Organisers of the prestigious Young Entrepreneur Awards have launched the 2023 edition, under the theme ‘Nurturing Ghana’s Rising Business Leaders to Inspire Generations’.
The Young Entrepreneur Awards aims to recognise and celebrate the innovative and enterprising spirit of young entrepreneurs in Ghana while providing a platform to showcase their achievements, inspire others, and foster connections between entrepreneurs, investors and mentors.
The objectives of the awards are centred on motivating and supporting these young business leaders in building sustainable brands that positively impact society.
Solomon Adjei, Team Lead of the organisers, reiterated the need to recognise and celebrate young entrepreneurs, and to create a high-level networking platform to connect them to global opportunities while building their capacities to capture global markets.
He enlisted some of the key benefits of this year’s awards, including strategic brand elevation opportunities, high level networking with investors and global business icons, periodic coaching and mentoring, beautifully designed certificates and plaques, and other juicy packages from sponsors – including a possible sponsored business trip.
Sharing his testimony, Eliphas Kwabena Agyemang, the 2022 Young Entrepreneur of the Year, explained how winning the awards has boasted his confidence, being part of an investor-readiness workshop organised by the organisers, as well as an investor-connect opportunities and top of it all, securing a 5-years United States Visa due to the Young Entrepreneur Awards.
Other participants of previous editions shared their impact stories and expressed utmost gratitude to the organisers.
To be eligible to participate in this awards scheme, your business must be registered and situated in Ghana, must show prove of employment as well as demonstrate innovation and creativity in delivering your products or services to addressing human needs. Most of all, interested entrepreneurs must not be above 50 years of age.
Business registration certificate, business profile/organizational structure, and profiles of key management staff are some of the mandatory documents to submit to the committee as part of the nomination processes.
The Young Entrepreneur Awards 2023 will recognise entrepreneurs from various sectors and categories, including Male Agribusiness Entrepreneur of The Year, Female Agribusiness Entrepreneur of The Year, Construction and Real Estates Entrepreneur, Female Fashion Entrepreneur, Male Fashion Entrepreneur, Female Social Entrepreneur, Female Start-Up Entrepreneur, Female Student Entrepreneur, Green Entrepreneur of The Year, PwD (Persons with Disabilities) Entrepreneur of the Year, Male Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Male Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year, Male Student Entrepreneur of the Year, Manufacturing Entrepreneur of the Year. Male Service Provider Entrepreneur of the Year, Female Service Provider Entrepreneur of the Year, and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year.
To promote entrepreneurship and job creation among Ghanaian creatives and celebrities, the Young Entrepreneur Awards have created the Male and Female Celebrity Entrepreneur of the year to highlight and promote the entrepreneurial ventures of our celebrities – actors, musicians, radio and TV stars, footballers, among others.
The awards will also honour foreigners whose businesses in Ghana are creating employment, in the Non-Ghanaian Young Entrepreneur of the Year category. This year’s awards will also celebrate some key personalities who are spearheading and supporting youth entrepreneurship development in the country.
Mr. Adjei also stated special recognition of regional business leaders in a special Regional Young Entrepreneur of the year categories – Ahafo, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Eastern, Upper East, Western, etc.
The public nominations are expected to end on August 20, after which series of activities – including shortlisting and public endorsements – will be done prior to the awards night on Friday, September 29, 2023. The general public is, however, called upon to nominate deserving entrepreneurs by clicking https://bit.ly/yea2023general while entrepreneurs are highly encouraged to nominate themselves by clicking https://bit.ly/yea2023self.
Mr. Adjei called on corporate Ghana to partner and sponsor them to be able to honour and celebrate the young entrepreneurs creating jobs for the youth, among others.
