Re-ImaginingResilience Highlights Report

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THEPartnership

Cordaid and Impact Hub share the belief that entrepreneurs in complex

contexts are incredibly resourceful and have immense potential. This

potential lies not only in strengthening their own economies, civic societies

and country systems, but also in contributing to the rest of the world with

their ability to inn ovate, develop and grow prosperous businesses.

By combining Cordaid and Impact Hubs expertise and experiences,

the Resilience Africa program is jointly developing a unique pipeline of

investment-ready ventures through supporting entrepreneurs in Burundi,

Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sierra Leone to

establish Impact Hubs. The hope is that these spaces will provide much

needed incubation and acceleration services in their cities, and will

build and strengthen local entrepreneurial ecosystems. The Cordaid andImpact Hub partnership is focused on the mutual goal of creating long

lasting support for social entrepreneurs, collaborating closely with the

local leaders and entrepreneurs who can make this happen and together,

encouraging spaces where innovation can truly flourish.

Impact Hub & Cordaid PartnershipRESILIENCE AFRICA PROGRAM


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THE

JourneyThe journey to realizing this ambitious project has raised some important

questions in how we approach our work. What does it take to become a

truly global network that enables the development of a sustainable future

through collaboration and entrepreneurship? What does it take to build

resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems that contribute to reducing the

vulnerability of entire nations? These were Impact Hub and Cordaids initial

questions as they explored how to contribute to resilient entrepreneurial

ecosystems in complex environments, and more broadly, global discussions

around resilience and entrepreneurship.

The Resilience Program was thus developed to prototype entrepreneurial

solutions, and also to learn and reflect deeply on what resilience means

and what we, as ecosystem builders, can do to enable more entrepreneurs

in their endeavours. Through interactions with entrepreneurs, institutions

and others globally during the past year, one key take away has been

that that this is a global discussion, rather than a purely regional one -

these gathered insights transcend the African context and serve any

entrepreneurial effort in challenging conditions.

With this in mind, Impact Hub and Cordaid convened a series of dialogues

and meetings through 2015, in Kigali and Berlin with thought leaders,

to understand the entrepreneurship challenges and opportunities in

different contexts and to develop a deeper understanding of what makes

entrepreneurs resilient - what t hey need to thrive and what key services,

support and interventions create the ideal conditions to this end. The

Re-Imagining Resilience event in Addis represented the culmination of

these enquiries, bringing together players from the global and regional

ecosystems to share their knowledge and experience, and to create

meaningful and catalyzing connections that approximate the ecosystem and

create practical opportunities for collaboration informed by a new narrative

of resilience. The thinking...lets walk the talk and start collaborating.

What are we talking about when we say resilience? What does it mean

in your context? What does it mean when we say an entrepreneur is

resilient, or an ecosystem is resilient? How is it different for policy

makers, entrepreneurs, donors, partners and other ecosystem

facilitators? What kinds of programs, investments and initiatives

are happening, or need to happen, to increase resilience? Through

the stories gathered from entrepreneurs, it was possible to get a

preliminary insight into what resilience means for entrepreneurs

in their daily efforts. As a result, we were able to refine the question

to include what entrepreneurs consider as resilience.

How can we enable entrepreneurs who are faced with challenging

conditions to thrive, recover quickly, co-evolve and experience

themselves as a part of a whole? We entered the conference

with this question to frame the discussion and challenge us as

an ecosystem to not only think the entrepreneurial resilience but

also to inquire into wider ecosystem and systemic perspectives on

resilience.

Through this journey of enquiry, we came across several

complementary definitions of resilience and it became clear that

no matter what the definition we adopt, we could only comprehendthe meaning of it when we engage with the different stories and

journeys entrepreneurs have lived. Thus, the question shifted to

what we could learn from these stories about what works; how

could entrepreneurs personal journey stories inform, inspire and

provoke our understanding and give us the opportunity to reimagine

our understanding of resilience together?

The Calling Question

Why Re-imagining Resilience?


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WHAT IS

Resilience?

What did we learnabout resilience andwhat actually works?

To evolve and progress in interdependentrelationships with other people and systemsand transcend current conditions

The ability to understand themselves aspart of a whole (to be aware of the networkof relations, the ecosystem and the yourrole in a bigger context)

Entrepreneurs that come from placeshat suffocate innovation (vs ecosystemshat spur innovation) are more thanresilient entrepreneurs, they are

ecosystem catalysts they create theanguage, infrastructure and culture of

entrepreneurship from scratch;

eeing opportunities whereher people see problems

To recover quickly and

emerge stronger

Move into different rolesdepending on whats neededand to do what the contextneeds.

