EISD-NEIP Sustainable Acceleration Programme Phase II – Success Degree Onboarding & Year long coaching & mentoring

EISD-NEIP Sustainable Acceleration Programme Phase II – Success Degree Onboarding & Year long coaching & mentoring.

by NEWSSustainable E-Hub

The EISD-NEIP Sustainable Acceleration Programme is aims to support the development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Northern Region of Ghana. It is part of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) Hubs Acceleration Grant Programme (HAGP), which is under the Ghana Economic Transformation Project. The program has been implemented since its launch on 27th June 2023.

After a rigorous selection process, twenty finalists were selected from across the various districts in the Northern Region of Ghana. Of the twenty finalists, 50% of all participants were female and the remaining 50% were male. Four finalists were from the Eastern Zone, Yendi and its environs, two were from the Western Zone, Tolon and its environs, and the remaining fourteen were from the Central Zone, Tamale and its environs. The participants were from various business sectors including recycling and waste management, light manufacturing, beauty and cosmetology, events management, agroprocessing, clothing and textiles, software development, e-commerce, among others.

The first phase of the EISD – Sustainable Acceleration Programme [E-SAP] involved 13 sessions, including “Understanding your Business Environment,” “Driving Change in your Organization,” “Improving Productivity Through Communication,” “HR Systems and Practices for Better Workplace Management,” “Workplace Improvements through 5S,” “Enhancing Productivity through Lean Management,” “Essential Soft skills,” “Marketing, Sales, Customer Service,” “Safety at Work,” “Financing your Business,” “Managing Quality for Productivity Improvement,” “Pitching your business,” “Financing Models,” “Equity vrs Owner financing schemes,” “Forming and joining Networks and partnerships ‘dos & donts’,” and “Productivity through Cleaner Production.”

The second phase of the E-SAP involved onboarding all twenty beneficiaries onto the I Am Worth It Project (IAWIP) Success Degree Program on Wednesday, 13th December, 2023. This program provides year-long coaching and mentoring to the beneficiaries .

 

All twenty finalists expressed their appreciation to NEIP, the Ministry of Finance, and the World Bank for enabling this program. The acceleration experience has provided them with a new learning process, which has better positioned them to witness sustainable growth in their enterprises.” 

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EISD -NEIP StartUp Acceleration Prog._ BeneficiariesTraining & IAWIP Success Program Onboarding

EISD -NEIP Startup Acceleration Prog.: Beneficiaries Training & IAWIP Success Program Onboarding

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Intro

The EISD-NEIP Start Up Acceleration Support Programme is under the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme – NEIP Hubs Acceleration Grant Programme (HAGP), under Ghana Economic Transformation Project.

We have been implementing the programme since its launch on 27th June 2023.

The beneficiaries of the programme are about to go through another step in the training cycle.

Success

On the 13th of December 2023, beneficiaries will go through soft skills training and onboarding onto the IAWIP Success Degree Program for one year post training support.

As a new partner of EISD the I Am Worth It Project (IAWIP) joins as training partner.

  1. The IAWIP (I AM Worth It Project) Success Degree Program include the following
  2. Monthly LIVE business training on mindset and personal development and business growth
  3. Mentorship
  4. Access to the IAWIP signature Program App
  5. Exclusive Membership to the IAWI Success Community
  6. Goal tracking
  7. The Daily Success Practice
  8. Experts Calendar

Meet Tammy

Tammy Sherger will be our lead resource person for essential soft skills training.

Photos_ Eisd_ Neip Start-Up Selection Train for N_R

Photos: EISD – NEIP Start-Up Selection Train for N/R

by NEWSSustainable E-Hub

After a hectic week of meeting many entrepreneurs, young and old, male and female alike, from pregnant women to nursing mothers and physically challenged, the EISD-NEIP Startup Acceleration Selection Train has covered all the districts in northern region across the three zones. The week has not only been successful but all the more insightful.

