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Grantee Duration Value Summary

Koperative Twitezimbere Kagenge(KOTKA)2801-RWA

2012-2017 $181,900 Sector: Agricultural Production (Cassava)Town/City: Bugesera District, Eastern Province Summary: The project funds will be used to expand KOTKA’s production by increasing the number of drying yards, purchasing scales and protective gear, creating a cassava purchase fund, and acquiring a truck and motorcycle for transportation.

Cooperative pour la Promotion Rizicole - Busoro (COPRORIZ-Busoro) 3211-RWA

2014-2017 $99,300 Sector: Agro-Processing (Rice)Town/City: Nyanza District, Southern Province Summary: The project funds will be used to help COPRORIZ-Busoro expand production by completing construction of a 385 metric ton storage facility, threshing and winnowing equipment, developing an administrative and financial procedures manual and business plan, as well as covering key staff members’ salaries and basic administrative costs.

Coopérative pour la Promotion de Pêche et des Activités de Vente d’Isambaza(COOPPAVI)2847-RWA

2013-2017 $143,900 Sector: Processing (Fish)Town/City: Rubavu District, Western ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to expand COOPPAVI’s production by contributing a fish processing factory with processing machines, transportation, and working capital for purchase funds.

Union des Coopératives des Apiculteurs de Gishwati(UNICOAPIGI)2876-RWA

2013-2017 $158,500 Sector: Processing (Honey)Town/City: Rubavu District, Western ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to build a factory, purchase beehives, procure a truck for production transportation, provide honey processing training, and create a revolving purchase fund.

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Partner Organization: Africa Development ConsultantsProgram Director: Rebecca RuzibukaTel: +250.78.841.5194Email: [email protected]

RwandaUSADF Country Portfolio

Overview: Country program established in 1986 and resumed in 2005. USADF currently manages a portfolio of 19 projects and one Cooperative Agreement. Total commitment is $3.8 million.

Country Strategy: The program focuses on grassroots organizations, cooperatives, and limited liability companies with strong backwards linkages.



Coopérative pour le Développement de l’Élevage Moderne des Bovins (CODEAM-Beninkuyo) 4003-RWA

2015-2017 $98,000 Sector: Agro-Processing (Dairy)Town/City: Kamonyi District, Southern Province Summary: The project funds will be used to establish a model cow shed, provide veterinary services, basic equipment, training to improve Cooperative functionality and increase milk production, develop an administrative and financial procedures manual and business plan, as well as covering key staff members’ salaries and basic administrative costs.

Coopérative des Agriculteurs de Maïs de Nyanza(COAMANYA)2904-RWA

2013-2017 $186,800 Sector: Agro-Processing (Maize)Town/City: Nyanza District, Southern Province Summary: The project funds will be used to construct a new factory and purchase approved equipment and to expand marshland cultivation to another 130 hectares which will directly contribute to an increase of income for over 2,000 persons and promote food security in the area.

Cooperative pour la Promotion des Riziculteurs de Kahi(COOPRORIKA)2956-RWA

2013-2017 $193,700 Sector: Agro-Processing (Rice)Town/City: Nyagatare District, Eastern ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to expand COOPRORIKA’s operations by providing a storage facility and drying yards, working capital for seeds and fertilizer, and covering key staff members’ salaries and basic administrative costs.

Coopérative pour le Développement des Apiculteurs et la Protection de l'Environnement (CODAPE) 4113-RWA

2015-2017 $78,700 Sector: Processing (Honey)Town/City: Nyamagabe District, Southern ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to supply beehives, harvesting equipment and to develop an administrative and financial procedures manual and business plan, as well as to cover key staff members’ salaries and basic administrative costs.

Cooperative des Riziculteurs de Kibaya-Cyunuzi(COOPRIKI-Cyunuzi)2605-RWA

2012-2018 $244,700 Sector: Agricultural Production (Rice)Town/City: Kirehe District, Eastern ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to help COOPRIKI expand production by contributing drying yards, transportation, and working capital for purchase funds.

Fromagerie Izihirwe3005-RWA

2014-2018 $115,300 Sector: Agro-Processing (Cheese Making)Town/City: Rutsiro District, Western ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to renew business operations by rehabilitating the facilities in accordance with RBS regulations, providing training in governance and financial management, providing working capital, as well as covering key staff members’ salaries and basic administrative costs.

Coopérative des Agriculteurs de la Pomme de Terre (COAPOM) 3027-RWA

2014-2018 $151,200 Sector: Agricultural Production (Potatoes)Town/City: Burera District, Northern Province Summary: The project funds will be used to build the capacity of the group by providing training in seed preparation and marketing, to purchase of a truck, construct a storage facility, provide working capital, and to recruit technical staff to increase production.



Koperative Tuzamurane3066-RWA

2014-2018 $178,700 Sector: Agro-Processing (Pineapple)Town/City: Kirehe District, Eastern ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to purchase a truck, generator, processing equipment, and packaging material and to renovate and expand the group’s factory. Funds will also provide working capital and key staff salaries and basic administrative costs.

Koperative Iterambere Ry’abahinziBorozi ba Makera (IABM)3138-RWA

2014-2018 $235,900 Sector: Agro-Processing (Maize)Town/City: Muhanga District, Southern Province Summary: The project funds will be used to acquire 3-phase electricity for the maize flour factory, post-harvest processing equipment, constructing 5 modern drying hangars, transportation rental, and working capital to establish a rotating maize purchase fund.

Union des Coopératives Agricoles Integrées (UNICOOPAGI)4036-RWA

2015-2019 $226,700 Sector: Agricultural Production (Wheat)Town/City: Nyamagabe District, Southern Province Summary: The project funds will be used to construct a storage facility, provide transport to facilitate farmer production and increase access to local markets, purchase basic farming inputs and improved seeds, as well as training on commodity value chains.

Coopérative Thé Mwaga-Gisakura(COOPTHE-MG) 4116-RWA

2015-2019 $240,200 Sector: Agricultural Production (Tea)Town/City: Western province near Nyungwe National ParkSummary: The project funds will be used to construct a fertilizer storage facility, rehabilitate existing collection centers and plantation infrastructure, purchase vehicles, and provide training in financial management.

Koperative Kirezi Coffee4184-RWA

2016-2020 $236,000 Sector: Agro-Processing (Coffee)Town/City: Nyanza District, Southern ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to construct an environmentally sound coffee washing station, storage facility, office and drying tables, purchase a truck, motorcycle, coffee pulper and processing equipment, establish a working capital fund, and provide agricultural and financial trainings.

Koperative Twihangire Umurimo(COTUMU)4270-RWA

2016-2020 $244,400 Sector: Agricultural Production (Fortified Beans and Maize)Town/City: Kagoma Cell, Gakenke Sector, MusanzeSummary: The project funds will be used to construct drying sheds and a warehouse, establish a rotating crop purchase fund, purchase a truck and bicycles, purchase maize shellers and IT equipment, hire a qualified accountant and a qualified coordinator/agronomist, and train staff and members in financial management, monitoring and evaluation, procurement, and value chain development.

