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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 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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| 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 |
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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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| SHORT 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 additives made from the leaves of the moringa tree at the base of the economic pyramid.
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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 an alternative, cheaper source of energy for low income communities.
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| Eco-MICAIA Limitada |
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| Baobab products, 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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| 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 smallholder tea and coffee farmers.
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