In all, we received a total of 568 applications and shortlisted 270 applicants for interviews across the three zones. 237 of the shortlisted applicants turned up for interviews and pitching, with 132 (56%) being females and 105 (44%) being males. There were 5 physically challenged applicants across the zones.

The businesses were in Agricultural services, Agribusiness and Processing, ICT, Energy, Education, Green Industries, Beauty and Personal Care, Hospitality, Water and Sanitation, Health, Clothing, and Accessories.

All of these applicants are out there breaking their backs trying to make a living; doing their very best to be relevant and make a difference in one way or another.

After sifting through all the interviews and business ideas presented, the team would be selecting the finalists to face off at the Regional Pitch Competition in a fortnight.

Stay tuned for more details on that.

Below are pictures across the zones.

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EISD NEIP HUB ACCELERATION PROGRAMME START UP ACCELERATION PRESS LAUNCH

Photos & Full Press Release: EISD-NEIP’s Start-Up Acceleration Programme in N/R

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  • The Edugha Institute for Social Development & National Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme (NEIP) with funding from the World Bank through the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday 27th June2023 launched the Start-Up Acceleration Programme for the Northern Region of Ghana.
  • This programme comes under the Hub Acceleration Grant Programme, of which EISD is a beneficiary.
  • The launch took place in our workspace in Tamale, with various media houses and key individuals in attendance.
  • The press release was delivered by the Deputy CEO of EISD, Mr. Bilal Taimako Shamsudeen, with Mr. Mahadi Alhassan (CEO of EISD) providing answers to ensuing questions from attendees. Ms. Sauda Belko delivered the introductory words to kick-start the event.
  • Below are photos from the event and the full press release.

Press Release

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, officials from the NEIP, National Youth Authority, Assembly men and women, our partners Tradeline Consults, Banks present, Entrepreneurship Ecosystem stakeholders present, Colleagues from EISD, Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning and welcome to the Press Launch of the EISD-NEIP Start Up Acceleration Support Programme under the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme – NEIP Hubs Acceleration Grant Programme (HAGP), under Ghana Economic Transformation Project.

The Ghana Economic Transformation Project has four (4) components, and NEIP’s programmes fall under Component 3 of the project, of which EISD is a beneficiary of.

The component 3 supports entrepreneurship and SME growth in non-resource-based sectors, and it is aimed at addressing the limited development of the SME and entrepreneurship support ecosystem, including early-stage financing to promote and strengthen a growth model that is conducive to economic transformation, to achieve higher rates of investment and productivity growth across the economy, especially in non-resource-based sectors. The EISD-NEIP Start-Ups Acceleration Programme which we are launching now is a Programme designed to support the development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem by building the capacities of startups and existing businesses in the northern region to help their business ideas and services thrive. The Startups will be supported to see their business ideas become operational.

Our programme will see us group the various startups and businesses into three zones; the Bimbilla zone (which should take care of the Eastern corridor block including Yendi, Gusheigu, Karaga, Wulensi, Bimbilla, Kpandai, Chamba, etc); the Tolon Zone (which would include the Kumbungu, Nyankpala, Tolon, Savelugu environs) and the Sagnarigu zone (which would include Sagnarigu, Tamale and its immediate environs).

The Start-Up Acceleration Programme will competitively select a number of startups in these zones which will be provided with technical assistance, capacity building and financial assistance to accelerate their ideas and operationalize them.

With the Ghanaian start-up landscape seeing tremendous growth over the last decade, we cannot help but provide competitive, tailor-made solutions to startups in our catchment area. This is made possible by our collaboration with the Government of Ghana through the NEIP Hubs Acceleration Grant Program [HAGP]. With this, we are not only upgrading our Hub Space by increasing our seating capacity as a hub from 20 to 70 with the construction of 50-seater multipurpose Training and Conference Center, we are also upgrading our facilities. We are also better positioned to support more startups, as we are seeing with this Startup launch.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

We are, by this launch, opening a call for Applications for the EISD-NEIP Start Up Acceleration Programme. This Call is opened to all Startups and businesses in the northern region. Prospective Applicants can go on our website, www.eisdgh.org from

Wednesday, 28th June 2023 to apply. The Application link for the call will also be available on all EISD Social media platforms.

