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Africa Alumni TIES – Addis Ababa Small Grants Competition

Congratulations to the winners of the Africa Alumni TIES – Addis Ababa Small Grants Competition! Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. Please find below the winning proposals, team members, and project descriptions:

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Organizing a Business Idea Competition on Low Cost Energy Solutions Team Members: Tawetu Abreha Zerue, Mizan Welderufael Massa Country: Ethiopia Organizing a Business Idea Competition on Low Cost Energy Solutions aims to encourage recent graduates in electrical power engineering and mechanical engineering of Mekelle University to become engaged in energy business entrepreneurship, enabling them to be catalysts for further entrepreneurial developments in Ethiopia. Participants will be offered mentoring and training workshops on business model development. The project team will organize a competition in the country to create awareness and raise interest in energy business entrepreneurship. This initiative will be co-organized with community stakeholders, including the Ethiopian Institute of Technology-Mekelle’s (EIT-M) Entrepreneurship Office, the Ethiopian Entrepreneurship Development Center, the Energy Institute at Mekelle University, and the Tigray Energy Agency Office. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Formation and Training of Smart and Green Energy Clubs in Ghana’s Technical Universities for the Promotion of Renewable Energy, and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Team Members: Prosper Ahmed Amuquandoh, Michael Kwabena Mireku, Akosua Afriyie Osei-Appaw, Hannah Kabir Country: Ghana This project aims to create awareness about renewable energy, energy efficiency, best practices in conservation, and improved cooking technologies in the three northern regions of Ghana. To reach a larger audience, at a relatively low cost, it will adopt the “training of trainers” approach, starting with the training of 150 students in three technical universities located in each of the three northern regions of Ghana. The students will be trained on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and conservation. They will also be empowered with the leadership, entrepreneurial, and communication skills to effectively promote and implement renewable energy and energy efficiency practices. This will help increase access to clean energy for businesses, institutions, and households in the three northern regions of Ghana. To help sustain the project, the students will expand the projects to educational, religious, corporate, and community-based organizations. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Driving Top of the Mind Awareness and Advocacy Campaigns in Energy Access for All Team Members: Admore Chiumia, Hastings Mkandawire Country: Malawi The overall goal of the project is to conduct awareness and advocacy campaigns to increase access to energy and build a nation-wide constituency of advocates for green and inclusive energy. Malawian households are currently facing energy poverty. The implementers will leverage the skills attained at Africa Alumni TIES so that a wider community in Malawi will encourage youth to promote clean energy access for every Malawian. The project will involve energy fares in six selected institutions, presentations from students, games, poems, traditional dances, songs, quizzes, and a study tour to three mini grids in three regions of Malawi. The project hopes to reach 1500 youth from technical schools and universities in three regions of Malawi. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Malawi Off-Grid Energy Markets Outreach Project Team Members: Hastings Mkandawire, Morongwe Malebye Country: Malawi The project’s goal is to develop a 100 megawatt off-grid business via 10 potential marketplaces targeting 3,500,000 prospective customers (comprising cooperatives, farmers clubs, schools, clinics, village loan groups, businesspeople, and other individuals) in the rural areas of Malawi. Through the creation of a rural energy business association, this project will create marketplaces for different products and services such as pico hydro turbines, solar water heaters, solar electricity, wind turbines, and smart meters produced and marketed by companies such as Turbines Development Enterprise, Ditilopele Development, LEE Enterprise, Practical Action, dVentus, Mawerera Enterprises, Yankho Solar Company, and many others. This project will engage the rural people to identify their energy gaps and take a leading role in selecting the off-grid systems that best suit their needs. As the rural people begin to employ these systems, the process will create jobs for technicians and grow potential business for off-grid manufacturers and suppliers from Malawi and the greater continent. