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The Tony Elumelu Foundation

🇪🇺 NIGERIARegistered 24/012 staff
Disclosed budget
€6,500,000
Meetings 12mo
0
Policy files
3
Accredited passes
0

Recent meetings

DateCommissioner / CabinetTopicFile
11 Jul 2024
Margrethe Vestager
Executive Vice-President
Discussion about the ongoing collaboration between the Commission and the Foundation
11 Jul 2024
Margrethe Vestager
Executive Vice-President
Discussion about the ongoing collaboration between the Commission and the FoundationSRC
09 Jul 2024
Koen Doens
Director-General
Ongoing partnership
09 Jul 2024
Koen Doens
Director-General
Ongoing partnershipSRC
30 Apr 2024
Koen Doens
Director-General
Transformative impact across Africa of inaugural EU Partnership with TEF, WE4A1 and continuous spreading of awareness of this impact ; ongoing EU Partnership with TEF, WE4A2 focusing on Gender and Green.
30 Apr 2024
Koen Doens
Director-General
Transformative impact across Africa of inaugural EU Partnership with TEF, WE4A1 and continuous spreading of awareness of this impact ; ongoing EU Partnership with TEF, WE4A2 focusing on Gender and Green.SRC

Mission & Goals

The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation across all 54 African countries, and increasing women economic empowerment. Since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, the Foundation has trained over 2.5 million young Africans on its digital hub, TEFConnect, and disbursed over USD$100 million in direct funding to 21,000 African women and men, who have collectively created up to 1.5million direct and indirect jobs. The Foundation’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the African continent.

EU Legislative Interests

1. Investing in Young Businesses in Africa (IYBA)

Communication Activities

1. The Foundation typically hosts events on its partnership with the EU and GIZ. These range from in person meetings and campaigns to press releases on our work as well as research publications on our partnership and its impact. As seen below - https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/research-publications/the-tony-elumelu-foundation-hosts-delegation-of-european-union-partners-at-prestigious-event-in-abuja https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/news/tony-elumelu-foundation-joins-eu-uganda-business-forum-to-launch-we4a-ii-programme https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/news/we4a-ii-frequently-asked-questions-faqs https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/women-entrepreneurship-for-africa.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

The Foundation is not a part of any associations, (con)federations, networks and other bodies.

Organisation Members

Please see below a link to a webpage with information about the Foundation's partners https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/partners

Connected Legislation