Green RISE Africa

Green RISE (Resilient Impact through Sustainable Entrepreneurship) Africa is a five-year programme to enable access to dignified and fulfilling work opportunities in the green sector for 443,200 young people in Africa. The programme supports community-rooted, youth-serving entrepreneurial ventures that deploy scalable climate solutions and technologies. It targets rural and peri-urban areas and aims for 70 percent of beneficiaries to be young women. The programme will operate across 15 target countries.

Enables access to dignified and fulfilling work opportunities in the green sector; support for community-rooted, youth-serving entrepreneurial ventures with scalable climate solutions and technologies.

Young people in Africa living in poverty in rural and peri-urban areas; the programme aims to reach 443,200 young people with 70 percent being young women.