Supporting The Green Economy Of Ghana Grant
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This call is open to small and medium-sized businesses, startups and social enterprises, at idea and R&D stage, prototype and pilot stage and pre-seed. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: Ghana.
This program supports small and medium-scale entrepreneurs in Ghana to develop profitable solutions that mitigate or adapt to climate change, while also raising public awareness of the green economy and improving policy conditions for low-carbon transition. Eligible applicants are SMEs and entrepreneurs working on renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate adaptation, and climate mitigation projects.
About this grant
The Ghana Climate Innovation Center (GCIC) at Ashesi University supports a climate-resilient economy in Ghana by backing climate-focused entrepreneurs and advocating for government policies that enable sustainable economic development. Its work covers ventures in energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate-smart agriculture, waste management, and water purification, and it also provides tailored guidance to larger companies seeking to improve environmental sustainability in their operations. The programme titled Supporting The Green Economy Of Ghana is run in partnership with Global Affairs Canada. It aims to strengthen Ghana's ability to respond to the economic and social impacts of climate change by supporting small and medium-scale entrepreneurs to develop profitable and locally appropriate mitigation or adaptation solutions. It also seeks to raise public awareness of the green economy and improve the policy environment to support Ghana's transition to a low-carbon, green economy. GCIC's incubator is open to entrepreneurs based in Ghana and offers tracks including a Women's Agribusiness Incubation Program (a nine-month programme for women-led cashew and nut processing businesses, under the SECO-funded GPSCP II), a Standard Chartered Foundation Women in Tech Accelerator, and a Women Entrepreneurs Transformation Program offering gender-sensitive business advisory services. Other activities include policy advocacy on carbon budgets, climate finance and investment readiness support, applied research, and executive education. The page also references a GIZ-funded Green Business Competition for MSMEs, which offers six months of business development support and grants of up to EUR 10,000 to participants who successfully join, though this is a separate programme listed on the same site.
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Eligibility
The business incubator is open to entrepreneurs based in Ghana whose businesses are greening or aim to green their operations and service delivery through innovative climate solutions. The Women's Agribusiness track is limited to women-led businesses in Ghana's cashew and nut processing value chain. The Women in Tech Accelerator is limited to women-led or women-owned technology businesses, with Ghana as one of its country programmes. Small and medium-scale entrepreneurs are the primary target of the Global Affairs Canada-partnered programme. The page does not state a specific grant amount or detailed eligibility rules for the Global Affairs Canada programme itself.
Key requirements
- ✓Applicant must be a small or medium-scale entrepreneur based in Ghana
- ✓Project must develop locally appropriate solutions to climate change mitigation or adaptation
- ✓Solution must demonstrate profitability and commercial viability
- ✓Project should contribute to Ghana's transition to a low-carbon economy
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- Who can apply for Supporting The Green Economy Of Ghana?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GH; sme, startup, social-enterprise. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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