Participating in the Greenpreneurs program has opened our minds and enabled us to clearly understand our ideas by streamlining our thinking process.

The 1:1 mentorship opportunities with Zanele Sithole, Dagmar  Zwebe (GGGI Uganda country representative ) and Pragya Dawadi have encouraged and advised us on how to run  a successful social enterprise.

BCRG aims to achieve 3 aspects of sustainable impact.

• Reduce domestic solid waste in communities by collection and sorting for value addition.
• Create local jobs and income for the Ugandan economy by using waste as a raw material for making various eco-friendly products.

Reduce our carbon emissions and the number of toxins released into the environment to curb climate change.

Out of all of the waste generated in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA), only 40% (587,124 tons) is collected and taken to a landfill, leaving 60% uncollected as a result of poor waste management services and urban population growth. This system fails to recognize that waste has many valuable uses.

BCRG is a community social group protecting the environment from the diverse negative effects of domestic solid waste through the best voluntary and involuntary recycling, reduction, and reuse practices.

We supply plastic waste to  partner organizations to produce  building products while degrading waste is used for soil composting and making briquettes for the community.

Uganda is a developing nation with all the associated problems of an urban population increase, including poor solid waste management systems due to unplanned settlements and capacity. We started this project to involve all stakeholders through volunteering or paid jobs for the collection and sorting of waste, to limit landfilling, indiscriminate disposal, and burning of waste which puts the environment at stake.

Connect

Bcrg2021@gmail.com
mukphillips@gmail.com

tw: @ButabikaB
fb: Butabika Community Recycling Group

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“By participating Greenpreneurs, the key takeaway we learned is that business is not only about looking for revenue, but looking for how the business can have a sustainable impact on society and the environment. The 12-weeks program containing learning modules, weekly webinars, 1-on-1 sessions, mentor sessions and weekly tasks helped us grow our entrepreneurship capacity. Greenpreneurs has also expanded our network by connecting us with GGGI country representatives to seek opportunities to develop our products and spread our impact more broadly.”

We create 3 key impacts:

• Reducing GHG Emissions Easy Bike is zero emissions transportation
• Reducing Costs Easy Bike is cheaper than spending money on using fossil fueled transportation
• Save Time Mobile application helps users find electric bicycles nearby that ready to use

We provides electric bicycles ecosystem support for smart and green cities development

“We have been working since 2019. As a new enterprise we are facing investment issues to research our market needs and develop our product. As well, in Indonesia the electric mobility sector is a new business sector. We have a huge opportunity to be a pioneer of electric mobility enterprise in Indonesia.”

Connect

hello@easy-bike.id
easybikeid@gmail.com
easy-bike.id
https://linkedin.com/company/easybikeid/
https://instagram.com/easybike.id/

The aim of the movement is to raise public awareness about the importance of fighting against climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the usage of RE technologies, and making clean energy more accessible and affordable for underprivileged communities.

“Through the Greenpreneurs program we’ve learned that constant communication and validation with our target market is very important in order to build a needed, useful and successful product/solution.”

• Reducing CO2 Emissions – by using clean renewable energy technologies we can reduce CO2 emissions

• Uplifting the lives of the less privileged off-the-grid communities – by providing affordable, safe and renewable clean energy access to the communities

• Mitigating climate change – by spreading awareness about climate change globally we can all collectively mitigate climate change

Providing a platform for every individual or organization is an ideal way to offset their carbon footprint and uplift the lives of the less privileged off-the-grid communities in providing affordable, safe, and sustainable clean energy access.

Connect

https://lightofhopeph.org/
hello@lightofhopeph.org

“I am Joséphine Tine, environmental geographer, social entrepreneur, I have been working in sanitation for almost 3 years and I am the founder of the startup ART PESOUNG.”

ART-PESOUNG is specialized in the construction and sale of ecological toilets based on compressed earth bricks with a new technology of non-drainable pit in rural areas. Our product offers an inclusive emptying service for environmental safety and promotion of the circular economy.

I decided to set up this project as part of a research for a thesis topic on sanitation issues. Thus, I specialized in the construction of ecological toilets to help vulnerable households in rural areas in line with SDG 6.

