SIMUKA-PHAKAMA
Is your business ready to leap and go green?
Join our 2019 Innovation Challenge!
In Gweru this Thur 22 Nov at Gweru Poly from 0930hrs
In Bulawayo on Friday 23 Nov at Bulawayo Poly from 0930hrs
Eco-innovative businesses can turn the page of Zimbabwe’s economy. Be ambitious, compete in the Innovation Challenge!
The Simuka-Phakama Green enterPRIZE Innovation Challenge is being implemented in collaboration with local business development service (BDS) providers to offer financial and non-financial services to innovative green and growth-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to grow their businesses.
The Innovation Challenge will create a platform for green enterprise innovation and development to ensure Zimbabwe thrives by empowering citizens and businesses, particularly women and youth, to drive the creation of green and decent jobs.
What is the objective?
The Simuka-Phakama Green enterPRIZE Innovation Challenge is being
implemented in collaboration with local business development service (BDS)
providers to offer financial and non-financial services to innovative green and growth-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to grow their businesses.
The Innovation Challenge is a platform for green enterprise innovation and development to ensure Zimbabwe thrives by empowering citizens and businesses, particularly women and youth, to drive the creation of green and decent jobs.
Targeted emerging and established SMEs will increase their provision of green products and services by accessing a tailored business development programme, supported by selected BDS providers and financial institutions.
In the long term, this will increase the viability of the individual businesses and demonstrate the potential for greening to other enterprises across all economic sectors.
Who is running it?
The Innovation Challenge is being run by the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Government of Zimbabwe, the Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. Its effective delivery relies on the participation of BDS providers with extensive experience in assisting formal and informal enterprises in Zimbabwe and in the Southern Africa region.
This business competition is part of the Green enterPRIZE Innovation and Development Programme for Zimbabwe, supported by the Government of Sweden.
It aims to tap the potential of a green economy in Zimbabwe by:
- addressing high levels of youth unemployment;
- increasing the numbers of formal and growth-oriented enterprises; and
- improving the sustainability of production processes in SMEs.