Projects

Exciting projects, start-ups and enterprises that really make a difference and move Africa forward. We have screened the following projects and investment opportunities (details available for registered users).

AVCO Foods

Category: Agriculture & Transport
Volume: 40 - 45 Mio. Euro
Country: South Africa
Short description: The vision of the AVCO-founders Zin Mabaso and Markus Fröhlich is to trigger large-scale transformation through unlocking the potential of Africa’s Food value chains. In 2023, AVCO Foods launched the Project White Gold, a groundbreaking initiative that establishes a sustainable cassava industry in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Leveraging their 25+ years in agroprocessing and 7+ years of combined experience in cassava operations across Africa, Mabaso and Fröhlich’s aim to cultivate up to 10,000 hectares of land, substitute up to 20,000 annual tons of imported starch, build a Zero waste, autonomous green energy cassava processing factory and establish an agripreneurial training centre. Cassava, also known as manioc, stands out for its adaptability to climate change, high yield, and resilience to drought: It grows even on poor soils and produces twice as much starch per hectare as maize on average in Africa. As it is gluten- and GMO-free, it is of high interest to the fast-growing segment of environmentally friendly health products. Additionally, it does not create dependency on seed companies: farmers utilise stem material from the previous harvest to plant their next crop. The AVCO-Foods-Team welcomes individuals and businesses who are passionate about impactful projects and social transformation through localisation.

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Upswing Ethiopia (pilote project)

Category: Education
Volume: 150.000 €
Country: Ethiopia
Short description: Short description: In Ethiopia, as in most African countries, there is unemployment of around 20% despite poverty and an insufficient national product. Young people up to the age of 25 are particularly affected by this, although a quarter of young people are already well or even academically educated. However, there is often a lack of practical relevance, as it is known in Germany as dual vocational training or even dual studies. Project goal The aim is to get 100 young unemployed people in the city of DebreBerhan into a 6-month training course and practical work in companies and then into permanent employment Right at the beginning, companies from various sectors are addressed in the city's industrial park. This happened on March 23rd, 2023 with my personal participation in an extremely interactive workshop designed by me. It is a pilote project to realize the action on larger scale in 2024 – for upswing in Ethiopia. Behind the project We have found a professional and committed partner there in the NGO in Addis Ababa. This organization focuses on schools and their access to clean water, youth jobs, agriculture and productivity. Vision: Unleashing the potential of people for a fulfilling life. LEARN MORE: (German) https://weltrettung.vision/2023/04/06/start-berufliche-duale-bildung-mit-personlichkeits-starkung/

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Boreal Light

Category: Water
Volume:
Country: Allover Africa
Short description: Boreal Light GmbH designs and manufactures affordable solar water treatment systems for off-grid communities around the globe. Its patented solar water desalination system can deliver high quality hygiene water from any kind of polluted water source.

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MANA Mobility Ltd.

Category: Agriculture & Transport, Automotive, Energy (Greentec- Clima), Manufacturing
Volume: 4 Mio. €
Country: Ghana and Other
Short description: Emission-free and cost-efficient transportation for Africa: MANA Mobility is building an ecosystem consisting of electric vehicles and mobility services. A digital open e-mobility platform connects drivers, passengers and cargo customers in an easily accessible, inclusive, transparent, country-wide and multi-modal manner. The Ghanaian-built electric vehicles are affordable, safe, reliable, functional as well as locally designed, engineered and manufactured. Our purpose is to reduce carbon emissions, to create employment opportunities and to enable price stability. We put Ghana at the forefront of African e-mobility and sustainability. Ghana’s success becomes a blueprint for other African countries.

