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| Nuru Energy |
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| Clean energy distribution, Kenya |
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| This venture seeks to develop manufacturing and distribution of Nuru's portable lights and recharging mechanisms in India to provide a sustainable and safe alternative to kerosene lighting. |
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| Swedstream |
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| Portable ultrasounds, Uganda &Tajikistan |
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| This pilot project seeks to dramatically reduce limitations on cost and access to ultrasound technology before spreading commercially to other developing countries. |
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| Text to Change |
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| Mobile market research, Tanzania, Kenya & Uganda |
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| Text to Change aims to mix for profit and non-profit work in order to provide businesses and NGOs with vital information on their target communities, through mobile market research. |
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| Sanergy |
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| Slum sanitation, Kenya |
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| Sanergy aims to improve sanitation in urban slums in Kenya by designing user friendly systems to increase usage and reduce cleaning costs. |
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| Waste Ventures |
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| Waste-picker cooperatives, India |
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| This venture will create a workforce of waste pickers, equippinng them to operate through cooperativesin four municipal areas to inrease their incomes through employment. |
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| Zanrec Plastics |
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| Plastics recycling, Tanzania |
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| This project aims to develop local infrastructure for collecting plastics and implementing recycling systems. It will employ local populations and recyle plastic into value-added goods. |
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| GSS international sourcing |
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| Inclusive supply chains, Ghana |
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| GSS aims to integrate low income farmers into commercial agricultural supply chains in Ghana by providing training on vegetable production and pest management. |
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| Sunny People |
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| Rural mobile charging, Kenya |
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| Sunny People aims to spread solar chargers across East Africa to increase access to electricity. By identifying entrepreneurs to sell the products in rural areas, they plan to distribute 200,000 chargers by 2020. |
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| Finaccess |
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| Mobile Banking, Nepal |
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| Finaccess’ Hello Paisa venture will allow anyone with any mobile device to send and receive money, pay bills, receive government benefits and many other financial services. |
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| d.Light |
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| Affordable solar energy, Nigeria |
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| Building on their existing product solutions that offer off-grid portable lighting, d.Light plans to pilot a new solar product targeting low-income households based on innovative consumer-financing. |
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| Eco-fuel Africa |
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| Sustainable charcoal, Uganda |
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| Eco-Fuel Africa aims to turn farm and municipal waste into clean-burning fuel briquettes and organic fertilisers. |
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| Agro-Food Industrie |
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| Baby cereal venture, Morocco |
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| This venture aims to develop, produce and market an affordable Fortified Complementary Food (FCF), most commonly called ‘Infant cereal' in Morocco. |
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| Ignitia |
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| Preventative weather forecasting, Ghana |
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| In this venture, Ignitia will deliver daily weather forecases and warnings to farmers in Ghana. Initially, the target is to reach 91,000 farmers. |
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| M-Birr |
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| Mobile Money service, Ethiopia |
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| M-BIRR aims to develop a mobile banking service in Ethiopia, allowing people to conduct basic financial transactions from their mobile phone. |
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| SMALL GRANT PROJECTS |
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| Calimera Solokraft |
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| Safe bottled water distribution, Tanzania |
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| Calimera Solokraft aims to develop locally managed micro factories to distribute clean drinking water and generate jobs in low-income communities. |
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| GreenLaiti |
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| Renewable energy, Zambia |
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| This venture will market ethanol-based cooking fuel to replace paraffin and charcoal as a cheaper energy source that will benefit low income consumers in local communities. |
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| Greenway |
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| Waste to electricity , India & Burkina Faso |
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| Greenway aim to develop and commercialise their thermoelectric generator to convert waste-heat from household activities into a clean source of electricity. |
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| HiNation |
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| Solar Lighting, Zambia |
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| HiNation aims to commercialise its portable solar lighting and mobile phone charging pane which will reduce costs and provide opportunities for rental. |
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| Ignitia |
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| Mobile weather forecasting, Zambia |
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| Ignitia seeks to provide subscription-based localised weather forecast services to 90,000 smallholders in Ghana. |
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| Vagga till Vagga |
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| Biomass stoves, Zambia |
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| This project aims to provide an alternative source of energy to families through biomass produced from husks and sawdust . |
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| Lotus Foods |
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| SRI rice cultivation, Bhutan, India & Indonesia |
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| Lotus Foods seeks to identify value chains to apply the System of Rice Intensification which can help farmers produce more crops with fewer chemicals and costs. |
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| IDE |
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| Farm business advisors, Mozambique |
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| IDE aim to extend their franchise model to support the production, wholesale, retail and distribution of quality services to smallholder farmers in Mozambique. |
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| IRDI |
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| Morigna processing, Zambia |
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| This project will market products derived from the Moringa crop on a commercially viable basis. Cooperative will help farmers initiate production and diversify end products for sale to international markets. |
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| MAKIT |
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| Menstrual cup distribution, Kenya |
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MAKIT aims to act as a market leader in sustainable menstrual hygiene products. Its menstrual cup will be distributed to women through entrepreneurial networks.
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| Moringa food additives, Madagascar |
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This project aims to fight malnutrition in Madagascar by selling a nutrient-rich food additive made from the leaves of the moringa tree at the BOP.
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| Waste 2 Energy Ltd. |
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| Biogas from waste, Uganda |
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Waste 2 Energy Ltd. aim to develop a commercial biogas production, purification and pressurising facility in Kampala to provide alternative, cheaper fuels.
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| Cafédirect |
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| Online communications, Kenya |
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CPF is exploring different business models including one based on an exchange of micro-payments between farmers (typically low-income smallholder tea and coffee farmers).
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| Eco-MICAIA Limitada |
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| Baobab rproducts, Mozambique |
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This business venture aims to establish a processing plant in the Manica Province of Mozambique and sell Baobab products nationally and internationally.
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| Bonzun Health Information |
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| Web-based maternity and child care, China |
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In this venture Bonzun aims to provide health information to pregnant women, doctors and midwives in China via a digital interactive platform.
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| From the Field Trading |
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| Value-added vanilla beans, Madagascar |
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From the Field Trading Company, Inc. (FTF) sources high-quality vanilla beans from rural farmer cooperatives in Madagascar, linking them to US and European markets through sales of vanilla-based products.
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| ICCO |
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| Edible insect breeding, Kenya |
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n this project, ICCO and its partners aim to establish organised cricket production in order to create a value chain for breading, marketing and distributing edible, nutritious crickets to households in Nyanza Province, Kenya. |
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| Pamoja Cleantech |
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| Bio-electricity, Uganda |
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Pamoja is aiming at improving access to electricity in rural parts
of Uganda. The company will develop enterprises to run biogasification power plants and is looking to supply villages as well as large corporates with electricity. |
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| See My Tree |
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| Smallholder environmental services in India |
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See My Tree offers individual, low-income smallholder farmers the opportunity to sell environmental services created by small-scale forestry activities on the international Internet market.
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| Rent-to-Own |
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| Access to productive equipment in Zambia |
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Rent-to-Own helps rural entrepreneurs in Zambia to increase their income by supplying productive assets along with the necessary financing, training and aftermarket services. |
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| Healthpoint Services India |
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| Rural healthcare management through mobile tools, India |
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Through mobile diagnostic tools, the company plans to provide rural families with diagnostic, treatment/maintenance and prevention health options for hypertension and diabetes. |
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