COEVOLVE

RECOVER QUICKLY

SHAPESHIFT

ECOSYSTEM CATALYSTS

AS PART OF A WHOLE

RANSFORM

INTERVIEW WITH NICHOLAS COLLOFFExecutive Director at Argidius Foundation

What makes an ecosystem for entrepreneurship anenabler for resilience?

What makes a system resilient is when an entrepreneurlooks for the services they need, [and] they can begin tofind them.; and that at every stage of that growth fromstart-up right through to expansion, a person is able tofind and access the resources and the help they need inan efficient way.

WHATSyourpersonal stake

and drive?

On a personal level its always incredibly exciting to seepeople with an idea and with the passion behind the ideaworking out how its going to grow and develop.

Ive been an entrepreneur myself, so Ive started with agreen field, with some resources and Ive put somethingtogether. The thing you find out is that how you expectedto get to that point when you feel youve actually donesomething is not at all how it actually turns out in reality.

So that connection between the passion, the goal and thethis is what I want to do; and then the realization thatyou really need to be flexible and rethink and fail here andrethink again and relearn in order to get t o the final goal

is really exciting. And to see people do that with so muchenergy and enthusiasm, and then to walk into an ImpactHub and just see that being multiplied dozens of time invarious different corners of the room and the space, isvery exciting.

We all know that collaboration should be happeningwithin the ecosystem, how could we foster morecollaboration for more impact?

I think ultimately we have to keep focusing on t he impact;so, whats the outcome?The outcome ultimately is that there are social enterprisesthat serve the needs of people in effective ways. So if wekeep focusing and being aware of the potential scaleof that impact - in the employment generated, in theservices provided (particularly for our point of view, topoor communities), then you can begin to draw in peoplearound that outcome.

Often people may have all sorts of questions around themeans of getting there, but get excited about the meanswhen they begin to see the actual outcome that themeans have achieved. So the nitty gritty of acceleratingor developing businesses might be, to many people, quitedull. But whats not dull is when you find an enterprisethat has developed low-cost healthcare opportunities forrural communities in Kenya, for example. So when youexcite more people about the outcome, people then beginto be drawn into the mechanism heres social enterpriseas a mechanism for delivering that kind of change.


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Prototyping whatthe characteristics ofan Ecosystem that

enables entrepreneursin their journey

Building on what resilience looks like, how does anecosystem need to look and function to become an

active enabler of these capacities. What are the keycharacteristics of such an ecosystem?

SOCIAL CAPITALVibrant entrepreneurial Communityand functioning Networks, Spaces forpeer to peer support and to connectLike-minded people. Space formutual learning and being united.

LOCAL COMMUNITYthe more relevance to the localcommunity, the community itself willsupport the business in challengingmoments if it is relevant to itsidentity.

EDUCATIONEducation and Training thatencourages and facilitates people tocreate.

ENABLING CULTUREEntrepreneurial mindset & attitude,An entrepreneurial culture, changingthe narrative from this is difficulty toone that says together its possible!

THE ECOSYSTEM SEEING ITSELFMaking the ecosystem visible andseeing everyones role and thesynergies and resource Sharing.

TRANSPARENCY & ACCESS TOINFORMATIONAccess to critical and relevantinformation that creates equalopportunities for entrepreneurs to

access finance, legal compliance andmarkets.

CAPITALResponsible financial players, accessto capital.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICAL WILLLegislation that promotes theentrepreneurial spirit andencouraging private sectordevelopment and does not depend onaid.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOSTERINGORGANISATIONSCustomized and specific Centresto inform, train, finance and enableentrepreneurial activities.

INTERVIEW WITH RAHEL BOONDEJENE

Founder R&D Group and Cordaid Partner | Entrepreneur in Ethiopia

Youre an entrepreneur in Addis, what are the challenges you have faced running a business in this context and howhave you overcome them?

Our company creates job opportunities for younggraduates at ICT level. We do that by cooperating withthe corporate world, mostly in the Netherlands, andnext to that we also have a venture that stimulatesentrepreneurship in Ethiopia. We focus mostly on SMEsbecause of the challenges they face in the support systemEthiopia.

I probably face fewer challenges than most entrepreneursin Ethiopia because I have some networks in foreigncountries. But in general, the sector I work on (ICT)is difficult for women [male dominated sector], theinfrastructure is not good; there is limited market demandso being innovative is always difficult.

