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Editor/copyright Info Designed by GW Creators Rwanda in partnership with Global Entreprenureship Week Rwanda. Copyright 2012 Babson Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center (BREC) Disclaimer : Some information is self-reported by event hosts Local Contact Babson Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center (National Host) Rayshawn Whitford Haya Alzaid rwhitford1@babson.edu halzaid1@babson.edu (+250)787147518 (+250)787147516 Global contact/spokespeople Global Entrepreneurship Week (HQ) Spokesperson: Jonathan Ortmans President, Gew Contact: Mark Marich mmarich@unleashingideas.org +1 202 467 2776
Kauffman Foundation Spokesperson: Carl Schramm, President & CEO, Kauffman Foundation Contact: Barbara Pruitt bpruitt@kauffman.org +1 816 932 1288
About BREC
BREC was formed in 2010 through a unique partnership between Babson College in Welleseley, Mass.(USA) and the Rwandan Private Sector Federation(PSF). Since its inception, BREC has enguaged in a number of activities aimed at advancing entrepreunurship in Rwanda, including research, trainning, networking, business plan development, coaching and consulting services. BREC works intimately with experts from both Babson College and PSF to develop and deliver valuable services to a wide spectrum of stakeholders in Rwanda’s entrepreunurship ecosystem, including students,business leaders, government agencies, universities and not-for profit organizations. The center is staffed by Babson employees and housed within the PSF headquaters in kigali, Rwanda. For more information, email brec@babson.edu
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About GEW Message from National host GEW Rwanda at a glance National Hosts, Strategic Partners & National Sponsors GEW/Rwanda Opening Ceremony Bigger Future Program Presentation Business Leadership Panel Discussion Campus Entrepreneurship Club Workshops Career Business Panel Arne Forstenberg’s Presentations Graduation and Job Fair Entrepreneurship Talk! Entrepreneurship Week Meet the Lions Financing your Entrepreneurial Dream Finding Business Opportunities Gisagara Rulindo Training Interactive Live Painting Project Ready 4 Finance Workshops National Women Entrepreneurs Celebration
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Power of Entrepreneurship Essay Contest Social Entrepreneurship Safari The Real Business Accelerator ReachUp! Training Program Rwanda Young Entrepreneurs Women Entrepreneurs Awards Sensitizing SACCOs on Entrepreneurship Tigo-Reach for Change Social Entrepreneurship Competition Semi-Finals Social Entrepreneurship Role-Play Ashoka @ The Office Strengthening University Student Entrepreneurs to Empower Society #TEDxTuesdays @ The Office The Economic Symposium Women’s Entrepreneurs Panel Youth Open House GEW/Rwanda Closing Ceremony Get Involved! 2013 Partners Global Sponsors Social Media
About
GEW
Inspire: GEW introduces the notion of entrepreneurial activity to those who have never considered it while motivating aspiring entrepreneurs to launch new startups. Connect: GEW facilitates connections to help build and expand networks across national boundaries-unleashing new ideas at the intersection of cultures and disciplines. Mentor: GEW creates an environment conducive to the sharing of ideas and experiences that are invaluable in moving from ideation to launch. Engage: GEW provides a platform for thought leaders to work together in fostering an entrepreneurial ecosystem-examining research, public policies and successful approaches to promoting growth.
Campaign growth over the years Year
Countries
Activities
Partners
Participants
2008
77
25,022
8,892
3 million
2009
88
32,861
18,277
7.6 million
2010
104
37,561
23,952
7.3 million
2011
123
33,846
24,008
7.4 million
2012
131
19,649
7,906
7.5 million
* As Global Entrepreneurship Week focuses increasingly on impact, the qualifying partner and event criteria were adjusted, resulting in some fluctuation in overall reporting in comparison to previous years.
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Since 2008, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) has connected over 20 million people through local, national and global activities designed to help them expand their innovative potential. In 2012, more than 24,000 partner organizationshosted nearly 40,000 activities that were held in 130 countries, making this the world’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship. In Rwanda, our campaign has grown from 22 partners hosting 26 events to 45 partners hosting 50 events bringing close to 20,000 participants together. Local, national and global activities helped participants to form important connections to unleash new, bold ideas, and to shine a light on all of the people and organizations working year-round to support entrepreneurs in country. GEW acts as an incubator, providing a platform for these organizations to come together to work on common goals. The partnerships and relationships that are formed during the week begin to extend throughout the year as we learn more about one another’s strengths. Adding to our success, Rwanda will be sending our first Globally Featured contest winner to the Meet the Lions pitch competition in South Africa this May 2013. In the following pages, you will get a glimpse of the successes experienced over the course of the week. We are thankful to have an incredible support system of entrepreneurship-focused organizations working hard alongside us to make the Rwanda campaign a success. Together, we are working to contribute to a more entrepreneurial Rwanda. Our energetic partners and sponsors help motivate us to continue to expand our work to become one of the prominent campaigns in Africa.
