22/05/2026
🚀 IYBA-SEED Program | BDS have begun supporting SEED companies!
Following the SEED selection phase, we are pleased to announce that BDS providers began supporting their beneficiary companies a few weeks ago.
Over the course of 7 months, nearly 50 SEED companies from Benin 🇧🇯, Togo 🇹🇬, Senegal 🇸🇳, South Africa 🇿🇦, and Kenya 🇰🇪, operating in green industries, will receive strategic support to help them expand into new markets or establish the necessary structures to reach a level of maturity compatible with regional growth.
In this context, the BDS providers carry out several activities:
▶️ Diagnostic sessions
▶️ Targeted training
▶️ Etc.
At the request of their SEED, they can also call upon subject-matter experts mobilized by Bond’innov as part of the program, on the following topics: Market Access / Regulation, Financing / Investment, and Green Industries.
At the end of this phase, several initiatives will be launched to recognize the top-performing SEEDs as well as the most committed BDS providers.
We’ll keep you updated very soon! In the meantime, find more information about the program here:
▶️ Empowering Green Entrepreneurs with Local and National SAEs - A Regional Program to Promote Sustainable Growth in Africa => https://www.iyba-seed.eu/en/empowering-green-entrepreneurs-through-bds-providers-a-regional-programme-to-drive-sustainable
▶️ Comparative study on green industries: opportunities and growth trajectories in Africa => https://www.iyba-seed.eu/en/green-industry-benchmark-study-opportunities-and-scaling-pathways-in-africa
👏 A big round of applause to the BDS providers providers for their dedication and the quality of their ongoing work: Jones Bosire, Godfrey Simiyu, Wilkister Adie, Felix Siwa, George Wayne, Susan Murugi, Melanie Veness, Lucrisha Polton, Masakhane Mlamla, Grant Minnie, Dr Soyibou NDAO, Ayodélé Ognin, Teerraafrica, Jessica GABA, Ruth Ouma (CHRP-K), Easter Okech, Cosme Cakpo, Carla Douhadji, Koffi Wisdom Mawudeku.
IYBA SEED Project, Enabel, The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Gouvernement, Expertise France, SNV, L'Union Européenne (UE), Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation