The Social & Inclusive Business Camp, funded by the Agence Française du Développement (AFD), offers every year to 60 social entrepreneurs the tools and coaching to accelerate their projects on the continent. Today, AFD has placed its trust in Investisseurs & Partenaires, African Management Institute (AMI), ScaleChanger and StartupBRICS to implement the program. With a strong pedagogical team and an in-depth knowledge of African entrepreneurship, the consortium will endorse SIBC’s values to support closely African entrepreneurs in their acceleration.
By joining the SIBC, you will meet entrepreneurs, experts, investors, international partners and will have many opportunities to exchange and learn from your peers. You too, be part of the adventure of the Social & Inclusive Business Camp!
What is the SIBC ?
A hybrid acceleration program for scaling up:
☑ 3 months of interactive e-learning program
☑ 1 tailor-made mentoring program for each entrepreneur
☑ 1 week of intensive bootcamp in Marseille, in partnership with the Summit EMERGING Valley
☑ Joining an active and ambitious international community of entrepreneurs!
4 key thematics:
🤝 Leadership: become a leader, structure your governance and your internal organization to accelerate your growth
🚀 Scaling Up: adapte your business model and build your your scaling up strategy in order to maximize your impact
💸 Investment Readiness: identify its financing needs, understand investors’ expectations and prepare to fundraising
🎯 Impact: measure your social performance, in link with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and maximize your impact
For who ?
The social enterprise has to :
Be based or have an impact in Africa,
Have a social mission as well as a medium/long term profitability objective,
Has to justify 3 years of practice,
Has to present a regional or international scale up strategy, including a reflection on governance and leadership,
Ideally, offers a social innovation or innovative approach
Objectives of the bootcamp:
Improve
Improve your business model and leadership through concrete operational tools and new management techniques.
Inspire
Get inspiration and ideas from entrepreneurs, innovative business models, new financing tools.
Enjoy
Enjoy free coaching from experts and peer on your project and challenges.
Open
Open up to new perspectives through inspiring workshops and testimonials.
Increase
Increase your proficiency on last mile distribution, digital and marketing or agile methodology for start ups.
Build
Building a common advocacy work to develop the African social business community and expand its network.
An initiative of AFD group : 
AFD is the French development bank. Public and solidary, it is committed to projects that improve the daily lives of populations in developing countries, emerging countries and overseas. The AFD accompanies the transition to a more secure, just and lasting world, a world in common. Its action is fully in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Proparco, a subsidiary of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) dedicated to the private sector, has been involved in sustainable development for 40 years. Present in 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, it participates in the financing and support of companies and financial institutions.
In recent years, the Agence Française de Développement and Proparco have been heavily approached by the private sector to accompany and support Social Business initiatives in developing countries.
AFD Group aims to finance projects with social impact, to attract new committed actors and to foster the development of a more inclusive economy.
Our team
Isadora Bigourdan
Team Leader / Social & Inclusive Business Camp
SOCIAL BUSINESS _CAMP
Mathilde Jacquemin
Program coordinator
Investisseurs & Partenaires m.jacquemin@ietp.com
