Re-Imagining Resilience 2015 Highlights Report

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THEPartnership

Cordaid and Impact Hub share the belief that entrepreneurs in complexcontexts are incredibly resourceful and have immense potential. Thispotential lies not only in strengthening their own economies, civic societiesand country systems, but also in contributing to the rest of the world withtheir ability to innovate, develop and grow prosperous businesses.

By combining Cordaid and Impact Hub’s expertise and experiences,the Resilience Africa program is jointly developing a unique pipeline ofinvestment-ready ventures through supporting entrepreneurs in Burundi,Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sierra Leone toestablish Impact Hubs. The hope is that these spaces will provide muchneeded 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 longlasting support for social entrepreneurs, collaborating closely with thelocal leaders and entrepreneurs who can make this happen and together,encouraging spaces where innovation can truly ourish.

Impact Hub & Cordaid PartnershipRESILIENCE AFRICA PROGRAM


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THE

JourneyThe journey to realizing this ambitious project has raised some importantquestions in how we approach our work. What does it take to become atruly global network that enables the development of a sustainable futurethrough collaboration and entrepreneurship? What does it take to buildresilient entrepreneurial ecosystems that contribute to reducing thevulnerability of entire nations? These were Impact Hub and Cordaid’s initialquestions as they explored how to contribute to resilient entrepreneurialecosystems in complex environments, and more broadly, global discussionsaround resilience and entrepreneurship.

The Resilience Program was thus developed to prototype entrepreneurialsolutions, and also to learn and reect deeply on what resilience meansand what we, as ecosystem builders, can do to enable more entrepreneursin their endeavours. Through interactions with entrepreneurs, institutionsand others globally during the past year, one key take away has beenthat that this is a global discussion, rather than a purely regional one -these gathered insights transcend the African context and serve anyentrepreneurial effort in challenging conditions.

With this in mind, Impact Hub and Cordaid convened a series of dialoguesand meetings through 2015, in Kigali and Berlin with thought leaders,to understand the entrepreneurship challenges and opportunities indifferent contexts and to develop a deeper understanding of what makesentrepreneurs “resilient” - what they need to thrive and what key services,support and interventions create the ideal conditions to this end. TheRe-Imagining Resilience event in Addis represented the culmination ofthese enquiries, bringing together players from the global and regionalecosystems to share their knowledge and experience, and to createmeaningful and catalyzing connections that approximate the ecosystem andcreate practical opportunities for collaboration informed by a new narrativeof resilience. The thinking... let’s walk the talk and start collaborating.


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What are we talking about when we say resilience? What does it meanin your context? What does it mean when we say an entrepreneur isresilient, or an ecosystem is resilient? How is it different for policymakers, entrepreneurs, donors, partners and other ecosystemfacilitators? What kinds of programs, investments and initiativesare happening, or need to happen, to increase resilience? Throughthe stories gathered from entrepreneurs, it was possible to get apreliminary insight into what “resilience” means for entrepreneursin their daily efforts. As a result, we were able to rene the question

to include what entrepreneurs consider as resilience.

“How can we enable entrepreneurs who are faced with challengingconditions to thrive, recover quickly, co-evolve and experiencethemselves as a part of a whole?” We entered the conferencewith this question to frame the discussion and challenge us asan ecosystem to not only think the entrepreneurial resilience butalso to inquire into wider ecosystem and systemic perspectives onresilience.

Through this journey of enquiry, we came across severalcomplementary denitions of resilience and it became clear that

no matter what the denition 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 towhat we could learn from these stories about what works; howcould entrepreneur’s’ personal journey stories inform, inspire andprovoke our understanding and give us the opportunity to reimagineour understanding of resilience together?

The Calling Question

Why Re-imagining Resilience?


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WHAT IS

Resilience?

What did we learnabout “resilience” andwhat actuallyworks ?

