The Ministry of Youth and Culture in partnership with UNDP and KOICA has established the young entrepreneurs’ resilience Fund that will support to resist negative effects of COVID-19; this intervention was designed based on ideas that came from the rapid assessment done to evaluate effects of COVID-19 on young business’ operations.

The fund is targeting to support 2 segments of young entrepreneurs:

1. Existing impactful youth owned businesses provenly affected by COVID-19.
(2) Youth innovations created as a response to COVID-19 lifestyle and requirements.

Eligibility Criteria:

– The Young entrepreneurs Resilience Fund is open to all Rwandan youth aged between 16 and 30 (for new innovations as response to COVID-19) and 16-35 (for existing entrepreneurs affected by COVID-19)

– The applicant must be living in Rwanda

– Must possess a National Identity, email address and telephone number

– Must be willing to provide all necessary information regarding the business when we ask for

– The business must have been in operation before January 2019 (for existing businesses)

– The business must be market tested project

Your answers will help to identify young entrepreneurs to be supported. Thus, you are requested to:

(1) Kindly provide full and accurate information

(2)  Be careful of instruction of each question

(3)  For those who will not finish the process, their application will not be recorded/considered

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