Abu Mahmood, Jordan, Syrian pizza shop owner

Entrepreneurs Without Boundaries (EWB)

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

Our Solution (1)

Our Solution (2)

Our Solution (3)

A Marketplace

Mentors Cultural mediators

Entrepreneurs of the same communities

EWB Alumni

Companies with needs Refugees

Entrepreneurs

Micro-HubsEWB Micro-hubs dedicated to 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

APPENDIX

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