Sukuma Afrika Campaign

Sukuma Afrika Young Entrepreneurs Competition Campaign

The Young Entrepreneurs Awards

Sukuma Afrika was established in recognition of the critical role young entrepreneurs and the Diaspora play in the fight against poverty as the generation that will be responsible for reaching the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. The competition encourages young people across Africa to engage in ventures with a social angle and is opened to African youth up to 35 y/o presenting a for-profit business model which contributes to one of the MDGs

The competition is organized in 5 categories

Category MDG 1 on poverty and hunger
Category MDG 2 on education
Category MDG 3 on gender equality
Category MDG 4,5,6 on health related issues
Category MDG 7 on environment

The Awards Ceremony

The competition aims to bring exposure to the outstanding efforts of the winners and to connect them with stakeholders in a position to help them expand their businesses. To that end, Sukuma Afrika targets prime events to hold its yearly awards ceremony.

Exceptionally, the 2010 award ceremony will be held with participating partners UN Office of Partnerships, UN Global Compact and UN Millennium Campaign at an event organised by Africa Investors at the New York Stock Exchange on 17 September, around the UN General Assembly which focused this year on the MDG review.

150 Business and government leaders, Senior UN representatives and the US Institutional Investment Community will attend this event and the media will be well represented with Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, CNN and other major titles, all of which have booths at the venue.

The Competition timeline

23th April 2010: Opening Call-to-entries
28th June 2010: Closing Call-to-entries
30th June 2010: Announcement of the shortlisted candidate selected by the Sukuma Afrika Team
30th July 2010: Announcement of the finalists after Jury Deliberation
17th September 2010: Awards Ceremony

Application process

Simply download the application form and the declaration of non-prosecution, fill it in and return it before 28th June 2010 to competition@sukumaafrika.org 

Application form

Declaration of non prosecution 

Competition judges

Mr. Charles Akelyira- Director - UN Millennium Campaign Africa
Mrs Mtoba – Chairman, Deloitte South Africa
Dr. Pauline Jansen – President, Africa Youth Foundation
Mr. Lamesh Mbise – Vice President, Junior Achievement
Mr. Ato Afful - Managing Director - Dialog
Mr. Iqbal Survé – Chairman – Sekunjalo Capital
Mr. Desi Lopez Fafie - Managing Director - Oracle Africa, Chairman - Junior Achievement Africa Board
Mr. Acha Leke - Partner - MC Kinsey&CO South Africa
Mr. William Asiko - President of the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation

Shortlisted for 2010 Competition