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PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2018.0121.6
Status:
ongoing 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 projects, Burkina Faso, Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
SUMMARY
Goals:
Proven digital innovations for the agricultural and food sector are widespread and generating income in selected markets.
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 applicable)
37,934,100 euros
Current project:
37,934,100 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
Bayer Cares Foundation: 300,000 euros
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: 4,634,100 euros
European Union (EU): 7,000,000 euros
PREDECESSOR PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
November 29, 2018 - June 30, 2029
Current project:
01.01.2019 - 30.06.2029
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
Arge Luvent Consulting GmbH-Co-creation
CEFE International GmbH
GreenTec Capital GmbH
MaibornWolff GmbH
MORE INFORMATION
project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
gender equality
Significant secondary goal
adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary goal
CRS KEY
43040 Rural Development
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
SAIS - Silicon Valley for Africa
The project "Scaling digital agricultural innovations through start-ups" (SAIS) 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 they need for scaling from investors or will be able to open up new markets through new business partners. SAIS thus adapts processes from existing innovation systems, such as Silicon Valley, and tries to apply them to the African context.
The project comprises three work areas ("fields of action") and has a term of five years (January 2019 to December 2023). SAIS is being implemented by the German Society for International Cooperation (GI
