Work in Progress Report 2016 FV

Table of contents
Work in Progress! Overview 4
Highlights of 2016 6
Detailed results per outcome
Outcome 1: More young men and women have found 6
paid jobs or are running their own enterprises
Outcome 2: Local SMEs see business grow, 14
resulting in newly created positions for youth
Outcome 3: Improved policies and changed attitudes 16
stimulate youth employment and
business environment
Financial Information 18
Links to external articles about WiP! interventions 20
List of acronyms 20

‘more employment
and positive
expectations about
the future for
youth...’
Work in Progress!
The Work in Progress! (WiP!) project aims to create more employment for young men and
women in Egypt, Nigeria and Somalia, prompting positive expectations about their future.
This overarching objective will be achieved via three complementary pillars 1) increasing
the supply of skilled youth by developing young people’s skills and capacities for (self)
employment; 2) developing market demand by growing the small and medium enterprise
(SME) sector so that it will create more employment opportunities; and 3) cultivating an
enabling environment for youth employment and SMEs.
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Alliance partners
bring their unique expertise to
the project, making it possible to
implement the holistic approach
towards youth unemployment
(see page 5).
Butterfly Works is a social
innovation studio that
creates education and communication
projects in emerging economies. In WiP!
Butterfly Works implements the Bits
schools, which is a concept they developed in
1999. Butterfly Works has partnered with Poise
in Nigeria to set up EkoBits and Shaqodoon
in Somalia to setup HargaBits. Butterfly
Works is also the founder of Tunga,
an online platform that connects
developers from emerging economies
to assignments all over the world.
Both Tunga and the Bits schools
have proven to be successful
in reaching underprivileged
youth and expanding their job
opportunities.
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IOM is an intergovernmental
organisation providing services
and advice to governments
and migrants. In this project, it works
in cooperation with SOSTA (Somaliland
Skills Training Association) to train youth
in various vocational and technical skills,
and also assists the project in building a
solid relationship with local and national
governments.
the enabling environment for SMEs and
youth: in Nigeria, together with Enterprise
Development Centre (EDC), and in Somalia
with Havoyoco. Oxfam is the project lead,
manages the contracts with partners and
improves organisational and institutional
capacities of the partners. Oxfam is also
responsible for the implementation of
monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Oxfam is a world-wide development
organisation that mobilises the
power of people against poverty.
In WiP!, Oxfam facilitates trainings for youth
to boost their opportunities for employment,
and supports the growth of SMEs.
Oxfam does this in Nigeria with Poise
(employability skills training) and Enterprise
Development Centre (SME business
development services); and in Somalia with
Havoyoco (employability skills training)
and Shuraako (SME business development
services). Oxfam also works to improve
VC4A, the Africa platform
for startup funding, is a fastgrowing
community of business professionals
building game-changing companies across
the continent. VC4A facilitates accelerator
programmes and investor events in all three
project countries and connects thousands
of startups to knowledge, mentorship and
finance through its online platform. In
Nigeria, VC4A works with She Leads Africa
(SLA), in Somalia with Innovate Ventures, and
in Egypt with Innoventures.
More employment and positive expectations about the future for
young men and women in Egypt, Nigeria and Somalia
supply of
skilled youth
developing
market demand
cultivating
an enabling
environment
more young men and
women have found
paid job or are running
their own enterprises
local SMEs see their
business grow resulting in
more employment
opportunities for youth
improved policies and
changed attitudes stimulating
youth employment and
business environment
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Highlights of 2016
Detailed results per outcome
Outcome 1:
More young men and women have
found paid jobs or are running their
own enterprises
To achieve this outcome, young men and
women are supported to start their own
enterprises, they are trained to be better
positioned to find employment, and they are
connected to employers.
The accelerator programme is organised by
different partners: Innoventures in Egypt,
She Leads Africa (SLA) in Nigeria, and Innovate
Ventures in Somalia. Each partner uses a
different approach: SLA focuses solely on
female-led startups; Innoventures runs a
classic accelerator programme; and Innovate
Ventures focuses on tech startups.
All accelerators go through the same cycle,
starting with a “roadshow” followed by a series
of events to engage and educate aspiring
young entrepreneurs via ‘Business Model
Canvas’ workshops and to promote the
accelerators and encourage people to
apply for the acceleration.
