For Citizens of Countries in the MENA Region

World Bank WeMENA Program for Women Entrepreneurs 2017. $150,000 Cash Prize & Silicon Valley Mentorship

WeMENA empowers and equips women entrepreneurs to solve the future’s most difficult problems.

Application Deadline: 17th January, 2017
Eligible Countries: Countries in MENA Region
About the Award: Through a business model challenge, WeMENA accelerates innovative solutions that will help eight cities across the Middle East and North Africa region build resilience and better adapt to chronic stresses and shocks.
As the region continues its fast-paced urbanization, city residents will become increasingly more exposed to the adverse effects of climate change, and subject to social, economic, and financial stresses and shocks.
In order to build more resilient cities capable of withstanding such hazards, we are looking for women entrepreneurs who are innovating in the following categories: Agriculture and Food Security Sustainable Energy & The Environment Water & Sanitation Urban Development (Transportation, Infrastructure and Housing) Governance and Civic Engagement Healthcare & Disease Prevention Technology, Fintech & Smart Cities Economics & Society Disaster Risk Reduction
Type: Entrepreneurship/Contest
Eligibility: The WeMENA Business Model competition attracts women who are seeking investment and support to accelerate their idea or solution into the market. This competition is open to women participating as individuals, as teams, or on behalf of a legal entity. Participants applying on behalf of the legal entity must prove they have partial or full ownership of the business model they propose.

Applicants from around the world may participate, but the solutions proposed must use principles of resilience-thinking and must address issues in the following cities:, Alexandria, Amman, Beirut, Byblos, Cairo, Casablanca, Ramallah or Tunis.
We don’t limit the contest, so don’t limit your ideas. However, give some thought to what you think will have the best chance to win, so pay attention to how the ideas are judged.
Value of Entrepreneurship: Contestants in this challenge will receive business training, guidance from mentors in the Silicon Valley and beyond, and a chance to win $150,000 in cash awards.
There is no cost to submit a venture, but participants will have to cover their travel costs to the Grand Finale in Casablanca, Morocco.
How to Apply: Click here to apply
Visit Entrepreneurship Webpage for details
Award Provider: The World Bank

culled from AfterSchoolAfrica

Have you applied for The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme

Offering $100 million to create 10,000 African Entrepreneurs in 10 Years

The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme – TEEP – to offer 10,000 aspiring African Entrepreneurs an opportunity to benefit from $100 million grant to create 1,000,000 jobs and contribute $10 billion in annual revenues to Africa’s economy over the next 10 years.

Application Period: Interested entrepreneurs will be able to submit their applications to join the programme as from 1^st January 2017 until Midnight WAT on March 1, 2017.
Offered annually? Yes. For a period of 10 years
Opportunity is open to: All citizens (18 and above) and legal residents of all African countries with businesses that operate in Africa.

About Entrepreneurship Programme: Nigerian billionaire investor and philanthropist Tony Elumelu has committed $100 million to create 10,000 entrepreneurs across Africa over the next 10 years. Elumelu made the commitment on Monday during a press conference in Lagos to announce the launch of The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP).

TEEP, a Pan-African entrepreneurship initiative of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, is a multi-year programme of training, funding, and mentoring, designed to empower the next generation of African entrepreneurs.

Starting From: 2015
Programme Type: Funding for African Entrepreneurs
Number of Entrepreneurs: There are 1,000 positions available annually for 10 years
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Free Online Course: Learn to Create 3D Graphics for Web Developers

Enrolment: Still Ongoing / Self paced
Timeline: 5 weeks @ 6 hours per week
Skill Level: Intermediate
Course of Study: 3D Graphics | Course Platform: FutureLearn
Created by: Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Cost: Free

About the Course
With the advent of WebGL, it is now possible to develop high-quality, interactive 3D graphics applications, which run natively in web browsers. However, to do this, you need to be proficient in both web development and 3D programming.
This free online course will provide web developers, who have existing knowledge of JavaScript, with the theoretical and practical knowledge to start programming 3D graphics applications for the web. 

Learn to use WebGLStudio and Three.JS to create WebGL application
The course is split into five weeks. In the first two weeks, Javi Agenjo will teach you the basics of 3D graphics from a non-programmer’s point of view, explaining concepts such as transformations and materials using a state-of-the-art web tool, WebGLStudio. There will be no programming in these two weeks.
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Ultimate List: 40+ Business Funding Opportunities & Awards for African Entrepreneurs

From students, startups, young and social entrepreneurs to small & medium and successful businesses, African and global organizations open business plan competitions and awards annually to support and encourage budding and successful entrepreneurs in Africa.