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 placesthat suffocate innovation (vs ecosystemsthat spur innovation) are more than‘resilient entrepreneurs’, they areecosystem catalysts – they create thelanguage, infrastructure and culture ofentrepreneurship from scratch;

Seeing opportunities whereother people see problems

To recover quickly andemerge stronger

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

CO EVOLVE

RECOVER QUICKLY

SHAPESHIFT

ECOSYSTEM CATALYSTSAS PART OF A WHOLE

TRANSFORM


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INTERVIEW WITHNICHOLAS 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 tond them.; and that at every stage of that growth fromstart-up right through to expansion, a person is able tond and access the resources and the help they need inan efcient way.

WHAT’S yourpersonal stakeand drive?

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

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

So that connection between the passion, the goal and the‘this is what I want to do’; and then the realization thatyou really need to be exible and rethink and fail here andrethink again and relearn in order to get to the nal 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 the impact;so, what’s 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 what’s not dull is when you nd 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 – here’s 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 difculty toone that says “together it’s possible!”

THE ECOSYSTEM SEEING ITSELFMaking the ecosystem visible andseeing everyone’s role and thesynergies and resource Sharing.

TRANSPARENCY & ACCESS TOINFORMATIONAccess to critical and relevantinformation that creates equalopportunities for entrepreneurs toaccess nance, legal compliance andmarkets.

CAPITALResponsible nancial players, accessto capital.

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

ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOSTERINGORGANISATIONSCustomized and specic Centresto inform, train, nance and enableentrepreneurial activities.


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INTERVIEW WITHRAHEL BOON DEJENEFounder R& D Group and Cordaid Partner | Entrepreneur in Ethiopia

You’re 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 difcult for women [male dominated sector], theinfrastructure is not good; there is limited market demandso being innovative is always difcult.

Policies are complicated – for example, what does ICTmean? We actually do service exporting and this isn’tknown in Ethiopia, so I think we took about 5 yearsexplaining what we do before we nally 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 difcult foryoungsters because they came from a very theoreticalbackground.

Also another challenge is access to nance. We cannot

leverage more than what we do - we have to use ourpersonal savings, because we have gotten to a pointwhere we’re too a big to be nanced by the micronance

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

what attracts you toRE IMAGINING RESILIENCE

and strengtheningentrepreneurial ecosystems?

“Resilience is something that everyone’s talking aboutand I have come to accept the word as something positive.In terms of Africa, entrepreneurs are resilient and I don’tthink there is something more we can teach them aboutresilience. I mean - they ght life everyday!

However the way they ght 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 entrepreneurs’challenges. I don’t 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 storytellersGada Kadoda, Kadidia Konare, Ange Muyubira,

Claudia Valladares, Zachariah George, Mugethi

Gitau and Sheilah Birgen for inspiring, challengingand touching us and for teaching us small andbig lessons about what resilience means, what itlooks like and what it takes to be on that journey.


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THEIR Insights

How a country such as Venezuela with the largest proven oil reserves creates a situation of scarcity of goods andservices 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 amedical treatment in a hospital. According to Claudia Valladares, despite of all this circumstances entrepreneurs havebeen able to reframe their situation and start looking at things differently, promoting kindness and hope and seekingreconciliation while creating meaningful business through creative partnerships. The primacy of hope couldn’t 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 one’s life or the world at large. And we learned about the power of choice asViktor Frankl describes it: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - tochoose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one’s own way”

From Gada Kadoda, we heard the story of a community in Sudan in which elder women with no literacy were trained tobecome community solar engineers and developed community based and owned business. Gada’s story explored howthe power of communities owning their business and creating a strong sense of purpose can unfold a sense of missionand 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 rollercoaster”. According to Kadidia, what maximizes the likelihood of success and resilience is the level of connectivity ofthe entrepreneur and the ecosystem. It’s the network, the community and the relationships of trust that make us lesslikely quit.

