I. Introduction

About This Study

This study was conducted and published by Siemens Stiftung. The project was funded by The Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented among others by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

Invest for Jobs

African countries increasingly offer attractive prospects for companies and investors: a young population, growing availability of workforce and skilled labor, rising purchasing power, new markets, and integration in global value chains. However, additional support is sometimes required to overcome local challenges and to leverage existing potential. With the Marshall Plan with Africa and the G20 “Compact with Africa” investment partnership as its starting point, BMZ has set itself the goal of supporting German, European, and African companies and investors in investment activities that have a high impact on employment in Africa. Under the brand Invest for Jobs, the Special Initiative offers advice from experts in Germany and Africa, contacts and financial support to overcome investment barriers. The objective in terms of development is to create good jobs and apprenticeships and to improve the working conditions in Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt (in preparation), Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal and Tunisia. www.invest-for-jobs.com

Authors

Emily Barran (Open Capital) Dr. Aline Laucke (Studio Nima) Leonhard Nima (Studio Nima) Mukund Prasad (Intellecap Advisory Services) Carola Schwank (Siemens Stiftung)

Acknowledgments

Siemens Stiftung would like to thank the participating social enterprises and all partners who supported the study through their expert validation and valuable comments: Bezalel Adainoo (Engineering for Change) Bowel Diop (makesense), Clint Bartlett (African Impact Foundation), Daniel Merki (AHK Nigeria), Daniel Paffenholz (TakaTaka Solutions), Dieudonne Kwame Agudah (WASHKing), Gladys Onyango (Segal Family Foundation), Jochen Moninger (IMPACC), Huseyin Demirhisar (BID Network), Isaac Sesi (Sesi Technologies), Kibret Abebe (Tebita Ambulance), Nestor Kouami, Dr. Niels Bosma (Utrecht University), Owen Dowsett (British Council), Richard Mori (MeshPower), Dr. Sebastian Rubatscher (enpact).

I. Introduction

Social entrepreneurship has caught the attention of both African entrepreneurs and (global or local) investors or supporters. With social business models being designed around revenue generation, social enterprises are often hailed as being particularly efficient, scalable, and sustainable in the pursuit of their social mission. They are also expected to create employment opportunities in markets that so far remain neglected by traditional commercial market players for their limited profitability. For many social enterprises creating jobs or income opportunities for particularly vulnerable populations is a central objective of their innovative business models.

However, knowledge about the actual job creation potential of social enterprises remains fragmented and often anecdotal. Commissioned by the Gesellschaft für

Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Siemens Stiftung has approached the task of quantifying and better understanding the job creation potential of social enterprises in selected African countries. Overall, the results were used to derive specific recommendations for the development of technical and financial interventions that may significantly increase the number and the quality of jobs created by social enterprises in Africa.

This document features elaborated country profiles for 12 countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tunisia, Uganda, and South Africa. These profiles are a central part of the larger study “Social Enterprises as Job Creators in Africa” that has been published in three parts:

We hope the country profiles in this second part of the publication series will inform players who seek detailed information about the countries, such as analysts, potential investors and local organizations or other stakeholders whose mission is related to the creation of decent jobs in Africa. For an embedded perspective on the country profiles as part of the larger study, please refer to the main document (Part I).