<p>Greenstick Consulting offers freelance consulting services to those actors looking to establish or enhance inclusive business partnerships. These partnerships are characterized by unfamiliarity and uncertainty, but also a drive “to do the right thing”. Greenstick Consulting assists:</p>

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<li>Commercial (agri-) businesses with the design and implementation of a suitable business model that integrates low-income communities into their value chain in a fair and equitable way;</li>
<li>Commercial (agri-) businesses with identifying funding partners and other actors that can contribute to develop their inclusive business segment;</li>
<li>NGOs with the design and implementation of donor-funded smallholder support programmes;</li>
<li>Farmer organizations with the development of commercial and alternative marketing channels;</li>
<li>Knowledge institutes and industry bodies with detailed research and publication.</li>
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<p>Greenstick Consulting primarily focuses on the agribusiness and food sector and specializes in South Africa, with additional services in southern Africa. The aim of Greenstick Consulting is to build respectful, inclusive partnerships that enhance the livelihoods of rural communities through commercial activities.</p>

Farmers in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa achieve very low yields, a third of global yield averages (IFPRI World Development Report, 2008). Once produced, it is also very difficult to find the right buyers leading to over 50% losses. This perpetuates poverty and extreme hunger. We started Kitovu Technology Company to fix that.

Kitovu provides quality and yield increasing inputs and access to markets by using remote sensing and data science to collect and analySe field, soil and market demand data, enabling them recommend precise inputs and markets. Our mission is to transform Africa into the food hub of the world, positioning it to take the lead in feeding 9.7 Billion people by 2050.

Vakayi SME Fund provides growth capital to Zimbabwean entrepreneurs operating in the essential services sectors, which are health, housing, education and clean energy sectors. Typically, these are businesses in later stages of development, profitable, cash generative, with potential to scale operations. Vakayi Capital seeks to work alongside capable entrepreneurs who are passionate about their businesses and have a strong will to succeed. Besides seeking financial returns from its investments, Vakayi invests in businesses that deliver meaningful impact.

IceAddis is a tech startup incubator in Addis Ababa. IceAddis provides co-working space, consultancy services and organises events for entrepreneurs, and acts as a platform to connect entrepreneurs, investors and people from the creative industries.

2jiajiri is a skills development and job creation program being implemented by KCB Foundation that seeks to catalyse employment and wealth creation among existing jua kalia entrepreneurs and the youth.

The Accountability Lab was founded in early 2012 as an effort to work with young people to develop new ideas for accountability, transparency and open government. It has evolved into a global network of local Accountability Labs that are finding new ways to shift societal norms, solve intractable challenges and build “unlikely networks” for change.

<p>Aventura Investment Partners invest in and support companies that provide value chain services to smallholder growers in Africa. It targets companies that provide a range of services in the input supply, production or post-harvest phases of the value chain. Each investment is accompanied by a comprehensive training programme on business processes and job-specific technical skills. The model is highly scalable with core investments that can be replicated across Africa.</p>

<p>The AWP Network organises pitch competitions for young entrepreneurs across Nigeria, supports women farmers through its agribusiness training programme and helps secondary school students in Nigeria develop their business plans and ideas through its DREAM Initiative.</p>

AATIF provides investments for the agricultural sector. It targets small, medium and large scale agricultural farms as well as agricultural businesses along the entire agricultural value chain. Investment size usually ranges between USD 5 to 30 million. Investment instruments include debt and mezzanine financing, with a maturity of up to 12 years for debt investments.

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AEFC) provides catalytic funding in the form of repayable and non-repayable grants to businesses in the agriculture and energy sectors. The amount of funding awarded to a single business is between USD 15,000 and USD 1.5 million. Once grantees have completed AECF funded projects, AECF continues providing technical support to enable them to identify sources of commercial capital.