Rayshawn Whitford Country Director Babson Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center
Haya Alzaid Country Director Babson Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center
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GEW-Rwanda at a glance
42 partners | 50 events | 7,000+ participants
Vision: To be the leading African nation participating in GEW based on the size, scope, VIP involment and innovativeness of our campaign.
Mission: To create a groundswell of activities that inspire and advance entrepreneurship in Rwanda while demonstrating to the world how innovation and private enterprise are transforming the country for better.
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National Hosts
Strategic Partners
National Sponsors
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GEW/Rwanda Opening Ceremony Host: Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center
The Opening Celebration marked the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week/Rwanda and set the tone for the week’s activities. It provided an opportunity to create awareness about the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in developing Rwanda’s economy and put a spotlight on some of the many activities and events organized all over the country. To blend the ceremonial purpose with additional value creation, the Opening Celebration also provided a platform to inspire the business community in Rwanda through talks from engaging international and local speakers including Randall Kempner, Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, Rica Rwigamba, the head of Tourism and Conservation Department at RDB, Hannington Namara, CEO of the Private Sector Federation, and the Minister of Youth and ICT.
12th November
400 Participants
Kimisagara Youth Center
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MYICT
Armour Arts
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Bigger Future Program Presentation Host: Global Relief and Development Partners Bigger Future
The mission of GRDP is to inspire and strengthen promising entrepreneurs in emerging countries.We help high-potential entrepreneurial leaders accelerate their growth by giving them direct access to experienced entrepreneurs in North America, enabling them to tap into world-class leadership, professional, technical, and financial resources.GRDP offers a platform for intellectual capital, social capital, and financial capital.GRDP’s Bigger Future Program matches successful North American entrepreneurs with emerging and high growth entrepreneurs in Rwanda and the region. We offer a unique opportunity for a select group of experienced entrepreneurs who are ready to apply their expertise and wisdom to the unique challenges of doing business in East Africa. We organized a three month workshop with the Year Ones and Masters participants graduation being held during GEW/Rwanda. TheYear Ones are a group of Entrepreneurs who are in the program for one year and the Masters group are senior Bigger Future members with more than one year membership.
12th November
“This workshop is a day away from my business, to work on my business.” 36 Participants
Lemigo Hotel, Kigali
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Business Leadership Panel Discussion Host: U.S. Embassy and American Corners
Rwandan Alumni of U.S. Department of State exchange programs joined American entrepreneurs working in Rwanda to speak at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali on the importance of entrepreneurship to a growing economy and the skills necessary to build a strong entrepreneurial climate. A parallel program at the American Corner in Gisenyi featured an alumna from a U.S. Department of State exchange program who spoke to youth about entrepreneurship and the challenges young entrepreneurs, especially women and girls, face in the current business climate.
14th November
87 Participants
“Although a business idea is needed, the execution of that idea is paramount. Skills development leads to business success.� -Tom Allen
Kigali and Gisenyi
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Campus Entrepreneurship Club Workshops Host: RDB
Entrepreneurship development is one of the core strategies that Rwanda Development Board (RDB), through its Human Capital and Institutional Development, uses to fast track economic development in Rwanda by enabling private sector growth. RDB’s approach to entrepreneurship development includes both instilling an entrepreneurial mindset in the population and training them with the unique set of skills required by entrepreneurs to set up and succeed in their ventures. Regarding GEW, Last year (2011), RDB visited Higher Institutions of Learning speaking to students about creating awareness of enterprise and self-employment as a career option. Since then students from their respective institutions have formed Entrepreneurship Clubs to continue driving this agenda forward. In an effort to continue supporting these students and to build on the above success, this year, RDB conducted one day entrepreneurship capacity building workshop to members of these entrepreneurship clubs. The workshops are organized under the theme “Strengthening Entrepreneurship Clubs in Higher Learning Institutions for Productivity.”
