The Restoration Factory is a six-month digital business incubation program designed to support the emergence of commercially viable, community-inclusive, and climate-resilient businesses with the potential to restore natural ecosystems and preserve landscapes in Rwanda.
The UN Environment program in partnership with Bridge for Billions, with technical support from Stewardship Agribusiness Incubation Center, is implementing The Restoration Factory Program in Rwanda to support early stage eco-preneurs in the country.
This program aims to support enterprises within the macro sectors of Forest Restoration and Landscape Conservation. Key subsectors include, but are not limited to:
Connect with other entrepreneurs and mentors to build a strong business network. Learn. Share and grow together.
Entrepreneurship can be lonely. Receive advice to guide your business decisions, generate new ideas and propel your business forward.
Learn how to present your project like a pro and compete in front of a jury in our final event.
Discover how to implement a new revenue stream to your existing business.
Learn how to calculate your costs and price points, to drive your profits and growth.
Master how to communicate your project to your potential customers.
Acquire skills to calculate your business finances for the next 3 years, so you can make the revenue stream launch a success.
Uncover how your business can positively impact your community, and make strong community connections to drive growth for all.
Strategize to diversify your revenue streams, scale your operations, and attract new customers.
Start by clicking on the “Apply now!” button.
Fill in your personal information to set up an account on our platform.
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Complete all sections of the application, thoroughly filling out each answer.
Once completed, all the checkmarks at the top will turn blue, indicating that you’re ready to submit.
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We recommend that you review your application in detail one last time. If you’re good to go, click “Submit” in the lower right corner.
Our team will be in touch with a notification about the status of your application.
About UNEP
For 50 years, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has coordinated a worldwide effort to confront the planet’s biggest environmental challenges.
Its mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
About Bridge for Billions
Bridge for Billions, one of the largest entrepreneurship networks in the world, creates, designs and manages innovation programs with foundations, corporations and public entities that have benefited more than 2,900 entrepreneurs in more than 98 countries. Its objective is to facilitate access to entrepreneurial support for all types of entrepreneurs with a common purpose: boost innovation that solves the problems that truly matter and generate employment.
About SAIC
Established in 2020, Stewardship Agribusiness Incubation Center (SAIC) is a Business Development and Services Center. The company was established to support the positive transformation of Agri-Food Systems through holistic and circular agribusinesses throughout chain management from inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides) and services delivery (extension, internal systems strengthening, logistics, transport, postharvest handling, etc.), production management for both crops and livestock, marketing and value addition; sustainability management and innovation to speed up green jobs creation and adapt to the changing climate.
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean. It can help to end poverty, combat climate change and prevent mass extinction.
Find out more here: https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/
Restoration enterprises put ecosystems’ restoration at the heart of their business model and operations. Further information on the need, role, and opportunities for restorative businesses is available from the platform of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration:
https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/types-ecosystem-restoration
The Restoration Factory is a mentoring and business incubation support program that assists entrepreneurs in developing enticing and attractive business models focused on the landscapes and ecosystems restoration.
If you want to get involved with this program please connect directly with Afia, Program Manager of the Restoration Factory Program.
We are now during the selection process, this means that out of all the applications we received from both entrepreneurs and mentors we will select the program participants.
Entrepreneurs offer solutions in the following sectors: goods (high-value crops and ingredients used for medicinal purposes, vegetation and livestock products, and upcycling of waste), and services (watershed services and ecotourism).
Connect directly with Christelle Igihozo, Program Manager at Bridge for Billions of the Restoration Factory Program.
