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Projects

OUR PROJECTS

Starting from its pan-African presence and through its broad partners’ network, E4Impact develops multilateral Projects to foster Economic and Value Chain Development in Africa.

According to its specific field of expertise and in coherence with its history, E4Impact focuses its project role on impact entrepreneurship, mainly in the following sectors:

Waste Management

Projects aimed at strengthening the waste management chain with innovative solutions and partnerships with public and private actors.

Health

Projects that support enterprises working in the medical sector, to improve and scale up their business and social impact.

Women empowerment

Projects aimed at supporting the women-led initiatives.

ICT

Projects accelerating ICT Companies, and/or leveraging ICT as a driver for entrepreneurial growth.

Migrants

Projects promoting the entrepreneurial initiatives of migrants in Europe and/or support the reintegration of migrants in their countries of origin with the creation of new businesses.

Agribusiness

Innovative projects of sustainable agricultural economy that act in favour of agricultural development and food security.

Sustainable Housing

Projects to improve business practices and policies in support of sustainable development in the field of green housing.

Clean Energy

Projects that foster the use of energy sources and technologies that have minimal or negligible negative impacts on the environment and human health.

DISCOVER OUR PROJECTS

E4Impact has a deep knowledge of the African entrepreneurial ecosystems, gained thanks to its 8 Offices in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda, as well as through its MBA Courses in 20 African Countries. This enables the Foundation to design interventions in line with the UN 2030 Agenda, which are significantly relevant to the local context.

The FIL - Training, Enterprise, and Employment to Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Development project aims to boost inclusive and sustainable economic growth and youth employment by fostering the socio-economic inclusion of young women and men through business creation, skill building and job placement in the cities of Bamako and Kita.

FIL

Country: Mali
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The SKIES - Strengthening Kenya's Innovation Ecosystem project, part of the Kenya Industry and Entrepreneurship Project (KIEP), aims to strengthen the existing start up ecosystem in Kenya and leverage it to help address the challenges of low productivity and innovation at the firm level, particularly in lagging sectors with high potential for employment generation.

KIEP – SKIES

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: TIC
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Fostering Food Security

Country: Ethiopia
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project aims at supporting micro-entrepreneurship for the empowerment of women, to allow them contributing to the social, economic, and cultural development of local communities.

Socio-economic development for women

Country: Rwanda
Thematic Area: Women empowerment
The project aims at promoting climate-resilient agriculture and enhancing sustainable food production for local markets in Rwanda.

FOSTERING

Country: Rwanda
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The aim of the project proposes is to empower pig agri-preneurs with the necessary business skills through incubation and mentorship to enhance their productivity and profitability.

Incubation/Acceleration of pig agripreneurs in Uganda

Country: Uganda
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project aims to contribute to the improvement of the socio-economic status of the local communities, and to the economic recovery in response to the negative impact of Covid-19 in Kenya.

Economic Recovery to the impact of Covid-19

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
BIC - Business Incubation Communities The overall objective of BIC Ethiopia is to capacitate business incubators in supporting agri-tech and agri-business start-ups and MSMEs to improve market access, generate higher income and create jobs.

BIC Ethiopia

Country: Ethiopia
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
Socio-Economic Stability Action aims to direct the decision-making system in Brazzaville to contribute to the improvement of urban utilities by proposing good practices of food waste reduction.

Socio-Economic Stability Action in Brazzaville

Country: Congo Brazzaville
Thematic Area: Waste Management
The project aims to develop entrepreneurial skills in the public and private actors of the fishery, for the sustainability of the fishing system and the reduction of conflicts.

FISH

Country: Senegal, Uganda and Tanzania
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project contributes to the growth of high social and environmental impact enterprises through technology transfer to create jobs in communities affected by migration.

Socio-Economic Stability Action in Ghana

Country: Ghana
Thematic Area: Sustainable Housing
The project aims to improve the business ecosystem, the business practices and policies to support development in the green housing sector in the city of Soroti in Uganda.

