Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

The Small Enterprises Development Company (SEDCO) is a public enterprise that is wholly owned by the Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini.  SEDCO is an organization established to create, develop and promote Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Kingdom of Eswatini and exists primarily to stimulate homegrown entrepreneurship with sustainable economic growth through entrepreneurship development and growth. 

SEDCO provides the following interventions to MSMEs:

• Capacity Development
• Business Counselling & Advisory
• Legal Consultation & Advisory
• Business Incubation
• Business

Junior Achievement Eswatini (JAE), exists for the purpose of equipping the youth with much needed financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship skills, enabling the youth to contribute and succeed in the local and global economy. JAE is a not for profit organisation, and a member of JA Worldwide. JA is an organization that offers business and entrepreneurial education programs to young people aged between 14-35 years. JA is a trend-setter in investing and encouraging young people to own their future economic success in the 21st-century global marketplace by focusing on the impact

The Global Entrepreneurship Network Namibia operates the GEN Accelerates platform support for women and youth-led programs in Namibia aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a business. By fostering deeper cross-border collaboration and initiatives between entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers, and entrepreneurial support organizations, GEN works to fuel healthier start and scale ecosystems that create more jobs, educate individuals, accelerate innovation and strengthen economic growth.

Relationships Inspiring Social Enterprise (Rise) is a US and Lesotho registered non-profit social enterprise. Through professional networks in the design and architecture industry, Rise links aspiring entrepreneurs in vulnerable communities in low income sub-Saharan African countries to essential resources they do not otherwise have access to. Resources provided include technical and soft skills, business and entrepreneurship training, work experience in the built environment sector, mentorship, referrals to customers, access to market and other business incubation services. 

Rise Offerings: 

Isle is an independent technology and innovation consultancy that brings together technical and commercial specialists to facilitate relationships. Isle teams are highly skilled engineers and scientists with extensive and diverse consulting expertise.

Isle’s core capabilities lie in:

• Identifying, qualifying and quantifying market opportunities;
• Identifying and assessing novel technological solutions;
• Facilitating relationships to accelerate technology development and commercialisation, including co-ordinating, managing and delivering innovation projects;
• Maintaining relationships with a

The global Technology Approval Group (TAG) is a forum for connecting innovators with people whose job it is to seek out new technology on behalf of large public and private sector organisations. Current themes include municipal water/wastewater, industrial water, and cleantech in the built environment.

The TAG programme is funded by over 150 large organisations around the world. Technology companies participate for free, and innovations are considered purely on technical and commercial merit. 

Participation benefits:

• Unique opportunity to connect directly with potential customers
• Acceler

The Indalopreneurs Just Transition Enterprise Support Programme (I-JTEP) is implemented as a part of the Strategic Partnership for the implementation of the Paris Agreement (SPIPA) programme.

Its central objective is to contribute efforts that enable South African businesses to develop innovations that facilitate a just transition,  and it seeks to support entrepreneurs within the Limpopo and Mpumalanga coal-dependent communities and value chains.

The programme is financially supported by the European Union’s Partnership Instrument and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature

Endeavor South Africa is a mission-driven, global organization leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in the country. The values that guide Endeavor start with putting entrepreneurs first because they are an organization of, by and for entrepreneurs. Endeavor is built on a network of mutual trust and respect and constantly strives to multiply impact where ever possible while always looking to pay it forward.

Endeavor assists Entrepreneurs with the following:

Mentors and Networks – that provide expert mentorship to founders on strategy and execution as well as market access

The Royal Science and Technology Park (RST) is a public enterprise whose function is to foster the conception of inventions and facilitate their patenting and help knit various elements of the R&DRST  cluster together. RSTP provides a focal point for research, facilitate the links between research and industrial communities and stimulate the development of knowledge-based businesses through the incubation of techno-preneurship and high-tech enterprises.

RST serves to: 

• Stimulate and pursue research on the commercialization potential of indigenous plants and animals
• Enhance sustainable use

Enactus is the world’s largest experiential learning platform dedicated to creating a better world while developing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders and social innovators. The Enactus network of global business, academic and student leaders are unified by our vision—to create a better, more sustainable world.

Active Enactus Teams in Eswatini: 

• Gwamile Vocational and Commercial Training Institute (VOCTIM)
• Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
• Southern Africa Nazarene University
• Swaziland College of Technology
• University of Swaziland - Kwaluseni
• University of