Feasibility Study on support to Business Incubators in Eastern and Southern Africa

The main objective of this project is to support entrepreneurship and the creation of start-ups (MSEs), decent jobs and inclusive and sustainable growth in the EA-SA-IO region, more specifically through conducting a feasibility study on supporting the establishment or consolidation of business incubators in six partner countries: Angola, Lesotho, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Zambia and Somalia. This feasibility should assist the EU in structuring and formulating its intervention modality and funding instruments towards incubators and selected value chains in the six countries. To this end, a team of six consultant is mobilized to carry out the following activities: 1. Analyzing the local context and assessing the local conditions for setting up a (or supporting an existing) business incubator in each of the six partner countries; 2. Providing detailed recommendations for each potential business incubator in terms of; type of incubator, location, type of services/equipment/facilities offered, product/value chain(s)/sector(s) targeted, formal/informal partnerships envisaged, potential incubatees/beneficiaries targeted and selection modalities, provision of sources of finance or facilitation of access to finance for graduated incubatees 3. Providing detailed recommendations for each business incubator in terms of implementing partner(s), implementation modality, project duration, budget, sustainability, results and monitoring framework to help the EU structure its support modality.