Business Model Canvas
Supporting young
entrepreneurs via
startup accelerators
In all three countries, WiP! accelerated 49
startups founded by 102 young men and
women, whose yearly revenue reached on
average EUR 6,463. After participating in
the acceleration programme, 98% of startup
founders felt better able to run their business.
During the acceleration, the trainers observed
significant improvements in how the founders
ran their startups, resulting not only in
the growth of teams but also of sales and
revenue.
Business Model Canvas is a strategic
management and ‘lean startup’
methodology for developing new or
documenting existing business models.
It is a visual chart with elements describing
a firm’s or product’s value proposition,
infrastructure, customers and finances.
It aassists companies with aligning
their activities by illustrating potential
trade-offs.
The application is followed by a rigourous
selection based on an assessment of their
strengths/weaknesses, organisational capabilities
and track record, and also considering
existing market gaps. After ‘bootcamp’
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‘insights’. VC4A filmed and edited over 100
short interviews with these experts, engaged
Andile Masiku from Africa Tech Round-up
Broadcast as a presenter for the academy,
and filmed all 21 insights.
introductory sessions, ten most promising
startups are selected for the acceleration
programme providing long-term support
over the period of 4-6 months. Following
acceleration, 33 startups pitched their ideas
during Demo Days and the best three are
awarded prize (seed) money. The youth
pitched their businesses in a professional way,
answered all questions about their startup
enterprises, and impressed the judges with
their clear business plans and enthusiasm.
In Nigeria, WiP! collaborated with GTI Bank,
were awared Fresh Direct with prize money of
EUR 5,900. http://www.freshdirect.ng/
Next to the accelerator programme, VC4A
worked in each country in partnership with
African Business Angel Network (ABAN) to
organise investor events to promote the
culture of angel investment and syndication,
and thus unlock more seed capital for
the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Experienced and renowned angel investors
from VC4A’s network held angel investor
masterclasses in which they shared best
practice with their less experienced peers,
and also with high net worth individuals who
are interested in becoming angel investors.
In 2016, VC4A also started to build its online
academy: the structure, topics and format
were identified, as well as the experts to
provide information on a range of theoretical
In total, WiP! motivated 654 youth to become
entrepreneurs or improve their businesses at
22 events, and linked them to 318 investors at
workshops and networking events. Through
the VC4A online platform, WiP! is now
connected to 9,740 entrepreneurial individuals
and engages with 1,245 business ventures.
Challenges and lessons learnt
In Egypt, the acceleration programme
did not attract sufficient female participants.
Innoventures will learn from the femaleonly
accelerator organised by SLA in Nigeria;
it will especially target women during the
promotional activities before the start of
acceleration, and possibly include a minimum
quota for female-led startups.
In Nigeria, the acceleration programme in
2017 will be organised in different cities across
Nigeria, with strategic sectors identified for
each city. Startups will therefore be better
able to exchange with one another as they
will all be in the same line of business,
making it easier to connect them to key
players and mentors in the industry.
Innovate Ventures’ strategy will be slightly
shifted in 2017 from focusing only on tech
startups towards including startups from
various sectors that aim to include technology
as an integral part of their business.
Furthermore, we encountered challenges to
convince existing businesses in Somalia to
invest significant sums in startups. In 2017 and
beyond, Innovate Ventures will work to develop
a culture of local businesses investing in startups
and SMEs.
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ACCELERATION OF STARTUPS LED BY
YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS
Eslam El-Refaai, mechanical
engineer and the founder of
‘Zero Waste’, a startup involved in
wastemanagement technology.
“CanBank” is a machine that people use to
put their cans and plastic bottles in, and
then they enter their cell phone numbers to
win credit for their phones. This is not the
only product of the startup, but it is an initial
step.“The idea wasn’t easy at the beginning,
it took time and loads of work. Unlike
ordinary jobs, you clear your mind once
you finish your working hours, however,
when you have your own startup, you
think about it 24 hours,” Eslam said.