“Our participation in the Greenpreneurs program, which brings together green entrepreneurs from all around the world, was an opportunity for us to discover the great entrepreneurial sphere via webinar facilitators who shared exceptional, motivating experiences. The program coordinators, mentors, and speakers guided us and made us want to persevere.”

We bring green innovation by working with local authorities and development organizations to facilitate access to sustainable, comfortable, and affordable sanitation facilities for the poorest households. We also establish the CSR of private companies in rural areas in sanitation.

The project is in line with:

• SDG 6 : Water and sanitation for all by 2030.
• SDG 12 : Responsible consumption and production on the transition from a linear economy to circular production.
• SDG 13 : Fight against climate change and promote renewable energy.

We would like also to strengthen the ecological awareness of citizens

Meeting our mentor allowed us to have more self-confidence, to measure myself as a great businesswoman and business leader of great status. This connection also allows us to redefine our customer segment and to review our objectives. The mentor was useful to us as we have a very low level in English.

“In the pursuit of our business, we are faced with the high cost of building materials. The costs must be affordable thus our products are accessible to our target groups ( vulnerable people in rural areas). In addition, most of the partners that we would like to target work only with the State or associations and not with companies.”

Connect

josephinetine89@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/josephine.tine/

artpesoung01@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/ART_Pesoung-SN-108944718016550/

“In our region, recycling is almost non-existent. We set out to optimize the waste managment process, and that implies changing people’s habits. That is always a challenge. Not everyone can find the time to take their waste to recycling centers, much less make it a habit. After testing several models, we came to what ReciclApp is today, the simplest way for people to recycle”.

By using ReciclApp, together we achieve:

1. Recycling more than two-thirds of all waste produced: We divert all your recyclables to the appropriate destination to extend the life of the resources.
2. Minimize greenhouse gases: You can verify through the app the amount of emissions you helped prevent.
3. Being part of the ReciclApp community: Fortunately, good habits are contagious. Once the first users start recycling, everybody else in the community joins in!

ReciclApp: “To inspire and enable every person in the world to protect and secure our planet’s resources”

“Greenpreneurs helped us evolve ReciclApp in the areas we needed. We connected with experts, reviewed our strategy, set up operations, and tested several iterations. We launched our MVP and beta tests in Torreon, Coahuila, while we tested hypotheses and improved our project. Greenpreneurs propelied us to achieve such meaningful results in less than 3 months! Beyond being a worldwide startup competition, this program is a great acceleration for all participants. We’re all contributing to solve the greatest challenge of this generation!”

Connect:

https://reciclapp.com.mx/
https://web.facebook.com/ReciclappMX/
Whatsapp: +52 871 2124965

“The Greenpreneurs 2021 program guided us in establishing customer recognition, customer value-based, experience-based customer segmentation, and target group recognition techniques. This program also introduced us to the concept of non-biased design thinking in any kind of business model.”

Airee is a team of young activists and scientists integrating locally sourced wool air purifier with a natural algae air washer to prevent air pollution related diseases in the 2.3 million living in lethal air pollution. We are mobilizing the opportunity to improve nomads’ livelihoods by creating a scalable value-added product out of sustainably sourced wool, a filter for indoor air purifiers. 

The modern lifestyle requires us to spend 80-90% of our time indoors. Ulaanbaatar population is exposed to building related diseases from poor ventilation and outdoor air pollution 100 times the WHO guidelines, where indoor air is five times worse than the outside. As a result, miscarriages are 3.6 times more likely to happen during pollution season and over 3,500 children suffer from pneumonia annually. Fresh air should not be a luxury. Especially in the safety of your own home or in the delivery room where your baby will take their first breath. We focus on the following 3 pillars of sustainability:

“As a participant in GREENPRENEURS 2021, we have a better understanding about the main concept of building environmentally friendly and sustainable business models. We learned that businesses should not only focus on profits, but should also look to solve social problems through benefiting certain groups (Mongolian rural area herders, National federations of pasture user group of herders).”

• Prevention of indoor air pollution and related diseases [Customer value]
• Reduce plastic wastes [Environmental impact]
• Improve local herders’ livelihood [Social impact]

Airee is the first-ever organic algae and wool-based indoor air purifier and humidifier. It purifies and humidifies Mongolia’s dry, non-ventilated indoor air using locally sourced sustainable raw materials. 

