PROGRAMMES
Programme number with the prefix A, are run in collaboration with Action10. Programmes numbers with the prefix H, are run by HR&S only.
ON-GOING
No
Name
Country
Partners
Start
Status
Ambition
Outcome, Impact & Lessons learned
A3
Community services through small scale businesses
Togo
S.E.VIE, M.YAWO, L&D
2011
On-going
Support villagers to start and run a business, while also providing access to school for their children.
Began 2011 with S.E.VIE. SEVIE preferred to move the programme to Tsevie in 2019. Restart 2019 with L&D.
A4
Table banking
Kenya
Amani Women Group
2011
Review
Facilitate for villagers to have access to loans for their businesses.
Supporting the structure already established with more funds, so that they can increase the size of the loans.
A6
Ghetto survey of Former Child Soldiers
Liberia
IDEFOCS
2013
On-going
Learn from ghetto dwellers about their ambitions and challenges.
Completed survey report and advice for framing programme A19.
A10
Support to local entrepreneurs
Nigeria
SpellAfrica.
2013
On-hold
Support small-scale business owners to scale, by coaching on basic business management.
A small survey among street vendors and small-business owners identified that coaching on accounting seemed to be useful. Shall be coordinated with other initiatives taken by Spell-Africa.
A19
Botanical Reintegration Village
Liberia
IDEFOCS
2014
On-going
Provide re-integration support to former child soldiers and women who went with fighting forces, based on the surveys mentioned in A6.
We have procured land in Little Basa, built a reintegration home, cleared farmland, planted crops and offered coaching to a ten Target partners.
A20
Back2School
Nigeria
SpellAfrica
2015
On-going
Provide education in English to people who only knows Pidgeon English.
Lectures in English have been provided to adult students in Lagos. This is a continuation of previous initiatives taken by SpellAfrica with the same ambition but different designs; A5 and A15.
A21
Raising awareness about early pregnancies
Togo
S.E.VIE
2016
On-hold
Community members; girls, boys, mothers, fathers, teachers and other stakeholders are provided with awareness raising about the consequences for a girl, if she becomes pregnant. Face-to-face meetings are arranged where the topic is openly discussed.
Successfully planned by SEVIE but an international fundraising campaign failed. To be continued through L&D.
A23
Small scale businesses in urban vulnerable settlements
Uganda
256 Creative Arts
2017
On-going
People with small-scale businesses in vulnerable settlements in Kampala, are supported with coaching and start-up loans, in case they want to scale-up their businesses.
We made a survey in the community and started giving out small loans and provide coaching.
A24
Enabling women teachers in natural science subjects
Burkina Faso
IDS
2018
On-hold
To provide young women who want to study to become teachers in natural science subjects with baby care support.
The programme was put on hold as we could not identify a structure for sustainable economy.
A25
Tailoring in urban vulnerable settlements
Kenya
Dolas Creation
2018
On-going
Dolas Creation has a tailoring production business in Kibera, a vulnerable settlement in Nairobi, and the ambition is to support scaling the business.
We have agreed to collaborate and are discussing the structure.
A26
Small-scale businesses in urban settlement
Togo
S.E.VIE
2018
On-going
The ambition is to copy A3, and to offer small business loans and coaching to business people in a semi urban settlement, Tsévié.
In 2019 we were approved financial support from Stockholm Rotary International, and the programme was launched i January 2020.
A27
Accreditation of Scientific laboratory
Burkina Faso
Senexel
2020
Start-up
The ambition is to accreditate chemical scientific laboratories in Burkina Faso and ensure business through selling chemical analyses.
Start-up negotiations.
H1
Research management workshops
Sub-Sahara African countries
Scientific Institutions
2015
On-going
Knowledge sharing, consulting
20 workshops have been held in 12 Sub-Saharan African countries.
H2
Laboratory management workshops
Sub-Sahara African countries
Scientific Institutions
2015
On-going
Knowledge sharing, consulting
Five workshops have held in thee Sub-Saharan African countries.
