Emerging Social Enterprise Ecosystems is East and South African Countries : A Diagnosis of Supporting Environments and Activity of Social Enterprises in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
Across Sub-Saharan Africa millions of people remain excluded from critical, life-enhancing services, such as access to water, energy, sanitation, education, and health care. As a result, approximately 600 million Africans lack access to electricity...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/418391494927850302/A-diagnosis-of-supporting-environments-and-activity-of-social-enterprises-in-Kenya-Malawi-Rwanda-South-Africa-Tanzania-Uganda-and-Zambia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26672 |
| Summary: | Across Sub-Saharan Africa millions of
people remain excluded from critical, life-enhancing
services, such as access to water, energy, sanitation,
education, and health care. As a result, approximately 600
million Africans lack access to electricity, while life
expectancy and literacy are at their lowest rates globally.
Moreover, inequality of access to these basic services
remains a challenge, especially for marginalized groups,
such as women and the rural and urban poor. In this context,
Social Enterprises (SEs) have emerged as a new type of
development actor with the potential to help solve the
service delivery gap. SEs are privately owned
organizations,,either for-profit, non-profit, or a hybrid of
the two, that use business methods to advance their social
objectives. The first part of the report presents an
overview of the current landscape for SEs in Kenya, Malawi,
Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The
second part introduces the SE ecosystem and provides a
diagnosis of current ecosystems across the seven countries.
The report highlights cross-country findings based on
research at three levels: the country level, service sector
level, and specific service level (Figure 2). Seventeen
studies focus on health, water and sanitation, education,
and energy sectors at the country level, and five studies
focus on specific services, such as maternity care and HIV
prevention at the country level. The report targets
development practitioners involved in policy design and
implementation who are interested in new ways to address
service delivery challenges. These specific examples of
challenges and opportunities for SEs in Africa can highlight
ways to increase the sustainability and scale of current and
future SE business models. |
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