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Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) - Marigat Gold The grant will be used to support increased production and distribution of Marigat Gold honey. The project will emphasize target two types of consumers, (1) the health conscious individual who buys honey from the supermarket and (2) the low-income earner who earns a daily wage and therefore can afford the 10g sachet, which sells for 20 cents in their local kiosk. Additionally this will leader Marigat Gold to begin sourcing from an additional 50 small-holder honey farmers.
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) - Kilimo Biashara Illuminum Greenhouses will set up 3 value addition centers in Kiambu to complement the existing farmer network we have created during the training sessions. This will allow farmers grow any horticultural crop and herbs which they can harvest and deliver at their nearest value addition centre. This will allow us improve on the value chain from the greenhouses existing and even farmers growing using rain. It will be an all-inclusive center
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Africa Fund and Coalition Sector : Creative Businesses. This funding will go towards assisting SMEs in Africa who are in the creative industry produce Personal Protective Equipment.
Stanbic - Carbonized Coconut Charcoal Briquette Grant funding will be used to purchase modern processing equipment and train staff on technical skills related to producing briquettes from coconut shells.
Citi - Green Paper Packaging Bag Project Location: Bungoma County.Manufacturing: Through this funding the entrepreneur will purchase an automatic paper maker, pulp dryer and banana stack. Rose Machuma Sikulu aims to use banana leaves to produce environmental and sustainable paper.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Renaissance Manufacture Africa Project Name: Renaissance Manufacture Africa Location: Western, Kenya Summary: Renaissance Manufacture Africa plans to process locally available raw cassava into cassava flour by March 2020, livestock feed and cassava starch by the end of 2020. They also plan to use mobile processing facilities to mitigate the infrastructural and production issues local farmers face.
Uyoma Food Security Cage Fishing 1. Uyoma Food Security Self Help Group Siaya County, Rarieda Sub-County, Agok Village Type of Project: Income Generating Activity (IGA) - Fish Farming Cages Project Description: Empower young female fishers through cage fish farming. Grant Requested: $10,000 to buy cage fish farming equipment, motorized boat engine, Fishing tanks, wire mesh, barbed wire, water proof cement, fish pellets, fish processing tables, ropes, floaters, and fish packaging materials Community/Group Contribution: Land, locally available materials, all the transport related to the project, labor, and security Project Manager: Churchill Otieno Koobetto Beneficiary: 52 members and their families and 269 school children - 133 male 188 female.
VEP Sustainable Green Energy Solutions Project Sector: Solar.Beneficiaries:.Summary: Vep Enterprise Ltd provides micro loans for renewable energy. Through the support of USADF and a debt investment from Nithio, Vep Enterprise will expand their current loan portfolio.
Natogo Off-Grid Fish Market Expansion Project Sector : Agriculture..Beneficiaries: Males 87 and 212 Female.Summary: This project will entail the use of off-grid energy for fish processing and production. This will involve building a fish shop and processing room as well as an ice producing room.
Nareng'ewoi BMU Livelihoods Capacity Building Sector: Fishing. , Town/City: Nareng'ewoi Village, Turkana County, Summary: The project funds will be used to provide the BMU with support for administrative costs, capacity building and purchasing fishing equipment and gear. Funding will be used to conduct a market study, develop a business plan, training the group on value addition to their products, marketing, GOK fishing regulations and sustainable fishing requirements.
Stanbic - Modern Maternity in a Resource Poor Community Location: Mombasa.Summary: The grant will allow the grantee to provide a space with modern equipment for prenatal and postnatal care for women in Mombasa.
African Resilience Initiative for Entrepreneurs (ARIE) - Mhogo Foods Cassava Milling Mhogo Foods is a cassava flour processing company, adding value to cassava tubers by processing them into affordable and nutritious cassava flour for low-income earners in Kenya. Mhogo Foods works with 4000 cassava farmers who grow the drought- and disease-resistant crops. This project will improve their livelihoods and Mhogo Foods' competitiveness by investing in marketing activities and digitizing the company's operations.