Besides the prize, they had investors,
businessmen and potential customers
interested in their ideas. With the money,
they managed to develop the prototype of
the startup. Following Innoventures, they
joined other competition and the prototype
started to further develop, the profit will be
from firms and companies that will use the
plastic and can bottles.“I believe that if someone
wants to establish a startup, they have to
have solid experience in the field before
taking this step. They have to learn from
others’ experiences,” Eslam concluded.
Eslam and his business partner Amr
joined a workshop at Innoventures,
where they managed to widen their
network and develop the idea of their startup.
Eslam said it helped them restructure their
idea correctly and turn it into a concrete idea.
At the end of the workshop, a competition
was held and they won the first place.
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Connecting youth to
the employers
Six job fairs in Nigeria and Somalia provided
500 youth with the opportunity to network
with almost 80 entrepreneurs and potentially
get a job. These events are aimed at overcoming
employment barriers among youth
by giving potential employers an opportunity
to share expected work skills with graduate
participants. In Nigeria, over 80 young people
found a a job afterwards.
In Borama, Somalia, SOSTA set up a youth job
centre. The centre offered career development
services to 700 youth; every day, at least 10
young people come here to find out about
job vacancies or to seek support with CV writing,
interview skills and job hunting. Apart from
these day-to-day services, the centre also provides
technical training for youth (read below
about improving skills of young people to
help them find a job). SOSTA also organised an
event focusing on the risks of irregular migration;
this included a presentation by a Somali
young man who set off on a dangerous illegal
journey to Europe but did not succeed and
returned back to Somalia. SOSTA also held information
sessions about illegal migration in
secondary schools in Borama. The job centre
also organises cultural and sport events.
Job fairs
Job fairs make it possible for entrepreneurs,
private and public organisations to meet
skilled young people. They give youth a
chance to network with companies that
they would otherwise not come into contact
with. They are an important element in
helping young people find a job, especially
in contexts where most vacancies are not
advertised in a traditional way but people
are hired via contacts and family.
Challenges and lessons learnt
Our partners in Somalia faced challenges in
convincing companies to publish their
vacancies. Local businesses prefer to hire
family members and people they know.
Partners discovered that international
organisations and businesses owned by
Somali diaspora that have returned to Somalia
are more likely to assess candidates based on
skills and potential rather than on connections
and family networks. These businesses were
therefore consciously targeted and persuaded
to publish vacancies at job centres. In 2017,
this issue will be actively addressed and
we will lobby businesses and the government
to promote transparent hiring procedures.
Disadvantaged youth in Lagos face similar
problems – i.e. the lack of contacts and
networks in the higher classes of society,
which makes it difficult for them to get a
well-paid job. We are discussing possible
scenarios to help our trainees to network,
Poise will invest more in contacts with SMEs
in Benin city, because they are much more
accessible for young people with little or no
work experience.
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Improving skills of
young people to
help them find a job
Bits schools
In Hargeisa, Somalia, Shaqodoon opened
HargaBits which is managed by two young
men, aged 26 and 28. In Lagos, EkoBits was
opened by Poise; this school is also managed
by two young men, aged 30 and 27. Both Bits
schools started ‘course 1’ in 2016 for 96 young
women and men, which continued into 2017.
Follow-up courses (courses 2 and 3) will be
finalised in 2017, completing the whole cycle
of Bits curricula.
Bits schools
The concept of ‘Bits schools’ was
created by Butterfly Works. The schools
train ambitious youth in a wide range
of disciplines – from programming
to visual design, brand development,
photography and video making. Youth
is selected from underprivileged backgrounds
based on community commitment
rather than existing skills.
Internship placements and real-life
client assignments from businesses build
students’ experience and self-esteem.
In turn, this encourages businesses to
rethink their prejudices towards young
people from underprivileged backgrounds.
The Bits schools all use an
online Bits Academy curriculum.
Before starting the Bits schools, partners in all
three countries carried out market research
to analyse what design skills are needed and
whether the Bits Academy curriculum needed
to be updated. In total, 32 new courses were
developed, introducing interactive design,
Java coding and app development.
Staff of the newly created Bits schools
received on-the-job training by trainers
from NairoBits 1 and attended a ‘training of
trainers’ course in Nairobi, which focused
on improving technical skills and how to
use the Bits Academy.