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Koperative Gisuma Coffee4361-RWA

2016-2020 $239,900 Sector: Agro-Processing (Coffee)Town/City: Giheke Sector, Rusizi District near Kamembe, Western ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to construct a modern coffee washing station and storage facility, purchase a coffee pulping machine and processing equipment, establish a rotating crop purchase fund, hire qualified technical staff, provide training on processing techniques and the coffee value chain, and provide training on financial management, monitoring and evaluation.

Coopérative pour la Promotion Rizicole de Runukangoma(CORIRU)4468-RWA

2016-2020 $199,088 Sector: Agriculture (Rice Production)Town/City: Rugogwe Cell, Ruhashya Sector near Huye, Southern ProvinceSummary: The project funds will be used to support improved post-harvest rice handling. Specifially, Project funds will be used for the construction of drying yards with adjacent storage facilities, construction of an office facility; the purchase of a motorcycle, IT and office equipment, and post-harvest rice processing equipment; the establishment of a revolving fund for fertilizer purchase; trainings in financial management, monitoring and evaluation, agricultural techniques and the rice value chain; an exchange visit; and support for technical and management staff.


Grantee Country Year Summary

Ethio Resource Group Ethiopia 2014 Sector: Wind Summary: Ethio Resource Group (ERG) is installing six 1-kilowatt wind turbine systems to power six micro-grids, which will be run and managed by Ethio Resource Group as a distributed energy servicescompany. The installations will consist of six small wind electric generators and batteries for energy storage which will deliver power to 300 households, 20 enterprises and 1 health clinic.

Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA)

Ethiopia 2014 Sector: Biogas Summary: ORDA is constructing 470 biogas plants for cooking and lighting, provide training for proper operation and maintenance, and will also build the capacity of user cooperatives with the purpose of ensuring sustainable community project management. The project creates renewable energy access for 470 off-grid rural households living in Alefa district of Amhara region.

Sun Transfer Tech Ethiopia 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Sun Transfer Tech is selling solar home systems ranging in size between 20, 50 and 100 watt systems that will power a variety of appliances including light bulbs, radios, mobile chargers and solar TVs. These systems will be sold to over 325 rural households through an energy lending scheme, and empowering small solar entrepreneurs to sell, install, and provide after-sales service for the systems.

GM Clean Energy Ethiopia 2015 Sector: BiogasSummary: GM Clean Energy is producing biogas stoves for use by off-grid, marginalized communities to cook injera, a major food staple consumed in Ethiopia. The grant from Power Africa/USADF will provide seed funding for the enterprise to scale up its operations, producing an initial batch of efficient stoves and establishing a rural distribution branch.

Guraghe Development and Cultural Association (GDCA)

Ethiopia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Guraghe Development and Cultural Association is selling solar home systems to low-income households through the establishment of three solar business centers across Guraghe Zone. The solar business centers will provide electricity for businesses, as well provide as a central area for community organization and development.

Power AfricaOff-Grid Energy Grants Portfolio

U.S. African Development Foundation Tom Coogan Regional DirectorTel.: 202-233-8822Email: [email protected]

Overview: The Off-Grid Energy Challenge began in Nigeria and Kenya in 2013. It has now expanded to 9 countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia). To date, USADF has funded over 70 grants of up to $100,000 each, totaling more than $7 million dollars.

Program Strategy: The Off-Grid Energy Challenge is an open competition for energy entrepreneurs bringing off-grid energy solutions to unserved and underserved communities through self-sustainable and scalable business models.



Sky Power Enterprise Ethiopia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Sky Power Enterprise is procuring, distributing, and selling solar home systems and products in Doolo Zone of Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State, one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country. These products will include solar home systems which are mounted on customers’ roofs, as well as household solar lanterns, solar kiosks, and other products.

RK Renew Energy PLC Ethiopia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: RK Renew Energy PLC is selling solar home systems using Pay-As-You-Go technology (through M-Birr) in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The solar home systems will have three lights, and will be able to charge phones, radios, fans, televisions, and similar devices. RK Renew sees this as an opportunity to wean the population off of fossil fuels like kerosene.

NBK Electrical Consulting Engineers

Ethiopia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: NBK Electrical Consulting Engineers is using its workshop to locally assemble 1,130 solar home systems for sale to rural households in the Oromia, Amhara and Southern Regions of Ethiopia. The systems feature internal radios and the capacity for mobile phone charging. NBK will scale up their production by purchasing production tools, a computer and design software, and other equipment, as well as materials for the first batch of 1,130 systems.

Alemu Assefa Solar Enterprise Ethiopia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Alemu Assefa Solar Enterprise is installing solar cold storage facilities, mobile solar irrigation equipment, and selling solar home systems to Dek Island and the surrounding areas of Lake Tana, outside of concentrated populated areas. The solar cold storage services will serve fishermen and farmers, who will pay a rental fee for use of the facilities. The solar irrigation services will also be rented to local farmers.

Rensys Engineering and Trading Ethiopia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Rensys Engineering and Trading is installing a 12 kilowatt solar mini-grid system to electrify a potential of 198 households, small businesses, and institutions. Rensys will also be installing a refrigerator for cold storage purposes for fishermen. Providing electricity through a solar mini-grid will allow community members to use electric products, have light at night, and mitigate the negative health impacts of using fossil fuels in the home.

NewEnergy Ghana 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: NewEnergy is utilizing solar-powered water pumping and purification technology to supply clean water to over 980 inhabitants of Nabogo. The project will be run as a social enterprise, in which a community-owned cooperative takes over the operation and management after sufficient training has been provided.

Solar Light Ghana 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Solar Light Company is prototyping and piloting its “Sunana” solar powered mobile charging system in Accra, Sunyani, and Dawhenya. The Sunana unit consists of a solar panel divided into eight segments which can be “worn” on top of a trader’s umbrella, and will be targeting Ghana’s informal street vendors who often work for less than $3 a day for long hours in the sun.



The Kumasi Institute of Tropical Agriculture (KITA)

Ghana 2015 Sector: BiogasSummary: KITA is procuring and installing a 20 kilowatt gasifier plant to convert the town of Papasisi’sbiomass and agricultural residue into electricity. In addition, KITA will procure processing equipment including a palm kernel cracker, expeller, and oil squeezer to run on the produced electricity and allow the community to process its agricultural products less expensively and more efficiently.

Wilkins Engineering Limited Ghana 2015 Sector: SolarSummary: Wilkins Engineering is designing, installing, and managing the operations of 100-watt and 200-watt home solar systems, solar street lamps, and a cold storage facility in the remote island community of Atigagome. The grant from Power Africa/USADF will provide startup capital to develop the business model in small island communities in Ghana, with the potential to replicate it in other island communities in the future.

Atlas Business and Energy Systems Limited

Ghana 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Atlas Business and Energy Systems Limited (ABES) is installing 230 pico-solar systems, each with two lights and cell phone chargers, in an island community located on Lake Volta. In addition, ABES will construct and operate a solar powered facility that will provide cold storage services to fishermen and will be able to power micro-enterprises in the community.

Centre for Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (CEESD)

Ghana 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (CEESD) is installing 45 solar home systems of 250 watts each for 35 households and 10 small businesses in the Faaszo Battorcommunity of Eastern Ghana. In addition, CEESD will install a 2 kilowatt system for the community health clinic, which will be used for lighting and refrigeration, and Faaso Batter’s school will also receive a 500 watt system for lighting and computers.

