Dec 19, 2022Stories of Change: Mildred AdhiamboMildred Adhiambo was a participant in ygap Kenya’s 2022 Business Accelerator program. Her focus is on supporting rural agri-business and creating climate resilience for small-holder farmers in Kenya. My name is Mildred Adhiambo, a social entrepreneur interested in sustainable livelihoods for rural farmers. I am the first child in a…Kenya3 min readKenya3 min read
May 12, 2022Nakita’s Story — Women Redefining BusinessNakita Irvin is an alumni of yher Pacific Islands, a program designed to support women entrepreneurs in the region to thrive. Nakita generously agreed to share her story as we ask for your help to support more women like her to succeed in business. Read on for Nakita’s story, in…Entrepreneurship9 min readEntrepreneurship9 min read
May 10, 2022Asha’s Story — Women Redefining BusinessAsha Namugambe is an alumni of yher Africa, a program designed to support women entrepreneurs on the continent to thrive. Asha generously agreed to share her story as we ask for your help to support more women like her to succeed in business. Read on for Asha’s story, in her…Entrepreneurship6 min readEntrepreneurship6 min read
May 9, 2022Lilian’s Story — Women Redefining BusinessLilian Nakigozi is a 2019 alumni of yher Africa, a program designed to support women entrepreneurs on the continent to thrive. Lilian generously agreed to share her story as we ask for your help to support more women like her to succeed in business. Read on for Lilian’s story, in…Women5 min readWomen5 min read
May 6, 2022Supporting women entrepreneurs in Africa is working.Sometimes we spend so much time thinking about the issues we’re trying to solve that we forget to zoom out and see the progress being made. So today, we’d like to share some reflections on entrepreneurship from the three powerhouse women who lead our programs in Africa; the changes they’ve…Women4 min readWomen4 min read
May 5, 2022The confidence gap in business, and how we’re trying to fill itAt ygap, one of our key values is “We challenge barriers to equality”. We know that inequality isn’t accidental; it exists as a result of systems that support the success of some people over others. We strive to bring down those barriers that exist in the entrepreneurial space, and reimagine…Entrepreneurship5 min readEntrepreneurship5 min read
Mar 30, 2022Why invest in her?Written by yher Africa Regional Director, Katleho Tsoku When we started working on the yher Africa Invest Pilot, I kept asking myself, ‘how is this going to make a real difference to women-led ventures?’. I believed we needed to be radical and change the system! I recently read an article…Women In Business3 min readWomen In Business3 min read
Mar 7, 2022In conversation with Amber Boyers of BaiiaThis year’s theme for International Women’s Day is Break the Bias, to raise awareness on the role that unconscious bias plays in stopping women from getting ahead. For ygap, this means breaking the bias of women in the business space by sharing the stories of the Founders and CEOs, Inventors…8 min read8 min read
Mar 3, 2022Scale matters: a model to support small and growing businesses to succeedTowards the end of 2021, the Argidius Foundation released their #SCALEReport, an exciting new standard for how entrepreneur support organisations like ygap can better support small and growing businesses to succeed. Argidius has been a partner of ygap for the last five years as they’ve supported our Kenya-based team…Monitoring And Evaluation5 min readMonitoring And Evaluation5 min read
Dec 22, 2021Lessons learned from 2021Making time to reflect When it comes to our programs, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) processes and the collection of qualitative data is something that we put a lot of time and energy into. Insights gathered from these data allow us to understand how we are tracking against our intentions with each body of…Reflections6 min readReflections6 min read