USTADI Economic Empowerment Imarisha VijaBiz is a project that will benefit 55 youth groups in building their capacity in the areas of product development, distribution, packaging and marketing using on-line platform. The businesses will be financed by the end of the project to strengthen their capacity to become resilient during the COVID 19 season.
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) - Adili Solar Hubs Setting up of ice making room and cold room that will produce ice flakes and coolers for the fishing folks.
Investing in Resilience from the Ground Up: Assessing the Impact of Grassroots Develo CS Consulting will expand on its activities to assist USADF with strategic engagement of external stakeholders.
Dairy Feed Production Project Expansion of animal feed production to upscale a dairy farming project by purchase fodder chopper, chuff cutter, maize sheller and a deep freezer
Citi - Home Decor and Handbag Project Artisan - male 20: Female 184; Crafts with meaning Ltd intends to use the funding to expand their business by reaching out to more artisans, expand production area, open a new outlet and equip it with laptop, scanning machine and PDQ machine and purchase more sawing machines.
Citi-Manufacturing of Lightweight Cement Blocks The funds will go towards purchase of equipment, raw materials, training of the street families and administrative costs.
Naoyatiira Irrigation Expansion KARMA is a registered CBO, of which the Naoyatiira Self-Help group is a member. Grant funds will be used to place thirty acres of the Naoyatiira farm under center-pivot irrigation, allowing farmers to grow a combination of subsistence and cash crops.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Phina Ventures Limited This project aims to solve the problem of unemployment, food insecurity and malnutrition in Kilifi County by producing nutritious affordable flour that meets different nutritional requirements, promoting food security by creating nutritional awareness and promoting economic and social development through training of family and women group representatives.
Acadmey for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Food Link The project will provide consumers access to safe and nutritious food as well as providing marketing solution to farmers. The funding will go towards the purchase of value addition machine such as a fruit drier, capital for purchasing raw material, and farmer capacity building.
Yelele Solar Mini-Grid Project Sector: Solar.Summary: Yelele is installing a solar mini-grid to sell electricity to households and businesses in Kalobeyei settlement and host community in northern Kenya. Households and businesses will pay for electricity via smart meters.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Nutritious Agriculture Network The goal of this project is to promote the use of indigenous cereals and pulses, increase farmer incomes, and decrease malnutrition among rural and urban populations through the production of a range of healthy popped-cereal snacks in Nairobi, Kenya. The funding will go towards putting up sound proof production room, purchase of the needed equipment such as revolving coating pan, flour milling and packaging machine, capacity building and administrative costs.
Egg Hatchery Incubator Project The grant seeks to increase women's ability to earn higher incomes by engaging in poultry farming.
Stanbic - Adili Cold Hubs The funds will go towards expansion of the current hub, increase cold room space and add an ice making machine.
YALI Oten Gretta Adult Learning Sector: Education.Beneficiaries: YALI Youth 215 of 250 beneficiaries are women. (200 additional students will be enrolled and current ratio of students stands at 86% female) ..The grant will be used to assist young adults who would like to complete their secondary education. The center works with trained teachers from schools nearby to provide quality education. Classes are flexible with times in the morning, evening, or late evening. They also can study and sit for exams at the centers to earn high school diploma. The goal of the project is to scale the center, improve education quality building a more sustainable business model. The grant funds will be used to: (a) purchase classroom furniture for an increased student capacity; (b) advertising campaign to increase awareness and increase enrollment; (c) educational equipment; and (d) website development.
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) - Six Degrees Poultry Having secured ample space, Six Degrees has mobilized $3,000.00 from savings towards a poultry venture in Muranga County and currently on the second lot of 1000 broiler chicken having attained an 18.33% ROI on the first harvest. Their primary goal with this project is to document while building capacity to control diseases, improved feed efficiency, handling of waste, and proper sanitizing of the poultry house for consistent growth and scale up. The farm will serve as a practical demonstration site for target beneficiaries in the surrounding counties while providing the much needed working capital to finance Six Degrees regular operations. As a business, they seek to leverage on growing partnerships with small holder farmers in other counties to extend training and investments onto other nutrient dense value chains and to profit from value addition and market linkages with demand side actors.