Policies are complicated for example, what does ICTmean? We actually do service exporting and this isntknown in Ethiopia, so I think we took about 5 yearsexplaining what we do before we finally got the license toexport services. So in this, the challenges were more in thesystem than in the actual resilience of the entrepreneurs.

We also have issues with employees. Their knowledge isnot as advanced as we would wish, especially in the sectorwe work in. This is why we started a training centre ofour own because we noticed there was a big gap betweenactually working and being a student. So the practicalimplementation of programs in real life is difficult foryoungsters because they came from a very theoreticalbackground.

Also another challenge is access to finance. We cannotleverage more than what we do - we have to use ourpersonal savings, because we have gotten to a pointwhere were too a big to be financed by the microfinance

organizations and too small for the corporate banks. Sothese three are our main challenges: policies, access tofinance and access to people with knowledge.

what attracts you toREIMAGINING RESILIENCE

and strengtheningentrepreneurial ecosystems?

Resilience is something that everyones talking aboutand I have come to accept the word as something positive.In terms of Africa, entrepreneurs are resilient and I dontthink there is something more we can teach them aboutresilience. I mean - they fight life everyday!

However the way they fight is maybe not the same. Sowhat I like is when we can share ideas for example, howI fought with the system to give us a license to export ICTwould be different from how it would be in Kenya. But whenyou learn from each other, you actually achieve more. SoI do like the idea of learning from other entrepreneurschallenges. I dont think we can make them more resilient,or that you can make me more resilient. But resiliententrepreneurs can help other resilient entrepreneurs bylearning best practices from each other.


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LEARNINGS AND INSIGHT FROM

Stories and Provocations

Thanks to our provokers and storytellers

Gada Kadoda, Kadidia Konare, Ange Muyubira,

Claudia Valladares, Zachariah George, Mugethi

Gitau and Sheilah Birgenfor inspiring, challenging

and touching us and for teaching us small and

big lessons about what resilience means, what it

looks like and what it takes to be on that journey.


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THEIRInsights

How a country such as Venezuela with the largest proven oil reserves creates a situation of scarcity of goods and

services in which people need to stand in line for hours to buy 1 chicken or 1 kilo of rice or buy medicines or to obtain a

medical treatment in a h ospital. According to Claudia Valladares, despite of all this circumstances entrepreneurs have

been able to reframe their situation and start looking at things differently, promoting kindness and hope and seeking

reconciliation while creating meaningful business through creative partnerships. The primacy of hope couldnt be more

important in this context; hope being an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomesrelated to events and circumstances in ones life or the world at large.And we learned about the power of choice as

Viktor Frankl describes it: Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to

choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose ones own way

From Gada Kadoda, we heard the story of a community in Sudan in which elder women with no li teracy were trained to

become community solar engineers and developed community based and owned business. Gadas story explored how

the power of communities owning their business and creating a strong sense of purpose can unfold a sense of mission

and risk taking to protect and rebuild their businesses, even in dangerous and life threatening situations.

Nobody could disagree with Kadidia Konare who opened with: the entrepreneurial journey is an emotional roller

coaster. According to Kadidia, what maximizes the likelihood of success and resilience is the level of connectivity of

the entrepreneur and the ecosystem. Its the network, the community and the relationships of trust that make us less

likely quit.

CLAUDIAVALLADARES

Co-founder and Director, Impact Hub Caracas

GADA KADODA

Academic Activist and Researcher

KADIDIA KONARE

Advisor to the President of Mali and Co-founder, Impact Hub Bamako

Ange Muyubira created a social enterprise that gives Burundian artisans, especially women & youth, the opportunity

to use their craftsmanship to become self-sufficient, support their families, and overcome poverty. Despite Burundi

currently struggling with political discord and being the 4th poorest country in the world, Ange has been training

artisans to produce modern designed artisanal items and finding them markets. This has improved the art and craft

industry in Burundi and opened doors for artisans in the industry. Her organisation KazOzah Artcurrently works

with over 135 Burundian artisans, 30 of whom are full-time employees. Her journey over the last 3 years has beenchallenging in many aspects, but the achievements are impressive.

Zachariah George shared the idea of how resilience is t he ability to balance what superchargesyour passion and what

fuels your drive. He defines passion as something that pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you

toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. In other words he invited us to be a wild & crazy base jumper

that moonlights as a boring accountant, balancing passion and drive.