“The necessary infrastructure that will ease the assembly of our product has not been established in Mongolia. This means we currently need to prepare and supply our raw materials. However, we believe the formation of relevant NGOs and federations will open up many opportunities for us.”

Connect

Airee.llc@gmail.com

Applications are now open until April 27th, 23:59 UTC! Find the application form here. Visit www.studentenergy.org/greenpreneurs to learn more about the program.

Is Greenpreneurs affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

Greenpreneurs was developed as a fully virtual, cost-free program from its inception, so that it could be accessible to young people all around the world, at all stages of their education or careers. In 2020, we adapted part of our 12-week online curriculum in response to public health guidelines on social distancing, to fully support teams to develop impactful projects with their teams even if they temporarily do not have access to university facilities, meeting spaces, or the ability to conduct in-person consultations and community engagement activities. Winning teams also received the opportunity to present their final pitches virtually at the Global Green Growth Institute’s Annual Meeting, where they received prize money to scale their social enterprises.

We hope that Greenpreneurs will offer an opportunity for young people to continue building the skills and professional networks that they need to take action, while developing impactful solutions that will build resilience in their communities. In addition to fostering remote teamwork, we will be introducing additional content to equip participants with the tools they need to be effective leaders that can respond to the needs of their communities in a time of multiple global crises.

Learn more about Greenpreneurs experience and our past winning teams here.

How to apply:

Applications are now open and will close on April 27th, 23:59 UTC. Young people between the ages of 17 and 35 can form a team and submit their idea for a solution in the following focus areas:

• sustainable energy
• sustainable landscapes (forestry, marine ecosystems, and agriculture)
• green city development

These priority themes reflect the urgent issues impeding sustainable growth in developing countries, and in achieving climate change targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  While teams may apply from anywhere, priority will be given to teams applying from one of GGGI’s Member Countries.

Learn more: GGGI Partners | GGGI Country Programs

Acknowledging that women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate and development impacts, Greenpreneurs strongly encourages women-led teams to apply for the 12-week online program. If you have any questions, please contact greenpreneurs@studentenergy.org

About the organizations:

The expertise and country network of the Global Green Growth Institute, the 50,000 youth network of Student Energy, and the mentorship and entrepreneurship capacities of Youth Climate Lab provides unprecedented reach and support for green growth entrepreneurship. We all work with the Sustainable Development Goals, climate action and the sustainable energy transition so this coalition is a way to pool our strengths and directly impact the lives of prospective entrepreneurs addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges.

Based in Seoul, Republic of Korea, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization that supports developing country governments transition to a model of economic growth that is environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive. GGGI supports 36 Members to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement.

Greenpreneurs is a unique initiative in GGGI due to its global and multi-sectoral scope, focusing on young entrepreneurs in all GGGI Members.

COMPOST CITY (Cambodia)

Make composting in the city easy and engaging

Theme: Sustainable Landscapes, Green City Development

Team Members: TCHAW Monorom, KHAT Davan, NIL Sangvat Reksa, MORVANT Tony

COMPOST CITY is developing composting equipments and educational programs to help households and schools turn their kitchen waste into compost with ease and appreciation for how nature works.

We are focused on 2 issues: waste management and growing soil disconnection among city dwellers.

• Waste management: household waste in Phnom Penh could be individually composted and reduced by 70%, which could represent collection and transportation cost savings of 30.8 million USD annually for the city. It would also free up arable land and reduce the proportion of wet waste, which would make the recycling and waste-to-energy sectors in Phnom Penh more attractive. Last but not least, citizens would live in a cleaner and more beautiful city.
• Soil disconnection: are the current soil erosion and depletion of natural resources just reflections of our relationship with the soil? Let’s talk about it 🙂

Check COMPOST CITY Facebook page here to get to know the project better or to contact us.

Zonku Technology (UGANDA)

A web, mobile and SMS platform that connects users with waste Pickers.