Citi - Mucho Mangoes Banana Flour Sector: Mangoes and Bananas.Beneficiaries: 500 women.Location: Taveta, Kenya.The funding will be used toward purchase of processing equipment, procurement of personnel and marketing of the processed products.
Lokamarinyang Self Help Group Lokamarinyang Self Help group is composed of widows in the remote Northeastern corner of Turkana County, whose spouses have died in cattle raids. Grant funding will cover a feasibility study to assess the best options for irrigation infrastructure on their farm.
Shalem Accelerating Growth and Income of Smallholder Grain Farmers This is the Partner cooperative agreement in Kenya. Funds are used to support staff salaries and benefits, program monitoring expenses, office and vehicle expenses, an annual audit, training, and other small administrative expenses. Funds disbursed to provide liquidity in light of unanticipated shocks impacting project activities and grantee enterprises due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds to assist with project needs in light of fund shortage due to COVID-19.
Cherehani Africa Small Grant This is a small grant that will allow a final DR for the Yali entrepreneur.
Citi - Upholding Dignity Initiative Location: Limuru, Kenya.Project: Beth Wangithi aims to produce reusable sanitary pads from locally available cloth/materials. The project aims to target primary and secondary school girls and women within the community in Limuru, Kenya.
Coalition for Farmer Allied Intermediaries (CFAI)-Delish & Nutri Ltd This funding will towards payment of staff salaries, facilitation of staff transport, Development of digital marketing materials and rolling out the initial digital marketing activities and purchasing of peanuts from farmers.
Stanbic - Micromill Distribution Venture Solar Integrated Appliances is proposing to replace the traditional mill that is costly, environmentally unfriendly and few from the market, with readily available, healthy and affordable mills to residents of Uasin Gishu County as the business scales from a local enterprise to the regional markets.
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) - Mconnect Harvest Mconnect Harvest is an on-line system that will enable small scale farmers to market their produce online.
Stanbic - Commercialization of Chicken Farming The grant will go towards purchase of chicken feeds, purchase of an egg setter, generator and purchase of 700 chicken mother stock.
Coalition for Farmer Allied Intermediaries (CFAI) Tropical Lush This is the Partner cooperative agreement in Kenya. Funds are used to support staff salaries and benefits, program monitoring expenses, office and vehicle expenses, an annual audit, training, and other small administrative expenses. Funds disbursed to provide liquidity in light of unanticipated shocks impacting project activities and grantee enterprises due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds to assist with project needs in light of fund shortage due to COVID-19.
Citi-Mushroom and Processing The grant will go towards purchase of solar driers and grinders and raw materials, training, administrative costs and product development.
LOPEO Micro-credit Expansion Sector: Micro-credit.Beneficiaries: Women borrowers.The project funds will be used to expand LOPEO's loan fund and lending infrastructure; including an expanded office and training space; and add training in using LOPEO's loan software; Loan Performer. Further; the funds will put in place a system to provide for personal finance training to LOPEO's members.
Deevabits Solar Home System Project Deevabits will sell 1600 solar home systems through Village Social Entrepreneurs in Machakos and Makueni Counties using a last-mile distribution approach.
Strengthening Livestock Marketing in Lodwar and Lokichar Strengthening Livestock Marketing in Lodwar and Lokichar
Herbalife FANS- Kwale Community Cashew Hub Through this funding, cashew farmers will get skills on good crop husbandry and rehabilitation of old trees as well as how to take care of them; and increase their yields from the new drought-resistant variety of cashew trees. Akaya Consulting Limited will add value to cashew nuts, and the project will impact 2400 farmers.
Stanbic - Farmers Outreach Project They will purchase a truck, establish two satellite centers, training and marketing; and automation of their sowing.
