• Capacity Development Provider

Mercy Corps

The overall goal of this project is poverty reduction in Addis Ababa through the creation of businesses manufacturing cooking fuel briquettes from organic waste, testing the market and increasing employees's incomes. The idea is to manufacture cooking briquettes out of organic waste, creating employment opportunities for 30 poor women that would enable these women and their families to rise above poverty line. It will also make available cheaper and healthier alternative cooking fuel, and contribute to the environmental sanitation.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Co-working space

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Business strategy and planning
    • Sector development
    • Technology development or adoption

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Financial services

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Accessibility
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Gender inclusion
    • Urban communities

  • Impact objectives

    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Energy and fuel efficiency
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Access to information
    • Access to financial services
    • Access to energy
    • Natural resources conservation

  • Verticals

    • FinTech
    • Hardware
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