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Rural Farming

Category: Agriculture & Transport
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Country: Sierra-Leone
Short description: Rural Farming-Sierra Leone Ltd is registered with the Corporate Affiars; the Registrar Generals Office; the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; and the Pujehun District Local Council as an Agricultural Business Company with mandate to grow and sell agricultural products, support community development work and create jobs for women and youths in its operational areas. Background to Project Intervention Soro Gbema, the project chiefdom and Seima village where this project will be implemented are located in the Pujehun district, Southern province of Sierra Leone. With a population of 429,574 (Mid-term census 2021). 70% of this population are farmers who are very poor with an annual incomes below 1,000 Euro . Farmers are the targeted chiefdom are affected by a number of factors such as: a. High rates of post-harvest and processing loss; b. lack of machinery and training to process and package rice and cassava into forms demanded by the local market; c. weak/unavailability of financial opportunities to support processing and marketing efforts; and d. Weak/uncoordinated structure to link processed rice and cassava products to National and International markets. The above situations has kept farmers’ incomes small, thus preventing them from providing collateral to a financial institution so they can receive a loan, purchase materials and transition from subsistence farming to economically and commercially active farming. Rural Farming is seeking support to construct stores and equipped with processing machines, train farmers in machine operations, food processing, packaging and labeling, financial management, and link them with off takers of rice and cassava products in large scale. The goal of the intervention is to stimulate a viable upstream agribusiness sector in Seima and Soro Gbema chiefdom in order to promote economic diversification, food security, sustainable employment opportunities and improved livelihoods for farmers in the area and community in particular.

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Modular Housing BAKO House GmbH

Category: Housing
Volume: 50 Mio. €
Country: Dem. Rep. Congo
Short description: In 2023, BAKO Haus opted for a different technology for the construction of the houses and settlements: precast concrete technology makes our construction project more flexible, more reliable and ultimately faster. In September 2023, an engineer from Vollert GmbH traveled to Kinshasa with one of the three shareholders of BAKO Haus, Dr. Mandingo Ataholo, to conduct the feasibility study. During this stay, the branch of BAKO Haus GmbH, BAKO SARL (Société à Responsabilité Limitée), was founded and entered in the commercial register of Kinshasa. We already have our first local contacts. Dr. Ataholo also used his stay during the feasibility study to establish and consolidate contacts with important suppliers, such as the cement producer CILU, the subsidiary of Heidelberg Cement, as well as with central local authorities, such as the Ministry of Urban Planning of the D.R. Congo. Possible plots of land for the start of construction of the first BAKO settlement were also inspected. The feasibility study report will be available in the second quarter of 2024 and will be published in part on the new website www.bakohaus.com. In 2023, 2 partners joined BAKO Haus: Dr. Nina Baderschneider (Quality Management and Marketing) and Mr. Jochen Geiger, as Managing Director of M. Egner + Sohn GmbH, contributes with his experience in the construction industry.

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Blu-Box-My Waterstation

Category: Water
Volume:
Country: Allover Africa
Short description: Company Profile A mobile, solar-powered drinking water treatment unit “MyWaterstation” by BLU-BOX UG. BLU-BOX UG is a German development and production company based in Murnau am Staffelsee in Upper Bavaria. With over 10 years of experience in development, in and from practice, in the field of drinking water treatment, we have an extensive wealth of experience, and a pronounced visionary engineering. The BLU-BOX principle: Think holistically – act sustainably. The BLU-BOX UG sets itself high goals in the search for solutions for healthy drinking water, worldwide – sustainably Our Mission: Providing people with clean and contamination-free, healthy water in regions of the world where clean and healthy water is not available. "Access to healthy, clean drinking water is a fundamental need and a fundamental right of every human being!" There is a shortage of clean drinking water worldwide. Water is available in many places in the form of springs, rivers, lakes, cisterns, etc., but it is often contaminated and harmful to health.

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Africa GreenTec

Category: Energy (Greentec- Clima)
Volume: 6.000.000 €
Country: Mali, Niger, Madagaskar, Senegal, Gambia
Short description: Africa GreenTec is a German social enterprise which empowers people in the Global South to achieve more self-determination and growth through sustainable energy solutions Africa GreenTec is a German social enterprise which empowers people in the Global South to achieve more self-determination and growth through sustainable energy solutions. With our sustainable system solution we build ImpactSites, in which entire village communities in rural areas are equipped and empowered with electricity and modern technologies. We have rethought electricity and developed an intelligent system that can withstand the harsh conditions of off-grid regions in Africa and even exceed modern European standards. We rely on an extensive portfolio of products and service solutions such as state-of-the-art solar energy, smart meter technology, cooling systems, water treatment and internet access. Africa GreenTec's systems are operated through subsidiaries or sold to project partners. As a company in the field of social entrepreneurship, we build on the three pillars of sustainability - social, ecological and economic. This means that we are a for profit company, but the positive impact of our work is clearly in the spotlight.

