The Youth IDEAthon Magazine

YOUTH IDEATHON 1000 IDEAS I 100 BUSINESSES I 100 MILLION UGX

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NASE TEAM Dennis Aguma Founder and Executive Director Jimmy Byaruhanga Projects and Business Incubation Manager Manana Birabi Associate Creatives Nakiria Brenda Projects & Accounts Bwire Humphrey IT & Website Ivy Nteyera Communications & Media Miracle Arikiza Graphic Designer

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C ONTENTS

Agriculture is the backbone of Uganda’s economy and should be seen as a major avenue for sustainable income Photo adopted from UNDP Uganda Twitter

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06 Foreward From Elsie G. Attafuah the UNDP Resident Representative

07 ABOUT UNDP UGANDA

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the leading United Nations organization committed to ending injustices of poverty, inequality and climate change globally.

08 WORDS FROM FOUNDER & ED NASE

From Dennis Aguma, CEO/ED, Association of Student Enterprises (NASE)

09 ABOUT NASE

The Association of Student Enterprises (NASE) is a Social Enterprise registered and launched in December 2015 focussing on facilitating entrepreneurship and enterprise skills among youths.

12 ABOUT YOUTH IDEAthon

The Youth IDEAthon is a short, intensive, design sprint experience funded by the UNDP for multi-disciplinary entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life.

13 BUSINESS IDEA CATEGORIES

Nine idea categories were zeroed down to in order to guide the participants and avoid curating ideas that will not contribute to the growth of the Nation (Uganda). They include but not limited to; Agriculture, Tourism, Manufacturing, Renewable energy, Urban Development/Smart Cities, Information Technology (IT), Creative Arts Industry, Mining and Health Care.

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The Youth IDEAthon process started off with an aggressive media campaign on the 15th of June that was pushing for registration of participants.

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A brief about the partners and their contribution the success of the Youth IDEAthon programme. the include Start Hub Africa, Penda Capital, Teesa Advisory, Innovation Village, Makerere Innovation and Incubation Center, Youth Connekt, Innovent Labs Africa, Celeste Media

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Foreward

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he United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Uganda is proud to support the Youth IDEAthon as part of our broader agenda to empower the youth of Uganda as catalysts for sustainable human development and socioeconomic transformation, through initiatives that promote youth skilling, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Elsie G. Attafuah UNDP Resident Representative

Uganda has one of the youngest and most rapidly growing populations in the world with a 3.7% population growth rate and 78% of Uganda’s population being under the age of 30. With more than 700,000 youth entering the job market each year, it is imperative that the opportunities created for youth improve and are adapting to the changing context of work within the digital revolution, technological advancement, and globalization, amongst others.

Uganda’s Vision 2040 has rightly prioritised youth skills development, innovation and entrepreneurship as enablers for the realization of the socio-economic transformation of the country.

Vision 2040 anchors the Country’s human resource development strategy on maximizing the benefits of the demographic dividend – tapping into the Uganda’s youthful population.

As UNDP and NASE continue to engage youth through the Youth IDEAthon, we must also be mindful of the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on society and the economy. UNDP is committed to empowering Uganda’s youth entrepreneurs to gain the skills and find the decent work they need to thrive while equipping youth with the tools required to drive Uganda’s socioeconomic transformation in response to the pandemic.

Uganda hosts one of the largest numbers of young entrepreneurs on the African continent, and these young people are Uganda’s hope. Youth are at the center of Uganda’s development agenda and we must continue to promote the role of youth in development as we support the country’s sustainable development agenda as we build forward better together from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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About UNDP Uganda The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the leading United Nations organization committed to ending injustices of poverty, inequality and climate change globally.

Working with a broad network of experts and partners in over 170 countries, UNDP helps nations to build integrated and lasting solutions for people and the planet.

UNDP in Uganda is dedicated to supporting the Government to achieve sustainable development goals, create opportunities for empowerment, protect the environment, minimize natural and man-made disasters, build strategic partnerships, and improve the quality of life for all citizens, as set out in UNDP Uganda’s Transformative Country Programme (TCP).

