Phoenix Africa Development Partners
In order to overcome the significant challenges of operating in post-conflict environments, Phoenix Africa has signed some leading
NGOs as development partners. We will work together to achieve our mutual goals of development and stability across Africa.
Femmes Africa Solidarité
Every African woman can play a vital part in preventing conflicts and
building peace; this is the vision of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS). As an
NGO working to empower women in Africa to assume a leadership role in
conflict resolution and reconstruction, FAS operates a wide range of
programmes, focussed especially on post-conflict countries around the
continent. These serve to foster and support women’s initiatives in
conflict resolution and human rights, and to build leadership and
advocacy capacity for pursuing durable peace and human security in
Africa.
Phoenix Africa and FAS will cooperate on these shared goals of
peacebuilding and investing in stability in post-conflict Africa. We will
work with FAS to ensure that our businesses deliver the necessary
development impact in our areas of operation, and that they therefore
contribute to the promotion of stable and peaceful countries.
Most particularly, Phoenix Africa will work with FAS on its Women-Led
Business Programme. This training and mentoring initiative has been
developed by FAS in collaboration with Instituto de Empresa in Spain, and
provides intensive support for selected female entrepreneurs in Africa,
with the goal of assisting the transformation in scale of their businesses.
Operating in Liberia, DR Congo, Rwanda, Mozambique, Senegal and
South Africa, the businesswomen in the programme are equipped with
skills and connected to a network of business and finance contacts. Mark
Steeves of Phoenix Africa serves as a mentor.
The continuing success of Femmes Africa Solidarité has been recognised
by numerous awards and citations, and in April 2011 the founding
Director, Bineta Diop, was recognised by Time magazine in its Time 100
list of the most influential people in the world. FAS is a member of the
African Union ECOSOCC, the NEPAD Gender Task Force, the AU Gender
Directorate and the UNDP Steering Committee of the Network on
Gender, Peacebuilding and Governance, along with other multilateral
groups.
For further information about Femmes Africa Solidarité, please visit
www.fasngo.org.
KickStart International
Founded in 1991, KickStart pursues the goal of lifting millions out
of poverty by promoting small enterprise development in a
number of countries in Africa, currently Kenya, Tanzania, Mali and
Burkina Faso. The approach is founded on the simple but powerful
assertion that the number one need of the poor is a way to make
money. Developing and promoting appropriate technologies for
African entrepreneurs by focusing on the identification of needs
and the creation of a supply chain, KickStart designs and
distributes manually-operated irrigation pumps, which allow
smallholder farmers to significantly improve yields and
profitability.
In 1998, KickStart began developing their innovative line of
MoneyMaker pumps, enabling farmers to easily pull water from a
river, pond or shallow well (as deep as 25 feet), pressurize it
through a hosepipe (even up a hill) and irrigate up to two acres of
land. The pumps are easy to transport and install and retail
between $35 and $95. With irrigation, farmers can grow crops
year-round. By January 2012, over 190,000 pumps had been sold,
leading to an estimated 615,000 people lifted out of poverty.
Phoenix Africa will work with KickStart to introduce their pumps &
distribution methodology into our Lion Mountains outgrower
programme in Sierra Leone and then elsewhere in due course.
In November 2011, KickStart founders Nick Moon and Martin
Fisher were chosen for the Forbes Impact 30, the annual list of top
social entrepreneurs in the world. This was rapidly followed by
being named one of the Top 100 Best NGOs in the World by Global
Journal in January 2012. KickStart was cited for “changing the way
the world fights poverty by bringing together the transformative
power of technology, the entrepreneurial spirit of the
impoverished , and the sustainability of the marketplace and
private sector”.
For further information about KickStart International, please see
www.kickstart.org.
KickStart International
Founded in 1991, KickStart pursues the goal of lifting millions out
of poverty by promoting small enterprise development in a
number of countries in Africa, currently Kenya, Tanzania, Mali and
Burkina Faso. The approach is founded on the simple but powerful
assertion that the number one need of the poor is a way to make
money. Developing and promoting appropriate technologies for
African entrepreneurs by focusing on the identification of needs
and the creation of a supply chain, KickStart designs and
distributes manually-operated irrigation pumps, which allow
smallholder farmers to significantly improve yields and
profitability.
In 1998, KickStart began developing their innovative line of
MoneyMaker pumps, enabling farmers to easily pull water from a
river, pond or shallow well (as deep as 25 feet), pressurize it
through a hosepipe (even up a hill) and irrigate up to two acres of
land. The pumps are easy to transport and install and retail
between $35 and $95. With irrigation, farmers can grow crops
year-round. By January 2012, over 190,000 pumps had been sold,
leading to an estimated 615,000 people lifted out of poverty.
Phoenix Africa will work with KickStart to introduce their pumps &
distribution methodology into our Lion Mountains outgrower
programme in Sierra Leone and then elsewhere in due course.
In November 2011, KickStart founders Nick Moon and Martin
Fisher were chosen for the Forbes Impact 30, the annual list of top
social entrepreneurs in the world. This was rapidly followed by
being named one of the Top 100 Best NGOs in the World by Global
Journal in January 2012. KickStart was cited for “changing the way
the world fights poverty by bringing together the transformative
power of technology, the entrepreneurial spirit of the
impoverished , and the sustainability of the marketplace and
private sector”.
For further information about KickStart International, please see
www.kickstart.org.