12th-16th November
120 Participants
Kigali, Butare, Musanze, Rubavu “Don’t wait to be successful in the big city- Kigali- start your successful enterprise where you are!”- Elisabeth Mwangi, Adviser of HCID
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“Originality is important in entrepreneurship, try something different! You were born an original… don’t die as a photocopy!” -Elisabeth Mwangi, Adviser for HCID
MYICT
Armour Arts
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Career Business Panel Host: EDC AkaziKanozi
Approximately 60 AkaziKanoze youth in Nyaruguru district, southern province, celebrated Global Entrepreneurship Week. The youth, primary school graduates and secondary school drop outs, are enrolled in the AkaziKanoze program with Health Poverty Action, an implementing partner. The youth following their AkaziKanoze training are encouraged to join business cooperatives for self-employment. During the career business workshop, three business owners who are AkaziKanoze Work Readiness graduates delivered their testimonies about challenges and opportunities in operating a small business. Following the event, participants were able to further network with guest speakers.
13th November
60 Participants
Nyaruguru
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Arne Forstenberg’s Presentations Host: Educat
Andreas Norlem Christiansen CEO and Founder of Educat will give a lecture on “The benefits of ICT in entrepreneurship.” Arne Forstenberg Founder of GlobalFocus and visionary entrepreneur will give a lecture on “21 business opportunities for the 21th century.” These lectures provided university students with the opportunity to listen to two presentations from experienced entrepreneurs and then engage in a question and answer session.
12th - 17th November
1050 Participants
Kigali Butare
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Graduation and Job Fair Host: Technoserve
Rwandese young men and women from 4 districts in the rural areas of Rwanda graduated after a 3-month intensive TechnoServe - STRYDE (Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise) training on personal effectiveness and enterprise development. The TechnoServe STRYDE program is a four-year partnership with MasterCard Foundation that seeks to enable a successful transition for rural unemployed youth to economically independent adulthood through training, opportunity identification, linkages and advisory support through mentorship. The 3 month empowerment journey not only gave the youth an opportunity to speak about their changed mindset by sharing a few of their amazing success stories but also gave them a rare chance to publically declare in front of top district authorities the accomplishments acquired through STRYDE trainings and normative approaches towards business ideas. After the graduation, there was a job fair enabling the graduates with access to a selection of potential employers that they could directly reach out to.
13th-16th November
851 Participants
Gakenke, Nyanza, Ruhango, Musanze
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Entrepreneurship Talk!
Host: Schools Entrepreneurship Network
During GEW 2012, SEN organized an “Entrepreneurship Talk” Debate & Competition bringing together Kagarama Secondary School and College Saint Andre entrepreneurship clubs in a colorful event. This event aims to develop students’ entrepreneurial mindset, help them to acquire public speaking skills, and sharpen their brain as they become open to the world.
13th November “We have now understood our role in building the country’s sustainable future” Cedric (a S5 student) commented.
52 Participants
Centre Pastoral De Saint Paul, Kigali
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Entrepreneurship Week Host: AVCAO
Global Entrepreneurship Week greatly helped contribute to understanding change within youth and women in Rwanda. During this week, we were able to reach 156 beneficiaries through an entrepreneurship training that progressed that facilitated advanced understanding of how entrepreneurship can be the true source of integrating human development and creating efficient production.
13th November
156 Participants
Nyamugali
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Meet the Lions Host: Educat
Meet the Lions, a competition aimed at recognizing pioneering entrepreneurs in Africa. As the winner of Rwanda’s Meet the Lions Competition, TetaIsibo will be representing Rwanda in May’s Pan African Meet the Lions Competition in South Africa. The goal of the competition is to recognize new companies that have developed real-world solutions through their revolutionary businesses, while also exhibiting the potential to spur economic growth that is both sustainable and scalable. Participation entrepreneurs had to meet the following criteria: new companies that have been around at least a year but not more than 3 years, companies founded by people from Africa in Africa, and can represent startups in any industry.
