The Design and Technology Institute (DTI) and the Mastercard Foundation today announced winners of the Community Innovative Competition. The initiative is a business pitch and accelerated program designed to identify and scale promising women and youth-led enterprises with the potential to create sustainable employment for young Ghanaians.
The program honours learners and enterprises with innovative and creative ideas in key thematic sectors of the economy including agriculture, water and sanitation, plastics recycling, e-waste, and other related industries. Participants, as part of the program, were involved in in-depth sector research and engagement with communities to co-design youth-led solutions for community-based problems.
Through the DTI’s Community Innovation Hub, these emerging businesses will serve as a pipeline to unearth youth entrepreneurs who will act as enablers in…