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Nigerian Energy Ambassadors Team Members: Azizat Olusola Gbadegesin, Oluremi Hamid, Olakunle Owoeye, Prosper Ahmed Amuquandoh Country: Nigeria This project seeks to build a network of young energy ambassadors and entrepreneurs by creating awareness and sharing basic knowledge on energy efficiency, energy conservation, and renewable energy. This project will also provide training and skill acquisition in the design, installation, and operation of small solar PV systems. These activities will help to catalyze local energy innovation, encourage interest in renewable energy, enhance institutional involvement and development, increase energy access to unserved and underserved areas, improve energy efficiency, and reduce reliance on conventional fossil fuels. It is expected that at the end of the modules, the energy ambassadors have gained sufficient knowledge to continue the activities of the energy club for subsequent sessions with the assistance of their facilitators. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Solar Micro Businesses - Promoting Productive Use of Energy in Nigeria Team Members: Owoeye Olakunle, Tshegofatso Neeuwfan, Fadekunayo Adeniyi Country: Nigeria This project aims to promote the productive use of energy among the micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) community through the design and construction of 1000 innovative solar powered systems by 2020, customer education on PUE opportunities, and business development service delivery for start-ups and established businesses. The project activities will also facilitate access to efficient and high-quality end-use equipment via a sensitization workshop and awareness raising project, media propagation, and improved access to long-term micro credits. The Alumni TIES small grant will fund phase three of the project: a sensitization workshop on the productive use of energy in rural and urban parts of Lagos State in Nigeria. CONGRATULATIONS TO: The Engaged Youth in Energy Conservation Project Team Members: Lydie Umubyeyi, Mutabazi Rita Clemence Country: Rwanda This project will address the issue of energy inefficiency in schools, focusing on five Rwandan technical schools. In addition, the project will tackle the issue of “using less energy for the same services/work” through energy conservation programs, such as developing tools on how to use energy more efficiently. Students will learn how to conduct energy audits and teams from the schools will compete with one another to determine which school succeeded in being the most energy efficient. By engaging these schools, the students will take the lead in finding solutions appropriate to their energy challenges.     CONGRATULATIONS TO: Energy Day and Related Events for Awareness of Solar Energy Team Members: Morongwe Malebye, Azizat Olusola Gbadegesin Country: South Africa Rural communities in South Africa often lack access to sources of sustainable energy and the associated job opportunities, such as in the rural village of GaMphahlele, Lentin. The long-term plan of this project is to install solar energy (capacity of a minimum of 500 kilowatts) by 2019 in the rural village of Lentin and surrounding areas through collaboration with strategic stakeholders. The objective is to replicate this model in neighboring villages, which fall under the monarchy of Mphahlele, and throughout the Limpopo province. The project will provide a platform and act as a catalyst for stakeholder collaboration in addressing challenges faced by the school and the community. The small grant will fund activities in nutraceutical farming, agro-processing, wood manufacturing, mining, and waste recycling will be leveraged in promoting renewable energy job opportunities to community members. This three-month project is comprised of three-day events, including site visits to local companies, and will culminate in an “Energy Day” event in Lentin, where a stakeholder charter will be established. CONGRATULATIONS TO: STEM for Energy Team Members: Kakoma Mutenda, Kabwe Musonda Country: Zambia The main objective of STEM for Energy is to work with and connect two communities in Zambia in solving their energy-related problems. The team has identified three technical high schools in Zambia where they will pilot this initiative. Select participants will be those with an expressed passion for and interest in JETS (junior engineers, technicians, and scientists) fairs. The project will bring seasoned engineers and scientists to high schools to teach and demonstrate how basic high school level science principles can be used to solve energy access challenges, improve efficiency, and create sustainability. The project will provide schools with training materials, instructing 50 students at each technical school. The project will demonstrate how science can be used to solve local energy challenges, motivate students to pursue careers in STEM, and help them solve local community energy challenges.