CLAUDIA VALLADARES

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


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Ange Muyubira created a social enterprise that gives Burundian artisans, especially women & youth, the opportunityto use their craftsmanship to become self-sufcient, support their families, and overcome poverty. Despite Burundicurrently struggling with political discord and being the 4th poorest country in the world, Ange has been trainingartisans to produce modern designed artisanal items and nding them markets. This has improved the art and craftindustry in Burundi and opened doors for artisans in the industry. Her organisation Kaz’O’zah Art currently 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 the ability to balance what supercharges your passion and whatfuels your drive. He denes passion as something that pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes youtoward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. In other words he invited us to be a wild & crazy base jumperthat moonlights as a boring accountant, balancing passion and drive.

Mugethi Gitau and Sheilah Birgen from Kenya curated 10 stories about inspiring entrepreneurs from around theworld who represent resilience to their very core. Included among them were: DJ Focus from Sierra Leone, a 15 yearold self taught engineer who built a radio station from items found in trash; David Sengeh , also from Sierra Leonewho developed pain-free prosthetics using 3D printing; Kakenya Ntaiya from Kenya who underwent FGM to get aneducation and is now offering education for thousands of young girls so that they don’t have to undergo the same;

Nawres and Oday , pharmacists turned makers who offer young people in Iraq a space to innovate and create; andnally, the incredible Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin who initiated the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, reinventing access tomarkets in Ethiopia.

ANGE MUYUBIRA

Founder & CEO of Kaz’O’zah Art

ZACHARIAH GEORGE

Founder & CEO of Cactus Advisors

SHEILAH BIRGEN Interim Director, m:Lab East Africa

MUGETHI GITAUCreative 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 morning’s networking opportunities,

the nal 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.



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

The prac oner dialogue on the landscape of support services brought together incubators,accelerators and BDS providers from di erent countries and sectors. In a peer-learning format,prac oners from the support space gained an overview on the current landscape through aMapping & Pitching Session in Round 1; while in Round 2, the dialogue allowed par cipants todevelop solu ons and to iden fy partners and collabora ons that might assist in overcomingthe sector challenges. The session was part of an ongoing e ort by SEED to map the evolvinglandscape of support services in the African context, and to develop recommenda ons forac on 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 in Africa.Also, the job market struggle to absorb thousands of fresh graduates looking for jobs everyyear. Africans, between the ages of 15 and 25 represented more than 45 percent of the laborforce in 2014 (ILO, 2014). Approxima vely 50% of Africa’s labor force is engaged in eithersubsistence ac vi es or other forms of vulnerable employment (McKinsey, 2012). And yet

despite registering a rela vely high economic growth rate, Africa has lagged behind in terms of job crea on 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 Ins tute, we know that innova on & problem-solving skills are cri cal for success notonly for social entrepreneurs but also for their teams. We also know that adult learning is bestwhen it is personalized & customized but that requires a high-touch approach, which is resourceintensive. What we are s ll guring out how to best scale our high quality educa on model andmake it accessible for those who can’t a ord to pay US university-type tui on fees. Some of theques ons addressed in this session were: 1) How could we scale in-person adult learning andtalent development? 2) Who could be poten al partners for us? 3) What solu ons have youseen work in other contexts?

Host amani inStitute - caroline gertSch


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Workshop #4 Leveraging Domestic Resources to Build Resilient Ecosystems

Local ins tu ons can further support early stage enterprises by mobilizing a base of localindividuals who can support early stage businesses by sharing exper se and nancing – buthow? If channelled properly, local angels can contribute signi cantly to building resilientecosystems because they bring local knowledge, business insights, and capital – all of which aremore relevant and reliable than external resources.

Host intellecaP - arielle molino

Workshop #5 The Resilience Innovation Challenge

About bootcampThe crowdfunding bootcamp started on Friday a ernoon with a great group of enthusias cdo-gooders, ImpactHub candidates, ImpactHub managers and Ethiopian start-ups. About 20par cipants joined the session and started the prepara ons of their do-good crowdfundingcampaign. The bootcamp was all about running a fun, crea ve and e ec ve crowdfundingcampaign (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 trulyimprove the rate and scope of success for them, players in the idea-to-scale con nuum (e.g.community spaces, incubators and accelerators) must understand their roles be er in the contextof the entrepreneurs’ needs and be willing and open to collaborate around taxonomy, analysisof cause and e ect, and learning points in rela on to the wider entrepreneurial ecosystem. Thisworkshop looked at what the most common gaps are in African ecosystems, iden ed possiblecauses and started the work of framing poten al solu ons.

