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Singular focus on livelihoods and increasing incomes for people living in poverty

• Operate in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Seek to increase people's ability to support themselves and their families
• Measure income increases for beneficiaries (or plan to do so) as key metric to illustrate their success
• We’ve invested so far in agriculture, entrepreneurship and workforce development interventions but are open to exploring other themes if they meet the above criteria

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Data-driven and Evidence-based

• Interventions have achieved or show potential to have a 5x return on investment (ROI) within five years (preferably sooner). For example, if a training program costs $200, we hope to see the participant's future income be at least $1,000 higher than it would have been otherwise
• Some internal data collection and tracking mechanism are in place to substantiate income increase
• For Fund prospects: Robust and ideally externally validated data exists to substantiate income increase

Leadership & Team

• African-led, African founded, and/or African headquarters, ideally all
• Staffed organization, even if small team
• A Board is either in place, or in the process of being set up

Stage of growth

• Have budgets between $150,000 and $1M per year
• Are reaching at least 300 people through their intervention
• Aspire to grow and scale their work and expand their impact over the next 3-10 years