Acumen Academy is currently accepting applications for its Green RISE East Africa Fellowship 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About Acumen Academy - Green RISE East Africa Fellowship
Acumen Academy is currently accepting applications for its Green RISE East Africa Fellowship 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Benefits of Acumen Academy - Green RISE East Africa Fellowship
Green RISE East Africa Fellows gain access to these selective opportunities:
- Impact-focused learning: Get taining on how to create dignified and sustainable green-sectors jobs for women and youth across your value chain.
- Community: Join a community of value aligned climate-focused social entrepreneurs offering collabiration, peer learning and sghared experience.
- Accelerate Growth: Get the chance to enroll in the Green RISE Africa Accelerator program to strengthem your business model.
- Access to funding: Opportunities to receive funding for projects through Angels Green RISE Africa to increase impact.
Acumen Academy - Green RISE East Africa Fellowship Requirements
- You lead an enterprise that provides a green-focused good or service that has demonstrated the capacity to solve problems of poverty and has created work opportunities for young rural women and youth below the age of 35.
- Work opportunities can include full-time employment, part-time or seasonal working opportunities, and/or creating income-generating opportunities for micro/nanopreneurs within the value chain.
- You have a minimum of 5 full-time employees.
- You have demonstrable traction over the last 12-months.
- You have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience and are able to demonstrate your commitment to solving issues of poverty.
- You are based and operating in East Africa (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda).
- You can provide evidence that your leadership supports efforts to make the enterprise more environmentally sustainable and inclusive.
- You have a reliable internet connection and will be fully available to participate throughout the entirety of the program.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
11 May, 2026
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