The closing date for the Application will be Monday 10th July 2023.

The Startup Programme will be focused on ideas and businesses operating in the following sectors:

Agriculture, technology & innovation, Light manufacturing & processing, waste & green businesses, and technical and vocational ideas as well as any idea/innovation that is directed at improving the quality of life of our people. We encourage the active participation of women, youth and persons with disability in the grant programme.

The qualification criteria for applicants are as follows:

  1. Ownership must be 100% Ghanaian.
  2. Startups should be in the northern region.
  3. Must be ready and willing to undergo rigorous training schedules and other activities of the programme.

PROCESS FLOW FOR GRANT PROGRAMME:

  1. We will start with the Call for Applications
  2. Screening of applications
  3. Conduct Due Diligence
  4. The committee reviews, evaluates and approves, defer or decline applicants’ request using the established eligibility and selection criteria.
  5. Organize zonal business pitches
  6. Screening to select finalists from all zones to enter the Accelerator
  7. Final pitching to select top startups.
  8. Disbursements and monitoring of funds based on agreed implementation plan with beneficiaries
  9. Provide one year of mentoring and coaching while undertaking periodic monitoring and audits to ensure compliance and use of funds for right purposes.

Acknowledgements:

  • I’ll first thank the NEIP team, the World Bank, the team from the Ministry of Finance, the team from Delloitte for making this possible.
  • Thanks to the project Team from EISD
  • Thank our partners Tradeline Consults, North TV, among others.
  • We would also want to thank all ecosystem players present, the media and everybody present.

Finally, we thank H.E the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for his continuous support for the growth of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, for his various interventions to ignite and unleash the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of young people in a bid to mark conscious departure from job seeking to job creation and job ownership

With these said, I have the singular honour to formally declare the EISD-NEIP Startup Support Programme LAUNCHED.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Bilal Taimako Shamsudden

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EISD begins renovation works after receiving NEIP Hubs Acceleration Grant

EISD begins renovation works after receiving NEIP Hubs Acceleration Grant

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As one of the beneficiaries of the $7 million NEIP Hubs Acceleration Grant Programme under the Ghana Economic Transformation Project-GETP, expansion, renovation, refurbishing, and restructuring works have begun in earnest to give our hub the needed facelift and also increase our training capacity from 20 to 70. This includes but is not limited to IT support, greening, and Ideas Space expansion among others.

Ghana Economic Transformation Project has four (4) components, and NEIP’s programmes fall under Component 3 of the project.
Component 3 supports entrepreneurship and SME growth in non-resource-based sectors, and it is aimed at addressing the limited development of the SME and entrepreneurship support ecosystem, including early-stage financing to promote and strengthen a growth model that is conducive to economic transformation, to achieve higher rates of investment and productivity growth across the economy, especially in non-resource-based sectors.

At EISD we believe creating a platform for businesses and people to develop their capacities and see their businesses and ideas thrive is the way to go.

Photos of ongoing works

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NEIP Visits EISD Tamale Office

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Officials from National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme-NEIP and Deloitte visited the EDUGHA Institute for Social Development to discuss our specialized activities, especially that of our Sustainable E-Hub. This was part of the due diligence phase of the Hubs Acceleration Grant Programme supported by the World Bank.
The exercise was to confirm the nature and extent of our training activities, and also to allow for more engagements on the direction our E-Hub is taking in Northern Ghana and beyond.
As a team, this visit not only encourages us but also strengthens our resolve in being a leader in the Ecosystem as well as creating platforms for people, communities and businesses to thrive.