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South and Central Asia Alumni TIES Small Grants Competition

Congratulations to the winners of the South and Central Asia Alumni TIES Small Grants Competition! Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. Please find below the winning proposals, team members, and project descriptions.

Empowering Women through Financial Independence and Gender Equality Team Members: Kalyani Gongi and Divya G. Medar Country: India Empowering Women through Financial Independence and Gender Equality aims to empower women in the North and West Hyderabad communities and sensitize them to the importance of gender equality and financial independence by initiating Self Help Groups (SHGs). The project will improve gender equality and financial independence of low income women living in underserved areas of North and West Hyderabad by providing a five-month training and mentoring program. The project’s long term goal is to create a community of independent women entrepreneurs based around Self Help Groups.

FINE (Finance, Innovation, Networking, Entrepreneurship) Skills for Girls Team Members: Firuza Nabieva and Aziza Pulatova Country: Tajikistan The goal of FINE: Finance, Innovation, Networking, Entrepreneurship Skills for Girls is to empower and build the capacity of young women in rural areas through financial literacy trainings, developing of their entrepreneurial and networking skills using innovative financing and mobile technologies. During a six-month period, 180 teenage girls from four rural regions (Spitamen, J. Rasulov, Buston, B. Gafurov) will gain “FINE” skills during five-day trainings. This will include networking with other participants, as well as alumni mentors. The project will also partner with news media to raise public awareness of the empowerment of women and girls in Tajikistan.  

Girl Empower: Biz Bootcamp for Girls Team Members: Zaure Uvaliyeva and Talgat Ayapbergenov Country: Kazakhstan Biz Bootcamp for Girls is a three-month learning program, designed to educate girls, ages 13-18, on the essentials of business and entrepreneurship and introduce them to the soft skills of leadership and teamwork. Biz Bootcamp for Girls will consist of twelve workshops across seven cities in Kazakhstan. During a three-month period, 420 young girls in seven cities will participate in the training program. The educational program will inspire young girls that it is never too early to pursue a dream of becoming an entrepreneur or business owner.  

Her Story: A Movie Making Workshop for Young Women Team Members: Surath Giri and Narayan Adhikari Country: Nepal Her Story: A Movie Making Workshop for Young Women is a week-long residential workshop on movie-making for women between the age of 16 and 29. The workshop will train at least 20 young women of diverse backgrounds on communicating their ideas through visual media, namely movies, documentaries, and videos. The sessions of the workshop will be conducted by well-known figures of the Nepalese movie industry. Following the workshop, participants will be asked to make four or five short movies in teams as their final assignment. The short movies will cover pertinent topics such as women entrepreneurship, discrimination against women, women's economic and social empowerment, and government accountability from women's perspectives.

Nursery Management Training to Women Agri-Entrepreneurs of Nepal Team Members: Anuroop Manandhar, Rumyana Mihaylova, and Archana Shrestha Country: Nepal Nursery Management Training to Women Agri-Entrepreneurs of Nepal will provide training to women to establish plant nurseries. The plant nurseries will grow a variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and non-timber trees, such as bamboo and olive trees. The goal of the project is to ensure that healthy plants are locally produced and available for farmers. The agricultural trainings will include approximately 60 women agri-entrepreneurs from Kathmandu, Jhapa, and Makwanpur. The women will receive educational and practical trainings on nursery management, plant propagation, plant cultivation, and marketing of plant products. The trainings will enable women to establish their own plant nurseries, increasing the availability of diverse plant samplings for farmers in the three districts.  

PakW2E2- Pakistan Wireless Women Entrepreneurship & Empowerment Team Members: Durreshawar Mahmood and Naveera Waheed Country: Pakistan The Pakistan Wireless Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment is an Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) capacity enhancement and advocacy program for the rural women entrepreneurs of underserved districts of Pakistan. These entrepreneurial development activities will take place in the province of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (KPK), Baluchistan, including the independent states of Giligit Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The project will enhance the capacity of rural women entrepreneurs on information communication technology in collaboration with Cygnus Solutions through training, mentoring, and business interactions between prominent international and national IT professionals and local women business leaders. The program will contribute to the entrepreneurial development of women, assisting them in effective business management and providing them with tools to address socio-cultural challenges due to poverty and restricted mobility. PAKW2E2 aims to mobilize Pakistani citizens to address the gender gap in digital communication and strengthen the business ties between the United States and South Asian countries.

Women Economic Empowerment in Tajikistan (WEET) Team Members: Nekruz Asmatilloev and Muhammad Bodurbekov Country: Tajikistan Women Economic Empowerment in Tajikistan (WEET) will contribute to the knowledge and capacity of women who are engaged in entrepreneurship in selected remote rural areas of Tajikistan. The project will be implemented in the district of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). Potential women entrepreneurs will be provided with capacity-building opportunities, such as trainings and site visits. The women will have the opportunity to learn about the business environment of Tajikistan and discuss challenges they have faced when starting or developing their businesses with other women entrepreneurs. Women business leaders will serve as mentors and advisors to these new women entrepreneurs.

