12 Ghanaian entrepreneurs in climate change adaptation and mitigation businesses have graduated from the maiden Mowgli mentorship programme.

The programme done in collaboration with the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) is to enable the green entrepreneurs increase competitiveness and participate in global innovations.

The entrepreneurs were matched with 12 volunteer mentors who took them through six months intensive training on how to develop their businesses into a profitable venture.

Funded by a grant from the Governments of Denmark and the Netherlands through the World Bank, and managed by a consortium comprising Ashesi University College, Ernst and Young, SNV Ghana and the United Nations University, the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) is a pioneering business incubator with a unique focus of developing SME ventures and entrepreneurs in Ghana’s ‘Green Economy’.

GCIC supports private business ventures involved in climate change adaptation and mitigation and focuses in five key economic sectors (energy efficiency & renewable energy; solar power; climate smart agriculture; waste management; waste purification and management)

In a speech read on her behave, Chief Executive Officer of Mowgli Mentoring, Kathleen Bury congratulated the mentees for their dedication to the programme.

She revealed that, after the training, most of them have created new jobs reducing the employment situation in Ghana.

The Mowgli Mentoring CEO was elated the mentees are ready to mentor others who did not have the opportunity to be part of the programme.

Kathleen Bury commended the mentors for dedicating their time and resources to pass on knowledge to the green entrepreneurs.

Below is the list of awards and the winners;

1. Most Promising Entrepreneur Award Awarded to the entrepreneur who has been proactive in making the most out of mentoring and has shown outstanding commitment to the project as well as took the business to the next level –inclusive of job creation increase and business sustainability.

Winner: Lincon Winimi Peedah

2. Serve to Lead Mentor Award Awarded to a mentor who has embodied serve to lead ethos/value and has been highly proactive in supporting their mentee, has inspired interest in their personal and business challenges, or has sought out and arranged opportunities for their mentee beyond the requirements of the programme, someone who has truly embodied the serve is to lead philosophy of mentoring

Winner: Seth Akumani

3. Most Impactful Mentoring Relationship Award x 2 (Entrepreneur/Mentor) Awarded to a mentor and mentee who have developed a particularly good relationship, shown outstanding commitment and achieved significant goals together. This award will be award to the mentor and mentee within the award-winning relationship

Winner: Simon Turner & Emmanuel Asaam

4. Most Inspirational Mentoring Ambassador Award Awarded to a project participant who actively sought opportunities to support the sustainable development of the mentoring culture in Ghana, build the alumni community, support their peers and embody the serve is to lead philosophy on a wider scale

Winner: Lincon Winimi Peedah

Mowgli Mentoring is a not-for-profit organisation driving inclusive economic and social change in the Middle East and Africa. It beleives mentoring is an essential component of human capital development. 

Mowgli Mentoring provides a supportive framework within which entrepreneurs, corporate employees women and youth can set and achieve their goals.