentorship Program; a program is dedicated exclusively to African tech female founders.

Read more : www.msmeafricaonline.com

Application is open for the 2020 Swiss Africa Business Innovation Initiative

Eligibility :

Open to graduate students – entrepreneurs and startups from African innovation hubs, with a strong link to academia, developing products or services in the fields of mobile health, pharmacometrics, innovative financing and digital humanities (knowledge transfer).
Your project or company must be based on research or technology developed at a local university/research institute.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/swiss-africa-business-innovation-initiative-call-for-applications/

UNIDO

Covid-19 Fund disbursement is real, beneficiaries confirm

Opportunity for female entrepreneurs to win $100,000 each in grants and more

Applications must be received by 30 June 2020

A beneficiary, Simon Iorgba @SimonIorba wrote on Twitter “I just received mine now. Thank God. 425k. I’m back to Agriculture 100%”.

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Fund is already being disbursed !!!

Covid-19 Fund disbursement is real, beneficiaries confirm

Some individuals who already have the COVID-19 Targeted Credit Facility of the Central Bank of Nigeria being disbursed into their bank accounts through the NIRSAL Micro Finance Bank have shared their experiences. They have also commended the Central Bank of Nigeria for making true its promise of disbursing the fund.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/covid-19-fund-disbursement-is-real-beneficiaries-confirm/

verminnel:
How do we apply

Details here : :https://msmeafricaonline.com/cartier-womens-initiative-regional-award-2021-call-for-applications/

Applications must be received by 30 June 2020

The Global Call is aimed at identifying “Innovative Ideas and Technologies vs. COVID-19 and beyond”, namely scalable solutions to cope with the direct and indirect impact of COVID-19 in developing countries and economies in transition, and their respective needs in the transition to post-crisis socioeconomic realities in the aftermath of the pandemic.

The proposal can be submitted by:

Micro, small, medium, and large companies;
Startups;
Research centers, incubators, technology transfer offices, university spin-offs, and academia;
Public-Private Partnerships;
Associations, business consortia and company networks, NGOs, private foundations.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/unido-global-call-innovative-idea-and-technologies-vs-covid-19-and-beyond/

Flutterwave has announced that it has created a convenient and easy way for SMEs to sell their products online with an e-commerce innovation known as the Flutterwave Store. The Flutterwave Store is designed to help SMEs scale their e-commerce business to a much needed next level.

250k for each winner

UNWTO Inspiring Africa – Branding Challenge

Cartier Women Initiative Regional Award

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced via its official twitter handle yesterday that provision of guarantors would no more be a requirement for households and SMEs applying for the N50 billion COVID-19 Targeted Credit Facility to access the credit facility.

The official statements on twitter read:

https://msmeafricaonline.com/cbn-waives-guarantor-requirement-for-n50bn-covid-19-loan-succesful-applicants-to-be-credited-within-48-hours/

Nigeria’s leading bank, Union Bank will be rewarding small business owners, innovators, community organisers and indivuduals over a period of 4 weeks through The Rise Challenge.

The challenge is being organized to inspire Nigerians to keep rising despite the difficult challenges of the times.

To read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/union-banks-the-rise-challenge-to-reward-small-businesses-and-innovators/

NWTO Inspiring Africa – Branding Challenge

UNWTO Inspiring Africa – Branding Challenge invites key actors from the marketing and branding sector to present their proposals for a campaign that positions Africa as a destination in the minds of travellers.

Application is open to:
-All those who want to make a difference for Africa through using their imagination!
-Marketing, communication, advertising and branding firms or group of companies, start-ups and innovators, marketers, designers, brand experts and digital experts.

Read more : https://msmeafricaonline.com/unwto-inspiring-africa-branding-challenge-call-for-proposal/

Apply before July 31,2020

Opportunity for female entrepreneurs to win $100,000 each in grants and more

Deadline: July 31, 2020 2pm Paris time (CEST)

The Cartier Women’s Initiative is an annual international entrepreneurship program that aims to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs. Founded in 2006 by Cartier, the program is open to women-run and women-owned businesses from any country and sector that aim to have a strong and sustainable social and/or environmental impact.

Their vision is a world in which every woman impact entrepreneur driving change can achieve her full potential. Their mission is to shine a light on these women and provide them with the necessary financial, social and human capital support to grow their business and build their leadership skills.

Read more :https://msmeafricaonline.com/cartier-womens-initiative-regional-award-2021-call-for-applications/

Free e-commerce store in minutes

https://msmeafricaonline.com/cbn-waives-guarantor-requirement-for-n50bn-covid-19-loan-succesful-applicants-to-be-credited-within-48-hours/

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced via its official twitter handle yesterday that provision of guarantors would no more be a requirement for households and SMEs applying for the N50 billion COVID-19 Targeted Credit Facility to access the credit facilit

https://msmeafricaonline.com/cbn-waives-guarantor-requirement-for-n50bn-covid-19-loan-succesful-applicants-to-be-credited-within-48-hours/

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced via its official twitter handle yesterday that provision of guarantors would no more be a requirement for households and SMEs applying for the N50 billion COVID-19 Targeted Credit Facility to access the credit facilit

Flutterwave has announced that it has created a convenient and easy way for SMEs to sell their products online with an e-commerce innovation known as the Flutterwave Store. The Flutterwave Store is designed to help SMEs scale their e-commerce business to a much needed next level.

The main aim of this store is to act as an online gateway to enable SMEs to own an online store without the need for coding or website development. Even though this ground-breaking innovation for SMEs rose up as a response to the pandemic, the CEO of Flutterwave, Olugbenga Agboola, says that the service will still be available post-pandemic.

A major advantage of the Flutterwave Store is its default payment integration which relieves business owners of the stress of finding a reliable way of accepting payments from their customers. The store gives access to Flutterwave’s wide range of payment methods for customers which include debit/credit cards, mobile money, bank transfer, Barter by Flutterwave, USSD, PayAttitude etc.

For full story,more details and how to get started , read more :
https://msmeafricaonline.com/flutterwave-store-empowers-smes-to-open-e-commerce-stores-in-minutes-at-no-cost/

Flutterwave has announced that it has created a convenient and easy way for SMEs to sell their products online with an e-commerce innovation known as the Flutterwave Store. The Flutterwave Store is designed to help SMEs scale their e-commerce business to a much needed next level.

The main aim of this store is to act as an online gateway to enable SMEs to own an online store without the need for coding or website development. Even though this ground-breaking innovation for SMEs rose up as a response to the pandemic, the CEO of Flutterwave, Olugbenga Agboola, says that the service will still be available post-pandemic.

A major advantage of the Flutterwave Store is its default payment integration which relieves business owners of the stress of finding a reliable way of accepting payments from their customers. The store gives access to Flutterwave’s wide range of payment methods for customers which include debit/credit cards, mobile money, bank transfer, Barter by Flutterwave, USSD, PayAttitude etc.

For full story,more details and how to get started , read more :
https://msmeafricaonline.com/flutterwave-store-empowers-smes-to-open-e-commerce-stores-in-minutes-at-no-cost/

Till end of june

FREE CO-WORKING SPACE

https://msmeafricaonline.com/cbn-waives-guarantor-requirement-for-n50bn-covid-19-loan-succesful-applicants-to-be-credited-within-48-hours/

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced via its official twitter handle yesterday that provision of guarantors would no more be a requirement for households and SMEs applying for the N50 billion COVID-19 Targeted Credit Facility to access the credit facility