Butterfly Works organised a workshop about
the sustainability of the Bits schools, focusing
on diversification of the schools’ income
streams. Every school worked on its own
business canvas, laying the basis for a global
sustainability model. The idea of setting up
‘Bits Global’ was developed – an entity that
connects all the Bits schools and will be
responsible for the overall quality of the Bits
curricula, among other things.
Tunga platform
Tunga, an online platform created by
Butterfly Works to connect African coders,
developers and programmers to companies
worldwide, started operating in 2015.
It constantly adjusts to user feedback to create
an optimum fit between developers/coders
and clients. Within WiP!, Tunga facilitated
the training-to-job transition in Nigeria for
30 young people by connecting them to international
clients via the platform. Two of them
were active within 2 weeks of the training.
1
NairoBits is the first Bits school; it was created in 1999 in Nairobi,
Kenya.
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EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS TRAINING
Career Kickstart is an Employability and
Entrepreneurship skills training implemented
by Poise Nigeria.
James Okpowo, one of the project
participants shares his story:
“I am the eldest child in a family of four. My dad
is a business man and my mum an elementary
school teacher. I graduated from the university
in 2014 with high hopes of securing a good job
but since then I roamed the streets searching
desperately for a job to no avail. It got to a point
where I was squatting with people because
I didn’t have a place to stay. I would always
hope and pray that something would change
but things were so discouraging. Something
that made it difficult was the way people would
always look down on you because you needed
their help. I kept hoping and praying for a
change while submitting my CV for every
available job I heard about. And then came
the answer to my prayers: POISE Employability
& Entrepreneurship skills training.
The training opened my eyes to the mistakes
I had made in the past relating to my job hunt.
I was properly schooled by the best facilitators
on self awareness, professional attitude &
behavior, culture of excellence, dressing to win,
selling to win, elocution & diction, effective
CV writing skills, excellent presentation skills,
interview skills, etc. I discovered my strengths,
built my confidence & rewrote my CV. I applied
all that I was taught at the academy and from
October 2016 I got a job through one of the
projects. Since I finished Career Kickstart,
I have had three job offers and I am currently
a Business Development Manager at Fireworks
Investment Limited, I have a company car and
other incentives. It is more than a dream
come true. I am proudly a finished product
of Career Kickstart”.
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Employability skills trainings
In Nigeria and Somalia, more than 500 young
women and men took part in a range of
trainings on soft employability skills, basic
entrepreneurship and ICT.
Career Kickstart is an employability
and entrepreneurship skills training
implemented by Poise Nigeria.
The programme is focused on training
youth and connecting them to employment
and entrepreneurship opportunities. It
is a three-week training course focusing
on interview skills, CV writing, confidence
building, ‘managing your boss’, accounting
for non-accountants, selling, networking, etc.
The Career Kickstart programme is
implemented in Lagos and Edo states
and provided training for 166 youth in 2016.
Eighty-two of the 166 participants have
been placed in permanent jobs
and internships.
In Somalia, Havoyoco offered young
people a wide range of employability
skills training:
• Work-readiness skills training
• Internship was offered to 50 of the
young people who had participated in
the work-readiness skills training.
• Employability seminars – six two-day
seminars aimed to equip 176 (45% women)
young graduates with essential skills
for the job market.
• Youth self-help groups training:
140 members of youth groups were
informed about how associations can
strengthen young people’s skills, and
how they can receive funding to invest
in income-generating activities.
Furthermore, 70 young men and
women received technical training
by SOSTA in Borama.
Challenges and lessons learnt
In the technical skills trainings for graduates
(organised by SOSTA), the main challenge has
been that participants are unable to apply
their newly acquired skills in practice. Despite
having been connected to employers via job
fairs and internships, it is extremely hard for
these young people to gain a paid job, as
companies rarely publish vacancies for jobs of
a technical nature.
The employability skills trainings in Nigeria
did not perform as expected in terms of
the number of participants. In 2017, the
application period will be longer and public
promotion of the course will be boosted.
Regarding the course contents, the ‘Sell-aproduct’
module (in which students develop a
real product from start to finish and market it)
proved successful and was described by one
of the participants in the evaluation of
the training as an ‘eye opener that teaches
students how to work in teams, produce
and sell new products, meet deadlines and
achieve a sales target’. As this inspired many
students to become entrepreneurs, Poise will
now collaborate with more mentors who can
support these students. Poise attributes the
relatively low percentage of youth that got a
job after the Career Kickstart programme to
the fact that it ended very late in the year.
