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Fogo e Brava Innovation Lab — Cabo Verde's First Multi-Municipal Regional Incubator

Cabo Verde · São Filipe · See the Cabo Verde profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 63% 62/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

UNIDO and UNDP helped Cabo Verde's Fogo and Brava municipalities run a six-month youth incubation programme and launch a permanent regional innovation lab, graduating 27 of 40 entrepreneurs and channelling seed capital to seven ventures.

40
Entrepreneurs enrolled (2024-2025)
27 of 40
Graduates
7
Ventures receiving seed capital
Fogo e Brava Innovation Lab — Cabo Verde's First Multi-Municipal Regional Incubator

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
UNIDO & UNDP (UN Joint SDG Fund), with Cabo Verde's Fogo and Brava municipal chambers
Period
2024–2025 (pilot), ongoing
Keywords
entrepreneurship, SME incubation, food systems, digital transformation, municipal development

Context

In 2024-2025, UNIDO and UNDP, funded through the UN Joint SDG Fund and working with Cabo Verde's Fogo and Brava municipal chambers, ran 'Sementes de Ideias', a six-month hybrid incubation programme for entrepreneurs on Cabo Verde's smaller islands.

Results

Forty early-stage entrepreneurs enrolled (close to half women); 27 graduated, presenting 12 finalist projects, and seven ventures received seed capital. The programme reported more than 100 concrete business-improvement actions implemented.

Conclusions

The evidence available is output-level rather than longer-term outcome data such as revenue growth or business survival, since the resulting Fogo e Brava Innovation Lab only opened in 2025.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
UNIDO/UNDP programme staff, municipal chamber coordinators (Fogo and Brava)

Conditions for success

  • hybrid digital/in-person mentoring tailored to island geography
  • legally recognised multi-municipal institutional legacy (the Innovation Lab)

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