H3
Innovation management
SSA
Innovators
2015
On-going
Knowledge sharing, consulting
RISE Centres
H4
Social enterprising management
SSA
Social entrepreneurs
2015
On-going
Knowledge sharing, consulting
RISE Centres
H5
Land procured
Togo
SEVIE
2015
On-going
Social enterprise
Land procured in 2012. Initiated by SEVIE, to be taken over by L&D. EURO 7,000 invested.
H6
Land procured
Liberia
IDEFOCS
2015
On-going
Social enterprise
USD 2,000 invested in 2013 and land procure in 2014. Total USD 7,000 invested.
H7
Solar panels & mills in rural villages
Togo
S.E.VIE,
M. Yawo, L&D
2015
Re-opened
Euro 2,000 invested in SEVIE and two solar panels and two millse were procured. The mashins were used until broken down, no income saved. Re-start through L&D and M Yawo in 2020, seeking funds.
H8
Karité
Togo
Karité House
2015
On-going
Deliver to HR&S Shop
H9
West-African fabric & tailoring
Togo
Délali ADEDJE
2015
On-going
Deliver to HR&S Shop
H10
Laboratory management
Nigeria
PSAN, Noveleq
2016
On-going
Scientific researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa often lack access to functioning advanced scientific equipment.This programme aims at enabling researchers in Nigeria access. The initiative benefits from the HR&S practical strategy “Functioning Advanced Scientific Equipment (FAST)” and an office in Abuja managed by Noveleq.
The initiative is taken in collaboration with Noveleq registered in Nigeria. A pilot project started 1 January 2020 and addresses five Nigerian scientific institutions. The programme reaches out to TETFund in Nigeria and international scientific equipment manufacturers.
H13
Cards and paintings
Uganda
Ubuntu Art House
2017
On-going
For HR&S Shop
H14
Community Centre
Liberia
IDEFOCS
2018
On-going
Buchanan
A Centre was constructed. School for children trauma counseling for adults.
H15
RISE Centre Togo
Togo
L&D
2019
On-going
Lomé
Office hosted by L&D
H16
RISE centre Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
RISE Centra
2019
On-going
Ouagadougou
Office hosted by Nella Consult
H17
Trauma counseling
Liberia
RISE
2019
On-going
Crowd-funding on StartSomeGood was not successful
H18
COVID-19
All RISE centres
2020
On-going
Identify solutions addapted to lock-down, closed borders and other pandemic contexts.
H19
RISE Uganda
Uganda
RISE Uganda
2020
On-going
H20
RISE Nigeria
Nigeria
RISE Nigeria
2020
On-going
H21
RISE Kenya
Kenya
RISE Kenya
2020
On-going
H22
Motivation
All RISE Centres
2020
On-going
H23
Training social workers
All RISE Centres
2020
Idea
H24
Tuition fees loans
All RISE Centres
2020
Idea
Concluded or postponed
No
Name
Country
Partners
Start
Status
Ambition
Outcome, Impact & Lessons learned
A1
Basic education and children abuse prevention
Togo
S.E.VIE
2009
Concluded 2019
All children in the villages where we support cooperatives, have access to and manages primary education. Awareness raising around children’s rights.
Integrated in A3 and thereby made financially sustainable. The 200 children entering the programme were successfully taken through primary education.
A2
Community mill and school lunches
Togo
IARAD
2011
Concluded 2014
The profit from community mills pays for school lunches, while villagers do not have to walk far to mill their corn and cassava.
We did not reach impact, and the lesson learned was that “needs driven” in its most profound HR&S definition, has to be honoured.
A5
Language education over radio
Nigeria
SpellAfrica
2012
On-hold since 2014
Offer education in English to adults who knows Pidgeon English.
Integrated in A20.
A7
Access to sanitary pads in rural villages
Uganda
BanaPads
2013
Concluded 2017
Manufacturing of sanitary pads from banana steams, and support vendors to develop a small business through selling the pads in the villages.
The partnership and the programme went well but then our partner received a major aid grant from Sida in Sweden, and decided to focus on aid instead.