Whether you need funding to bring your bright idea to limelight or have made innovative progress as an entrepreneur in Africa and need a platform to demonstrate your achievements, there are opportunities out there.
Below is AfterSchoolAfrica list of 40 plus business plan competitions and awards for African entrepreneurs. Most of these programs are offered annually. Look out for the next application

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• With Emphasis for Women Entrepreneurs
• Student Entrepreneurs (including social entrepreneurs)
• Aspiring and Startup Entrepreneurs (including social entrepreneurs)
• Breakthrough Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses
• Successful Entrepreneurs and Business leaders
• Share list with entrepreneurs in your network.

With Emphasis on Women Entrepreneurs

1. BMCE Bank of Africa – African Entrepreneurship Award – USD$1 Million for Women (and Men) Entrepreneurs: Are you dreaming of launching or growing your business idea in your community? Join the thousands of women (and men) entrepreneurs creating jobs all over Africa and submit your idea for a chance to share in the $1 million award.
2. She Leads Africa is a social enterprise dedicated to supporting young African women and their journey towards professional success. The SLA Accelerator is a 3-month program designed to identify, support and fund the next generation of Nigeria’s brightest female entrepreneurs and offers. The winner of a Demo Day will receive a N 2mn investment from She Leads Africa Fund.
3. Ashden International Award World’s leading green energy awards, seeks pioneering enterprises and programmes demonstrating achievement in any of the following areas: Increasing energy access for homes or businesses, Sustainable buildings, Developing innovative financial mechanisms or business models for delivering sustainable energy, Sustainable travel, Improving the lives of women and girls through sustainable energy, Sustainable energy and water. Prize money of £20,000; one International Gold Award of £30,000

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What About Success!

Success is one thing that virtually every human person happens to be very familiar with. However, this familiarity is not actually based on people's personal experience of success or their relationship with it but on their academical and/or intellectual knowledge of success.

A whole lot of people desire so much to be successful in life; they hope for their ventures to always succeed but unfortunately for many of us, this just happens to end up as desires, #not reality#

A good and true entrepreneur's life is not supposed to be like that. An entrepreneur is supposed to have a personal relationship with success - He must know what success is; how success operates; what success likes or dislikes; what environments success survive in and don't survive in.

This is what this article hopes to help us achieve.

What really is Success? 

 

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, success refers to reception of the correct or desired result of an attempt. It is also used to refer to the fact of getting or achieve wealth, respect, or fame. A lot of books and articles in journals, newsletters or magazines have been written on success and each of them presents in their own way what success could mean and how to achieve it. 

Information, an Elemental Driver of Success

Now, when we say that information is an elemental driver of success, what does it mean? When you read books or articles that tell you about success, what you are doing is gathering information about success. What you receive in return is knowledge - Knowledge about Success. The amount information you gather about success and how to apply your acquired knowledge, determines how your relationship with success is going to be and eventually whether or not your ventures will be successful. Information boosts your relationship with success in following ways:

i.         By giving you knowledge about things that are likely to happen in the near future so that you can prepare yourself for the opportunities that they will create. With this you can plan yourself awaiting that day when you will just explode into success.

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Welcome to The PEFA Network

I want to warmly and officially welcome you dear friend  to THE PEFA NETWORK, the place where Africans will be empowered through highly transformational and informational education on personal and general Management.This will contribute to the creation of more and more record-breaking wealthy Africans. 

A whole lot of people on our Facebook Group Page since its creation have been asking so many questions, some are:

What is PEFA? 

How does it work?

What do members stand to benefit?

 etc

These and more are what this maiden post hopes to address.

1.0 First of all, What is PEFA? 

The word PEFA stands for ProgoLife Entrepreneurship Forum Africa. It is an initiative of ProgoLife Communications, a company duly registered in Nigeria under the Company and Allied Matters Act, 2004. PEFA is an organization of people willing to render intellectual, experiential and financial help to persons who need them for their entrepreneurial pursuits. With this, PEFA aims to empower as much people as possible and help them setup their businesses on very solid foundations and see to their growth & establishment. The empowered PEFA members are obliged to offer willingly, necessary assistance for the empowerment of others. This becomes PEFA’s own way of aiding to decimate the growing poverty-epidemic that is trying to eat up African economies. This system creates more financially free African individuals which on the long run will kill poverty in Africa.

 
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