Mugethi Gitau and Sheilah Birgen from Kenya curated 10 storiesabout inspiring entrepreneurs from around the

world who represent resilience to their very core. Included among them were: DJ Focusfrom Sierra Leone, a 15 year

old self taught engineer who built a radio station from items found in trash; David Sengeh, also from Sierra Leone

who developed pain-free prosthetics using 3D printing; Kakenya Ntaiyafrom Kenya who underwent FGM to get an

education and is now offering education for thousands of young girls so that they dont have to undergo the same;

Nawres and Oday, pharmacists turned makers who offer young people in Iraq a space to innovate and create; and

finally, the incredible Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhinwho initiated the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, reinventing access to

markets in Ethiopia.

ANGE MUYUBIRA

Founder & CEO of KazOzah Art

ZACHARIAH GEORGE

Founder & CEO of Cactus Advisors

SHEILAH BIRGENInterim Director, m:Lab East Africa

MUGETHI GITAU

Creative Techie
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PROJECT

LABS

Highlights

Day 2 of the conference started with structured networking formats,

creating space for participants to get to know one another better and

start collaborating with each other. Inspired and informed by the

previous day and energized by the mornings networking opportunities,

the final sessions focused on developing solutions; workshop hosts

were invited to present challenges faced in their organisational practice

and participants worked together to build solutions and apply their own

expertise and experience to these challenges. The workshops were

hosted by key ecosystem players, bringing to bear years of collective

experience in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.


Workshop #1 Practitioner Dialogue: Landscape of Support Services for Social andEnvironmental Enterprises

The praconer dialogue on the landscape of support services brought together incubators,

accelerators and BDS providers from dierent countries and sectors. In a peer-learning format,

praconers from the support space gained an overview on the current landscape through a

Mapping & Pitching Session in Round 1; while in Round 2, the dialogue allowed parcipants to

develop soluons and to idenfy partners and collaboraons that might assist in overcoming

the sector challenges. The session was part of an ongoing eort by SEED to map the evolving

landscape of support services in the African context, and to develop recommendaons for

acon to further strengthen and shape the eld.

Host SEED - Magdalena Kloibhofer

Workshop #2 Rethinking Job Creation & Entrepreneurship

Youth unemployment is one of the most pressing social issues i n Africa.

Also, the job market struggle to absorb thousands of fresh graduates looking for jobs every

year. Africans, between the ages of 15 and 25 represented more than 45 percent of the labor

force in 2014 (ILO, 2014). Approximavely 50% of Africas labor force is engaged in either

subsistence acvies or other forms of vulnerable employment (McKinsey, 2012). And yet

despite registering a relavely high economic growth rate, Africa has lagged behind in terms of

job creaon over the past decade (UNDP, 2013).

Host Social Finance.org - Peter nicholS, aFrica imPact grouP - iSSam chleuh

Workshop #3 Can professional skill building programs truly scale?

At Amani Instute, we know that innovaon & problem-solving skill s are crical for success not

only for social entrepreneurs but also for their teams. We also know that adult learning is best

when it is personalized & customized but that requires a high-touch approach, which is resource

intensive. What we are sll guring out how to best scale our high quality educaon model and

make it accessible for those who cant aord to pay US university-type tuion fees. Some of the

quesons addressed in this session were: 1) How could we scale in-person adult learning and

talent development? 2) Who could be potenal partners for us? 3) What soluons have you

seen work in other contexts?

Host amani inStitute - caroline gertSch


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Workshop #4 Leveraging Domestic Resources to Build Resilient Ecosystems

Local instuons can further support early stage enterprises by mobilizing a base of local

individuals who can support early stage businesses by sharing experse and nancing but

how? If channelled properly, local angels can contribute signicantly to building resilient

ecosystems because they bring local knowledge, business insights, and capital all of which are

more relevant and reliable than external resources.

Host intellecaP - arielle molino

Workshop #5 The Resilience Innovation Challenge

About bootcamp

The crowdfunding bootcamp started on Friday aernoon with a great group of enthusiasc

do-gooders, ImpactHub candidates, ImpactHub managers and Ethiopian start-ups. About 20

parcipants joined the session and started the preparaons of their do-good crowdfunding

campaign. The bootcamp was all about running a fun, creave and eecve crowdfunding

campaign (in order to engage & mobilise your community, get important stakeholders on board,

test and promote your project/idea/start-up and get some extra funding)

Host 1%club - malou van nieuwkooP, JaSmiJn beSorak

Workshop #6 What are the biggest gaps for entrepreneurs in the incubator/acceleratorcontinuum?

