Entrepreneurship

TechnoServe's global entrepreneurship director challenges conventional wisdom about how to help businesses grow.

Earlier this month, a U.S. Congressional delegation visited TechnoServe and Citi Foundation’s Box Shop program in Soweto, South Africa.

A fruit farm in Nampula Province uses capital from an agribusiness fund to improve its farm and benefit their community at the same time.

Cesar and Priscilla Díaz have launched a successful catering business in a small town in Chile with the help of the EMERGE program, an Anglo American-TechnoServe collaboration.

Graciela Barrientos is working with her mother Elsa to build a successful childcare provider and training service in El Salvador.

Young entrepreneurs like Audrey Allotey are starting and growing food businesses that provide key products and create jobs in their communities.

Jane Abramovich, leader of TechnoServe's Access to Finance Practice Group, and TechnoServe consultant Evan Spark-DePass explore the role of intermediaries in helping businesses access financing and scale their enterprises.

To help grow their sunflower oil business, the Majengo sisters needed access to finance, which is often a barrier to success for women entrepreneurs.

Through vocational apprenticeships and business mentorship, young women like Emily Ahebwa are creating new sources of income in Uganda.

Within a year of completing TechnoServe's STRYDE training, an inspiring young woman has built a thriving business in an industry dominated by men.