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PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2018.0121.6
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
G530 Global Agendas for Food Security
Contact person:
Michel Bernhardt michel.bernhardt@giz.de
Partner countries:
Global Projects, Convention/Sector/Pilot Presentation, Burkina Faso, Benin, Republic of the Congo, Congo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo , Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
SUMMARY
Goals:
Tried-and-tested digital innovations for the agricultural and food sector are widespread in selected markets to generate income.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
28,934,100 euros
Current project:
28,934,100 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
Bayer Cares Foundation: 300,000 euros
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: 4,634,100 euros
PREVIOUS PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
November 29, 2018 - June 30, 2027
Current project:
01/01/2019 - 06/30/2027
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
Arge Luvent Consulting GmbH-Co-creation
CEFE International GmbH
GreenTec Capital GmbH
MaibornWolff GmbH
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
43040 Rural Development
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
SAIS – Silicon Valley for Africa
The Scaling of digital agricultural innovations through start-ups (SAIS) project supports selected African start-ups in the agricultural and food sector to scale their digital innovations and thus reach a larger number of users. The aim of the project is to improve the income of users in the agricultural and food sector through the dissemination of digital innovations.
Scaling requires the use of capital and this is exactly where SAIS comes in: through tailor-made company development measures implemented by renowned venture builders, the investment readiness of the start-ups is improved. This increases the chances that the start-ups will receive the capital necessary for scaling from investors or will be able to open up new markets through new business partners. SAIS thus adapts processes of existing innovation systems, such as: B. Silicon Valley, and tries to adapt it to the African context.
The project includes three work areas ( fields of action ) and has a duration of five years (January 2019 to December 2023). SAIS is run by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic C