UNDP is undertaking several initiatives designed to empower the youth of Uganda, with skilling, innovation and entrepreneurship serving as catalysts to enable UNDP’s broader development agenda in Uganda including the eradication of poverty, promotion of sustainable development, creation of opportunities for empowerment, and achievement of the 2030 Agenda and its central mission to leave no one behind. With more than one million young people entering the job market each year, the youth unemployment challenge is one that UNDP is committed to addressing through equipping youth with vocational skills, increasing the competitiveness of youth within the labour market, building capacities of national institutions to mainstream youth employment, and supporting youth-led enterprises to pilot innovative ideas.

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Word from the Founder & ED NASE Dennis Aguma CEO/ED Association of Student Enterprises (NASE)

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he UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. These SDGs unite nations, corporations, individuals, NGOs and allow the global community to rally around poverty eradication, clean energy, gender equality, education, sustainable cities, climate change and unemployment, among others.

year? We believe this hands-on and co-curricular approach, to be the most effective method for skills development and entrepreneurship education.

Leap Conferences: Since 2015, our most popular has been the Leap Conference, which has inspired and rallied young people, especially those in universities to change their mindsets and initiate entrepreneurial projects, with winners going on Pursuant to these, the Government of Uganda, to be embedded in various incubation centers, through NDP 3 and Vision 2040, has instituted especially Makerere Innovation and Incubation national responses such as the Youth Livelihood Centre (MIIC) with whom, we have developed Program and Emyooga. Despite these good a model that is ready for replication across all and well-intentioned programs, young people partner Universities and colleges. continue to be affected by unemployment and poor living standards. The situation has not been The Youth IDEAthon: Having successfully worked helped by the current educational system which with young people, especially via the Leap continues to produce over 700,000 youth from Conferences, NASE was engaged by the UNDP universities and vocational colleges every year, to implement the Youth IDEAthon as a short, only for these to be met by around 9,000 jobs, intensive, design sprint experience for multidisciplinary entrepreneurs and other creative and most lacking employability skills. minds to work in teams, using design thinking NASE works mainly with UK and Ugandan and innovative learning practices to ideate, coUniversities, we focus on facilitating create and collaborate on possible solutions to entrepreneurship and enterprise skills among real economic and social challenges under the youths before they leave school. Through our “co- priority sectors of Uganda’s NDP III - particularly curricular” programmes, students are assisted in the wake of the COVID 19 Pandemic. The to work on live entrepreneurship projects that Youth IDEAthon was envisaged to be impactful culminate into business expos, with some in so far as awakening the entrepreneurial spirit winning micro grants, and incubation support in Uganda’s youth is concerned – and it has not to make bring their ideas to life. A typical expo disappointed. So far, we have registered over at Makerere University (COBAMS) or Makerere 3,000 bright ideas – and this number is growing University Business School (MUBS) attracts over – with most applicants still in school.

1,300 students. Imagine this happening at over 50 universities and vocational colleges every With grants of up to 100,000,000 shillings and incubation support, what’s Your IDEA? 8 Youth IDEATHON

About NASE The Association of Student Enterprises (NASE) is a Social Enterprise registered and was launched in December 2015 with support from Kingston University, London. NASE focuses on facilitating entrepreneurship and enterprise skills among youths generally, with a laser focus on higher education institutions in Uganda and the region. NASE proposes to build a cohesive skills and enterprise ecosystem that will support and increase the capacity of students and youths all over Uganda by engaging in innovative and entrepreneurial business development activities before and shortly after they leave school. Our work covers various sectors including, agriculture, minerals, oil and gas, renewable energy, tourism, manufacturing, urban challenges and creatives, among others.

INSPIRING

SKILLING

OUR VISION Leveraging the Power of Entrepreneurship to achieve Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation.

MENTORING

GRANTS/ FINANCE

OUR CORE VALUES

All our work is rooted in our core values as highlighted in the framework below.

OUR MISSION Inspiring and championing the most impressive pool of enterprising youths in Uganda through quality and innovative interventions in entrepreneurship and business related

Teamwork & Collaboration

Accountability

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

sectors.