Theme: Green City Development

Team Members: Daniel Obua Ocari, Gabriel Angura

Plastic waste is a significant problem in East Africa, Currently, about 2-5% of plastic waste in Uganda is recycled while the rest finds its way into water-bodies, causing environmental and health challenges. Zonku Technology collects and recycles single use plastic, ensuring that it gets processed sustainably using circular economy principles. The Zonku mobile app allows homes, schools and businesses to request recycling pickups at the touch of a button. Waste pickers, referred to as ‘Zonku Riders”, then arrange a pick up and transport the collected plastic waste to the Zonku recycling factory where they are turned into plastic pellets and resold to local or international companies to produce repurposed and recycled products. Zonku Riders are trained in environmental sustainability and waste processing, giving them access to decent jobs that benefits both their pockets and the planet. The Zonku mobile app also teaches users how to properly separate waste for efficient processing. Rural communities are incentivized to recycle through cash incentives, call credits and other in-kind benefits. Our vision is to becomes Africa’s leading innovative company focused on plastic recycling. The mission is to innovatively address plastic pollution challenges in Africa using the circular economy model.

UMUTI Paper (Rwanda)

Theme: Sustainable Landscapes

Team Members: Nadine Ndahiro, Arsene Gatera, Irankunda Shema Thierry Henry, Kevin Shema

UMUTI is a Green enterprise that uses banana and plantain trunks that are left over after harvest to create eco-friendly paper packaging bags.

Our business idea came after realizing the effects of human activities on climate change. Over 400 million tonnes of paper we use for writing are produced annually, and 93 percent of them come from Timber, and continuing at this most likely rate, it will take less than a century to deplete the entire tropical forests, which accounts for a third of global oxygen production and serves as habitat to most of our wildlife species.

On the other side, Banana trunks are currently viewed as problematic waste with no other economically viable uses; UMUTI uses a completely sustainable renewable fiber source (i.e., banana tree trunk) that doesn’t contribute to the destruction of natural or purpose-plant forests. The process is also much more environmentally friendly and produces significantly lower costs than comparable products.

RECUBE (India)

Theme: Sustainable Energy

Team Members: Anupriya Nayyar, Lokesh Sambhwani, Nishith Jardosh, Purav Desai & Rahul Batra

Recube is a social enterprise that seeks to revolutionize the way we consume every day. We create smart packaging systems to close the loop and enable circular economy. We aim to eradicate single use disposables in the food, FMCG & E-commerce through our reusable systems.

We have created a circular infrastructure –

• Reduce the resources we use to produce our products and switch renewable sources like Crop Waste
• Reuse products until it can not be refurbished or till the end of its life cycle
• Recycle/Upcycle/Compost the product to achieve complete circularity and close the loop

Our brands, Boxable, Cupable, Eatable and Refillable work on the above objectives across all industries. For each brand, we have manufactured products from pelletized crop waste, used them for atleast 100 washes, and then conducted LCA through our IOT enabled system.

Recube has already diverted 5MN+ disposables from the landfill in our first year of operations by helping 120 brands go zero waste

You can check our work out at: www.recube.co.in / www.cupable.co / www.refillable.store

Travel4Green (Papua New Guinea)

Theme: Sustainable Landscapes, Green City Development

Travel4Green (T4G) PNG is a social enterprise intends to engage in activities on tree planting and monitoring the standing forests to make the environment of Papua New Guinea cities and communities healthier and more livable.

Our work involves nursery tree seedlings, transplanting them and to keep a track of them using a mobile application. Tracking using the mobile application is mostly to identify irregularities and illegal activities and report them to relevant authorities. The tree planting activities intends to achieve a target of 10-million trees by 2030. Also conducting talking sessions on why planting specific species of trees and its significance in addressing the global climate change and using the disruptive technology to harness the conservation of nature and monitoring of irregularities.

The initiative come about when seeing the need to find solutions to increasing land temperatures, poor air quality, lack of parks and green spaces and high unemployment rates in urban centers. As one of the small island state in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea is facing the drastic impacts of climate change.

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/travel4green

Blog: http://t4gpng.blogspot.com/

Website: www.t4gpng.org/

Bestby (United Arab Emirates)

Theme: Green City Development

Team Members: Amna Elnour and Sabira Huda

A huge contributor to food waste is the disposal of foods well before their best by date which otherwise can be salvaged. Bestby recognizes this issue and aims to create an online platform that creates a direct channel between food suppliers and consumers by selling perfectly consumable items approaching their best by date at a discount.