A8
Child care centre
Colombia
Kiwanis
2013
Concluded 2018
We aimed to build a child-care centre in a vulnerable settlement outside Kali, we also aimed to train single mothers in a professions.
We did try programmes in Colombia but we were not able to bring our message about sustainable economy across and decided to focus our efforts on only one continent, Africa. Our strategy was implemented to some extent and was well appreciated.
A9
Health cliniq
Togo
S.E.VIE
2013
Concluded 2016
Facilitating the set-up of a health care centre in a rural village through social enterprising, by providing start-up loan and coaching.
We benefitted from a health care centre building constructed by a charity organisation. The services went well, but income generation was not enough to cover the costs.
A11
Village libraries
Cameroon
LINK-UP
2013
Concuded 2018
The ambition was to ensure school books for pupils. The business model was a combined library and book store.
We looked into the possibility of shipping free books from Sweden to Cameroon, but the shipping cost was too high. The programme was concluded due to lack of a favourable business model.
A12
Water, sanitation, hygiene
Togo
S.E.VIE
2013
Post-poned
The ambition is to offer safe drinking water, toilets and hygiene facilities in rural Togo.
In the cooperative programme A3. village meetings we always ask our partners what they want to see next. After a few years of collaboration, they mentioned hygiene as their next priority. SEVIE made a calculation on the business model for providing water and it seemed sustainable, and we made an effort to raise start-up funds, but were not successful.
A13
Letter exchange
Cameroon
LINK-UP
2013
Conlcuded 2016
The ambition was to offer a letter exchange programme between children from different continents, as a complement to A11.
A letter exchange programme was run for two years, between Cameroon and Sweden as well as between Cameroon and USA.
A14
Rural banking
Togo
S.E.VIE
2013
On-hold since 2016
To save money from the profit generated through A3, and use this to set up a rural bank.
Funds were set aside as part of the profit while running A3. These funds were then shared with the person who had saved so that she had a capital to invest, but the aspect of paying back again was not reached.
A15
Language education application for cell phones
Nigeria
SpellAfrica
2013
On-hold since 2016.
Provide education in English to adults who speaks Pidgeon English.
Integrated in A20.
A16
Ebola prevention campaign
Liberia
IDEFOCS
2014
Closed
Share timely and state-of-the-art knowledge from HR&S to local partners that is further shared to the local community, and acted on, by our partners.
Ebola awareness raising campaign successfully implemented and concluded 2015.
A17
Construction of houses
Colombia
Kiwanis
2014
Conlcuded 2018
Kiwanis ran a very interesting programme where they coached women to build houses. The method was developed in a manner that the workers did not have to be physically strong. The ambition was to scale the programme locally while learning and copy the approach to other places in the world.
The collaboration effort was linked to A8 and A18, but we could not agree with Kiwanis on the financial sustainability aspect.
A18
Training in a profession.
Colombia
Kiwanis
2014
Conlcuded 2018
This ambition is linked to A8 targeting child-care. In A18 aimed to train single mothers of the children in a profession, while the children we taken care of. The profession was home-businesses as well as plastic recycling business.
Kiwanis ran profession training according to a regular programme benefitting from volunteer trainers. Our effort to scale the initiative was successful in the sense of sharing strategy, but we could not agree on the financial sustainability aspect.
A22
Empowerment of speech in vulnerable rural settlements
Togo
GOLD
2016
On-hold since 2018
It is obviously the people that live under certain conditions that knows what works locally. The ambition with this programme is to collect this information directly from the source.
GOLD initiated a network with rural Liberian farmers and took time to listen and compile to their stories .The effort to support scaling was challenged due to local conflict of interest
H4
Livelihood improvement
Kenya
LIP
2015
On-hold
EURO 1,000 invested in 2012
H5
Small-businesses
Cameroon
LINK-UP
2015
On-hold
EURO 1,000 invested in 2013
H11
Scientific research & Enterprising
Rwanda
INES
2016
On-hold
H12
RISE centre
Rwanda
STYLOS
2017
Planning
Kemera
H13
Driving school
Liberia and SSA
IDEFOCS
2020
Idea
Monrovia