Translight Solar Limited Ghana 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Translight Energy Limited is constructing a solar mini-grid to connect households in Kuliya, a village in Ghana’s upper east region. The mini-grid will connect to 115 households, a maize processing mill to be used by community members, and a solar house where basic IT services can be provided in the future, including printing, mobile phone charging, and solar refrigeration.

Afrisol Energy Limited Kenya 2014 Sector: BiogasSummary: Afrisol is constructing a bio-digester that converts fecal sludge into electricity. The electricity generated will serve as a source of power for the Kwa Njenga Primary School and will provide light for the surrounding area in a radius of 100 meters of the school with a high mask lighting system located in Mukuru kwa Njenga urban settlement. The grant from Power Africa/USADF will allow Afrisol to purchase equipment, including the bio-digester, and provide working capital to Afrisol.

Mibawa Suppliers Limited Kenya 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Mibawa is selling solar lighting kits to low-income rural households in the Meru, Kakamenga, Nandi Hills, and Mgori communities that also can charge small electronic equipment such as cell phones. Through a pay-as-you-go program, customers will pay an initial deposit followed by very low weekly installment payments allowing the customer to pay for the lights over time.



Solar World Limited Kenya 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Solar World is constructing five solar powered water points, each of which will be equipped with a borehole, water storage tank, water vending kiosk, and animal troughs to supply water. In addition, each water point will have an energy kiosk that will provide electrical services including mobile phone and portable LED lantern charging services.

Boma Safi Limited Kenya 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Boma Safi is addressing their distribution challenge of limited customer buying power by utilizing a “hub and spoke” model, in which rural energy hubs aggregate deliveries between the point of sale (typically rural savings and credit cooperatives), and central hubs. This method will be used to distribute solar lanterns to customers in five regions: Coastal, Lake Victoria, North Rift, South Rift, and Mount Kenya.

Kitui Industries Limited Kenya 2014 Sector: Bio-dieselSummary: Kitui Industries Limited is investing in a bio-diesel plant that produces bio-diesel, which it uses to power its factory and vehicles. Kitui will produce and sell bio-diesel from cottonseed, and also sell multi-purpose diesel engines to farmers groups via a local MFI, which can be used to power small-scale agricultural processing.

SCODE Limited Kenya 2014 Sector: Solar/BiogasSummary: SCODE is manufacturing its own high-efficiency forced-draft micro-gasifier stoves, and combines them with solar home systems assembled at their Nakuru workshop to give customers access to lighting, charging, and small appliances. SCODE is using a pay-as-you-go system for pre-financing 75-85% of the total costs of efficient cooking and lighting products to its clients, with repayment periods of 12 months on average.

Sollatek Kenya Limited Kenya 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Sollatek is addressing the constraints local coastal fishermen are facing by working withalready-existing Beach Management Units (BMU) to create and run solar centers to power freezers,phone charging stations, and portable solar lantern rentals. USADF funded Sollatek to identify and train 15 BMUs on business management, bookkeeping, and solar product sales. Sollatek will install 15 solar charging centers in these rural communities and transition the ownership and management of the systems to the BMUs.

Rafode Limited Kenya 2015 Sector: SolarSummary: Rafode is a micro-finance organization that is expanding its revolving loan fund to reach at least 1,000 fisherman and vendors who currently do not have access to the grid. Many fisherman use expensive kerosene lamps to fish at night, cutting their earnings in half each day and this technology will enable the fishermen to use efficient, effective, safe and affordable solar powered lights for fishing.

Ambalian Limited Kenya 2015 Sector: WindSummary: In the rural pastoralist region of Bubisa, northern Kenya, Ambalian is replacing diesel-powered generators currently being used to power water pumping with a locally assembled wind turbine system. Ambalian will then locally fabricate three local content components (blades, lattice structures and controllers) to be used for expansion of locally produced wind turbines in the region.



Action in Community Environment (ACE), Ace Africa Kenya

Kenya 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Action in Community Environment in Africa (Kenya), known as Ace Africa Kenya, is installing six solar powered drip irrigation systems in the Siaya, Nyanza Province of Kenya. Six women’s groups of 20 members each will be selected to receive the solar drip irrigation units and will receive training in operations and maintenance.

Deevabits Green Energy Kenya 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Deevabits is implementing a last-mile distribution approach using Village Social Entrepreneurs (VSEs), many of whom are youth and women. The VSEs act as local sales agents to sell solar lamps and home systems to customers on a pay-as-you-go basis in Kenya’s rural Mackakos and Makueni counties.

Magoya Konjra Hareka Self Help Group (MAKOHAA)

Kenya 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Magoya Konjra Hareka Self Help Group (MAKOHAA) is installing a 12 kilowatt hydropower plant (with the potential for expansion to 700 kilowatts in the future) to connect 300 households, an irrigation system, and a refrigeration system. The residents of Magoya and Rambulla sub-locations of Siaya County have experienced persistent challenges in connecting to the national grid.

Renewable World East Africa Kenya 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Renewable World East Africa is constructing a 4.8 kilowatt solar energy hub that will connect 50 households and 5 micro-enterprises. In addition, they will create a solar water pump that will provide up to 20,000 liters of irrigation water per day. They will work with the local community to establish an Energy Management Committee who will maintain and manage revenue collection from households and micro-enterprises.

Alternative Energy Inc. Liberia 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Alternative Energy Inc. is installing mini off-grid solar systems for 90 households, 5 classrooms in 1 school, 1 clinic/drugstore, 11 shops, and 5 streetlights in Galama Town. This will greatly benefit the town and it’s 2,750 residents, who currenlty have no access to basic energy services and rely on towns at least 25 miles away to purchase purchase kerosene for homemade lamps and dry cell batteries.

Ecovillage Community Improvement Association, Inc.

Liberia 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Ecovillage is deploying a 50 kW off-grid solar mini-grid, which will include DC to AC inverters and a distribution network with direct connections for households and businesses within 1 kilometer radius, and 2 small kiosks for affordable pay-as-you-go battery charging. Businesses and households with a direct connection will pay a small monthly fee and discounted power will be provided for schools and security lighting.

Liberia Engineering and Geo-Tech Consultants Company

Liberia 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Liberia Engineering & Geo-Tech Consultants Company is currently providing electricity at a small scale to 13 households using a fuel based generator in the town of Totota, central Bong County. This project expands these activities by constructing a stand-alone PV 25 KW solar plant to serve 50 households through a mini grid, for which households will pay a small monthly fee based on metered usage of electricity.



Liberian Energy Network (LEN) Liberia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: LEN is selling solar lanterns and solar home systems to members of the Firestone Agricultural & Workers' Union of Liberia (FAWUL). Solar lanterns will be paid by households on a two month installment plan, with the payments coming directly out of the customers’ monthly salary.

Afe Babalola University (ABUAD) Nigeria 2014 Sector: HydroSummary: ABUAD of Ado-Ekiti is conducting a feasibility study to construct a renewable hydropower plant. The benefits of the hydropower plant will go to the university community and neighboring community settlement with a population of over 10,000. The feasibility study is the first step towards building a hydropower plant and consists of a detailed project report and an environmental impact assessment.