LEDCA Animal Feeds Production Sector:Agriculture, Beneficiaries:20 primary dairy cooperatives. Membership in these cooperatives includes 2,504 small scale dairy farmers., Town/City: Machakos Town, Summary: The project funds will be used to enable the cooperative to purchase raw materials for dairy meal production, procure a feed mill and meet administrative and operational costs.
YALI - Ngetich - Illuminum Greenhouses Smallholder farmers in Kenyarely on rainwater togrow their crops. That is why Taita is utilizing greenhouses and drip irrigation to help these farmers expand their yield. Taitia is constructing greenhouses and providing trainings on modern farming methodologies for local farmers to help them maximize water usage and increase their production.
Okapi Green Off-Grid Energy Project Sector: Solar.Summary: Okapi Energy aims to increase access to quality, affordable, and reliable electricity in the community of Kakuma, a refugee settlement in northern Kenya, through the installation of a solar mini-grid to supply electricity for small businesses, community centers, and individual households. Okapi Energy will sell electricity to end users using a pay-as you-go financing system, to enable the users to only pay for power they have consumed. In addition, Okapi Green intends to install a Wi-Fi mesh network to help boost productivity of the businesses being reached.
Nasanyanait Irrigation Expansion Project Sector: Agriculture (kale, spinach, tomatoes, capsicum, brinjal) Beneficiaries: Small-scale farmers with 93 members (10 males and 83 females) Summary: The purpose of this grant is to expand Nasanyanait's operations as a sustainable farming cooperative and ensure food security for its members, following the success of a previous capacity building grant. Activities will include clearing and reclaiming bushy land, drilling a borehole to ensure a steady source of water, and installing a new drip irrigation system.
Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) - Start-up Business Training The funding will go towards training of small start-ups on financial literacy, payment of facilitators and for administration.
CS Consulting- Strategic Framework and Donor Outreach for CPC offices This technical agreement will allow CS Consulting to develop a strategy for selecting suitable partners and amenable stakeholders for external investors and/or development partners based on alignment of capacities, objectives, and competencies. Facilitating the identification and management of such stakeholders will enable the USADF in country staff to better spend their limited time for external engagement
Nakwalele Slaughter House Capacity Building Project Sector: Food Processing (Meat Products), Beneficiaries: 46 Small Scale Livestock Farmers, NADO offers slaughter house facilities and services to members and non-members at a fee. NADO provides members with butchery space at a fee for the processing and sale of various meat products. The group has applied for funding from USADF to assist in modernizing both the slaughter house and the butchery structure. They will also go through considerable management, food processing, and financial systems training in line with their business.
Stanbic - Kitengela Farm Setup The enterprise seeks to improve the livelihoods of small-holder farmers by increasing their production and increasing volumes of herbs exported. Consequently they will become commercially viable and enable their staff get timely and dependable incomes and improved livelihoods.
Stanbic - SaharaDesk Location: Nairobi.Summary: The funds will be used to introduce a new product line, SaharaDesk, to help fuel station owners report issues at pumps, tanks, and other assets at the station.
Stanbic - A Healthy Start For All Children Plumbee proposes to improve its quality control and increase its production capacity of fortified flour by procuring and installing an end-to-end flour processing equipment.
Solar Freeze Off-Grid Refrigeration Project Sector: Solar.Summary: Solar Freeze sells solar-powered refrigeration units. Solar Freeze intends to develop an innovative Pay-As-You-Store model, and also train young women and youth in the repair, maintenance and operation of the solar units.
TADO Sustainable Food Security for Napopong'oit Households Sector: Agriculture (kale, spinach, tomatoes, capsicum, brinjal) Beneficiaries: Small-scale farmers Summary: The purpose of this grant is to expand TADO's operations as a sustainable farming cooperative and ensure food security for its members, following the success of a previous capacity building grant. Activities will include drilling a borehole to ensure a steady source of water, building an office, and installing a new drip irrigation system.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Nyungu Afrika The goal of the Project is to improve the quality of life of low-income women and girls through production and distribution of low-cost and eco-friendly menstrual hygiene sanitary pads. The funding will go towards putting up the required infrastructure and machinery, purchase of raw material, staffing and other administrative work.