Growth

Excellence

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The youths today need focus based approaches to ably sustain themselves in the changing world. Youth empowerment has been done through focusing on inclusive skilling and entrepreneurship to create equitable access and opportunities Photo adopted from UNDP Uganda Twitter Courtesy BRAC Uganda

Pitch to win up to 100 million Ugx worth of grants, mentorship and technical support to bring your idea to life

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About the YOUTH IDEAthon

The Youth IDEAthon is a short, intensive, design sprint experience funded by the UNDP for multi-disciplinary entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life. What makes The Youth IDEAthon different is it presents an “entry-level” opportunity that helps to unearth and nurture creative early-stage and start-up ideas that can eventually feed into the Youth for Business Facility (Y4BF) pipeline and could become the next generation of transformative innovative and inclusive MSMEs. It seeks to attract socially committed Ugandan youth, with entrepreneurial aspirations as innovators and problem solvers in a hybrid interaction and collaborative process. All participants are to develop and refine their ideas for products, services and solutions that ease the way of doing things during and postCOVID 19 Pandemic. It is a space for ALL passionate youth including creative designers, software developers, engineers, experts in agriculture, architects, health workers, among other fields to exchange ideas and work collaboratively to develop solutions. With mentorship, incubation support and hundreds of millions of seed investment to be won, the event is organized to Inspire, Skill, Mentor and Accelerate ideas from youth in Uganda.

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BUSINESS IDEA CATEGORIES Nine idea categories were zeroed down to in order to guide the participants and avoid curating ideas that will not contribute to the growth of the Nation (Uganda). Uganda being a 3rd world country, a number of sectors are existent but are still struggling with solutions that can’t all be solved by the Government.

So one way, you could look at the Youth IDEAthon is an opportunity to give back to the community or the nation at large. Working together to help is building country and solving problems in various sectors. Sectors of focus for the business idea categories include but not limited to; Agriculture, Tourism, Manufacturing, Renewable energy, Urban Development/Smart Cities, Information Technology (IT), Creative Arts Industry, Mining and Health Care.

AGRICULTURE

TOURISM

MANUFACTURING

RENEWABLE ENERGY

URBAN DEVELOPMENT /SMART CITIES

NFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

CREATIVE ARTS INDUSTRY

MINING

HEALTH CARE

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Health Care OBJECTIVES • To identify the ways in which the Ugandan Health care system has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; • To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s Health Care looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

MENTORS / SPEAKERS

DR.MUGABE FRANK Ministry of Health Principal Medical Officer

DR. TOM K. MUTYABULE Chief Executive Officer, Pan Dental Surgery

DR. IAN CLARKE Entrepreneur & Retired Politician

Agriculture

PHILLIPA NGAJU MAKOBORE Expertise is the design of electronic devices for healthcare

OBJECTIVES • To identify the ways in which the Ugandan Agricultural sector has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; • To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s Agriculture looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

MENTORS / SPEAKERS

ROBERT KABUSHENGA Coffee & bananas farmer & CEO of Rugyeyo Farm.

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ANITTAH OWOMUGISHA Electrical Engineer Currently Working at Umeme Ltd as a Senior Engineer Planning and Design.

NOAH OWOMUGISHA Expert - Agribusiness Market Systems Development, Climate & Socially Responsible Investing and Program & Project Management.

SANDRA NABASIRYE

Tourism OBJECTIVES • To identify the ways in which the Ugandan Tourism Sector has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; • To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s Tourism looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

MENTORS / SPEAKERS

NAMANYA BRIAN Founded Tubayo

AMOS WEKESA Amos Wekesa, Founder and CEO of Great Lakes Safaris Ltd.

JUSTUS KOJAX KOOJO Founder & Chief Executive Director at the Ultimate Group of Companies

JUSTUS KOJAX KOOJO Founder & CEO at the Ultimate Group of Companies

PAULA MUGISA CEO Teesa Advisory Services

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With support from UNDP, Mlima Safaris and Agritours is developing a resource centre of agritourism knowledge and exposing more farmers and multi-sector stakeholders to agritourism opportunities.

Photo Courtesy of UNDP & PAAT Soil Clinic Limited

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Photo Courtesy of UNDP

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Creative Industry OBJECTIVES • To identify the ways in which the Ugandan Creative industry has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; • To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s creative industry looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

MENTORS / SPEAKERS

RACHEL BASHABE Founder and CEO of Veryldesigns

LOUKMAN ALI Ugandan Film maker with vast knowledge in the arts.

