Call for Proposals – Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth Learning Forum

• Submit proposals for interactive learning sessions at the 2026 Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth forum
• Help shape a forum focused on evidence-based learning, adaptation, and sustainable scaling of interventions
• Share practical experience, credible evidence, transferable tools, and lessons from success and failure
• Facilitate active participant engagement through interactive session formats
• Strengthen the effectiveness, inclusiveness, scalability, and sustainability of enterprise support for rural women entrepreneurs
• Generate, share, and apply evidence-based learning to inform adaptive management
• Strengthen Enterprise Support Organizations as strategic knowledge partners
• Benchmark P2S methodologies against proven models from similar development programs across Sub-Saharan Africa
• Promote open discussion of successes and failures to improve performance across implementation partners
• Facilitate networking, collaboration, and future partnerships among Enterprise Support Organizations and other ecosystem actors

• Submit a proposal for an interactive learning session at the 2026 Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth forum
• Proposals should bring practical experience, credible evidence, transferable tools, lessons from both success and failure, and actively engage participants
• Provide new, evidence-based learning or meaningfully build on existing practice
• Translate lessons into practical tools, recommendations, or adaptations
• Engage participants actively rather than relying on lecture-style delivery
• Include candid reflection on what worked, what did not, and why
• Center the realities and perspectives of rural women entrepreneurs, including marginalized groups
• Bring diverse viewpoints across countries, sectors, and stakeholder groups where possible
• Connect learning to scale, sustainability, systems strengthening, localization, and inclusion
• Eligible submitters include Enterprise Support Organizations, business development service providers, organizations working with young rural women, financial institutions, investors, fintechs, inclusive finance actors, researchers, universities, government institutions, policymakers, private-sector companies, international development organizations, donors, women entrepreneurs, and entrepreneur networks
• Submit through the WUSC website or directly by email to [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]
• Submission deadline: 8 October 2026

• Opportunity to contribute to and shape the 2026 Pathway to Sustainable Enterprise Growth Annual Learning Forum
• Networking and partnership opportunities among Enterprise Support Organizations across the continent
• Opportunity to share evidence, practical tools, tested approaches, and lessons with relevant stakeholders
• Participation in a forum focused on co-learning, co-creation, learning, adaptation, and collaboration