Application Deadline: February 28th, 2022
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danish MoFA) and Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) have partnered to implement The GreenBiz Programme for the next five years, from January 2021 to December 2025. The programme will support 300 climate technologies and related innovative business models to create over 3000 full time job opportunities.
The expected outcome will be increased commercialisation and scale up of climate related companies, which create decent jobs, increased access to low carbon energy sources, increased community and household resilience to climate change as well as other environmental and social benefits.
KCIC is engaged in five sectors: water; renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE & EE); agriculture; commercial forestry and waste management. By focusing on these sectors, KCIC (and its clients) will directly and indirectly contribute to the achievement of SDG 1 (no poverty); SDG 2 (no hunger); SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), and SDG 13 (climate action). Others are SDG 15 (life
on land); SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) and SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production).
The Kenya Climate Innovation Center, which is the implementing partner, is placing a call for applications to enroll climate technologies and related business models into the programme. The GreenBiz Programme will address key challenges that hinder climate technologies and related innovative business models from tapping into the immense potential in the cleantech sector.
Benefits
Successful applicants will receive technical and financial support based on assessment of actual needs on a case-by-case basis to enable them gain the requisite skills needed to scale their climate smart businesses.
Thematic Areas
The company should be within the below mentioned thematic areas:
- Agribusiness.
- Water management.
- Renewable energy and energy efficiency.
- Waste Management
- Commercial forestry
- The applications will be screened for eligibility.
- The eligible applications will then be evaluated on a set of criteria. A scoring system will be used to provide incubation applications with a score between 1 and 37 (37 being most successful) and acceleration applications with a score between 1 and 42 (42 being most successful)
- All applicants will receive an official response on their application determining whether they were successful or not. KCIC is not obligated to provide substantive feedback on unsuccessful applications.
- Successful clients will receive an email indicating terms of the programme and proposed due diligence dates, while unsuccessful clients will receive an email indicating proper justification of why their application was rejected.
- The applicant can contest the evaluation by submitting a formal request to KCIC within 14 days upon receiving the rejection email.
- Applicants will be contacted via email regarding their application.
- Due Diligence shall be carried out on the successful applicants to verify eligibility prior to any potential offer of a placement in the programme.
- Applications that do not meet all or some of the eligibility criteria will not be accepted.
- If Applicants are offered a place in the programme, they will be expected to execute a legal agreement with Kenya Climate Innovation Center, by signing a Letter of Agreement, which will be sent to them via email.
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the KCIC GreenBiz Incubation Programme 2022