Are you an innovative green enterprise creating impact in Lebanon or Jordan? Then this programme might just be for you: We deliver the personalized and long-term support you need to scale-up your operations and become investment-ready. We want to offer you the capacity building, networking and financing opportunities you need to bring your business to the next level.

Why join the accelerator?

Tailored Networks

Benefit from the tailored support of experts specialised in green impact businesses and build relationships with sector partners, clients and investors.

Investment Readiness

Increase your investment readiness across milestones and individual deliverables to have all pre-requisites to raise investments

Market Growth & Impact

Increase client base and deliver on impactful value propositions at scale. Market expansion can be intra/intersectorial and/or geographic.

Long Term Regional Support

We offer continuous training, coaching and exposure opportunities across numerous countries in the MENA region and beyond.

Do I fit in?

We are looking for enterprises that provide innovative solutions related to environmental and social challenges in Lebanon and Jordan. Check the examples below to assess if you might fit our participant profile:

Water & Sanitation
Enterprises that offer solutions related to sourcing, storage, treatment, distribution, maintenance, reuse, hygiene and other support services or products.
Waste & Circular Economy
Enterprises that offer solutions related to sustainable product management, recycling, upcycling, reuse, prevention and redistribution solutions.
Agriculture
Enterprises that offer solutions such as on-farm water efficiency, smart farming technologies, aggregation models, sustainable farming, food production.
Innovative Energy & Efficiency
Enterprises that offer solutions such as energy management in buildings, decentralized waste to energy solutions, optimisation of renewable energy systems (not solely suppliers of solar PV systems).

Selection Criteria

Solution for environment
We will support businesses that offer innovative, sustainable solutions tackling water, sanitation, waste, agriculture or innovative energy and efficiency challenges.
Geography
You need to be based and operational in at least one of the target countries: Jordan and Lebanon.
Maturity
We will support businesses with a proven track record, initial customer base, recurring sales and solid communication materials. We will only work with market-based businesses with a clear revenue model.
Team
We will prioritize dedicated team players and organizations that are structured and managed in a smart way.
Social and environmental Impact
We will prioritize businesses that directly or indirectly improve services or support sustainable consumption and production, especially benefitting vulnerable groups including low-income customer segments, youth and/or women.
Growth & risk appetite
We are looking for businesses with a hunger to scale, a long-term strategic vision and innovative ideas on how to attain such a vision.

Commitment & Cost

How much time do I have to commit to the participation in the programme?
Participation in the cewas Green Accelerator is a time-intensive endeavour and will require 4h of dedication per week on average, much more for peak moments throughout the programme (e.g. acceleration bootcamp, technical assistance, etc.). In addition, participants need to be present full-time for some of the programme components – i.e. the face-to-face bootcamp in Jordan – which will last 5 full days in a row. Availability to travel for these trainings is a precondition. The programme starts in June 2023 and ends in December 2023.
What does the participation cost?
The participation in the programme itself is free of cost. This means, all direct costs related with the participation in the acceleration programme – trainings, networking events, coaching sessions, etc. – are covered by us. A minor cost-sharing fee of USD 120 will be collected per enterprise in the face-to-face bootcamp in Jordan.
Who from my team should participate?
Working with us is intense and we need your CEO or an adequate representation (e.g. Co-founder, business development director, etc.) to participate as single point of contact during the entire duration of the programme, especially for key events (bootcamps, pitching events, etc.).

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