Nariemet Off-Grid Expansion Proiect Sector:Agriculture. Fishing. Beneficiaries: 190 members, of which 115 are female and 75 male . The project funds will be used to provide the BMU with support for constructing a banda, installation of solar for powering the office and the cooling equipment,administrative costs, capital both for dried fish business and revolving fund. This will lead to financial sustainability and members living standards improved.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - - Prohustle The proposed project will offer a mobile technology platform that offers simple, free, end-to-end solution for record keeping, payment, financing, insurance, information, networking, marketing, credit, training and social security in Africa. In addition to these, ProHustle will also partner with other service providers to offer insurance and financial services.
Stanbic - Mango Drying Into Flakes Location: Kitui County, Kenya.Summary: The grant will enable SunSweet to purchase solar dryers to increase production of dried mangoes. The funds will also be used to automate the processing and packaging of dried fruits.
NCDA Financial Credit Facility Capacity Building This is the Partner cooperative agreement in Kenya. Funds are used to support staff salaries and benefits, program monitoring expenses, office and vehicle expenses, an annual audit, training, and other small administrative expenses. Funds disbursed to provide liquidity in light of unanticipated shocks impacting project activities and grantee enterprises due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds to assist with project needs in light of fund shortage due to COVID-19.
CITI-Solar Drying Technology for Fruits and Vegetables The fund will go towards purchase of solar driers, setting up of the office, working capital. training of farmers and website development.
Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) - Solar Cooking Stoves for Rural Marginalized Schools in Kenya Energy Sector: The grantee will purchase an equipment to increase production of solar stove and will expand manufacturing facility.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - - Abaki Shule: Affordable Education Financing The organization seeks to reduce the number of secondary school students from economically disadvantaged homes who miss out of school due to lack of finances
Sub-Saharan African Small and Medium Enterprise Growth in a Post-Covid-19 Economy Performance-highlight CAG focused on USADF's development model's impact on SMEs and fragility.
Stanbic - Menstrual Health For All Women and Girls in Kenya The grant will enable Dial A Pad to increase production of sanitary pads. Their aim is to increase their sanitary pad dispensers from 10 to 100 dispensers.
Partner Agreement Sector: Monitoring and Evaluation (Partner Cooperative Agreement).CEZAM serves as the Kenya country partner, working in Turkana County, Machakos County, and Kajiado County. This cooperative agreement will enable CEZAM to guide USADF Kenya grantees through the project design and grant implementation process.
YALI - Nyamai - XP Water Tank Over 70% of people living in Kenyas arid areas rely on rain for safe drinking water. Unfortunately, conventional plastic or concrete tanks of sufficient capacity for families or small communities are beyond the price point of most of the lower income portions of society. Peter is increasing access to rainwater by producing more cost efficient water tanks to communities that are rain dependent.
Ambalian Wind Electric Water Pumping Project In the rural pastoralist region of Bubisa; northern Kenya; Ambalianwill replace diesel-powered generators currently being used to power water pumping with a locally assembled wind turbine system. Ambalianwill then locally fabricate three local content components (blades; lattice structures andcontrollers) to be used for expansion of locally produced wind turbines in the region.
Echoing Green (EG) - Tambua Health Improve diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia and tuberculosis for people in Africa by developing an application that turns any smartphone into a powerful noninvasive diagnostic tool.
Improving MRGM Efficiency of support and services to Farmers Sector: Production, Processing and Marketing of Rice.Beneficiaries: Male 1473 and Female 1613.The grant will go towards the purchase of automated rice milling machine, renovation of the factory and training of farmers.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)-Blossom Health Essentials The goal of this Project is to expand production of gluten-free flour and improve the livelihoods of cassava farmers in Siaya county. The funding will go towards establishing Blossom Health Essentials as a fully fledged health food production company. This will done through establishment of an improved solar dryer facility and purchase of cassava from farmers.