Women’s Economic Empowerment through Creation of Market Linkages Team Members: Lal Bano and Sulatana Aziz In the northern area of Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), a social-economic revolution is slowly igniting, with the formation of numerous small scale enterprises and startups run by local women (e.g. dry fruits packing and sale, handicrafts, cabin-restaurants, apricot production). The women who live in Gilgit-Baltistan are new to the concepts of entrepreneurship and are now slowly entering the market. The main purpose of this project is to build capacity and address saturated business domains through the promotion of alliances and cooperation among the business women of Gilgit-Baltistan. This project aims to sensitize business women to form a chamber of commerce to consolidate their decision-making at the government and corporate levels, developing beneficial business policies. The planned activities will be implemented in collaboration with the organization, Women Excellence & Empowerment Initiative (WEEI).

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Middle East North Africa TIES: Casablanca Small Grants Competition

Congratulations to the winners of the Middle East North Africa TIES: Casablanca Small Grants Competition!

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal. Please find below the winning proposals, team members, and project descriptions:

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Youth Leadership Program Team Members: Mostafa Mohamed Kamel El Sayed, Amr El Selouky Country: Egypt The goal of the project is to create a capacity building program that enhances professional skills for youth (aged 16-22) in the cities of Alexandria and Cairo. The project will recruit and select participants from active working groups, student activity clubs, and student-run NGOs at universities in Cairo and Alexandria. The training program will be a 45-hour program, including six topics to be delivered during six training days. Each of the three training programs will include 25-30 participants, 75 participants in total. The training programs will develop the participants’ business and leadership skills and provide them with tools to train their colleagues at their organizations and businesses.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Entrepreneurs and Businesses Boosting Center Team Members: Murtadha Al-Ibraheem, Faez Ahmed Country: Iraq The project is designed to assist and provide Iraqi young entrepreneurs with advice and coaching they need to start their own businesses. The first objective of the project is to implement training workshops for aspiring entrepreneurs in Basrah, where they will understand how to perform market research and how to identify opportunities in local markets. These aspiring entrepreneurs will finish the training with a toolkit to help them start their new businesses. A second objective is to target and train senior business school students and graduates to be consultants and trainers for local businesses. These students will have the opportunity to meet and visit local companies and businesses to assist businesses to overcome their challenges, increase revenues, start a new product line, or enter new markets. The third objective of the project will be to provide career services to selected graduates of universities in Basrah. The “Entrepreneurs Boosting Center” will lead workshops for these university students on resume writing, job search strategies, and interview techniques.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Iraqi Youth Returnees Development Program (IYRDP) Team Members: Salar Brifkani, Aryan Yaba Country: Iraq Iraqi Youth Returnees Development Program (IYRDP) will train and prepare 20-25 displaced youth (aged 18-35) who are living outside of the IDP camps in Erbil through five-day seminars once a month for a three-month period. The training program will help them to start their careers again, whether they plan to work for a preexisting organization or start their own business, when they return home. The training program includes workshops on economic development, public speaking, teamwork, networking, and business law by mentors and entrepreneurs. Mentors, experts, entrepreneurs, and activists will train, motivate, and prepare displaced young Iraqis on how to think, how to plan, and how to be more productive after returning to their home cities in Iraq.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Tying Entrepreneurs Team Members: Abeer Qumsieh, Malak Al Akiely, Abdallah Al Raggad Country: Jordan This project intends to support entrepreneurs in transforming their innovative ideas into startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). As youth constitute half of Jordan’s population, they need support and empowerment (especially women) to successfully contribute to the country’s economic growth by establishing their own businesses that address specific challenges in their communities. This project will attract young women and men, who are entrepreneurs from Amman and neighboring cities and university graduates. The project will train 15 aspiring entrepreneurs from Jordan and incubate four to six of these entrepreneurs. The project team and professional mentors will continue to support these entrepreneurs and scale their enterprises up to provide employment opportunities for Jordan’s youth.