DAVID OGUTU Co-Founder and Team Lead of Kafunda Kreative

ARIHO KAMARA Co-founder and Group C.E.O of Nomad Advertising Limited

REBECCA NANJEGO Founder of Swap&Talk

HAMID IBRAHIM CG artist with lots of experience in visual entertainment

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With support from UNDP, Ecoplastile has procured machinery to scale up production as well as building new partnerships within the manufacturing sector Photo Courtesy of UNDP & Ecoplastile

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Manufacturing OBJECTIVES • To identify the ways in which the Ugandan Manufacturing Industry has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; • To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s Manufacturing looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

MENTORS / SPEAKERS

BRUCE MPAMIZO

Former ED of Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), Chancellor at Nkumba University, a medical doctor, and a business consultant

BRUCE MPAMIZO Chief Executive Officer at Movit products Limited

MOSES SSEBBAALE Occupational Health & Safety, Environment & Quality Assurance Manager for Coca-Cola Beverages Africa in Uganda

DANIEL BIRUNGI Executive Director Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA)

Minerals, Mining, Renewables, Oil & Gas OBJECTIVES • To identify the ways in which the Ugandan Minerals and Renewable’s Industry has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; • To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s Minerals and Renewables sector looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

MENTORS / SPEAKERS

BWESIGYE DON BINYINA

Executive Director and founder of the Africa Centre for Energy and Mineral Policy

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TONY OKAO OTOA

Chief Executive of the Stanbic Business Incubator Ltd

GILBERT KAMUNTU HAS rich experience in economic modelling, business analysis and commercial negotiations

NAOMI NANGOKU MUMOITA Senior Mineral Dresser Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development

Urban Development / Smart Cities OBJECTIVES • To identify the ways in which the Ugandan Urban Planning and Development Sector has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; • To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s Urban Planning and Development looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

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AMANDA NGABIRANO

Acting Chairperson, National Physical Planning Board

CHRISTOPHER EDEET OKWARE Founder of POSTMAN

DR. IAN SENKATUKA An architect, urban and regional planner

INNOCENT F. EJOLU Partnerships, Innovation and Development Solutions Specialist at UNDP

Information Technology OBJECTIVES To identify the ways in which the Ugandan STEM & ICT industry has had to and will continue to adapt given the C-19 pandemic; To stimulate intellectual curiosity and identify a rough blueprint of what the future of Uganda’s STEM & ICT industry looks like with young entrepreneurs at the fore front.

MENTOR / SPEAKER

SOLOMON ALVIN KITUMBA Financial Technology

PATRICK JORAM MUGISHA (MOOGY) Commissioner, in-charge of innovation and intellectual property management, with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation

GERALD OTIM

Techpreneur and founder of Uganda-based leading Fintech, Ensibuuko.

ALLAN RWAKATUNGU

CEO /Co – Founder – Xente

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START THE YOUTH IDEATHON The Youth IDEAthon process started off with an aggressive media campaign on the 15th of June that was pushing for registration of participants.

ELIGIBILITY • Originality & innovativeness of the idea: The idea doesn’t have to be novel, but we want to support someone that is addressing a real challenge differently & creatively.

• Potential impact: Of what benefit or impact would the idea be to the equitable social-economic development of Ugandans. How many people’s livelihoods could be improved by your idea?

• COVID 19: Of what contribution is your Business Idea to the recovery & resilience of Ugandan businesses in the wake of the Covid 19 Pandemic.

• Scalability: Does your proposed solution have the potential to be scaled at different geographical levels, preferably at the community level, sub- nationally or even nationally? Could your idea have additional spinoffs?

COMMERCIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR WHICH SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL ALSO GET HELP Commercial Viability & Feasibility: The ability of your business idea – product or service – to compete effectively and to make a profit in the long-run. Is there a sustainable business in the idea?

Business model: Do you have a clear implementation plan?

ADDED ADVANTAGE • Multi-sectoral collaboration: Participation of both the public and private sectors is fundamental and collaboration of multi-disciplinary sectors such as finance, water, clean energy and humanities will be an added advantage.

