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The Opportunity
Refugees entrepreneurs create employment
opportunities for themselves and for their host
country nationals - UNHCR Innovation
“They are not the type of people that would sit around, cross their
hands and wait for you to do something for them. They are actually
very creative and very active.” - UNHCR Innovation
Refugee
Candidates
Experienced Businessperson
Aspiring Entrepreneur
Freelancer
Artisan
Merchant
- Replicate Business- Extrapreneur
- Found Startup- Join Startup
- Self-employed- Employee
- Open office/shop- Employee
- Open workshop- Employee
A Marketplace
Mentors Cultural mediators
Entrepreneurs of the same communities
EWB Alumni
Companies with needs Refugees
Entrepreneurs
Revenue streams
• Access fee to the platform and the “connectors”
• Success fee from each individual successful entrepreneurial project
• Crowdfunding / Crowdlending campaign (counterparts = products / services
from refugee entrepreneurs)
(and little bit later)
• Social Impact Bond to support an initiative that saves government money
Today - A first prototype
1st EWB Micro-hub
sourced via
Oksygen Lab, i-Propeller
Mentoring pool
Koksijde, Petit Château, Rixensart
HERE !
Interviewers
Some of you and / or
your networks
Tapping refugees’
entrepreneurIal potential
Positive–minded
companies
Some of you and / or
your networks
A Marketplace
Tomorrow - Our call to build a sustainable ecosystemTapping refugees’
entrepreneurial potential
Network of Micro-hubs
Positive-minded
companies
Mentoring Pool
Interviewers
(Micro-)Funding
Entrepreneurs Without Boundaries
Admin/accounting service
[Entrepreneurs of same origin]
Tomorrow – A multi-stakeholders & cooperative governance• Objective : set up a co-op steered by representatives of the different stakeholders
Refugees
NGOs
Hosting centers
Micro-Hubs
Coaching Pool
(Micro-) Funding
Companies / Sectorial
Assoc.
EBW Team
Admin / HR services
After tomorrow - Refugees Social Impact Bond
● Objective : Issue Social Impact Bonds as a new revenue stream
● Social Impact Bonds fund services that will save government money
Asylum & Migration government agency
Entrepreneurship Without Boundaries
Impact investor 1
Impact investor 2
Impact investor 2
● EWB promises to achieve outcomes
● Government makes payment when outcome is achieved
Refugees
EWB works with refugees and partners and report progress
EWB promises return to investors if successful
Impact investors fund EWB
Partners
The EWB Ecosystem
Refugees
• Skills• Entrepreneurial DNA
• New perspectives
• Professional activity• Income• Fulfilling projects• CV / résumé
(Micro-)Funding
• Funding skills• Funds
• New customers• New businesses
Admin / Legal Support
• # Administration skills• # Knowledge of the regulatory landscape
• New businesses / customers
• CSR / Reputation
Coaching Pool
• Coaching skills
• New challenges• Extended business
Successful entrepreneurs of the same origin
• Success stories• Role models• Cultural connectors
• Support to compatriots• Quickly actionable skills
HR Services
• Recruitment skills• Skills mapping abilities
• Updated pool of talents
• Reputation / CSR
Companies / Sectorial Associations
• Money• Structure• Projects
• Skills• New mindsets• Resources for development projects
• Reputation / CSR
RESOURCES NEEDS
Micro-Hubs
• Physical place• Interactions withother entrepreneurs
• New customers• New businesses• Diversity
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