For entrepreneurship ecosystems to provide valuable journeys for the entrepreneurs that truly

improve the rate and scope of success for them, players in the idea-to-scale connuum (e.g.

community spaces, incubators and accelerators) must understand their roles beer in the context

of the entrepreneurs needs and be willing and open to collaborate around taxonomy, analysis

of cause and eect, and learning points in relaon to the wider entrepreneurial ecosystem. This

workshop looked at what the most common gaps are in African ecosystems, idened possible

causes and started the work of framing potenal soluons.

Host growthaFrica - Johnni kJelSgaard, village caPital - lia mayka

Workshop #7 Resilient Business Development Services

With the desire to contribute to the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem, Cordaid in partnership

with R&D Group has designed Resilience BDS to deliver to SMEs in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Sierra

Leone & Burundi. Focusing on the missing middle; SMEs with signicant growth potenal with

value adding product/service and job creang opportunies, our service provides a hands on

approach to create opportunity for entrepreneurs to help ea ch other and get access to the right

experse to create successful businesses. We support our clients with professional markeng,

HRM, nancial management, Business rule of law, Operaons and Supply chain, Access to

market & nance. These are the eight carefully s elected topics, which are delivered using diverse

modalies. Unlike the usual BDS providers, we deliver our cl ients with extensive subject specic

experse, professional coaching and networking to deal with challenging business situaons.

Host cordaid, r&d - boriS alberda, rahel boon-deJene

Co-Host: Re-Thinking Job Creaon & Entrepreneurship Project Lab

iss c, af ip gp & ip h b

The workshop was on an innovaon in nance called Development Impact Bond to address the pressingissue of youth unemployment in Africa. A Development Impact Bond (DIB) would nance a program to provideskills training that beer match SME needs in the agriculture sector, increasing producvity and employment.Alongside the DIB support for skills training there would be direct investment in SMEs, with possible supportalso for Business Development Services (BDS). Key learning/take away was that the audience and aendeeswere very interested in the issue of youth unemployment. Lots of quesons have been asked on the DIBstructure, its applicaon, relevance and outcomes.

Co-Host: Resilient Business Development Services Project Lab

bs a, c

During the Cordaid RBDS workshop, 20 entrepreneurs and BDS providers shared best pracces in entrepreneurialresilience in challenging circumstances. We talked openly about corrupon, extra tax. One entrepreneur saidthat if you have to import goods for the coming year, it pays to spend me understanding the ocials purposeof asking for money. He told a story in which he found out the purpose was to earn money for a niece whocouldnt nd a job. Our entrepreneur asked for her resum and went to colleague entrepreneurs and in the endfound her a job. Needless to say, he never had to pay for another bribe when imporng goods. For the RBDScoaches present in the room it was useful to learn that best pracces we picked up in Sierra Leone, Guatemalaalso rang true in other challenging circumstances. Whether it was how to deal with family members wanng apiece of your entrepreneurial success or how to get employees commied to your company. Cordaid will keeppushing the envelope on best pracces, how to deal with specic challenges as a resilient entrepreneur, sharingalso the stories of the entrepreneurs in this workshop. Lets for now hope the niece holds on the her job!


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WHAT didparticipantsthink about theconference?

We asked the participants for their feedback on the conference and whatwas most meaningful to them.

WHAT WAS THE MOST INTERESTING THING YOU LEARNTDURING THE EVENT? WILL YOU CHANGE ANYTHING IN THEWAY YOU WORK BASED ON THIS EVENT?

That connecting with other entrepreneurs and coming together to find

solutions and facing challenges is the most effective and efficient way to

impact and change the world while growing ones own businesses

Probably just retrenching the idea that if you believe in something, you

should work to get it done, even in the face of adversity. We all know it, but so

important to hear and reinforce.

Got to know oth er key players in the African ecosystem & power of

collaboration

Reinforced the idea that we need to think and work as a field.

How to create appropriate atmosphere for collaboration and partnership.

Different perspectives for development in Africa

Our project lab didnt yield any aha! ideas, but validated the work we are

already doing, so very valuable there

The presentation on financing social businesses by Peter Nicholas made me

see finance in a new light. It was stellar.

The critical importance of networking/collaboration


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PLEASE TELL US ABOUT THE MOST MEANINGFULCONNECTION YOU MADE DURING THE EVENT.

