Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education

Application Form

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A. Submission Details

Title*

First Name*

Last Name*

Position in Company*

Email address*

Confirm Email address*

Business telephone (incl. country code)*

Cell/mobile number (incl. country code)

Office mailing address*

Country*

B. Organisation Information

The following answers will not be evaluated, but will provide our judges with more information about your organisation.

B1. About your organisation

Name of organisation*

Website link (please use full URL including http://)*

Number of full time employees*

Number of volunteers*

Annual income (please state in US$ and do not use spaces or commas)*

Percentage of income from grants and donations*

Percentage of self-generated income"*

Type of organisation*

School (Primary/Secondary)

Non-Governmental Organisation

Community-Based Organisation

Tertiary institution

Private Company

Statutory or Government Body

Other (please specify)

Date Founded (YYYY)*

Please describe your top two income generating activities (100 words max)*

B2. History and rationale

Provide a brief history of your organisation: please include information on why and how it was established as well as your vision and mission statements. 250 words maximum.*

B3. Your partners and participants

Please explain the network of organisations you work with and specify their roles in implementing your programme or project. 250 words maximum.*

Please provide the numbers for the three most common types of external organisations you work with.*

Schools

Non-Governmental Organisations

Government

Businesses

Other

How many people directly benefited from your projects or programmes last year?*

Approximately how many people in the wider community indirectly benefited from your work last year?*

Please briefly explain how you recruit participants for your projects or programmes. 250 words maximum.*

C. Achievements

The following answers will be evaluated by our judges. Please refer to our application information pack and guidance notes accompanying each question for support on this section of the application.

C1. Entrepreneurship

Describe your educational model for fostering entrepreneurship, business knowledge and business experience in young people.* Guidance notes

You may want to explain one or more of the following points:

Your innovative ways of tackling problems in education through entrepreneurship?
How you help young people learn entrepreneurial and business skills?
How you provide real-life or hands-on business experience for young people
How you empower future generations of entrepreneurs?
How your organisation is raising awareness of entrepreneurial education in your region?

Describe any innovative/entrepreneurial ways in which you fund your work (if applicable).* Guidance notes

You may want to explain one or more of the following points:

How you finance or support education through entrepreneurial activities?
How you cover your organisational costs through income generation or unique fundraising activities?
What are your strategic goals that involve making and/or retaining income for your project or programme and its longevity?

C2. Sustainability

In what ways is your work in the field of education and entrepreneurship sustainable? (Please provide figures and examples when possible).* Guidance notes

You may want to explain one or more of the following points:

How is your work financially sustainable - how are you able generate the funds to run your own programmes and plan for your work continues to be funded in the future?
Does your project or programme have the ability to be continued each year and generate revenue for your organisation?
How is your work socially sustainable - are you able to maintain and grow beneficiary numbers year upon year?
How is your work environmentally sustainable - do your programmes or projects work to reduce waste, protect the environment and teach participants environmentally sustainable values?

C3. Impact

What have been the major educational and economic impacts of your work? Please provide qualitative and quantitative examples of your impact.* Guidance notes

Evidence to support your answers can include:

Improvement in academic performance, enrollment and retention
Fiscal results from entrepreneurial activities
Growth in number of participants, graduates and beneficiaries through programmes or projects
Examples of participant success stories
Examples of social enterprise impact
Examples of how you measure, evaluate and collect data on your impact

C4. Future Development

Should your organisation win the Pan African Awards, how would you utilise the prize money?* Guidance notes

What are your future plans for your programme or project and how would winning this award help scale and affect the growth and sustainability of your work?

D. Contact Details for Independent Referee

Please see sections 1.4-7 of the competition Terms and Conditions for more information on choosing a referee.

Title of referee*

First name of referee*

Last name of referee*

Job Title/Position*

Name of institution*

Type of institution*

Postal address of institution*

Country*

Telephone (incl. country code)*

Email*