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TO ALL APPLICANTS OF THE SLEDP BUSINESS INCUBATION AND ACCELERATION PROGRAM.
YOUR APPLICATIONS ARE STILL BEING PROCESSED.
YOU WILL BE INFORMED IN THE FIRST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2022 WHETHER YOU HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED OR NOT ACCEPTED TO THE PROGRAM.
INNOVATION SL
19.01.2022
Circular Economy refers to businesses that are into sustainable fashion design, production of tiles, bricks from plastics, recycling of waste materials to usable products, producing energy from wastes, producing viable products from the waste agricultural produce etc. thereby limiting the consumption and waste of resources.
Light/Small Manufacturing refers to businesses that their production is less capital intensive, consumer oriented and having less environmental impacts. Examples: production of furniture like doors, beds chairs etc. producing leather products like bags, shoes etc. production of light electrical equipment, fabricated metal production, glass products, gara tie dye production
Under the Sierra Leone Economic Diversification Project, Innovation SL on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone and World Bank is calling for applications for Start-ups and SMEs. This program is to diversify the Sierra Leone economy; funding SMES and start-ups businesses through grants,
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR START-UPS
· Individuals with a viable or proven business idea that needs support (as in incubation or acceleration) to become a competitive company that can sell its products and services.
· This can include Start-ups, companies recently established (less than 2 years old).
NOTE:
The Eligible sectors
1. Tourism sector
2. Digital
3. Agribusiness
4. Fisheries sectors
5. Waste management
6. Light Manufacturing
Other sectors that supports the project’s objective of diversifying the economy that are not in the World Bank exclusion list will also be considered
) SMES’ current operational, financial, and market positions;
(b) potential demand for their products, considering pre-identified priority market segments;
(c) market competitiveness based on differentiation, cost, and/or focus;
(d) viability of technical interventions for advancing the growth of the business; and[4]
(e) the financial and technical viability of the business.
Key selection criteria for Start-Ups will be based on a modified set of evaluation criteria in recognition of their early development stage. Accordingly, these criteria will include
(a) technical and financial viability of the business model;
(b) good evaluation risks;
(c) potential for growth
(d) value addition; and
The Matching Grant and Technical Assistance will not extend grants in support of activities that support the production of the following:
Production of Alcoholic beverages
Weapons
Tobacco
Innovation SL together with the Project Coordinating Unit will undertake to visit 100% of all applicants that meet the minimum requirement to verify application information.
Click Here to access the application.
Deadline for submission of application: XXXX XXX 2021
