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Adam Smith International
India
Adam Smith International is an award winning professional services business that delivers real impact value and lasting change through projects supporting economic growth and government reform internationally.
| Professional & technical services |
Company
Africap
Mauritius
Africap invests across African companies serving unbanked MSMEs. The fund is managed by African investment professionals with experience in private equity and microfinance. Bamboo sits on the board.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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BBOXX Ltd
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
BBOXX designs manufactures distributes and finances innovative solar systems to improve access to energy across Africa and the developing world.rnSMART Solar is an innovative solution that enables our solar products to be controlled and monitored remotely. With SMART Solar BBOXX can extend the life of the battery improve the experience for the user and offer superior customer service.
| Energy |
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BRAC
Bangladesh
BRAC the largest international development organization in the world works to empower the poor to improve their own lives through economic social and legal programs that unleash human potential and address the many dimensions of poverty.
| Human health & social work |
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Bridge2Rwanda
United States of America
Bridge2Rwanda was formed in 2007 to help expand Rwanda s global network of friends to encourage foreign direct investment and to create opportunities for Rwandan students to study abroad. A few years later President Paul Kagame asked B2R to develop a new scholars program to burst the bottlenecks that were preventing Rwanda s best students from competing for international scholarships. The first class of Bridge2Rwanda Scholars was launched in 2011.
| Education |
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Eco Fuels Kenya
Kenya
EFK Group (Eco Fuels Kenya) is an innovative social enterprise committed to sustainable agribusiness development through the production of high value renewable energy and organic agricultural outputs. As the first and only producer of croton bioenergy and agricultural products EFK has found a viable and scalable solution using the croton nut an indigenous East African nut that has no other commercial productive or edible use. EFK s business model incorporates a holistic approach that has many benefits in the agricultural value chain. These include clean energy and agricultural products targeted at smallholder farmers SMEs and larger agribusinesses additional income for thousands of rural bottom of the pyramid nut collectors 85% of whom are women and unemployed youth and the promotion of sustainable agroforestry systems. EFK produces poultry feed biofuel and organically certified fertilizers all through a no waste manufacturing process based on the croton nut. EFK directly addresses the challenges in the agricultural sector in Kenya it creates consistent affordable and sustainable agricultural and energy inputs while having a high social and environmental impact.
| Energy |
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Jibu
Uganda
To address both the water crisis and employment crisis Jibu equips entrepeneurs with a proven business in a box franchise solution strategically located storefronts that draw water from any local source and filter / package it on the spot using leading edge ultra filtration. Drinking water is sold in reusable bottles to the bottom 90% of the under served market within a hyper local target market (about 2km radius around each franchise) at a price lower than cost of the charcoal required to boil water. Launched in 2012 Jibu has now launched 5 franchises.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Juhudi Kilimo
Kenya
Juhudi Kilimo is a social enterprise that provides asset financing and technical assistance to smallholder farmers and small to medium agro businesses throughout Kenya. Juhudi operates exclusively in very rural areas giving smallholder farmers access to the tools they need to scale up and succeed.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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KZ Noir
Rwanda
First Coffee company to be Rainforest Alliance certified in Rwanda. rnCurrently pursuing a Fair Trade Certification.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Persistent Energy Partners
United States of America
Persistent Energy Partners (PEP) focuses on providing off grid households with access to basic energy services electric light mobile phone charging fans radios TV and Internet. PEP has invested in and incubated businesses with a commercial approach to providing such energy services to low income customers in sub Saharan Africa.
| Energy |
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Sidai Africa
Kenya
Founded in 2011 the company aims to establish a network of at least 150 franchised and branded Livestock Service Centres in Kenya by 2015. Each franchise is equipped to provide quality animal health products and professional technical advice to farmers and pastoralists.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Solar Now
Uganda
SolarNow designs and sells an innovative modular product range that is distributed through a franchise network in rural Uganda. The product comes with a 12 months credit facility. The operations follow a simple highly standardized and low cost design.
| Energy |
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Veritas Social Empowerment Inc.
Philippines
Veritas seeks to synthesize the technological capability of the poor (most of them have cellphones) with market needs. This synthesis intends to help build relationships for the common good through the triple bottom line people planet profit. Veritas would like to internalize the true cost of what we buy including the environmental costs of extracting raw material and marketing and disposing it. This solidarity helps guide the behavior of producers and consumers in our globally connected world. An ethical economy helps create a functioning society. Veritas is guided by the internalized and institutionalized principles of integrity solidarity and creativity in order to bring about an economy that is based on justice and the common good. This is the best way to create a world of freedom and justice integrating local enterprises into the global economy based on fair trade policies.
| Real estate, design & building |