16th November
270 Participants
Ishyo Arts, Kigali
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RWANDA
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Financing your Entrepreneurial Dream Host: EDC AkaziKanozi
In partnership with Youth Savings and Credit Cooperative (COOJAD), AkaziKanoze organized a workshop for 20 youth business owners who are interested in expanding their business ventures. The youth participants who are predominantly orphans and vulnerable children had the opportunity to learn about best practices on accessing business loans from COOJAD. The seminar served as the perfect forum for participants to present their business plans to a COOJAD representative
12th November
25 Participants
Centre Pastoral De Saint Paul, Kigal
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Finding Business Opportunities Host: Generation Rwanda
The Generation Rwanda Entrepreneurship Club arranged for two Generation Rwanda alumni who have started their own businesses to speak to our current students about what they have learned. Both alumni gave engaging talks that challenged students to find business solutions to the issues their communities face and how to measure the market feasibility of their ideas.
17th November
25 Participants
“I heard that opportunities are all around when you keep open eyes� - Happy Olivier Twiringire
Kigali
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Gisagara Rulindo Training Host: Rwanda Development Board
RDB brought together women aged 20 and above for a valuable business training. These women were able to gain beneficial skills as well as discover that enterprises can be a way of life for men and women of all ages with as many or as limited resources.
12-th - 17th November
300 Participants
Gisagara
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Interactive Live Painting Project Host: Armour Arts
The live painter Artist– Tibirusya Rolands, Armour Arts, Kigali, in partnership with GEW/Rwanda intends to paint and share a souvenir piece of canvas art. It will be one painting depicting the passion and the impression of this historical event, which all participants will contribute towards. This will be an on location live painting, which is interactive in nature, bearing expressions in color, writings and signatures. Its involved the participation of all people: students, cooperative owners,men, women and children.
12th - 18th November
“Think global, act local.� 190 Participants
Kigali
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Ready 4 Finance Workshops Host: JCI
Accessing finance is one of the critical tasks entrepreneurs have to face in order to grow their businesses. BiD Network’s Advisory Service has developed and deployed the Ready4Finance modular training curriculum to develop entrepreneurs’ access to finance in emerging markets. The exercises are designed for both starting and more experienced entrepreneurs, providing the possibility to share experiences and knowledge. At the same time the training includes more advanced modules such as valuation and negotiation for entrepreneurs. The Ready4Finance training program provides local SMEs with the knowledge and skills to go “the last mile”. Benefits include developing the entrepreneur’s creativity in finding solutions to business and financial issues, enhancing entrepreneurs’ insight into investor needs and negotiation skills, and becoming more confident in the ability to access to finance.
12th & 16th November
62 Participants
Huye Nyagatare
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National Women Entrepreneurs Celebration Host: Women for Women International
WfWI held competitions for the top women entrepreneurs across four districts where the organization works. The end of the week culminated in a national women entrepreneur’s celebration to select one final winner of all the districts’ business ideas. The celebration involved showcasing some of the businesses, crafts, and services of the individual entrepreneurs or their cooperatives.
16th November
285 Participants MIGEPROF
Papyrus Restaurant, Kigali
“If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk with others.” – Antonina Kayitesi Page 27
Power of Entrepreneurship Essay Contest Host: Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center
D E R TU A E F T N E EV
The Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center (BREC) invited all Rwandan students enrolled in secondary school to submit an essay about the “Power of Entrepreneurship.” Students were asked to provide their thoughts on how entrepreneurship can transform their own lives, their communities, and their country. All essays were judged by a panel of experts from BREC. The top three national winners were awarded cash prizes for themselves and the schools they represented at the GEW/Rwanda Closing Ceremony.
17th November
33 Participants
“A dynamic society is successful only if it encourages and rewards the entrepreneurial activities that are the determinants of prosperity. By supporting entrepreneurship, a country moves closer to developing, strengthening and stabilizing their economy and society.” –Jean Kagame, Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, Second Place Essay
KIST Auditorium, Muhabura Block
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Social Entrepreneurship Safari Host: Ashoka East Africa
Ashoka started its work in Rwanda in 2011, and has since identified four transformational social entrepreneurs with sustainable ideas for social change—two of whom have already joined the global network of Ashoka Fellows. The Social Entrepreneurship Safari comprised of site visits to each of these four projects of current and potential Ashoka Fellows whose ideas are transforming four important fields in Rwanda—agriculture, women’s empowerment, health and nutrition, and dairy quality assurance. The safari aimed to create an opportunity for people and institutions interested in social entrepreneurship to see great examples in action as well as to meet, interact with and learn from Rwanda’s most inspiring and visionary systems-changing social entrepreneurs.
