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INCEPTION REPORT PRESENTATION

Inception report FARM INCOME ENHANCEMENTS AND FORESTRY CONSERVATION PROGRAM –PROJECT 2 (FIEFOC 2) TO UNDERTAKE DESIGN, VALIDATION, IMPLEMENTATIONS AND DELIVERY OF ACTIVITIES UNDER THE ENABLE YOUTH CHALLENGE FUND PILOT PROGRAM WITHIN THE WATERSHED AREAS OF, WADELAI, TOCHI, MUBUKU II, DOHO II, AND NGENGE IRRIGATION SCHEMES UNDER FIEFOC II BY IMPACT BOOSTER CONSORTIUM.

Enable youth In this program we will target a total of 100 young Agripreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35 years with a focus on women and support them in starting successful businesses. The participating youth will be from around irrigation schemes in the areas of Nebbi (Wadelai), Gulu (Tochi), Kasese (Mubuku II), Butaleja (Doho) and Kween (Ngenge). We will introduce the selected candidates to new technologies and innovative business models, and help them build up the local ecosystem that can support them best. At the end of the 6 months of intensive business acceleration program we will provide seed investment of maximum 8,000 USD to each of the 90 most promising Agripreneurs.

IMPACT BOOSTER CONSORTIUM PARTNERS The Program is being implemented in a consortium of 3 partners: Impact booster, 3A strategic management Consultants and Agribusiness Booster

The partners 3A strategic iMPACT Booster: Agribusiness Booster: management iMPACT Booster, is a Agribusiness Booster Consultants: business accelerator that actively participates in local provides the expertise, SMEs in Asia, Africa and Over the last 15 years, the hands-on support and Latin-America. Our mission company and the people connections to help your is to create local jobs, global behind it have provided business enter emerging networks and a sustainable consultancy services in economies. We guide impact combined with Africa: Uganda, Kenya, great innovations economic returns. Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, through the pioneer gap South Sudan, Malawi and and turn sustainable South Africa. ideas into profitable companies.

Findings from the Inception phase The main changes as described in this inception report are proposed based on tested assumptions and to mitigate risks. 1. Development irrigation schemes: Although not all irrigation schemes are developed to the same level, we propose to work with all five regions and focus on areas around the scheme and also outside the scheme. 2. Education and knowledge level: In the design of the curriculum the knowledge level has been taken into account, meaning some of our existing e-learning modules do not apply to the target group. The curriculum as well as the trainings are designed with a focus on application which fits with the pragmatic way of learning of the target group.

Findings from the Inception phase ...Continued 3. Internet access: Since the internet access and computer savviness is low in the regions the proposed platforms IBA and Babele will not suit the needs of the program. The application form will be provided to the entrepreneurs in both an on- and offline version. 4. Small pipeline: In the recruitment we aim for existing agripreneurs, agripreneurs with good business ideas and also encourage entrepreneurial people to enroll for whom we distinguished a couple of scalable and replicable business concepts they could take up. Also we will allow a larger group to enter the bootcamp and the training program in order to generate enough quality pipeline to reach 90 funded enterprises. 5. Investment fund: Through multiple consultations with several government bodies the preferred structure will change from the structure in the initial proposal. Consultations with relevant these agencies, the proposed new structure was preferred. The fund will be disbursed through commercial bank(s) with MWE as the account holder.

The program is built upon 5 stages 1. Selection 2. Get ready Phase 3. Boot camp, to kick off with final selection 4. Validation Phase 5. Pitching for investment committee

ENABLE YOUTH Curriculum Curriculum development A tailor made curriculum has been developed together with 5 suppliers that were selected by the target audience during a pilot training week.