Starting a partnership with EU on finding solutions for emigrant crises

Connections with foundations and potential partners

I met two potential suppliers for the company I work for

Broadening the network with diverse people all committed to building

entrepreneurship ecosystems has been great

More debate/discussion, some solid recommendations on how to strengthen

the ecosystem

More concrete market sessions would benefit participants; requires moreoutside partners (corporate, public partners) to join


After two days or working together, a key take away was thatcreating the space for this kind of interaction and discussionis sorely needed. Entrepreneurs and sector facilitatorsare doing incredible jobs, and in many cases, strugglingthrough the same blockages. Not knowing of one anothersexistence is a main contributor here. Collaboration andknowledge sharing are a few of the many steps that willlead to resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems and thrivingsocial innovation businesses.

Although the conference was an important step towardsunderstanding what needs to be done and who is doingwhat, it is the first of many steps. As we forge ahead withour respective work, taking the space to reflect collectivelyand share experiences is an important contribution towardsmaking us all more effective and realizing a more just,sustainable and equitable world.

What next?


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ABOUT

The Organizers

Cordaid

For more than 100 years, values of compassion and solidarity have been the source of inspirationfor Cordaids work. Cordaids mission today is to contribute to the structural social change and

transformation that is needed to build flourishing communities in fragile and conflict-affected areas.Cordaid aims at a just and sustainable world for everyone. A world in which we share our GlobalCommon Goods, create space for diversity and we work together with everyone who shares ourvalues, interests and a common purpose. Cordaid strongly believes in collaboration and works closelywith a network of 617 partner organizations in 38 countries. Cordaids track record of investing in themissing middle in challenging contexts is based on a two-track approach. The first track consistsof the provision of access to inclusive finance whilst the second one is the provision of ResilienceBusiness Development Services (RBDS).

www.cordaid.org

Impact Hub

Impact Hubs are curators of physical and virtual work and social spaces designed to help materializeyour vision for a better world; part innovation lab, part business incubator, and part community center,

we offer our members a unique ecosystem of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunitiesto move their ideas from intention to impact. We believe a better world evolves through the combinedaccomplishments of creative, committed and compassionate individuals focused on a commonpurpose. From Amsterdam to Johannesburg, Khartoum to San Francisco, Accra to Sao Paulo,we are a rapidly expanding, diverse global network of over 11,000+ members in 65+ locations, withanother 20+ in the making. Each Impact Hub is developed and owned by a local team and is deeplyrooted in the local market and community. Although each local Impact Hub has their own uniquecommunity, Impact Makers from around the world come together on a global scale to share stories,aspirations, and accomplishments that celebrate our collective impact.

www.impacthub.net
http://www.cordaid.org/http://www.impacthub.net/http://www.impacthub.net/http://www.cordaid.org/


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ABOUTTHE PARTICIPANTSThe ecosystem present

@Re-ImaginingResilience2015

1% ClubAbuigda FashionAl Barakawi international co LtdAmani InstituteAmstel Fast Food Man PLCAnesvadArgidius FoundationAster BunnaAWIBB(energy)BMW FoundationBOP Innovation CenterBritish CouncilCordaid

Damascane Essential OilsProcessing PLCDon Door Traditional HandwovenPLCECBEEntrepreneurship DevelopmentCenter - EthiopiaEdukas - ICCO CooperationEmbassy of the Netherlands,Khartoum, SudanEnat S.C BankEndurance Youth AssociationEth Association of Women inBusiness

Ethio JobsEthiopian Women ExporterAssociationEuropean Union Delegation toEthiopiaGashanti UnityGenius PLCGIZ EnDev ETGlobheGollabe Bee Product PLCGrowth Africa(Hub/incubator)HeinekeniceAddis

Innovide Marketing PLCInstwork Consulting PLCIntellecapInternational Leadership instituteImpact HubKey to MarketKorojo Leather ProductsM-Lab - KenyaCactus AdvisorsMercy CorpsMotorola SolutionsNisir Microfinance Institution S.C.Nitsare Project Service PlcNovastar Ventures

Pacific IntegralPartnership for ChangeR&D GroupRam Marketing and Media PLCReach for ChangeRK Renew Energy PLCSEED SymposiumSeedstars WorldSiemens StiftungSocial Finance UKTechnoserveThe GUZO ProjectThink AfricaTseda Trading Plc

UNDPVillage CapitalxHub AddisYale UniversityYoung Entrepreneurs ExchangeProject (YEEP)Zebidar BreweryZemen Bank


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