Business for Green Impact

Country: Uganda
Thematic Area: Sustainable Housing
The objective of this project is to support Women Small and Medium Enterprises by equipping them with skills, knowledge and tools to optimize and re-focus their businesses for growth and scale-up.

Wonder

Country: Cameroon and Kenya
Thematic Area: Women empowerment
The project aims to create eco-agribusiness models of sustainable productions in arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya to ensure food security through optimal management of natural resources.

SAMPAK

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project aims to eradicate poverty in Kenya, enhancing the productivity of the ecosystem services through climate-smart natural resource management, peace and security for both wildlife and people.

RangER

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The objective of the project is training 7,770 women entrepreneurs in 4 different cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kinshasa, Goma, Lumbashi and Kivu.

PADMPME

Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
Thematic Area: Women empowerment
The project aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable in Dakar and Kampala, in order to promote social development of local communities.

Blue and Green

Country: Senegal and Uganda
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The Planet Africa project aims to build the first B2B Platform accessible at Pan-African level for sustainable creation and management of market linkages between different countries.

PLANET AFRICA

Country: PanAfrican
Thematic Area: ICT
The project aims to create consultancy services to build the capacity of 3,000 yellow passion fruit farmers in Machakos/Embu, Lamu and Kwale with the objective of increased farm productivity.

Yellow Passion Fruit

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
Kenya Biogas Program

Kenya Biogas Program

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Clean energy
African SME accelerator focused on circular agribusiness with the goal of making circularity a mainstream approach for improved rural livelihoods and sustainability.

O-Farms

Country: Kenya and Uganda
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
This project aims to contribute to the sustainable urban development in the current climatic transition scenario, through the civic participation linked to waste management.

DAKAR REVE

Country: Senegal
Thematic Area: Waste management
The project ARABIKA affects the kenian coffee supply chain having an effect on the quality improvement component, on the management skills of the producer cooperatives and on the marketing component.

ARABIKA

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project aims to contribute to regional stability by tackling the root causes of irregular migration, increasing economic and local opportunities through sustainable environmental management.

RE-AGIRE

Country: Niger
Thematic Area: Waste management
The project aims to play a part in the improvement of the living conditions of the rural areas of Tunisia, through the microenterprises’ strengthening in the agro-food sector.

ProAgro

Country: Tunisia
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
Agrichange – Small Business, Great Opportunities: development of agri-food chains in the Molo river basin The project aims to boost the micro-entrepreneurial potential of small producers in the Molo river basin (Kenya).

TRAIT D’Union

Country: Tunisia
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
Agrichange is a small business that aims to boost the micro-entrepreneurial potential of small producers in the Molo river basin (Kenya) through the development and creation of two eco-sustainable micro enterprises for honey and piggery with high social value. The promotion of women entrepreneurship and their empowerment will be also a focal point.

Agrichange

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project aims to contribute towards increased resilience of pastoral communities to drought and other effects of climate change in arid and semi-arid lands in the West Pokot County (Kenya).

Support to Resilience for Sustainable Livelihoods

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project contributes towards increased resilience to droughts and other negative impact of climate change for vulnerable groups

Building Drought Resilience

Country:Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
Building Integration Through Entrepreneurship aims to contribute to the integration in EU of newly arrived migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa by accompanying them in the creation of small businesses that have positive social and environmental impact in their countries of residence.

BITE

Country: Italy
Thematic Area: Migrants
The project contributes to reducing the environmental impact in agribusiness, with regard to the mango, coffee and dairy sectors, while strengthening their ability to compete in the market.

Green to Grow

Country: Kenya
Thematic Area: Agribusiness
The project aimed to develop an ICT technology platform capable of delivering remote training in remote areas, by processing and arranging the contents in order to transfer them to the recipients.

Distance learning in remote areas

Country: PanAfrican
Thematic Area: ICT