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To increase efficiency and effectiveness in attaining its mission, the University of Buea, has institutionalized a competitive grant for staff to innovate in the creation of research incubators that can also generate income to the university. This is referred to as the Income-Generating Projects: Start-Up Research Incubators funding scheme at the University of Buea.
The pioneer winner of this grant is Dr. Ewane Divine through a project entitled: “Project to Support a Business Incubator Approach to the Teaching of Livestock Production at the University of Buea”.
The Support Programme for the University of Buea Livestock Production and Agripreneurship Students Business Incubator (SP-UB- LPA-SBI) is conceived as a research center at the University of Buea, to manage the grant, of the Income-Generating Projects: Start-Up Research Incubators, and transition it, to operate and manage other business incubators, embracing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Social Entrepreneur
To improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which the University of Buea attains its mission.
Increase graduate self-employability as a tool for socio-cultural and economic development.
1. Manage a revolving fund, to boost the investment portfolio of the students participating in the University of Buea Livestock Production and Agripreneurship Students Business Incubator (UB- LPA-SBI)
2. Manage the Support Project for the University of Buea Livestock Production and Agripreneurship Students Business Incubator (SP-UB- LPA-SBI) and transition it to operate and manage other business incubators embracing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
3. Promote and manage initiatives that generate revenue for the University of Buea and enhance graduate self-employability.
4. Support the University of Buea in its dedication to the continuous quest for excellence in research, the promotion of moral and human values, and service to the community.
1. Project to Construct the University of Buea Livestock Production and Agripreneurship Students Business Incubator (UB- LPA-SBI)
2. MTN Mobile Money (MOMO) as Digital and Visibility Support to the University of Buea Livestock Production and Agripreneurship Students Business Incubator (UB- LPA-SBI).
3. SP UB LPA SBI in a Hub and Spoke approach to revamp the Beef and Dairy Sector in Cameroon
Dr. Divine Ewane is currently a Lecturer, and Acting, Head of Department (chair) of Animal Science in the University of Buea Cameroon. His background is Animal Science and his passion is grassroots empowerment. His research focus is on Feed and Livestock Resources Development.
He has taught Animal Production at the University of Buea, Catholic University Institute of Buea (CUIB), and Alex Ekweme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Ikwo, Nigeria. He has also been working with many grassroots communities and industries on merging environmental conservation concerns with sustainable development imperatives since 1993.
He is skilled in job creation (with additional in-service training from Golder Meir Mount Carmel Institute, Haifa, Israel), student business incubators (with additional in-service training on Corporate Management for Africa with AOTS-Tokyo Kenshu Centre, Japan) and productive negotiations between state and non-state actors in sustainable development agendas (with additional in-service training on Leadership, Organizational Change and Interactive Planning in Natural Resources Management at the International Agricultural Centre Wageningen, The Netherlands.).
Since 2007, he has been a consultant with the Support Programme for Rural Employment (PADER) implemented by the National Employment Fund, Cameroon. He is also trained in Monitoring and Evaluation of projects, as well as in Gender Sensitive Participatory Approaches to Sustainable Development. He has also been the M & E officer for two multi-donor trust fund projects of The West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD) implemented jointly by the University of Buea, Cameroon, University of Ibadan Nigeria, and Njala University, Sierra-Leone.
He is the pioneer winner of the University of Buea Competitive Grants for Research Incubator with project entitled “Project to Support a Business Incubator Approach to the Teaching of Livestock Production at the University Of Buea, Cameroon”. He leads a team of eleven scientists to accomplish the task.