Nov 13th: Ndera
13th - 17th November
Julie Carnay, Gardens for Health: Gardens for Health, is transforming healthcare centers so that they are able to provide agricultural extension services and psychosocial support to mothers affected by malnutrition, in addition to medical services.
80 Participants Nov 14th: Masaka Ndera Masaka Rusororo Rusiga David Mupenzi, Dairy Quality Assurance Laboratory: Dairy Quality Assurance Limited, has a lab based in Kigali that is providing milk testing services for collection centers and farmers at an incredibly low price that is less than 10% of the going market rate.
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Nov 15th: Rusororo
Nicholas Hitimana, Ikirezi Natural Products & Village of Hope: Nicholas has introduced a new, though indigenous, type of cash crop to commercial farming in Rwanda—essential oils, such as geranium, patchouli and lemon grass. These generate more revenue and are less expensive to transport than colonial cash crops. Since 2006, Ikirezi has worked with 300 farmers and plans to work with an additional 1,200 in the next three to five years.
“Meet, interact with and learn from Rwanda’s most inspiring and visionary systems-changing social entrepreneurs.”
RWANDA Nov 16th: Rusiga
FelicitéRwemarika, Association of Kigali Women in Sports: Engaging women in Rwanda in the typically male-dominated sport of football enables them to gain full social and economic citizenship. Through her organization, Association of Kigali Women in Sports (AKWOS), Felicite has influenced policy and structural reform in government to further entrench sports for women and girls in and outside of formal education institutions.
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The Real Business Accelerator Host: Educat
The Real Business Accelerator (RBA) is an intense weeklong opportunity for 10 high potential Rwandan entrepreneurs to convert a brilliant idea into action and kick-start their business. Educat and partners will facilitate a professional framework throughout the week, offering various training sessions, coaching, legal advice, budget support, ICT support etc.It will culminate at the official GEW closing ceremony where the “Accelerators” will pitch the businesses to a jury and the winner will receive a cash price, 3-5 month professional mentorship and office space at the REAL Centre-incubator.
12th-18th November
10 Participants
The Office & New Times building “To grow my business requires me to grow myself. What someone learns is very important but who you learn it from is much more important, having an opportunity to participate in RBA shaped my entrepreneurship DNA; it made me more confident, I realized that innovation is not about new things that did not exist but having a privilege to meet with other business accelerators and exchange skills.” ~ Martial Batangana,Osca Connect ltd
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“Educat is an amazing organization of entrepreneurial training. Working with them for a week boosted my business confidence and has given me a nationwide exposure. A thing unthinkable only a week before I met them.” ~ Eric Gatera, El Puente Ltd. “Through discussions and networking with different experts, mentors and fellow entrepreneurs, the program prompted me to view my start-up from many different perspectives and this helped me re-align my vision for my company and realize all the different possibilities for growing my business.” -Teta Isibo Winner of the REAL Business Accelerator 2012.
RWANDA
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ReachUp! Training Program Host: DOT Rwanda
DOT Rwanda’s ReachUp! program provides community participants with the tools and training to help them advance their economic status and build successful, sustainable livelihoods. As the name suggests, the program drives participants to “reach up” and out to new entrepreneurial opportunities.One of the essential elements of DOT’s ReachUp! program is coaching. Beneficiaries of the ReachUp! program undergo a one month training in business and technology skills. Thereafter, beneficiaries set personal development and business goals. DOT Coaches then coach the beneficiaries in achieving their goals. These trainings were delivered in Musanze, Muhanga, and Kigali.
12th - 14th November
102 Participants
BDC Musanze, IPRC Kigali, ACJ Karama
“I appreciated this training because it will help us to accomplish some tasks professionally by incorporating Technology in our daily activities.” - ReachUp! participant Page 33
Rwanda Young Entrepreneurs Host: AIESEC Rwanda
During this year’s event, AIESEC Rwanda held a one day seminar at ISAE-Busogo. The event was attended by about 150 young people eager to challenge their world view and come up with entrepreneurial ideas of solving societal problems. The students had a chance to listen to different speakers who discussed issues around entrepreneurship and the impact that young people can have on the society. As part of the day’s activities, the delegates participated in group discussions where they identified challenges and problems in different sectors. They then presented their ideas on how these problems can be solved while creating a business opportunity for young people. Two young entrepreneurs also shared their business stories with the delegates, highlighting what challenges they faced while starting-up and how they managed to succeed. This allowed the students to see young people like them who had taken the first step of starting up, and hence see that it is possible to start up their own ventures at this age.