TransAfrica Gas and Electric (TAGE)

Nigeria 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: TAGE is constructing a standalone cold storage facility for the preservation of all types of vegetables, fish, and poultry. In addition, the facility will be equipped for ice making. The facility will be powered by an 8 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic system. Farmers will then pay a small fee to warehouse their products and will purchase ice to preserve daily produce.

GVE Project Limited Nigeria 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: GVE Projects Limited is expanding on their 6 kilowatt solar pilot project by providing electricity to an additional 140 homes in Egbeke community. Sixty homes will receive electricity by a direct connection to the solar electricity system and an additional eighty homes that are far from the electricity grid will receive electricity by portable battery home kits.

Ginphed Nigeria Limited Nigeria 2014 Sector: BiogasSummary: Ginphed is constructing a bio-digester to convert animal manure into biogas to be used for electricity generation, which would be sold to farms and agro-processing cottage industries in the surrounding communities. Currently, many farmers rely on cottage industry processing for their farm produce, but electricity from the national grid is unreliable and much processing is fueled either by firewood or by expensive diesel-powered generators, which cuts significantly into profit margins.

Quintas Renewable Energy Solutions

Nigeria 2014 Sector: BiomassSummary: Quintas is developing a 500 kilowatt biomass power plant which will take advantage of Ofosucommunity’s agricultural and forestry residue, including sawdust from the four sawmills in the area, which have an abundance of sawdust and currently rely on expensive diesel to power their mills. The power plant will include a steam turbine, generator, and gasifier with combustor--with electricity being paid for through pre-paid meters.

Sky Resources Nigeria 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Sky Resources is developing a small solar micro-grid in Nawqu in Anambra State, for which users will pay on a per-use basis, supplying electricity for up to 75 small and micro businesses. The village will benefit form the project because it has a small but thriving small and medium enterprise community which currently relies on costly and unreliable diesel for much of its energy needs, which significantly increases enterprise operating costs.



Topstep Nigeria Nigeria 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Due to increasing demand, Topstep is expanding their current solar maize mill processing station, expanding the existing processing capacity to 1,400 metric tons of maize per year by installing 5 processing stations located near the farmer’s fields. Each station will have 3 high quality milling machines powered by solar energy as well as portable batteries charged and available for farmers to use at their homes for a fee.

Ajima Farms and General Enterprises Nigeria Limited

Nigeria 2015 Sector: BiogasSummary: Ajima Farms is constructing a biogas plant that will convert poultry, livestock, and other waste sourced from Ajima Farms and from other surrounding poultry farms into biogas. The biogas will fuel a biogas generator that will produce electricity for a mini-grid connected to households and small businesses.

Kunak Community Healthcare Foundation

Nigeria 2015 Sector: SolarSummary: Kunak is constructing a meat and fish market building, which will be powered by a 7.5 kilowatt solar PV system to power lights, fans, and refrigeration equipment for the local vendors. The building will be used by vendors in the Yakowa market, who currently have no reliable refrigeration units or product storage areas for fish and meat.

Sosai Renewable Energies Company Limited

Nigeria 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Sosai Renewable Energies Limited is installing two 10 kilowatt mini-grids, two solar kiosks, and two solar tunnel dryers in Kadabo and Baawa, two small villages in Kaduna State. The mini-grids will generate electricity for 50 households in the villages, providing them with light and potential for charging phones and other devices. The solar dryers will be used for drying agricultural produce to ensure that it doesn’t get spoiled by dust or animals.

GoSolar Africa Limited Nigeria 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: GoSolarAfrica Ltd is constructing a 5 kilowatt solar kiosk in each of five communities in Oyo State. The solar kiosks will provide solar powered refrigeration and freezing 24 hours a day. In addition, the kiosks will be able to charge cell phones and power transistor radios for community members.

Arnergy Solar Limited Nigeria 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Arnergy Solar Limited is selling solar home systems in the small village of Sob Maashi using a pay-as-you-go model. This will give community members access to basic lighting systems, radio, mobile phone charging, televisions, and other productive activities. It will also allow students to study at night, and will reduce the risk of respiratory diseases by limiting kerosene and fossil fuel lighting solutions.

Havenhill Synergy Limited Nigeria 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Havenhill Synergy Limited is building a 16 kilowatt solar mini-grid system to provide electricity and clean water to the small village of Kigbe. Providing electricity through a solar mini-grid will allow for community members to have light without the negative health implications associated with fossil fuels. Likewise, teachers will be able to adequately prepare their lessons, and students will be able to study longer



Dassy Enterprise Rwanda 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Dassy Enterprise is installing solar cold storage for 40 dairy and livestock processing units, as well as solar lighting and chargers for off-grid farmers in the Gishwati Highlands. By providing solar lights to 900 low-income residents, installing solar-powered cold storage for 40 farms groups, and providing 5 businesses with solar-powered hot water heaters, Dassy will strengthen the dairy and farming value chains in the Gishwati Highlands through reduced spoilage and product loss.

RENERG Limited Rwanda 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: RENERG Limited is installing a 30 kilowatt solar micro-grid to generate electricity for 120 households in Muganza Community in Banda Cell, a small village 20 miles from the national grid. The micro-grid will reduce the community’s reliance on kerosene lamps and candles for light, which present health, environmental, and safety issues and hamper educational and business opportunities in the community.

Serve and Smile Limited Rwanda 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Serve and Smile is selling 1,110 solar home systems to rural households in eight districts across Rwanda. After 12 months, Serve and Smile is expected to have sold 1,110 solar home systems to residents of eight different districts across Rwanda, allowing customers to pay a small deposit at the time of purchase and pay off their balance in installments to a local agent.

Jamii Power Limited Tanzania 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Jamii Power Limited is expanding its existing 11 kilowatt solar mini-grid in remote northern Tanzania to 33 kilowatts, and also to field-test and deploy a new smart meter prototype, which will give mini-grid operators the capacity to remotely monitor current, limit loads, cluster metering, and detect non-technical losses.

L’s Solution Limited Tanzania 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: L’s Solution is installing and operating a 12-kilowatt solar PV power plant that will supply electricity to over 120 households, businesses, health centers, and schools. The solar mini-grid will provide first time access to electricity to residents in rural Samunge village, which falls within the border of Ngoro-Ngoro National Park and is about 60 km from the national grid.

Lung’ali Natural Resources Company (LNRC) Limited

Tanzania 2014 Sector: HydroSummary: LNRC is establishing a revolving credit facility for households to pay a small upfront connection fee to their 2.4 Megawatt hydroelectric dam, and then repay the loan in quarterly installments over time. Currently, many households cannot afford the connection fees of up to $500 to connect to the distribution network.

Space Engineering Tanzania 2014 Sector: SolarSummary: Space Engineering is developing a 40 kW hybrid solar-biomass power plant, to use a combination of biomass gasification (rice husks and maize cobs) and solar to power the community of Mbeya 24 hours a day. For Mbeya’s 500 households currently without electricity, the electricity from thisproject will be distributed through a mini-grid to households, schools, a health center, and local businesses.



Tanzania Human Development Foundation (TAHUDE)

Tanzania 2014 Sector: BiogasSummary: TAHUDE is establishing a revolving loan fund for the construction of 71 bio-digesters powered by cow dung in Karatu, in the Arusha region of Tanzania. Each of the bio-digesters will provide enough fuel to power a stove and a lantern for one day. 71 loans will be issued in the first year of the project and 78 loans will be issued in the second year of the project. The grant from Power Africa/USADF will be used to fund the revolving loan scheme for the bio-digesters.