In 2017, the programme will start and end
earlier, giving young people and employers
more time to find a match with each other
following the job fairs.
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES HELP SMALL AND
MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE TO EXPAND IN SOMALIA
AMINA ADANACEO of TAYO UNIFORMS &
EMBROIDERY. She is an entrepreneur with
interests in service industry. Amina has
excellent human resource management skills
and over 15 years of experience working with
international organisations.
She wanted to make her dream become
true. She shared her business idea with
her close friends and family members, and
developed a strategy to establish a uniforms
production business which was in a high
demand in Hargeisa. Amina established
TAYO UNIFORMS & EMBROIDERY business in
2009 in Hargeisa.
The company’s primary focus is on
manufacturing and distributing school
uniforms and apparels. It also produces
uniforms for employees in the medical and
health sectors, hotels, fast food companies
and other restaurants.
in Work in Progress! TAYO was supported
in business and financial management,
business coaching, and was connected to
financial institutions. After the course, Amina
transferred her newly acquired knowledge
to her business partners. She believes that
it will enable them to be on the same page
when it comes to day-to-day management
and future planning.
TAYO UNIFORMS & EMBROIDERY
The company currently employs 36 youth:
26 women and 10 men. The company yearly
provides four months training to 20 youth
(age 16 to 24). They plan to recruit at least
15 students after they finish the four months
advanced tailoring training.
Amina and the two other business
shareholders lacked business management
skills including bookkeeping, financial
planning and marketing skills. To overcome
business challenges Amina attended the BDS
training provided by Shuraako, the partner
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Outcome 2:
Local SMEs see business grow, resulting in
newly created positions for youth
To achieve this outcome, business
development services (BDS) were provided
to SMEs in Nigeria and Somalia. In Egypt,
we did an analysis of the BDS environment
to learn what Oxfam’s added value could
be. This resulted in a selection process for a
BDS partner that will start implementing in
second half of 2017.
Providing business
development services
to small and medium
enterprises
In Somalia and Nigeria, Oxfam contracted
two partners – Shuraako and Enterprise
Development Centre (EDC) respectively.
After an application period, they each
selected 10 to 13 SMEs to take part in the BDS
programme. This programme consisted of
classroom trainings (of 2-3 days long) and
on-the-job support from a wide range of
consultants with varied experience, which
deepened the knowledge of SMEs and gave
them access to high-level expertise in various
areas of business.
the weak points of their operations,
as identified together with the consultant.
Some of the resulting improvements
were immediately visible (e.g. improved
business environment in the SME premises),
while others required continuous and
longer-term support (e.g. development
and implementation of HR policies and
performance management systems; redesign
of organisational structure; improved product
branding; implementation of health, safety
and environmental regulations; adoption
of structured business strategies; and tax
compliance).
Challenges and lessons learnt
In 2017, more time will be allowed for
the application process in both countries
to ensure the selection of more female-led
SMEs and SMEs with a positive social and/
or environmental impact. There will also
be an initial needs assessment to ensure
that enough time is allocated to each of the
components of SMEs’ training sessions with
consultants.
In 2017, both partners’ training curricula will
be adapted to reflect participants’ feedback.
Furthermore, a social impact module
developed by Oxfam will be added to the
curricula and followed up during the sessions
with consultants.
Over the four- to six-month training
period, each SME was mentored, trained
and supervised by the consultants. These
individual sessions enabled SMEs to work on
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SoFresh Nigeria
‘The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it’
Olagoke Balogun (Managing Director) and
his wife, Abimbola Balogun, co-founded
SoFresh in Nigeria (www.facebook.com/
sofresh). Roaming the busy street markets
in Lagos where fruit and vegetables
were sold in the open and sometimes
unhygienic conditions, Olagoke and his
wife sought a more serene and organised
place where they could sell appealing
fresh fruits and vegetables.
