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2025 TONY ELUMELU FOUNDATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME

Application Deadline: Saturday, March 01, 2025

LOCATION: Africa

TEF Flagship Entrepreneurship Programme: Open to all entrepreneurs across Africa with business ideas or existing businesses. They encourage applications from businesses leveraging AI as well as green businesses. For existing businesses, business registration must not exceed five years at the time of application. Empowering entrepreneurs across Africa to collaborate, innovate, and succeed.

ELIGIBILITY:

All programmes are open to businesses that are between 0 and 5 years old at the time of application. Businesses older than 5 years are not eligible.

Applicants must be at least 18 years old.

Applications can be submitted on http://www.tefconnect.com, and will be open from 1st of January to the midnight on the 1st of March 2025. Ensure to complete your application well ahead of the deadline.

Applicants are advised to apply to only one programme. We encourage you to carefully review the programme descriptions and select the one that best suits your entrepreneurial and business goals.

The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme application is online, and it is FREE! TEF has NOT appointed anyone to act on her behalf to conduct any part of this Programme. If anyone is asking you to pay any amount of money in exchange for application support, it is a scam. Please report it immediately by sending an email to whistleblower@tonyelumelufoundation.org We will ensure the confidentiality of your information.

BENEFIT:

Selected applicants will receive:

World-class business management training

Mentorship

$5,000 non-refundable seed capital

Access to key networks and markets

Global networking opportunities

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2025 NIGERIA SIGNATURE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025, by 11:59 p.m. WAT

LOCATION: Nigeria

WomenLift Health, in partnership with the Women In Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN), is launching the inaugural Nigeria Leadership Journey.

In this fully funded, 12-month Leadership Journey, they provide mid-career women with the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network that fosters a strong sense of belonging and tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence—all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.

ELIGIBILITY:

You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:

Identify as a woman

Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national level in Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)

Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health

Reside and work within Nigeria

Must be a national of Nigeria

Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey

We require participants to be living in the West Africa Standard Time for at least 75% of the program as we believe time zone compatibility is essential to your ability to participate at the touchpoints and to engage with your peers within and outside of the sessions. WomenLift Health is committed to selecting diverse cohort members, representing different sectors (public, private, academia, NGO, philanthropy, research and development), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds.

BENEFIT:

Fully funded

Cost: Free (all program costs, including travel and lodging, are covered)

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