Benedictine Sisters of St. Gertrude Convent Imiliwaha

Tanzania 2015 Sector: HydroSummary: The Benedictine Sisters of St. Gertrud Convent, Imilwaha, are developing a 317 kilowatt small hydroelectric power plant project, based on their experience running a similar power plant for the past three decades. The hydroelectric plant will allow rural households to access low-cost, sustainable electricity for the first time. Since many households cannot afford the connection fees of up to USD 500 to connect to the distribution network, USADF is funding the creation of a revolving credit facility for households to pay a small upfront connection fee, and then repay the loan in quarterly installments.

SESCOM Tanzania 2015 Sector: BiomassSummary: SESCOM is installing a 20 kilowatt micro-grid powered by biomass (primarily maize cobs) in rural Kibindu village in eastern Tanzania. By replacing diesel and kerosene energy with access to a biomass gasifier-based grid, households that currently spend 30% of their monthly income on lighting will experience significant cost savings that can be used to improve livelihoods and reduce poverty.

Maasai Pastoralist Development Organization (MPDO)

Tanzania 2015 Sector: SolarSummary: MPDO is installing solar PV systems at seven Maasai schools in rural northern Tanzania, providing reliable electricity to students, teachers, and the surrounding community. They will establish an off-grid energy credit fund in the community for further expansion in areas where population density is low and reaching pastoralist communities is difficult.

Watumia Umeme Cooperative Society

Tanzania 2015 Sector: SolarSummary: WUCS is working with a technical partner to install a 10-kilowatt solar micro-grid in Masimbwe, which will provide households with solar power and replace kerosene and firewood as primary fuel sources. USADF has funded the cooperative to create a solar micro-grid for thirty houses and one micro-enterprise, to be run by the cooperative.

Galaxy Energy Solutions Limited Tanzania 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Galaxy Energy Solutions Limited is installing a solar mini-grid in the small farming villages of Kalamba, Mkanoge, and Tipo. The solar mini-grid will be connected to one school, one health center, two water pumps, and 150 households, creating access to energy and clean water for 3,500 villagers.

Nishati Associates Limited Tanzania 2016 Sector: HydroSummary: Nishati Associates Limited is installing a 68 kilowatt micro-hydropower mini-grid in Ludilo, a remote village in Makete District. The hydro-power mini-grid will be connected to over 200 households and businesses in the village, which will improve the economic potential of local businesses, reduce respiratory diseases from indoor use of kerosene and fuelwood, and benefit the local primary school and its students.



Ageco Energy and Construction Limited

Tanzania 2016 Sector: BiomassSummary: Ageco Energy Limited is installing a 32 kilowatt biomass gasification system in MagungumkaVillage, a rice-farming community. The biomass gasifier will be powered by rice husks, which will eliminate existing pollution problems associated with their improper disposal, and will provide power to 200 households and businesses.

Ensol Tanzania Limited Tanzania 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Ensol (T) Limited is installing a 50 kilowatt Solar Hybrid Micro-grid plant to electrify 200 households and 29 additional institutions and small businesses in Mpale village. Providing electricity through a solar mini-grid will allow community members to use power products, provide light at night, and dramatically reduce the prevalence of fossil fuels in Mpale.

GRS Commodities Uganda 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: GRS Commodities Limited is installing an additional 40 kilowatts of solar generation capacity on the Ssese Islands of Lake Victoria. By adding an additional 100 households and 50 more businesses, the project will increase access to local and sustainable sources of electricity, foster business creation, and improve household income by providing energy that can be purchased for less than the price of fossil fuels currently being used.

Green Heat Limited Uganda 2016 Sector: BiogasSummary: Green Heat Limited is installing 20 biogas digesters to pasteurize and store milk on farms in the Teso region of Eastern Uganda. By installing biogas digesters on farmland, Green Heat will enable farmers to use the manure from their own livestock to power milk pasteurization and cooling equipment,strengthening the dairy value chain and reducing poverty through sustainable economic growth.

OneLamp Limited Uganda 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: OneLamp Limited is creating a mobile phone platform that allows rural households to purchase solar products, which can be delivered directly to their door. Using the existing transportation infrastructure, OneLamp Limited’s mobile phone platform will allow low-income, off-grid households to access an on-demand service for clean energy products that can be delivered to their doorstep.

Buntungwa Ventures Limited Zambia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Buntungwa Ventures Limited is selling solar home systems to 450 households in the satellite villages near Mansa, with an estimated total generation capacity of 28 kilowatts. They will use a Pay-As-You-Go business model, which allows consumers to steadily pay for their system over time.

Muhanya Solar Limited Zambia 2016 Sector: SolarSummary: Muhanya Solar Limited is installing a 20 kilowatt solar micro-grid in Sinda Village, in Zambia’s Eastern Province. The micro-grid will provide energy to 60 families, a school, and small businesses in Sinda, which Muhanya hopes will provide an economic spark for the community and a blueprint for replicable micro-grids in rural areas in Zambia.

SuperRich Limited Zambia 2016 Sector: HydroSummary: SuperRich is installing three innovative hybrid hydro-solar systems on the Zambezi River, the first of 12 units which will ultimately have a generational capacity of 60 kilowatts. The systems utilize a unique floating turbine technology which floats on the surface of the river and does not require extensive civil works.


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Entrepreneur Country Amount Summary

GEORGE BAKKAAngels Initiative

Uganda $25,000 Sector: FinanceSummary: In Uganda, it is difficult to access capital to start a venture or expand an existing small business. George invests in people, so they can invest in small and growing businesses in East Africa. He matches opportunities, and provides a credit rating system to consumers to stimulate future investing.

JAMES TARNUEiCount Liberia

Liberia $25,000 Sector: FinanceSummary: Liberian economy can succeed and be the recipe for job creation if it is equipped with basic services. James is empowering the setup, the recruiting and the training of an effective quality workforce to provide management and bookkeeping services small and growing businesses.

KABIR OLAJIDEAdunni Water Factory

Nigeria $25,000 Sector: WASH/WATERSummary: In Nigeria, many youth drop out of school and find themselves unemployed with a lack of opportunities. Kabir is championing youth empowerment by creating jobs for school drop-outs as financial aid to sustain their studies while providing rural communities with clean and affordable drinking water.

MINASE FAYEWarka Payments

Ethiopia $25,000 Sector: FinanceSummary: Ethiopia is the world’s fastest growing economy, but one of its biggest obstacles is the lack of information on business transactions. Minase has developed a cash register machine which he will distribute for free which can also be used as bank processing machines and mobile banking agents. This will simplify transaction follow up, process bankcards and mobile money, collect expenses online, declare and pay taxes online creating a more transparent and robust economy.

MIXON FALUWEKIPadoko Electronics Bike Lights

Malawi $10,000 Sector: Retail Summary In Malawi, approximately only 10 percent of the population has access to electricity. Mixon recognized the detriment this has on students and is working to increase performance amongst students by providing them with healthier and sustainable lighting solution during their studies at night through the use of rechargeable bike lights.

