The regional symposium on scaling social business in East Africa gives insight into and potential solutions for the financial and organisational challenges that many entrepreneurs in East Africa are facing today. The focus will be on agriculture, education, health and environment.
A social business differentiates from a ‘regular’ business by aiming for social impact as much as financial profit. Impact investing is growing in popularity while change makers dare to include economic return in their initiatives. But how do promising impact businesses make the step to a mature enterprise that still has social impact? And when does a social enterprise become an interesting incentive for investors? This first regional East Africa symposium gives insight into and potential solutions for the financial and organizational challenges that many entrepreneurs in East Africa are facing today.
The event serves as a platform to share best practices as well as common bottlenecks and challenges. A lineup of thought-provoking and interactive sessions including debates, panel discussions and workshops will create an important forum at which entrepreneurs and investors can arrive at better ways of cooperation and foster greater understanding to achieve common goals and objectives.
Special attention will be given to examining the struggles of social enterprises to attract timely and sufficient funding, and to the challenges faced by investors to identify suitable investment opportunities for short and long term portfolios. Through interactive dialogue between relevant East African stakeholders, we aim to generate new ideas to identify and overcome existing hurdles.
The event is hosted by ICS, a Dutch non-profit organisation, and Ka Tutandike Uganda, a child-focused community based organisation, in partnership with Ashoka East Africa, INSEAD, Kulika Uganda, Royal African Society & British Council Uganda.
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