Working hand-in-hand with EVPA at the regional level to bring its experience and expertise in direct engagement with impact businesses.
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Our collaborative work building new markets in the Eastern Partnership countries and the MENA region currently spans over twelve countries. It’s a pioneering effort, made possible through EU funding, aimed at setting up first impact funds and building an expansive impact ecosystem where our community thrives.
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Coming in 2025
> In a search to create synergies, we will come together in Morocco in April with partners from all project countries. Hosted by our partners Happy Smala, we will discuss the future of both projects, how to support one another moving forward and will take the opportunity to invite stakeholders from all over the region to join in for a public event.
> We are entering the last phase of the Collaborate For Impact-project this year. A closing event in Brussels in June will recapitulate a lot what this project has realized, what the future holds, and how to do market building in general. A concrete date will follow soon. Connected to this event, we will also launch an impact report about the entire project.
> Our impact film Underseen can go public in 2025! We are looking to get the film accepted into film festivals and other public screenings soon. Interested? Let us know!
> Expansion! If all goes well, we are hoping to present a new project soon, that will target the Balkans. More specifically, we are looking to add an EU-funded project to our activities that will be active in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia. Working title: Impact Matters.
Key highlights
It has been an interesting journey, and we take pride in some of our main achievements:
VIA Fund:
the first impact fund in Armenia
Social Venture Fund in Ukraine
Actio:
the first impact fund in Georgia
Impact in the Neighbourhood: creating synergies
Our market building projects
Collaborate For Impact
With funding from the EU, we started our five-year-project in Eastern Europe back in 2020. Since then, we have made big strides in raising awareness, promoting social innovation and engaging in dialogues with various policy and decision-making stakeholders in Armenia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
Impact Together
Our most recent project started in 2023 in the MENA-region, aiming to develop the social economy and to champion impact investing in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan. It’s a true collaborative effort in driving impact further and wider.
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Our Partners
To implement our market building efforts on the ground, in addition to the EU, we have partnered with a growing list of invaluable partners.
In the Impact Togther! project in the MENA region, they are:
Hivos Foundation
Regional
Impact Partner
Tunisia
Building impact investor communities to mobilise local and diaspora resources; creating a sustainable flow of financing for impact businesses.
WebsiteBuildPalestine
Palestine
Mobilising local resources and decreasing reliance on aid and external funding; sharing solutions that work in a politically and economically challenging environment.
WebsiteHappy Smala
Morocco
Developing a financing vehicle and offering financing to social enterprises; mobilising local donors and potential impact investors.
WebsiteAlfanar
Lebanon & Jordan
Strengthening activities in Lebanon, investing in promising impact businesses; establishing a local presence in Jordan, with first investments in Jordanian social enterprises.
WebsiteEnroot
Egypt
Focusing on investor networks and impact investment awareness, social entrepreneurship support and capacity building.
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In the Collaborate for Impact project in Eastern Europe, they are:
SILab Ukraine
Ukraine
SILab Ukraine aims to build the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Ukraine. The organization works to develop entrepreneurship, investments and partnerships in Ukraine that will solve social problems through business methods. SILab achieves this by supporting social enterprises, advocating a supportive environment for social enterprises, fostering social investment practices and promoting social entrepreneurship as an innovative social change movement.
WebsiteEcovisio
Moldova
Grassroots non-profit organization from Moldova, founded in 1999. Creating a vibrant community of changemakers by connecting more and more people who want to work on a prosperous future for the region.
WebsiteCenter for Strategic Research and Development
Georgia
The Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) was established in 1995 with a mission to promote good governance, stable and inclusive economic development, and the formation of an active civil society for the welfare of Georgian society. The Center works to develop Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility and civil society organisations in Georgia. In the area of social entrepreneurship, CSRDG provides financial and technical support to social enterprises, promote the involvement of business in achieving sustainable development objectives and the concept of social entrepreneurship, and create an enabling environment for social enterprises.
WebsiteEducation HUB
Azerbaijan
Education HUB is an innovative platform that brings together people who innovate in Azerbaijan society through socially responsible and sustainability initiatives. We have chosen an innovative approach based on education and social entrepreneurship as tools that have a direct impact. This includes a variety of areas where people can discover their abilities.
WebsiteImpact HUB Yerevan
Armenia
Impact HUB Yerevan in Armenia was established in 2016 and is a part of a global movement of 100+ Impact Hubs around the world. Since its establishment Impact Hub Yerevan has designed and implemented 20+ programmes, hosted over 400 educational workshops and events, and now hosts over 220 members with over 100 projects/organisations representing every sector in Armenia. It provides its entrepreneurs and innovators with networking opportunities, resources, educational programmes and events all within an inspiring space. Impact HUB is also a social innovation incubator and has multiyear experience in designing and leading incubation and acceleration programmes, where through education, networking opportunities and access to different resources they support social projects through the stages of ideas to implementation to impact.
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This project is funded by the European Union. The Member States of the European Union have decided to link together their know-how, resources and destinies. Together, they have built a zone of stability, democracy and sustainable development whilst maintaining cultural diversity, tolerance and individual freedoms. The European Union is committed to sharing its achievements and its values with countries and peoples beyond its borders.