B Lab Africa today launches the seventh cohort of its Resilient Sustainable Business (RSB) Program, the pan-African training initiative designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) build sustainability into how they operate, compete and raise capital. Applications for the cohort close on 9 September 2026. It is open to businesses across the continent, with core markets in Kenya, Mauritius and South Africa.
The announcement follows the graduation of the program’s sixth cohort in a closing session in Nairobi on 7 August 2026, which brought together participating businesses alongside financial institutions, investors and development partners.
Since its launch in 2025, the RSB Program has grown from a single cohort to an Africa-wide initiative. 211 participants from 195 businesses across 9 countries have now completed the program, with 17 going on to pursue full B Corp certification.
SMEs account for the overwhelming majority of African enterprise and employment, yet increasingly have to incorporate sustainability infrastructure designed for large corporates in order to attract investment capital and to grow. They face the same pressures – climate risk, rising insurance and input costs, tightening buyer and lender requirements, and export markets increasingly governed by European due diligence and carbon border rules – without the support of compliance teams, consultancy budgets or reporting systems that larger firms take for granted. (Press Release)