• Environmental conservation: Harnessing the power of the business solution while conserving the natural ecosystem e.g. switch to green energy sources for power production and digital/ecommerce solutions.

• Youth & Women: The empowerment of young people and women is key to addressing developmental challenges. Therefore, ideas that support these two demographics are greatly encouraged.

BENEFITS OF THE YOUTH IDEATHON • Incubation for entrepreneurs’ business idea. Which is a great way to improve skills and entrepreneurship mindset • Exposure to innovation partners, Investors, potential market shares. Which gives the entrepreneurs an experience of how their product or service will be appreciated from different angles.

• Post incubation, the entrepreneur keeps leading the business, either internally at Schneider, or as part of the management team of the new venture in the case of spin-off.

• At each stage of the incubation program, rewards are associated to key milestones. In the case where a new venture is created, equity is given to the management team. The idea is that the business is controlled by the entrepreneurs, for them to be fully empowered and incentivized.

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BUSINESS INCUBATION STEPS Phase 1: Business Idea Generation & Articulation (Idea, Vision, proposal) Phase 2: Includes the following; • Initial analysis (Business Model Canvas, Assumptions, Customer archetypes, Strategy, Customer Pitch version, MVP) • Experiment/Validation (Customers – early adopters etc) • Baseline Operations (Operational team, Innovation accounting, Funding, Growth)

We will be running sessions to help applicants best articulate how their idea fits into the above criteria.

OVERVIEW AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE IDEAthon PROCESS

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Youth reskilling and innovation are critical to driving Uganda’s socioeconomic transformation Photo Courtesy of UNDP

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SUPPORTING PARTNERS 1:

YOUTH 4 BUSINESS

The Youth4Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Facility consists of three separate, but interlinked windows designed to boost the economic empowerment of youth. They include: • Innovation Challenge Fund and Growth Accelerator that provides competitive matching grant awards necessary to spur impact-driven innovation by the youth and MSMEs in sectors where growth leads to jobs. The winners will each receive up to $40,000 in grant resources.

• Enterprise Challenge Fund which provides competitive blended finance (grant awards and concessional debt finance from partner financial institutions) to MSMEs with commercially viable businesses that address a defined key development challenge.

• Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem platform which will revitalize youth networks including the Youth Connekt Uganda, to collectively identify and tackle systemic issues impeding the social economic empowerment of young people.

Ecoplastile Limited Sector: Manufacturing Idea Supported: EcoPlastile has developed a chemical-free and energy conserving plastic extrusion technology to recycle and transform post-consumer plastics and packaging materials into durable and long-lasting plastic timbers. Plastic timbers are a strong, durable and affordable manufacturing material.

Early Successes: With support from UNDP, Ecoplastile has procured machinery to scale up production as well as building new partnerships within the manufacturing sector.

PAAT Soil Clinic Limited Sector: Agriculture Idea Supported: PAAT Soil Clinic provides farmers with soil testing facilities, soil repair services and training opportunities on climate-smart agricultural technologies in a bid to improve their soil quality and increase yields.

Early Successes: With support from UNDP, PAAT Soil Clinic have expanded the reach of their training programme and designed a soil databank to assist with soil fertility management.

Quest Digital Finance Limited Sector: ICT and Agriculture Idea Supported: Quest Digital Finance has proposed a solution named Akellobanker, a mobile and web platform that facilitates easy access to farm inputs, expert-extension services, agro-advisory services, and equipment for farmers.

Early Successes: With support from UNDP, Quest Digital Finance is investing in marketing and procuring additional vehicles to connect more smallholder farmers to agricultural service providers.

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Mlima Safaris and Agritours Sector: Tourism and Agriculture Idea Supported: Mlima Safaris and Agritours is working with over 400 farmers in Eastern Uganda to prepare appropriate travel itineraries for tourists interested in agritourism and develop agritourism skills to offer a quality tourism experience.

Early Successes: With support from UNDP, Mlima Safaris and Agritours is developing a resource centre of agritourism knowledge and exposing more farmers and multi-sector stakeholders to agritourism opportunities.