10th November
150 Participants
“I am very happy that I attended the training today, and I will go back and tell my friends how educative it was. I would like to ask you to come back another day and to give us more knowledge.” Said John, a student from ISAEBusogo.
ISAE-Busogo
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Women Entrepreneurs Awards Host: Women for Women International
WfWI held competitions for the top women entrepreneurs across four districts where the organization works. Open to both individual entrepreneurs and group enterprises formed by program graduates, women competed on levels of business creativity, impact and innovation. An average of 450 women per district competed for cash prizes, with businesses across sectors ranging from agriculture and food processing to handcrafts, trade and services. The panel of judges included representatives from the district, the Private Sector Federation, National Women’s Council and Girl Hub. Site visits were conducted with semi-finalists to verify business records and activities prior to announcing the winner/s in district ceremonies.
12th & 15th November
2100 Participants
Gasabo Kayonza Muhanga Rwamagana “Women bussiness expension will boost the economic activity in our district� -Yvonne Mutakwasuku, Mayor of Muhanga
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When women are economically empowered, the family is economically empowered,” says Gisele Uwizeye, Kayonza District’s point person on gender.
“This competition is important because it makes us visible,” -Khadidja Nibabyare
RWANDA
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Sensitizing SACCOs on Entrepreneurship Host: BDF
BDF met with local SACCOs and encouraged them to promote entrepreneurship for the benefit of all our institutions and the country as a whole.The SACCOs were shown the benefit they could receive from promoting entrepreneurship and the available opportunities for the MSMEs who will develop projects.BDF collaborated with the Rwanda Cooperative Agency, a regulatory board that controls Saccos, and had the privilege of welcoming Ms.Francisca Mukakarangwa of the RCA and Ms. Rosemary Mbabazi, the PS of the Ministry of Youth and ICT, who spoke to the SACCOs about the importance of entrepreneurship
16th November
74 Participants
Muhima, Kigali
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Tigo-Reach for Change Social Entrepreneurship Competition Semi-Finals
Host: Reach for Change Foundation
Reach for Change identifies and supports social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to improve the lives of children. It is a non-profit organization founded by the Kinnevik Group, in 2010, with operations in Africa, Asia and Europe. Reach for Change is collaborating with Tigo, the senior corporate partner in Africa. Reach for Change wants to be a strong voice for children’s rights. By utilizing the strength of our social entrepreneurs and our partners and network, we promote debate on how to make children’s rights a reality on a global scale as well as on a local and individual level. We work through and with many different forums; from business partners to UN Global Compact, to NGO’s, colleagues, parents and, of course, the children themselves. In Rwanda, the program has attracted about 600 applications this year! The applications are currently being reviewed. Two social entrepreneurs will be selected at the end of November. They will benefit from our Incubator Program – a three-year support program for early stage social entrepreneurs, who receive salary funding and support from our partners in the business sector and our extensive global network.
9th - 18th November
588 Participants
Rwanda
“It is a great honor to be part of a movement focusing on transforming the lives of children in the long run as opposed to unmeasured donations”. -Nina-Claudia Ndabaneze, Corporate Social Responsibility Officer for Tigo Page 38
Social Entrepreneurship Role-Play Host: Solid’Africa
SOLID AFRICA
FOR VULNERABLE PATIENTS IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS
“Do something , take action in your community, don’t wait for others to come and do it for you”
As part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, SOLID’AFRICA organized a role play targeting students, with the aim of putting them in situations where they have to interact efficiently with stakeholders might they want to be social entrepreneurs. The study case of the day was Solid’Africa dealing with the lack of food in public hospitals in Rwanda. They had to convince four groups of stakeholders (government, local donors, volunteers and beneficiaries) to subscribe and contribute to their project in 10 minutes. Some members of SOLID’AFRICA first explained the goal of the NGO and briefly presented problems they face and solutions they have managed to come up with since its inception.
16th November
50 Participants
Lemigo Hotel, Kigali
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Ashoka @ The Office Host: Educat
Educat organized a lecture by Nassir Katuramu, the venture program manager for Ashoka East Africa, at The Office. The title for the session was “Innovating for systems change” and it helped participants acquire a new lens through which to view problems and solutions so that as they innovate, they can envision themselves as systems changing innovators or problem solvers as opposed to just creative entrepreneurs. This way of thinking has proven through the work of 3000+ Ashoka Fellows around the world that it is the most high impact and sustainable way of creating societal transformation.