U.S. African Development Foundation Ellington Arnold, Program AnalystEmail: [email protected]: +1-202-233-8800

USADFYouth Entrepreneurship Portfolio

Overview: Since 2014, USADF has awarded over $3M to youth entrepreneurs in over 30 countries and 15+ sectors. Here are the current grantees as of February 1st

2017.

Program Strategy: Our goal is to catalyze young people to launch and expand their social and business ventures. In collaboration with the CITI Foundation, USADF will award up to 75 business plan competition winners in 2016 with $1.25M in seed capital, mentoring and business support.

February 2017



MORWESI RAMONYAIBorena Watt a Woman Coop

South Africa $10,000 Sector: Renewable EnergySummary: Remote and rural communities in South Africa are often off the grid and do not have access to reliable energy. Morwesi is working to overcome energy poverty in rural communities by empowering women to invest in energy generation facilities and in the process create more sustainable lives with an additional revenue stream.

PAUL NKUMBULAMabo Village Energy Exchange

Zambia $10,000 Sector: Renewable EnergySummary: It isn’t rare for villages like Mabo in Zambia to be located 300Km away from the electrical grid. Paul is enhancing people’s livelihoods and providing means of sustainable income generation in rural communities by providing an integrated renewable energy system solution.

PETER NYAMIXP Water Tank

Kenya $25,000 Sector: WASH/WATERSummary: Over 70% of people living in Kenya’s arid areas rely on rain for safe drinking water. Unfortunately, conventional plastic or concrete tanks of sufficient capacity for families or small communities are beyond the price point of most lower income parts of society. Peter is increasing access to rainwater by producing more cost efficient water tanks for rain dependent communities.

WESLEY OWITICherehani Initiative

Kenya $25,000 Sector: Finance Summary: In Kenya, over 20 percent of adults in rural areas lack access to formal banking services. Unemployment tops 40 percent, and rural poverty levels are high. Operating in 5 counties, Wesley brings training and capital to women: he has provided sewing machines to over 600 women and made small business loans to more than 300, and couples this catalytic support with training on how to run a small business.

BERNARD ODUROOmanbapa Agripreneurship

Ghana $25,000 Sector: Agriculture/Advertising Summary: Many smallholder farmers in Ghana struggle to increase their production levels and improve the quality of their yields. Meanwhile, the demand for food products is only increasing, as the population rises. To increase productive, economic activity, Bernard is implementing product branding, packaging, and delivery. Farmers can earn more on their outputs and consumers can choose from quality products that they know have been safely packaged and processed.

LINCOLN PEEDAHNeat Meat Guinea Fowls

Ghana $25,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: The Ghanaian market for guinea fowl is collapsing, due to the lack of processing in the value chain. Lincoln is focusing on adding value by improving the safe hygienic processing and careful handling of poultry bought directly from farmers; this intentional processing, packaging and refrigeration of the meat will help ensure that consumers have access to higher quality products, and more nutritious, safer food.

February 2017



NOBUKHOSI NDLOVUNutrie Foods

Zimbabwe $25,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: In Zimbabwe, there is a of training for farmers on efficient farming methods and proper inputs. The results is inadequate and inconsistent availability of peanuts, leading to lost production for farmers and lower earnings for women farmers. Nobukhosi is empowering women peanut farmers by increasing their productivity as well as income.

NOEL SOMEAgriss

Burkina Faso $10,000 Sector: AgribusinessSummary: More than 80% of inhabitants in Burkina Faso are living in rural areas and rely on agriculture to generate income. Due to climate change, rains will become increasingly erratic, harvests will decline, and the poverty level will still rise. To confront these issues, Noel is improving livelihoods in rural populations by setting up ICT based services for agriculture extension and the market information’s system.

ORIANE BADAGreen Garden Farm

Benin $10,000 Sector: Agriculture Summary: In Benin, there is an increasing demand for organic food, especially in young professional mothers. Oriane is working towards food security, health, women empowerment, and environmental preservation in the community by developing large scale organic food farms.

OURA BOURIMAGardens of Hope

Benin $25,000 Sector: Agriculture Summary: Seeds are the most important input in agriculture and in Benin, like most of West Africa, more than 90 percent of seeds are imported. Imported seeds are primarily selected and produced for a European Mediterranean climate and do not adapt well to local conditions and contribute to lower harvest yields. Oura is increasing productivity and production for small farmers in Benin through seed extension.

STANELY ALPHONCESmartFit Meal Cards

Tanzania $10,000 Sector: ICT/ Services Summary: Traditionally university students get their cash meal allowances, they purchase their food from the campus’s privately owned cafeterias, which operate on a cash basis only. This means that if you don’t have cash you are unable to eat. Stanely is enhancing the educational environment and nutritional security of students by improving access to meals on campus and helping students manage their spending through the creation a meal card system.

TSIFERANA RAZAFIMANDIMBYCassava Bread Factory

Madagascar $25,000 Sector: AgribusinessSummary: Regular access to healthy food is a challenge for low income people in Madagascar. Tsiferana is working to provide cassava bread as an affordable, healthy food that lifts customers out of hunger daily as well as build capacity for Malagasy youth by partnering with vocational training center to teach skills in bread manufacturing.

YESSE OLJANGEAvomeru Group

Tanzania $25,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: Every year, over 100 million avocados are being underutilized in northern Tanzania, going to waste or being fed to livestock. The avocados’ short shelf-life makes them largely unsuitable for export, even to nearby local markets. Yesse is capturing value from the avocados by processing them into a higher value product with a better shelf-life; avocado oil. In doing so, raising the standard of living and reducing post-harvest losses for smallholder avocado farmers.

February 2017



ADJO DEDE ASAREAlfie Designs

Ghana $25,000 Sector: Manufacturing (Clothing)Summary: In Ghana’s fashion industry, there are not enough trained workers who can meet international production standards. Adjo Dede is training young women in sewing, tailoring, and design, enabling them to move out of poverty and contribute to the sector as skilled workers.

ALLEGRIA NTUMBAEco-Propre

DemocraticRepublic of the Congo

$10,000 Sector: Manufacturing (WASH)Summary: In Kinshasa, many households cannot afford high-priced retail cleaning products, and are exposed to avoidable containments and bacteria. Allegria is creating affordable, eco-friendly cleaning products to reduce the spread of disease, employ women, and improve living standards.

AUXIRIA MWANZAAfrican Hive Camping & Tours

Zambia $10,000 Sector: Tourism (Training)Summary: Zambia’s tourism industry is fast growing, and can contribute to employment and environmental conservation. Auxiria is providing training camps for young people, enabling them to learn the skills they need to work in eco-tourism.

BRENDA KATWESIGYEWazi Vision

Uganda $25,000 Sector: Health (Technology)Summary: In Uganda, more than 10 percent of school children have undiagnosed vision problems, but could not afford prescription eyeglasses, even if they had their eyesight tested. Brenda is tackling these intertwined problems by providing a cost-effective, mobile diagnostic vision test, and turning recycled plastic into affordable eyewear for low-income students.

CHARLES AKHIMIENMOBicure

Nigeria $25,000 Sector: Health (Technology)Summary: Per capita, Nigeria has the world’s 2nd highest mortality rate for new mothers, infants, and children under the age of 5. That is why Charles is developing MOBicure, using SMS text and voice recognition technology and a mobile platform to provide women with life-saving health data and monitoring, allowing them to access time-sensitive information 24/7.