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Women BeeBuzzers Team Members: Malak Al Akiely, Omar Al Busaidy Country: Jordan Women BeeBuzzers is a project that aims to introduce beekeeping as a main or secondary source of income for women in rural areas in Jordan. Beekeeping can provide a sustainable and growing source of income for these women. The practice is environmentally friendly and fits the social context in these areas where women are not easily allowed to work outside their homes. The project team’s goal is to train and provide all the required equipment, as well as the necessary follow up, to enable four women to become beekeepers and start their small apiaries. The products from these apiaries will be marketed through a partnership with Arabia for Bees and Honey Products, a well-established Jordanian company specialized in trading and marketing honey and other bee products, who will volunteer their time to support this rural women development project. This project will empower women in the targeted areas by providing financial independence and stability to these women and their families.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: The Entrepreneurship Toolkit for Women and Youth Team Members: Randa Farah, Abeer Qumsieh, Andre Abi Awad, Maysa Safi Country: Lebanon The Entrepreneurship Toolkit is a set of soft and technical skills to prepare entrepreneurs, especially women and youth, and aspiring entrepreneurs at lower levels of income in Lebanon and Jordan to develop their ideas and create their own businesses. A series of workshops covering topics such as “Emotional First Aid,” “Hiring Techniques for Entrepreneurs,” “Innovation and Creativity,” “Moving from an Idea to a Business Plan,” and “Marketing Tips to Launch and Grow a Business,” will provide the necessary tools to empower these women and young entrepreneurs. The training series will fulfill the following objectives: 1.) Establish a strong emotional basis and heal wounds, especially the ones related to failure, rejection, stress and poor self-esteem, to build a strong mindset for starting a business; 2.) Develop technical knowledge on how to form and hire a team; 3.) Improve skills related to creativity and innovation; 4.) Create a business plan and marketing strategy to put the ideas into practice and make it profitable; and 5.) Build a relationship with a mentor for coaching and feedback and learn how to network with fellow entrepreneurs.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Hands Across the Mountain (HAM) Team Members: Soufiane Moudden, Al-Khansaâ Nammas, Atika Loualidi, Youssra Bensouda Country: Morocco This project’s goal is to empower approximately 3,000 young women from rural areas in Morocco such as Ouarzazate, Nador, and Hoceima by providing them with the necessary tools and training to develop their soft skills to make them fully capable to join the workforce. It is the hope of the project team that after the training workshops, the women will gain employment or start their own businesses. This training program will consist of online training sessions followed by three, four-day training camps in Nador, Ouarzazate, and Hociema. During the program, the women will engage in interactive games to increase their knowledge and skills in: work culture, leadership, team building, and communication through an online learning platform and in training workshops held in their home communities.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Life Screen for قريتي (Kariyati) Team Members: Abderrahim Boualy, Jalal Dlimi, Ait Lkouss Abderrahman Country: Morocco Life Screen for قريتي is a training program that aims to create a generation of young leaders by introducing entrepreneurial concepts to high school students and undergraduate students, supporting them with tools, skills, and expertise to develop their academic and life skills. High school students and undergraduate university students are the participants of the project because, although they have skills, their ability to apply those skills to create entrepreneurial projects or look for job opportunities is limited. The project team created the initiative after noticing the lack of orientation and training programs in the field of entrepreneurship and academic life skills for students in the Ouarzazate region. The anticipated result of this project is the creation of a generation of self-motivated leaders equipped with an entrepreneurial spirit and life skills.

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Project Tadreeb Team Members: Sara Ait Ali, Rihab Boutadghart Country: Morocco Project Tadreeb is a three-month training program for the rural women from Ouarzazate, the surrounding villages near Marrakech, and Essaouira. The women will receive training every weekend, in accounting, finance, marketing, and communications. These trainings will enable them to be more competitive in the marketplace. The project will better prepare the women to work in the local market, enhance their ability to communicate properly, and help them to develop marketing strategies and sustainability plans. After the women complete the program, the project team will assist the trained women in delivering training sessions in their villages to share the knowledge they acquired to increase the number of project beneficiaries.