Create opportunities for economic participation.

Strategy Action

Create jobs through entrepreneurship and by stimulating new labourabsorptive industries.

› Stimulate entrepreneurship through programmes that develop and build entrepreneurial skills early.

› Invest in SMMEs and strengthen ecosystems of support for businesses to thrive.

› Identify and invest in new labour-absorptive opportunities (e.g. bee farming, cannabis industry, township economies).

› Support the development of, and connection to, markets for small businesses.

Strengthen the local food system.

› Support local business, NGOs and government stakeholders to work together to find innovative ways to improve their local food system.

› Support the growth of local food producers and enable them to access local markets.

Leverage our programmatic investments as job-creation initiatives and the associated investment injections into these communities.

› Explore and review stipend models across our investment portfolio.

› Support and incentivise our programmes to increase local expenditure as much as possible.

› Explore opportunities to attract external donor funds to co-invest in local initiatives (e.g. co-funding with government or other philanthropic funds).

Outcome

› Reduced youth unemployment.

› An effective food system with early signs of improved access and food security.

› Reduced financial leakage and optimised internal circulation of funds flowing from our programmatic grants.

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