EBUNOLUWA FARINDEOge-Ibile

Nigeria $10,000 Sector: Training (Fashion)Summary: African women work very hard, but do not thrive economically. Ebunoluwa is expanding her textile and clothing manufacturing work, to train disadvantaged women withMarketable and promote indigenous African culture through design.

February 2017



HELLEN MUNISNuya’s Essence

Tanzania $25,000 Sector: Manufacturing (Health and Beauty)Summary: The Tanzanian market is replete with chemically-based skin care products and cosmetics that are harmful to people’s health. Hellen is providing an eco-friendly, economic alternative in Zanzibar, where she is manufacturing and selling natural, affordable products and employing low income women.

HONORE ESSOHBouyou Animated TV Series

Cote d’Ivoire $25,000 Sector: Youth (Entertainment)Summary: Ivorian educational content and role models on television are limited for young children. Honoré is narrowing the gap in African-created children’s media through his animated TV series featuring superheroes from Cote d’Ivoire. His shows reflect the life a west African child, with cultural pride and inquiry via the characters’ adventures.

KAMRU AMINGasoPharm

Uganda $25,000 Sector: Distribution (Health)Summary: Over 2 out of 5 Ugandans have a hard time accessing medical facilities, and when they do, medicine can be scarce. In Kampala, Kamru is providing personalized pharmaceutical care along with over-the-counter medications, free health-promotion screening campaigns, and a plan to expand to reach more low and middle income people.

KHADIDIATOU NAKOULIMANEST for All

Senegal $25,000 Sector: Services (Health)Summary: Senegal’s public medical care is poor, and private hospitals out of most people’s reach, even if they have some insurance. Khadidiatou is making people healthier by building a network of affordable maternal health units for women and newborns.

KRYSTAL-BELLA SHABANIKrysabel

Burundi $10,000 Sector: Training (Fashion)Summary: The clothing and design sectors can contribute to trade and the local economy, but many women are not trained to participate or benefit in the fashion industry. Krysta-Bella is training women to create locally sourced, eco-friendly fabric, contributing to the national culture with unique products and improving their skills and livelihoods.

MESAY LICHENew Preschool

Ethiopia $25,000 Sector: Youth (Education)Summary: Attitude and possibility starts young, but the school system in Ethiopia is designed for rote rather than creative learning. Mesay is setting up a Montessori-based primary school to address this lack, engaging both children and parents in the learning and development process. He plans to expand nationally, and set up schools that teach in the local language.

SITRIKA RAKOTONDRAIBEAeromedical Health Center

Madagascar $25,000 Sector: Services (Health)Summary: Access to affordable healthcare in Madagascar is a challenge that many women and families face. Through Aeromedical Health Center, Sitraka is improving the health and well-being of women in Madagascar by expanding a women-run clinic providing affordable care for vulnerable populations.

February 2017



TIDIANE BALLMaliSante

Mali $25,000 Sector: Health (Technology)Summary: Malian doctors and patients lose a lot of time waiting, due to the lack of a systematic scheduling program for doctors’ appointments. To address this, Tidiane is running MaliSante, a platform that provides medical information, doctor’s office locations, and appointment scheduling services, to make managing patient care more efficient and to make people more healthy.

KEMO TOUREWutiko

Senegal $25,000 Sector: Services (Job force)Summary: The job market in Senegal is competitive, and the number of job seekers is only growing. Kemo has created Wutiko, (“Find It,” in Wolof), a job search platform that connects job seekers with companies experiencing job vacancies. His service designed to be efficient and transparent for both parties.

ANGE IRANKUNDAEarth’s Swagg

Burundi $10,000 Sector: Manufacturing (Environment)Summary: Most of Burundi's population uses charcoal and firewood for heating and cooking, in turn destroying over 6400 hectares of forest each year. Ange’s company, Earth’s Swagg, is producing fuel briquettes from biodegradable waste and fine charcoal, providing sustainable heating alternatives.

CAROLYNE EKYARISIIMAApps and Girls

Tanzania $10,000 Sector: Training (ICT and Gender)Summary: Tanzania is experiencing a gender gap in information communication technology (ICT) development, training, employment, and entrepreneurship. Carolyne seeks to fill this gap through Apps and Girls, a project that will train young women in coding, ICT, and business skills, increasing opportunity for them to participate in the ICT industry.

DYSMUS KISILUSolar Freeze

Kenya $10,000 Sector: Manufacturing (Energy)Summary: Many farmers in Kenya experience post-harvest losses, having portions of their yields spoil before getting to consumers. Dysmus is helping farmers improve their selling capacity by producing solar refrigeration units, which will increase produce’s shelf life from 2 to 20 days.

EMILE UWEZOWAMUNGUInnova Group

Burundi $10,000 Sector: Training (Business Support)Summary: In Burundi, many small and medium enterprises struggle with how to better manage, grow and mobilize their businesses. That is why Emile is launching a company that will provide coaching, mentoring, and networking advice to help companies build capacity and maximize their impact.

GEORGES KOUMBASSAAddition Group

Guinea $25,000 Sector: Delivery services (Food Security)Summary: In Guinea, smallholder farmers face the challenge of physically getting their produce to market while it is still fresh. Georges is helping these farmers by creating an affordable, effective delivery and monitoring services company to distribute produce.

February 2017


Entrepreneur Country Category Summary

KUDZAI SAKAJEROUmba Create Hub

Zimbabwe $25,000 Sector: Training (Women’s Empowerment)Summary: The current Zimbabwean education curriculum is producing graduates who are not well suited for the rapidly changing global community. That is why Kudzai is providing skills training and career planning guidance for young women and high school girls through her business, Farayi Africa. She will create a centralized location where girls and women can share the learning experience, gain knowledge and skills, and collaborate.

NAZEEM JUNGGEE1950 Design & Print

Mauritius $25,000 Sector: Manufacturing (Environment)Summary: The digital printing and outdoor media advertising sector in Mauritius contributes tons of waste to landfills each year. Nazeem wants to take the polyvinyl chlorides (PVC) produced from this waste and transform it into materials for recycled, reusable tote bags.

NURO MUROKivuko.com

Tanzania $10,000 Sector: Retail (Cafe)Summary: Connecting local vendors with local customers, Kivuko.com seeks to be a pioneer of e-commerce in Tanzania. Nuro Muro has created this online marketplace, which provides cost-effective ways to buy and sell quality products safely and conveniently.

SIMON MALUGU Power Token Incubators

Tanzania $10,000 Sector: Manufacturing (Industrial Uniforms)Summary: Traditional methods of raising chickens in Tanzania can be very labor intensive. Simon is easing this process for small-scale farmers by producing affordable egg incubators. These incubators will allow farmers to increase their livelihoods by raising more birds.

TAITA NGETICHIlluminum Greenhouses

Kenya $25,000 Sector: Training (Agriculture)Summary: Smallholder farmers in Kenya rely on rainwater to grow their crops. That is why Taita is utilizing greenhouses and drip irrigation to help these farmers increase their yields. He is constructing greenhouses and training farmers on best practices to help them maximize water usage and increase their production.

TSHIAMO DICHABEThari Hydroponics

South Africa $10,000 Sector: Agriculture (Poultry)Summary: Tshiamo is developing greenhouses that rely on hydroponics, a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water, without using soil. His company will build and sustain hydroponics systems in Free State Province, South Africa. These structures will produce high quality vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers, all year round to increase local food security.