Olagoke’s motivation comes from his
experience as a young boy growing up
with fresh fruits and vegetables form their
farm and his experience of working in
the fast food industry where people eat
unhealthy food. SoFresh has grown from
selling fruits and vegetables to readymade
meals and delivery services. With
the growth of the business, their idea
about having social impact grew but was
lacking a clear strategy.
Olagoke, “the project, Work in Progress!,
has made us more conscious about social
impact”. Apart from creating direct social
impact related to customers, the company
is considering bringing rural small holder
farmers into its supply chain and support
them with training to produce quality and
consistent supplies. This will mean the
farmers can increase their productivity and
earn more income to support themselves
and their families while having stable
access to market.
The company has also developed
a programme focused on young
unemployed people, mostly school leavers
from underprivileged backgrounds aged
between 17 and 22 to be trained and work
for 1 to 3 years at SoFresh. At the end of
the programme they would go back to
school, find other work or stay with the
company. A new programme also aims to
have kids between 5 and 12 years old eat
more healthy food. SoFresh will run school
programmes and create awareness.
According to Olagoke, Oxfam’s business
development services made him rethink
his entire business model and he now
clearly sees it is possible to “do well
business wise while doing good.”
For him, “the key attraction for applying
for Oxfam’s BDS programme was the
model: consulting one-to-one support as
opposed to classroom sessions which is
what other programmes focus on.
Oxfam’s intervention provided the
opportunity for SoFresh to have external
input from business experts for the first time”.
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Outcome 3:
Improved policies and changed
attitudes stimulate youth employment
and business environment
To achieve outcome 3, we work with
governments and influential people from
different sectors to improve the environment
for small and medium businesses and youth.
Lobby and advocacy
towards banks, companies
and governments
Although the context in Nigeria differs from
that in Somalia, both countries face similar
issues in terms of youth unemployment and
poor access to finance for startups and SMEs.
In Nigeria, Oxfam and EDC organised two
roundtables to bring together commercial
banks, policy makers and entrepreneurs
(over 125 participants) to discuss the
challenges faced by SMEs and startups
in accessing capital from formal sources.
A policy paper was developed based on
the findings and conclusions from the
discussions; this will serve as a tool to
encourage policy makers and other
relevant stakeholders to bring about
change (i.e. improved policies related to
the business environment, and access to
finance for youth and SMEs). The roundtable
discussions (especially the one held in Lagos)
enabled the youth from the SMEs to have
heart-to-heart conversations with senior
managers of public sector agencies and
financial institutions (public and private).
Four of the SMEs supported by WiP! got
loans within three months of the roundtable
discussions.
In Somalia, Havoyoco initiated the process of
developing a national framework for SMEs
and youth employment opportunities. The
process is steered by the Ministry of Trade
and Investment, Ministry of Sport and Youth
Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs,
and private sector representatives (e.g.
Dahabshill bank, Telesom etc.).
Havoyoco expressed the need for research
to highlight the areas of concern for SMEs.
It also stressed the importance of achieving
the reform objectives outlined in the World
Bank ‘Doing Business’ publication 2 , which
include ease of entry, access to finance, and
enforcing contracts. Havoyoco organised
14 lobby meetings with the Ministries of
Trade, Youth, Finance, Planning, Labour, and
Social Affairs, as well as with the Chamber of
Commerce and the Civil Service Commission.
Following advocacy targeting government
ministries and the private sector, Havoyoco
organised two youth symposia for policy
makers, representatives from financial
institutions, and young graduates; in total,
244 people participated. This aimed to pave
the way for entrepreneurial initiatives for
youth, identify barriers to this endeavour
2
Doing Business measures regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business. Ten of these areas are included in this year’s ranking on
the ease of doing business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit,
protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Doing Business also
measures labour market regulation, which is not included in this year’s ranking.
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and find solutions. The symposium provided
a forum for policy makers and financial
institutions to hear directly from youth
about the challenges they face in accessing
finance to start a business, consider the
underlying reasons for these, and work
together to overcome them. It was a great
opportunity for the financial institutions
to see the enthusiasm young people have
for starting new businesses, and to better
understand the needs of these potential
customers.
Challenges and lessons learnt
The roundtables, fora and symposia
organised by partners encouraged fruitful
discussions and initiated several processes
to develop frameworks and policy papers.
The next step for WiP! partners is to
develop a detailed influencing strategy.
