Our Projects

As part of the Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA) Program, we adjust the PI Training curriculum and train 200 cross-border traders in Guinea-Bissau.

As part of the Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA) Program, we adjust the PI Training curriculum and train 200 cross-border traders in The Gambia.

As part of the Pathways to Sustainable Livelihoods Project in Lesotho, the PI Training is adapted and delivered to 5,000 beneficiaries over two years, promoting sustainable economic development and improving community wellbeing.

Together with FAO and MIT Bootcamps, we developed a Personal Initiative Agripreneurship (PI-Ag) Training that combines the value chain approach with entrepreneurship best practices and PI Training.

PI Training will be tested for adolescent girls and young women who are part of the economic empowerment component of the SWEDD (Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend) project.

Together with IMG Partners, we developed a contextualized and shortened version of the PI Training for the Philippines. We trained trainers to deliver this short version in politically unstable regions of Mindanao.

Together with The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab (SAR GIL) and the local implementation partner Hand In Hand India we are investigating the effectiveness of a PI Training for 1,000 small-scale entrepreneurs.

Together with our partner ESP, we qualified local trainers to train 2,500 small-scale entrepreneurs in rural Rwanda with the PI Training.

In an IFC funded project we develop 3 training sessions for mainly female retailers who are registered with the B2B retail platform MaxAB.

Personal Initiative (PI) Training for 2,500 MSMEs as part of the Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Scaling (FInES) Project.

In a WFP funded project we adjusted the Personal Initiative (PI) Training curriculum for small-scale farmers and trained local trainers in the provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado.

In this project, STEP Sustainability (an entrepreneurship training variant focusing on social/sustainable entrepreneurship) was developed, implemented, and evaluated in a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT).

STEP Training for 1,825 young women in five regions of South Africa in cooperation with the NGO Community Media Trust (CMT).

The PI Training is tested in a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) against an Effectuation Training that was newly developed for the project.

The project aims to measure the impact of a PI Training targeted to a sample of 1,671 small-scale cross-border traders. It will also measure the impact of the PI Training together with a commplementary mentoring intervention.

We trained local trainers from two Zambian NGOs with the necessary skills and knowledge to conduct the Personal Initiative Training for entrepreneurs throughout the country.

In a pilot project together with IMG Partners (Japan), we trained four trainers from different regions in Tajikistan to deliver a shortened version of the PI Training to female small-scale business owners.

Creation of education videos for the subject "effectuation and causation".

The project was carried out in cooperation with Godfrey Okoye University in Enegu and the ICMPD. New trainers were trained in a train-the-trainer workshop and will also facilitate the STEP Training at the Centre of Practical Skills in the Enegu region.

A STEP Training curriculum was developed and tested to capacitate student teachers to train students in entrepreneurship at secondary schools.

The project aimed at implementing the STEP Training and at establishing a network of universities to jointly foster entrepreneurship education in Lebanon.

Together with The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), the impact of the PI Training in addition to an agricultural extension program was measured with a sample of 2,000 poor female farmers across 100 communities in Tete province.

The object of the project was the sustainable implementation of the STEP Training at two rural universities in South Africa to contribute to the improvement of the quality of education as well as to the reduction of youth unemployment in South Africa.

The objective of the project was to develop a new version of the PI Training curriculum for female factory workers at Bole Lemi Industrial Park in Addis Ababa.