MARIUS GNALIS-RAFAIBeAfrica Innovation Lab

Central African Republic

$10,000 Sector: Business Consulting Summary: In the Central African Republic, informal business practices are a serious challenge for the development of startups and small and medium companies (SMEs), particularly by young entrepreneurs. The lack of professionalism of these companies in financial literacy and management is one of the biggest challenges they face when attempting to access capital. BeAfrica Innovation Lab provides financial management and consulting services to companies and business executives, including outsourced bookkeeping, financial consulting, workshops on specific topics, and acceleration programs for aspiring entrepreneurs.

February 2017



DOLAIN PULULUCreditech

Democratic Republic of the Congo

$10,000 Sector: ITSummary: Quality education is only achievable with quality educators. Teachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo need access to information for research purposes in order to assist their students. In addition, in the DRC, most schools lack training and professional development programs for the teachers. The costs of setting up a teachers development program, building libraries and computer labs are often prohibitive for most Congolese schools. A powerful alternative tool is the Internet, which offers access to virtual libraries, encyclopedias, and online courses for students and teachers. Creditech, a social enterprise which has developed a “Connect the Teacher” project to help close the digital information gap for teachers in the DRC.

FRANCK KAKELChicken Husbandry and Chicken Feed Production

Democratic Republic of the Congo

$10,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: In the DRC, like many other African countries, chicken production costs are high making it difficult for consumers to afford chicken meat regularly. The high price results in large part from the high cost of chicken feed, approximately 75 percent of the total production cost. The Cooperative (CAAPJECO) helps farmers improve their farming skills by offering training and has conducted a pilot to produce chicken feed from maize and soya grown by local farmers.

STEVE OTENGretta Adult Learning Project

Kenya $10,000 Sector: Education Summary: Gretta Adult Learning Project prepares adult students for their high school certificates and seeks to expand its services in Kisumu and Siaya counties and offer a wider range of courses.

JUSTINE ABUGAEcobora

Kenya $10,000 Sector: Eco-Manufacturing Summary: Ecobora has developed a low-cost technology that produces wood pellets from recycled sawdust and rice husks. The company has also supplied 234 stoves to mothers in Limuru who use the pellets for cooking.

AMANI KARABUGarb Tech

Kenya $10,000 Sector: Waste Management Summary: Garb Tech is committed to addressing the problem of inadequate waste disposal through efficient, reliable and affordable waste management services. Garb Tech’s services include collection, transportation and recycling of waste.

STANLEY GITAUSix Degrees Consultancy

Kenya $10,000 Sector: Consulting Summary: Six Degrees Consultancy, which aims to offer business development services to Siaya County beneficiaries on how to form and join organized groups for collective investment in fish cage farming, with a special emphasis on women’s participation.

ROBERT MBOYASmart Wallet

Kenya $10,000 Sector: Financial Services (Tech) Summary: Smart Wallet Expeditions Ltd. Is a start-up that leverages the power of software to reach youth who own smartphones and assist them to better understand and manage their finances.

February 2017



YVETTE ISHIMWEIriba Clean Water Delivery LTD.

Rwanda $10,000 Sector: WaterSummary: In the Eastern province of Rwanda, there is a serious problem of water scarcity. A total of 67.3 percent of people living in these districts use polluted water from swamps, rivers and lakes for drinking and household activities. Even when people find clean water sources they tend to carry the water back home in contaminated containers without realizing the health hazards. In addition to health and sanitation problems, farmers’ yields are reduced to 84 percent of the expected yield, especially during the dry seasons when water is scarce and they are unable to water their farms. IRIBA Clean Water Delivery Ltd. is improving access to reliable and safe water for drinking, household and farming activities.

MARTIN BUNANEImarb Garlic Processing Factory

Rwanda $10,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: In Rwanda, poor nutrition and unemployment are persistent problems. As a way to address both of these issues, garlic provides both nutritional value and health benefits, and is an income-producing product that can sustain job growth. Imarb Group Ltd., a Musanze-based company specializes in the processing of quality and affordable semi- and fully processed garlic products. By doing so, improving the standard of living, nutritional and health benefits for low-income producers and consumers of garlic products in Rwanda.

PRISCILLA RUZIBUKAKi-Pepeo Kids Clothing

Rwanda $10,000 Sector: Fashion Summary: Only 65 percent of the total female population in Rwanda are literate, leaving 35 percent of the women dependent upon physical labor, agriculture, or informal jobs for their livelihoods. The Rwandan government recently passed a law abolishing the importation of second hand clothes, including clothes for the large youth population. The law provides an opportunity to equip and empower low income women by helping them acquire tailoring skills and find employment. Ki-Pepeo Kids is manufacturing children’s clothing from readily available materials and train unskilled women in tailoring.

FRANCIS XAVIER ASIIMWEKaaro Health Finance

Uganda $10,000 Sector: HealthSummary: Kaaro Health Finance Limited (KHF) product solutions are designed to eliminate or mitigate both energy and finance access issues by providing tailor-made, flexible lease-to-own medical and renewable energy equipment financing to private healthcare entrepreneurs who are already operating or intending to expand into underserved rural areas.

RHODAH IRAKIZAMr. Gift

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Supply Chain Logistics Summary: A social enterprise focused on improving access for smallholder flower farmers to local markets by improving the supply chain.

EMMANUEL LUYINDAVillage Chicken

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: A social enterprise focused on empowering rural women in Kavule, Luwero district to start and run sustainable and profitable poultry ventures and to supply nutritious chicken meat and eggs to the community.

HASHIM MUTANJESolar Pipo

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Renewable Energy Summary: The founder is CEO of People and Energy Limited, a start-up company that seeks to match consumers’ energy needs with available, suitable energy solutions through its SolarPipo app.

February 2017


Entrepreneur Country Summary

JONATHAN ASUMAAgroStretch Limited

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: AgroStretch Limited develops sustainable, efficient and affordable products and service for smallholder farmers to increase their profitability. It has developed a Fresh Tomato Bank to process tomatoes into puree and enable tomato farmers to minimize their post-harvest losses and obtain a fair and steady price for their produce.

TONNY KWANGAKizimba Social Enterprise

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: A social enterprise focused on goat breeding and rearing and providing necessary skills training in modern farming to youth farmers.

DENIS MOI KIPROTICH Slopes of Mount Elgon Honey

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Agribusiness Summary: Slopes of Mount Elgon Honey is a project to provide gainful employment to disabled persons as beekeepers, while at the same time reversing the worrisome decline in the bee population and honey production in Uganda.

CHARLES MUBIRULife Tomorrow

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Waste Management Summary: A social enterprise focused on proper waste management, specifically to improve the quality of life and environmental conditions in Mukono Municipality in Uganda.

FIONA RUKWANZINyunya

Uganda $10,000 Sector: Food Processing Summary: A venture that produces a probiotic yogurt which offers health benefits to consumers with varying conditions, including diabetes and digestive disorders such as diarrhea caused by infections.

February 2017

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Rwanda - Squarespace · PDF fileThe project funds will be used to construct an environmentally sound coffee washing station, ... purchase a coffee pulping machine and processing