ENABLE YOUTH Curriculum Curriculum consists of three building blocks Business Skills: Business modeling , Financing and repayment , Business registration (trading license, URA), criteria for the loan handout, Start business activities, Create a support network Soft Skills: Interpersonal relations, Presentation / Pitching skills, Storytelling, Facilitation and training skills, Being a role-model, Gender balanced business Technical skills: Value addition, Storage, Processing, Use of technologies (in collaboration with technical/private sector partners), Climate Smart agriculture

Training content Modules will consist of a mix of different activities, such as: - Relevant knowledge, skills and mindsets - Exposure visiting to companies/ businesses - Inspirational talks by guest speakers - Practical learning on the job - Peer feedback - Mentoring by market players - Prototyping, and testing

Training and mentoring Trainers and mentors will be trained extensively beforehand on facilitation skills, coaching and mentoring skills, curriculum understanding and proper use of available tools. Training: Use a training of trainers approach. Mentoring: Strong preference for local mentors

Business Case Selection Offer the following options : 1. Entrepreneurs that already have an enterprise 2. Business Cases with pre-arranged market access, such as: - Solar fruit drying - Fish farming - Bee keeping - cotton processing - Coffee trading 3. Develop new product processing a mix of available commodities 4. Agricultural Support Services, mechanization/marketing

Assessment of trainees The assessments will be broken down in 3 aspects 1. Self-assessment 2. Peer-assessment 3. External assessment

PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3 PHASE 4 PHASE 5 BOOTCAMP PHASE VALIDATION STAGE PITCHING SCALING PHASE INCEPTION (1 week) (4 months) (1 week) (1.5 year) SELECTION (1 month) Pitching & Coach & Mentor Boot camp Business skills Soft skills Technical training Assessment Selection (18 days) (5 days) (3 days) (3 days) (12 days) (1 day) (1 day) TEAM A TEAM B TEAM B TEAM B TEAM C TEAM D TEAM D Content Content Content Content Content Content Content Business modeling Assessment and Problem solving Technical skills Coaching Interpersonal Financing and repayment Selection Business models Value addition Pitching / Peer-to-peer relations Business registration Social enterprises Storage selection day mentoring Presentation skills Pitch workshop (trading license, URA), Lean Validation Processing Implementation Storytelling Leadership, Criteria for loan handout Financial modeling & planning Use of Awarding loan Financial man Facilitation skills Networking Start business activities (incl. record keeping, saving, loan technologies Repayment Repayment Be a role-model Sales Create a support network management, disbursement 8.000 Climate smart Scaling up Gender balanced USD) agriculture Collecting stories business 10/12 people per Business case selection of change day, assess based Market assessment Every 2 weeks training weekend Each module on expert Team work a mix of: 8 weekends / 8 modules contains: assessment Networking - self-managed 25% technical (observation) and Negotiating inter vision Split in 3 value chains groups: (knowledge/skills) peer selection – peer-to-peer 75% training in value chain group 25% market Program information on training coaching 25% training in bigger group exposure (visits, and funding structure - group mentorship speakers, real-life Pre-arranged business cases (e-clubs) Recurring activities in each module: practice) - refine the pitch 50% mindset / - refine business plan (1 page) attitude / leadership 50 candidate s 40 candidate s 30 candidate s 20 candidate s - assessment and self-assessment - market confrontation (outside) 10 50 candidate candidate

Selection process

Selection Selection No of selected round agripreneurs Round 1 All applicants will answer the application questionnaire; Every question 50 generates points and the 50 candidates with the highest points will be invited for selection round 2 Round 2 All applicants will be invited for a selection day that consists of two 40 parts: 1/ active workshop in small groups and 2/ pitching contest. We will have 3 - 5 assessors around for the whole day that will rate all candidates on their performance during that day. Round 3 Bootcamp participation. After the intense 5 day bootcamp experience a 30 final selection for the program is made. This selection will be based upon the reports of: • The participating trainers and experts • The candidates will rate their peers Round 4 The remaining candidates will pitch to the Investment Committee (IC); 25

Selection criteria ■ Individual (potential) ■ Ambition and skills (potential ) ■ Realistic expectations of potential of meaningful income generation and customers / contract opportunities ■ Minimum 10% own contribution to expected investment costs ■ Scalability ■ Linkages to climate-smart agriculture and/or climate resilience planning in business models will be given a preference ■ Potential outreach to large network of smallholders, many of whom are women