Host growthaFrica - Johnni kJelSgaard, village caPital - lia mayka


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Workshop #7 Resilient Business Development Services

With the desire to contribute to the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem, Cordaid in partnershipwith R&D Group has designed Resilience BDS to deliver to SMEs in Ethiopia, Guatemala, SierraLeone & Burundi. Focusing on the ‘missing middle’; SMEs with signi cant growth poten al withvalue adding product/service and job crea ng opportuni es, our service provides a “hands on”approach to create opportunity for entrepreneurs to help each other and get access to the rightexper se to create successful businesses. We support our clients with professional marke ng,HRM, nancial management, Business rule of law, Opera ons and Supply chain, Access tomarket & nance. These are the eight carefully selected topics, which are delivered using diversemodali es. Unlike the usual BDS providers, we deliver our clients with extensive subject speci cexper se, professional coaching and networking to deal with challenging business situa ons.

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

Co-Host: Re-Thinking Job Crea on & Entrepreneurship Project Lab

iss c , af i p g p & i p h b

“The workshop was on an innova on 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 be er match SME needs in the agriculture sector, increasing produc vity 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 a endeeswere very interested in the issue of youth unemployment. Lots of ques ons have been asked on the DIBstructure, its applica on, relevance and outcomes.

Co-Host: Resilient Business Development Services Project Lab

b s a , c

“During the Cordaid RBDS workshop, 20 entrepreneurs and BDS providers shared best prac ces in entrepreneurialresilience in challenging circumstances. We talked openly about corrup on, “extra tax”. One entrepreneur said

that “if you have to import goods for the coming year, it pays to spend me understanding the o cial’s purposeof asking for money”. He told a story in which he found out the purpose was to earn money for a niece whocouldn’t nd a job. Our entrepreneur asked for her resumé and went to colleague entrepreneurs and in the endfound her a job. Needless to say, he never had to pay for another bribe when impor ng goods. For the RBDScoaches present in the room it was useful to learn that best prac ces we picked up in Sierra Leone, Guatemalaalso rang true in other challenging circumstances. Whether it was how to deal with family members wan ng apiece of your entrepreneurial success or how to get employees commi ed to your company. Cordaid will keeppushing the envelope on best prac ces, how to deal with speci c challenges as a resilient entrepreneur, sharingalso the stories of the entrepreneurs in this workshop. Let’s 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.


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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 ndsolutions and facing challenges is the most effective and efcient way toimpact and change the world while growing one’s own businesses”

“Probably just retrenching the idea that if you believe in something, youshould work to get it done, even in the face of adversity. We all know it, but soimportant to hear and reinforce.”

Got to know other key players in the African ecosystem & power ofcollaboration

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

How to create appropriate atmosphere for collaboration and partnership.

Different perspectives for development in Africa

Our project lab didn’t yield any ‘aha!’ ideas, but validated the work we arealready doing, so very valuable there

The presentation on nancing social businesses by Peter Nicholas made mesee nance 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 nding 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 buildingentrepreneurship ecosystems has been great

More debate/discussion, some solid recommendations on how to strengthenthe ecosystem

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


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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 another’sexistence 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 rst of many steps. As we forge ahead withour respective work, taking the space to reect collectivelyand share experiences is an important contribution towardsmaking us all more effective and realizing a more just,sustainable and equitable world.

Whatnext?


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ABOUT

The Organizers

Cordaid

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

transformation that is needed to build ourishing communities in fragile and conict-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. Cordaid’s track record of investing in themissing middle in challenging contexts is based on a two-track approach. The rst track consistsof the provision of access to inclusive nance 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


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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS The 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


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

Pacic 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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