Call for Proposals – Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth Learning Forum

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Nigeria.

📋 Description

• Submit proposals for engaging interactive learning sessions at the 2026 Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth forum.

• Contribute to a forum that emphasizes evidence-based learning, adaptability, and the sustainable scaling of interventions.

• Share hands-on experience, credible evidence, transferable tools, and insights from both successes and failures.

• Promote active participant involvement through interactive session formats.

• Enhance the effectiveness, inclusivity, scalability, and sustainability of support for rural women entrepreneurs.

• Generate, disseminate, and utilize evidence-based learning to guide adaptive management practices.

• Strengthen the role of Enterprise Support Organizations as strategic partners in knowledge sharing.

• Compare P2S methodologies with established models from similar development initiatives across Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Encourage open dialogue about successes and challenges to enhance performance among implementation partners.

• Foster networking, collaboration, and future partnerships among Enterprise Support Organizations and other key ecosystem players.

⛳️ Requirements

• Submit a proposal for an interactive learning session at the 2026 Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth forum.

• Proposals should incorporate practical experience, credible evidence, transferable tools, insights from both successes and failures, and actively engage participants.

• Provide innovative, evidence-based learning or significantly build upon existing practices.

• Translate lessons learned into practical tools, recommendations, or modifications.

• Actively engage participants instead of relying solely on lecture-style presentations.

• Include honest reflections on what worked, what did not work, and the reasons behind these outcomes.

• Center the experiences and viewpoints of rural women entrepreneurs, including those from marginalized groups.

• Incorporate diverse perspectives from various countries, sectors, and stakeholder groups whenever possible.

• Connect learning to themes of scaling, sustainability, systems strengthening, localization, and inclusion.

• Eligible submitters include Enterprise Support Organizations, business development service providers, organizations focused on young rural women, financial institutions, investors, fintechs, inclusive finance stakeholders, researchers, universities, government agencies, policymakers, private-sector companies, international development organizations, donors, women entrepreneurs, and entrepreneur networks.

• Proposals should be submitted via the WUSC website or directly via email to kniyomutabazi@wusc.ca, glemma@wusc.ca, and p2s@wusc.ca.

• Submission deadline: 8 October 2026.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to and influence the 2026 Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth Annual Learning Forum.

• Networking and partnership opportunities among Enterprise Support Organizations throughout the continent.

• Chance to share evidence, practical tools, tested methodologies, and insights with relevant stakeholders.

• Participation in a forum centered around co-learning, co-creation, learning adaptation, and collaboration.