Photo Credit: Ecoplastile Limited

Photo Credit: Quest Digital Finance Limited

Photo Credit: Mlima Safaris & Agritours

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START HUB AFRICA

Alongside NASE, Start Hub is fostering innovation across 10 universities in the Country. They guide students right from developing ideas to launching their businesses. Start Hub Africa is one of the partners that has contributed to the creation of content for the IDEAthon, and will also be supporting NASE and other partners to prepare participants to pitch their ideas.

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PENDA CAPITAL

Penda Capital is a Social Enterprise which offers financial services with a focus on women who wish to start businesses, those running businesses, as well as those that wish to tap into new markets. In addition to that, Penda Capital aims to create value for the youth that are 18+ years and have a keen interest in entrepreneurship.

As well as Supporting NASE in grant management, Penda Capital will be delivering modules on Financial Literacy to all participants, ensuring that all grants go to the intended beneficiaries and that those beneficiaries are using them for the purpose for which the judges envisage.

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TEESA ADVISORY

Teesa Advisory Offers Services is business advise which aims at improving quality and making sure of your business’s success. Teesa Advisory have a number of modules and courses that they offer to their clients which range from business tools to customer needs.

Successful participants of the IDEAthon program will be able to benefit from the courses shared by Teesa Advisory which will be tailored specifically for the sectors their businesses fall under.

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INNOVATION VILLAGE

The Innovation Village is a destination that the 97 who never take the trophy home come to transform their ideas into solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. They create an environment where start-ups grow in confidence and capability scaling from promising tech into fully established sustainable businesses.

The Innovation Village is a key player in the startup ecosystem in Uganda. In the IDEAthon program, Innovation village has made its regional venues available for our rural participants to access during the six months Incubation programme.

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6: MAKERERE INNOVATION AND INCUBATION CENTER MIIC nurtures startup ideas across major sectors like Agriculture, EduTech, Fin-Tech, Health, Tourism & Hospitality, Transport & Logistics, Software services, Energy among others.

NASE has worked with MIIC since the latter’s inception to support some of NASE’s incubatees. Our relationship has helped to cocreate an effective Business Incubation and Co-Curricular model of Entrepreneurship Education that we plan to roll out across all universities and colleges in Uganda.

In the IDEAthon Program, MIIC will offer services like infrastructure, human resource, entrepreneurial guidance and entrepreneurship equipment to direct and teach the upcoming entrepreneurs while they grow their ideas.

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YOUTH CONNEKT

YouthConnekt is a multi-dimensional programme which aims at connecting youth to their role models, peers, resources, technologies, skills and economic opportunities by filling the gap between youth and opportunities for an economically empowering environment. Our partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation, launched in 2019, focuses on youth entrepreneurship and empowerment in Africa and plans to support 100,000 African entrepreneurs over 10 years.

The programme provides opportunities for the African youth to unleash their creativity and leadership in civic, economic and political spheres aiming at a mindset change and transformation. To this end it ensures greater access to capital and markets; skills development, and a sustained investment in training; apprenticeship and education through partnerships, in particular in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and more dynamic TVET schemes for industrialization of Africa. It coordinates and nurtures collaboration between existing youth empowerment initiatives, hubs and a continental network of youth empowerment experts across Africa.

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INNOVENT LABS AFRICA

Innovent Labs Africa is a growing firm offering a range of bespoke innovation and Intellectual Property management services to startups, MSMEs, Academic and Research Institutions and Governments across Africa.

ILA has partnered with the youth Ideathon to provide IP advisory and follow on services to all participating innovators and ideators taking part in the competition. Our support shall be tailored towards highlighting the role of IP in ideation, identifying, protecting and commercialization of your Intellectual Property, maximizing your value proposition leveraging on IP and building a brand and consolidating a customer base around your IP. This shall be accompanied with free IP tools that can be customized to your enterprise!

ILA can be found on our website www.innoventlabsafrica.com and on our social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Youth IDEATHON

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CELESTE MEDIA

Celeste Media is a conceptualized company blending the best creative and planning forces. They provide expertise for an organization’s information, marketing and event’s needs. Committed to providing the highest standard professionalism, innovation and creativity whilst at all-time upholding quality and integrity.

In the Youth IDEAthon, Celeste media will offer guidance to participants in Media/Advertising, Audio/Video production, Corporate Team Building, Official Events Management and Public Relations.

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