As well as making these salvageable items available to consumers, we want to create a more informed community by enlightening UAE consumers about the severity of food waste. We aim to create a buzz in the conservative circles using digital influencers such as chefs and food bloggers contributing in blog posts, newsletters, social media exposure, and various events that promote the goal of our project.

By prominently engaging with the community, we aspire to help create a well-rounded ecosystem and an eco-conscious society while actively eliminating food waste.

Peec Energy (Uganda)

Theme: Sustainable Energy

Team Members: Philip Kyeswa, Damalie Namatovu, Ronnie Ssejjuko, Gordon Wavamuno

Peec Energy has created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity to everyone. Our novel solution unlocks an unaddressed market for solar, removing the barriers to entry for multi-dwelling residents, and allowing solar providers to service a new and growing market without reliance on other incentives. The project is based on a proven model of offering remote monitoring and metering for solar mini-grids and pay as you go solar home systems (SHS). In this way, we offer PAYG meters to local mini-grid developers to allow them sell energy in off-grid locations and to remotely monitor their utility assets and collect bill payments over a central software.

Roughly 30 million Ugandans still lack access to affordable electricity. About 84% living in rural areas and are low income earners. Despite a number of off-grid solar connections and investment over the past years in Uganda especially, rural electrification has been so slow because local energy utilities like mini-grid developers and PAYG Solar home system installers are limited by challenges of remote monitoring and securing of their energy assets discouraging many to reach under-served rural and last-mile markets leaving millions of households still unconnected.

Peec Energy’s mission is to increase access to electricity in hard-to-reach and underserved markets.

Diversifinca (Colombia)

Disrupting the food chain through sustainable sourcing

Theme: Sustainable landscapes

Team members: Andreea Nowak, Oscar Bautista

Diversifinca is a digital hub bringing together agricultural producers and consumers, built around the impetus to improve rural livelihoods, while caring for nature. Diversifinca works with smallholder farmers in Colombia’s Northern Magdalena region to help them diversify their agricultural systems by combining trees and crops on their farm, to strengthen their technical capacity in sustainable farm management, and to provide them access to a digital-based market. Simultaneously, Diversifinca enables customers to source their food directly from near-by farmers and to reduce their environmental footprint, by planting trees on farms of their choice. We believe that farm diversification is key to livelihoods security and that only by investing in people and nature can we truly create sustainable landscapes.

Hesena (Mexico)

Theme: Green City Development

Team Members: Sabrina Briones, Harald Nielsen

Mexico City is the second city in the world that generates the highest number of waste, accumulating almost 13,000 tons of garbage every day derived from the activity of more than 20 million people who work/live in this capital. We start this project because several people throw away solid waste and heavy plastics -like shampoo bottles- to unusual places like some rivers and street canals in Mexico, causing the drain to plug and flood the streets in rainy months.

Hesena develops and distributes personal hygiene & skin-care products. Our products are natural, cruelty-free and with 95% less plastic than commercial products (some of them are plastic-free). As we were nailing down the idea, we realized that this could have a greater and intrinsic impact that we had not seen before: benefit local communities and farmers that grow our raw materials (such as mexican vanilla, honey, avocado, etc.). So, we are now working with local producers in terms of fair-trade to continue developing new and attractive soaps, shampoos, deodorants, and more.

Contact: hola@hesena.com

Bees&Us (Fiji)

Theme: Sustainable Landscapes

Team Members: Avikesh Jai Kumar, Sherita Sharma, Kartik Nand

It takes more than soil, water, and sunshine to make the world green, in accepting so, agriculture has greatly recognised the value of pollination by bees however the decline in bee population poses a threat to human life.

With noncommunicable diseases accounting for 80% of deaths in Fiji, Fijians, want healthier alternatives. Honey is a natural, sweetener option. Honey and beeswax can also be used in homeopathy as an alternative medicine and skincare solution, due to its natural healing properties.

Our green growth idea aims to offer healthy choices that connect people to nature through integrating bee friendly farming practices in our gardens and products from the hive and creating a harmonious ecosystem.

