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Good Governance & Board Practice for Social SMEs

When most SME founders hear the word “governance,” their eyes glaze over. It sounds like something for big corporations with expensive lawyers and mahogany boardrooms...

Tech-Enabled Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers

Across Africa, smallholder farmers feed the continent — yet they remain some of its poorest citizens. They grow most of our food, but struggle to access credit...

Social Procurement & Corporate Partnerships

Every year, governments and large corporations in Africa spend billions of dollars buying goods and services. From office supplies and catering to logistics and...

Policy Frameworks to Support Social Enterprises

Social entrepreneurs across Africa are solving some of the continent’s toughest challenges — unemployment, waste management, access to healthcare, climate adaptation —...

Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into Product Design

When most people think of innovation, they picture labs, algorithms, or Silicon Valley engineers. But across Africa, innovation didn’t start with technology — it started...

Green Finance & Climate Adaptation for SMEs

Africa is on the frontlines of climate change. From droughts hitting smallholder farmers in Mozambique, to floods washing away businesses in Nigeria, to unpredictable...

Access to Markets: Procurement Opportunities For Growth

You’ve perfected your product, hustled through the early days, built a loyal customer base — and now you’re ready to grow. But there’s one challenge that makes or breaks...

Circular Economy and Waste-to-Value Business Models

Africa has a waste problem. From plastic bottles littering our streets to mountains of e-waste piling up in dumpsites, the continent is drowning in materials that could...

Youth Entrepreneurship as a Job-Creation Engine

Across Africa, there’s one statistic that everyone talks about — and for good reason: over 60% of the continent’s population is under 25. That’s not just a demographic;...