15th November
30 Participants
The Office RW
“Find something that you enjoy doing and develop that into your business idea rather than working at a job where you get little satisfaction.”
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Strengthening University Student Entrepreneurs to Empower Society Host: KIST Entrepreneurship Club
University students learned about the general concept of Entrepreneurship, particularly about how to generate and develop a business idea and understanding different tools used to become successful entrepreneurs. Speakers included Mr. Emile Murekezi, the Co-founder & CFO, Marketing and branding executive of Igihe Company, Mr. Roland Ruhumuriza, the Research Executive and Business development Officer at Media Systems Group, Mr. Regis Dusabimana, The founder and CEO of MENDEL Ltd.
14th November
“The more people tell you about business, the more self-confident you become about doing it.� 105 Participants
KIST Conference Room, Muhabura Block
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#TEDxTuesdays @ The Office Host: The Office RW
The Office’s weekly #TEDxTuesdays event featured “entrepreneurship” as its theme in honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The event engendered reflection around social entrepreneurship and value creation and social benefit of starting a business. It also offered a warm, social space for people to discuss important issues surrounding start-up culture in Rwanda.
6th November
17 Participants
The Office RW
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The Economic Symposium Host: Kigali Institute of Management (KIM)
The theme of the symposium is:Entrepreneurship & Cooperatives as a catalyst for job creation and economic Development.This symposium is being organized in the wake of the increasing challenges on entrepreneurial skills faced by cooperatives in Rwanda.The overall objective of the symposium is therefore to generate ideas on the way forward on strengthening and equipping the cooperatives with entrepreneurship skills. The event was a high level symposium targeting senior Cooperatives union officials, The National cooperatives confederation of Rwanda officials, political leaders, private sector leaders, development partners and the media. The symposium will target about 150 participants drawn from the various stakeholders. The symposium will take place at the Kigali Institute of Management.
16th November
150 Participants
Kigali Institute of Management
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Women’s Entrepreneurs Panel Host: EDC AkaziKanozi
AkaziKanoze hosted a panel discussion for young AkaziKanoze girl graduates hoping to start their own businesses. The workshop enabled participants to network and learned best business practices with two women entrepreneurs; a jewelry vendor and a Forever Living agent. 25 young girls between the ages of 14-24 years old participated in the event which took place at Saint Pastoral, Kigali city. Adelphine Mukeshema, guest speaker, advised the girls to be confident and innovative in their business ventures. She further recommended that the girls keep improving their skills to experience business growth and success.
14th November
30 Participants
“Try to visit other entrepreneurs, learn new ideas from them and try to learn their strategies,� --Adelphine Mukeshema
Centre Pastoral De Saint Paul, Kigali
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Youth Open House Host: The Office
The Office is partnering with School Entrepeneurship Network (SEN) to host an open house at The Office for a select group of high school students to meet our members and other contacts in the business community.The event will be an opportunity for the students from Kagarama Secondary School, College St. Andre, Lycee de Kigali, College Misericorde, and SOS Technical School to meet with interesting professionals and entrepreneurs.
15th November
“Baho buri munsi nkaho ari uwanyuma.� - Olivier Iryamukuru, Student at College St. Andres
50 Participants
The Office RW
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GEW/Rwanda Closing Ceremony Host: Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center
Closing Ceremony marked the end of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Rwanda. It involved a packed schedule of speakers and awards. The week’s theme of “Empowering Youth and Women for Productivity” was truly embodied as representatives from Women for Women International gave testimonies of the stories of the businesses and their involvement in the WFWI program. The finals for GEW’s globally featured event, Meet The Lions, also took place during the event where the three finalists pitched their ideas one last time as a panel of judges determined who would represent Rwanda in South Africa in May 2013. We also awarded the winner of the Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship essay contest to the three finalists. Other speakers at the event included the PS of the Ministry of Youth and ICT, Arne Forstenberg, Apollo Munanura, and Antonina Kayitesi. The main objective of the event was to bring all partners and participants together one last time to celebrate the week’s achievements.
17th November
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KIST Auditorium, Muhabura Block
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