By pollinating the idea of green and sustainable entrepreneurship within passionate Fijian youth and being a platform for mentorship and support for budding entrepreneurs, we also envision to sweeten and support the dreams of Fijian youth to be financially independent, empowered, and construct a more economically active youth population as positive agents of change in their community.”

Bamboo Labs – Green Mobility (Ethiopia)

Sustainable Bamboo Wheelchairs and Bicycles

Theme: Sustainable Landscape, Green Cities

Team Members: Abel Hailegiorgis, Raffi Dermen, Haimanot Eshetu and Yosef Assefa

With a population of nearly five million, at an increasing rate of 3.8% per year, Addis Ababa is one of the fastest growing metropoles in Africa. Confronted by accelerating rural migration and rapid urbanisation, Addis Ababa cannot respond to the rising mobility demands of a growing population, which has led to an increase in poverty and social inequality.

While Ethiopia struggles with economic development, it currently possesses the largest area of bamboo in East Africa, a resource that it is highly renewable, sustainable, and easy to grow.

Bamboo Labs is a social enterprise that promotes affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems by using renewable resources to create positive environmental impact. Having started as an enterprise that created wheelchairs framed entirely out of bamboo, Bamboo Labs has recently expanded mobility options by offering bamboo bicycles.

Bamboo Labs achieves 3 pillars of sustainable impact:

Improves the livelihoods of individuals and communities by improving mobility.

Creates local jobs and strengthens the Ethiopian economy by using locally grown bamboo.Reduces our carbon footprint and the number of toxins released into the atmosphere.

Bamboo Labs is creating a tangible impact on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and addresses the challenges rising from rapid urbanization to ensure a prosperous, equitable, and sustainable city for the future.

SolarForward (Nepal)

Team Members: Sadikshya Aryal, Sita Subedi, Kuldeep Aryal

Theme: Sustainable Energy

The SolarFroward project is an initiative that aims to provide potential alternative for achieving energy equity to marginalized and at-need off grid communities. We aim to provide access to critical energy infrastructure needs to the Bottom of the Pyramid population of Nepal through our PAYG (pay-as-you- go) solution.

Power Box (Mongolia)

Team Members: Tserendorj Natsagdorj, Khos-Erdene Baatarkhuu, Tselmeg Enkhbayar, Uuganbayar Ganzorig, Chuluuntsetseg Chuluunbaatar

Theme: Sustainable Energy

With the aim to alleviate global energy and economic poverty, Power Box will empower individual entrepreneurs in becoming the agents in electricity creation and allocation, thanks to a renewables based mobile power plant.

We believe that access to sufficient and reliable power is a prerequisite for societies to modernize, industrialize and become productive by reducing labor-intensive activities. With the introduction of Power Box, electricity production will become available in off-grid regions affordably.

Using the trading platform, individual farmers and herders will be empowered to sell their goods directly to end-users, locally and globally, because traceability, storage and transport conditions information will be transparent throughout the supply chain.

Equipped with the various tools of Power Box such as cargo traceability and real-time data, the application of our assembled product could be for the delivery and storage of any temperature sensitive goods including pharmaceuticals.

Most importantly, Power Box is here to offer renewables-based solutions where the cost of energy production is both affordable and equitable in line with current technology evolution in and beyond Mongolia. The primary outcomes of our product include: power generation from solar and wind energy, mobile cold storage for containers, lighting and security cameras, as well as water purification and heating as side benefits.

Devi (India)

Theme: Green City Development

Team Members: Malavika Nair, Karun Gopinath

Devi, led by a University of Oxford graduate and a Graduate Institute, Geneva student, will seek to address the critical menstrual health and hygiene challenges the women of the Indian society face today along with the ill effects on the environment. This intervention will specifically address the access barrier through a comprehensive design and delivery mechanism.

Devi will leverage its reach and network to identify, produce and distribute the most financially viable and environmentally sustainable pad to girls and women of marginalised communities in Karnataka, India. Devi will focus on the production of a disposable pad made out of sugarcane fibre. This fibre can be extensively used as the raw material for sanitary pads, dislodging plastic from menstrual care. As we are employing a cluster-based model, with easy access to the government schools in the vicinity, distribution or logistics costs will be heavily mitigated. With this three-fold program design, it will drive employment within the women of the community, increase access to cost-friendly pads and reduce the burden on the environment by redirecting agro-waste and reducing the disposal of non-biodegradable sanitary waste.