In 2017, Oxfam will engage influencing
specialists to support partners to develop
proper strategies to ensure that their
advocacy efforts lead to concrete change.
Havoyoco also organised a discussion for a
smaller group of people about attitudes
towards credit models from an Islamic
sharia perspective. Religious scholars
clarified the issue of Murabaha transactions
that carry an Islamic name but are the
same as other interest-based deals offered
by banks. Together with the Ministry
of Labour and Social Affairs, Havoyoco
organised a conference on ‘Fair and
Transparent Recruitment Processes’ to
improve disadvantaged young people’s
chances of getting a job.
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Financial Information
Total expenses 2016
2016 Actuals
Inception € 136,222
Outcome 1:
More young men and women have found paid
job or are running their own enterprises
€ 1,068,081
Outcome 2:
Local SMEs see business grow
resulting in newly created positions for youth
€ 256,519
Outcome 3:
Improved policies and changed attitudes stimulating youth
employment and business environment
€ 112,692
Local delivery cost € 84,634
Global delivery cost € 218,623
Total € 1,876,772
Global expenses per outcome
Inception
40%
1%
5%
14%
40%
Outcome 1:
More young men and women have found paid
job or are running their own enterprises
Outcome 2:
Local SMEs see business grow
resulting in newly created positions for youth
Outcome 3:
Improved policies and changed attitudes stimulating
youth employment and business environment
Global delivery costs
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Egypt expenses per outcome in 2016
Inception
13%
10%
7%
Outcome 1:
More young men and women have found paid
job or are running their own enterprises
10%
59%
Outcome 2:
Local SMEs see business grow
resulting in newly created positions for youth
Outcome 3:
Improved policies and changed attitudes
stimulating youth employment and business
environment
Local delivery costs
Nigeria expenses per outcome in 2016
6%
4% 5%
Inception
Outcome 1:
More young men and women have found paid
job or are running their own enterprises
25%
60%
Outcome 2:
Local SMEs see business grow
resulting in newly created positions for youth
Outcome 3:
Improved policies and changed attitudes
stimulating youth employment and business
environment
Local delivery costs
Somalia expenses per outcome in 2016
7%
7% 3%
Inception
Outcome 1:
More young men and women have found paid
job or are running their own enterprises
14%
69%
Outcome 2:
Local SMEs see business grow
resulting in newly created positions for youth
Outcome 3:
Improved policies and changed attitudes stimulating
youth employment and business environment
Local delivery costs
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Links to external articles
about WiP! interventions
TechCabal:
http://techcabal.com/2016/11/21/fresh-directwinner-2016-sla-accelerator-demo-day/
Bella Naija:
https://www.bellanaija.com/2016/11/fresh-
direct-ng-deliverybros-and-medsaf-win-
2016-she-leads-africa-demo-day/
Women.ng:
http://woman.ng/2016/12/three-women-
entrepreneurs-emerge-as-winners-at-the-
2016-she-leads-africa-demo-day/
Are you on facebook? You can look at:
https://www.facebook.com/ekobits/
https://www.facebook.com/HargaBits/
https://www.facebook.com/
innoventuresegypt/
https://www.facebook.com/innovate.
ventures/?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/sheleadsafrica/
Work in Progress! and partners
The WiP! monitoring framework, with a
complete overview of results achieved in
2016, is available here: https://oxfam.box.
com/s/bke6bk1tsmnyc3yzbj3hk18y4errmf61
More information about partners can
be found:
https://www.oxfamnovib.nl/donorspartners/about-oxfam/projects-andprograms/work-in-progress!
www.butterflyworks.org
www.vc4a.com
www.iom.int
For more information contact the Global
Project Manager Mirjam Horstmeier,
mirjam.horstmeier@oxfamnovib.nl
List of acronyms
ABAN
BDS
EDC
FTE
MEL
MoSS
SMEs
SLA
SOSTA
TVET
VC4A
WiP!
African Business Angels Network
Business Development Services
Enterprise Development Centre
Full-time employee
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Ministry of Social Solidarity
Small and medium enterprises
She Leads Africa
Somaliland Skills Training Association
Technical Vocational and Educational Training
Venture Capital for Africa
Work in Progress! project
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