Posted on 20 February 2008
A franchise is a “business strategy” designed to maximise market share and minimise risk for its participants. African Development Bank research states “franchising contributes to poverty reduction and wealth creation”. Therefore franchising is a good model for enterprise as its an established business strategy that allows the person buying into it - the franchisee - to have [...] Continue Reading...
Jeffrey Sachs—visionary economist, savior of Bolivia, Poland, and other struggling nations, adviser to the U.N. and movie stars—won’t settle for less than the global eradication of extreme poverty. And he hasn’t got a second to waste. by Nina Munk July 2007, Vanity Fair In the respected opinion of Jeffrey David Sachs—distinguished Quetelet Professor [...] [...more]
The Enterprise West Africa News Agency website has been established to assist people in West Africa become ‘Citizen Reporters’ and provide a news gathering platform for current and relevant news. The EWAN Agency aims to represent the stories and photographs received in a professional and unbiased way, and to accurately portray the West Africa region to [...] [...more]
Motorola has been working with the GSM Association on a trial project in Namibia which was announced at 3GSM Barcelona in February 2007. “A key challenge in much of Africa is connecting people in off-grid locations and this project seeks to highlight to operators that wind and solar power is a real and cost effective alternative. [...] [...more]
A Playground “roundabout” to power a borehole pump to provide clean water – the “PlayPump” benefits women and girls in particular who can spend hours each day fetching water. Surplus water sold to farmers for irrigation to provide funds for the Edu-POD to allow free schooling. In return the farmers provide grown crops to feed [...] [...more]