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HSWT Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences

Category: Agriculture & Transport, Education
Volume: -
Country: Allover Africa
Short description: “Green. Innovative. Practical. Welcome to Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, the German university specialising in green engineering courses. At the heart of all our courses is the natural world and our place in it. From molecules to landscaping, from energy to health – in all our degree programmes we focus on the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources. Our 6,000 students live and study on the largest green campus in Germany, made up of the Weihenstephan and the Triesdorf campuses. Our outstanding learning facilities include show gardens, pilot plants, laboratories, and a biotechnology centre. We work actively to preserve natural resources and ensure long-term competitiveness. We foster our students to become responsible engineers, and equip them with a first-class education with which to face the national and international employment market.”

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EWIA Green Investment

Category: Energy (Greentec- Clima)
Volume: 3 Mio. €
Country: Ghana
Short description: EWIA Green Investment is a Munich based company with subsidiaries and participations in Africa. EWIA was initiated by Africa affine Entrepreneurs in 2019. EWIA enables small and medium-sized companies to generate their own green energy by Photovoltaic Systems. Aim is it to replace Diesel Gen Sets to reduce CO2 output and to provide safe and uninterrupted power supply. EWIA initiates, implements, prefinances and operates Solar systems in West Africa. The systems were constructed by local companies in accordance with the so called EWIA Standard (Made in Germany). EWIA is also active in the Infrastructure segment and established a Joint Venture to build Telecommunication Towers in combination with Photovoltaic Hybrid Systems together with an Accra based company (Tong New Energy) The EWIA strategy is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which were adopted by all United Nation States in 2015. EWIA offers impact investment opportunities (via separate SPVs) in photovoltaic projects or Portfolios.

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MfM (Menschen für Menschen)

Category: Education, Health, Water
Volume: -
Country: Ethiopia
Short description: Menschen für Menschen – who we are and how we work The Menschen für Menschen Foundation has been carrying out sustainable development cooperation in Ethiopia for 40 years. By providing aid for self-development in rural areas Menschen für Menschen contributes to improving people’s living conditions. Mission and Project Work The Foundation pursues the goal of making the people of Ethiopia independent of foreign support in the long term. Therefore, it focuses on holistic, integrated rural development projects. In currently twelve project regions, Menschen für Menschen plans and implements the measures on site together with the population and the approximately 600 permanent and exclusively Ethiopian employees. In doing so, the foundation focuses on five main areas: 1. Sustainable Land Management and Nutrition 2. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 3. Education 4. Health 5. Human Development and Income In total, the project areas cover more than 50,000 square kilometres. To date, Menschen für Menschen has already supported around six million Ethiopians to improve their living conditions through their own efforts.

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HOPE Cape Town Trust

Category: Education, Health
Volume: 5 Mio. €
Country: South Africa
Short description: HOPE Cape Town, founded in 2001 at a response to the HIV pandemic developed in the last 20 years into a development agency with headquarters in the Township of Delft near Cape Town (Western Cape). The organisation is working at Tygerberg Academic Health Complex (Cyle of HOPE), the University of Stellenbosch (Health Sciences), in various primary health care facilities around Cape Town and on the campus “The Nex – Indawo Yethu” with a satellite container village in Blikkiesdorp. The approach of the organisation is holistic, analysing together with government and civil society the needs and gaps and to provide, using a network of cooperation partners, adequate services always in cooperation with the relevant community. HOPE Cape Town is part of the official partnership between Bavaria and the Western Province and has MOU’s with the relevant local authorities, institutions and NGO’s. The organisation cooperates also with the “Duale Hochschule Baden-Wuerttemberg”, the Southern African – German Chamber of Commerce and has two sister organisations: HOPE Kapstadt Stiftung in Germany and HOPE Cape Town USA.

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