NeuraFarm (Indonesia)

Theme: Sustainable Lanscapes

Team Members: Febi Agil Ifdillah, Lintang Kusuma Pratiwi, Pebriani Artha

Neurafarm is a smart farming company based in Indonesia with a singular mission: to improve productivity and resource use efficiency in the agriculture industry through. We want to end world hunger, increase farmer welfare, and make the world a better place. With the increasing number of global population (expected to be 2 billion more people by 2050 by the FAO), demand for food is growing more than ever before. It means that we have to increase our food production. We believe that we can do that through smart/precision farming. We also believe that precision farming is something that all farmers can do, and we want to enable that.

As the first step, we build a crop management & protection apps, which is powered by Artificial Intelligence to help farmers identify disease from mere images, get comprehensive diagnosis, and treatment recommendation. Farmers can also connect with experts and learn from our catalog of knowledge which consists of thousands disease management best practices in 150 commodities.

Contact us: hi@neurafarm.com

Website: www.neurafarm.com

Download our apps: bit.ly/DownloadTania

“Diversity in education, gender, language, location, origin, culture and nationality will be a very big advantage to any initiative. In my case, my finance background was helpful in sourcing and managing funds, but every colleague in the initiative plays a unique role” – Kakembo Galabuzi Brian

Learn more about WEYE Clean Energy Company and Brian’s story:
A snapshot into the social and environmental impact of the Waste to Energy Youth Project. Video by Kakmebo Galabuzi Brian.

Applications are now open! Find the application form here. Visit www.studentenergy.org/greenpreneurs to learn more about the program.

Will Greenpreneurs be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

Greenpreneurs was developed as a fully virtual, cost-free program from its inception, so that it could be accessible to young people all around the world, at all stages of their education or careers. This year, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges for young people who are passionate about implementing climate change and sustainability solutions in their communities, as many summer learning opportunities, internships and work placements have been interrupted. We hope that Greenpreneurs will offer an opportunity for young people to continue building the skills and professional networks that they need to take action, while developing impactful solutions that will build resilience in their communities.

We are adapting parts of our 12-week online curriculum and skill-building activities in response to public health guidelines on social distancing, to fully support teams that will not have access to university facilities and equipment or meeting spaces. For example, community engagement and consultation are important parts of our 12-week program as it is crucial for developing meaningful, equitable climate solutions, but COVID-19 means that many traditional community engagement methods are not possible for now.

In addition to fostering remote teamwork, we will be introducing additional content to equip participants with the tools they need to be effective leaders that can respond to the needs of their communities in a time of global crisis.

Learn more about Greenpreneurs experience and our past winning teams here.

How to apply:

Applications are now open and will close on April 27th, 11:59 UTC. Young people between the ages of 17 and 35 from one of GGGI’s Members can form a team and submit their idea for a solution in the following focus areas:

• sustainable energy
• sustainable landscapes (forestry and agriculture)
• green cities

These priority themes reflect the urgent issues impeding sustainable growth in developing countries, and in achieving climate change targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Acknowledging that women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate and development impacts, Greenpreneurs strongly encourages women-led teams to apply for the 12-week online program!

If you have any questions, please contact greenpreneurs@studentenergy.org

About the organizations:

The expertise and country network of the Global Green Growth Institute, the 50,000 youth network of Student Energy and the mentorship and entrepreneurship capacities of Youth Climate Lab provides unprecedented reach and support for green growth entrepreneurship. We all work with the Sustainable Development Goals, climate action and the sustainable energy transition so this coalition is a way to pool our strengths and directly impact the lives of prospective entrepreneurs addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges.

Based in Seoul, Republic of Korea, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization that supports developing country governments transition to a model of economic growth that is environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive. GGGI supports 36 Members to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement.

Greenpreneurs is a unique initiative in GGGI due to its global and multi-sectoral scope, focusing on young entrepreneurs in all GGGI Members.