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AACOSE MANDATE

AACOSE’s core mandate is to be a platform for enhancing multi-sectoral collaboration for championing and shaping the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa.

Being a thought leader for Social Entrepreneurship In Africa and animate Social entrepreneurship as an important tool for creating systemic change in Africa today.
Creating a membership club or federation for social entrepreneurs that serves as an asset for social entrepreneurs to grow their network for collaboration and sharing best practices.
Becoming an advocate to ensure that social entrepreneurs have meaningful access to resources and support from government and other development organizations in terms of funding, mentorship, expertise and policies and initiatives that support their work.

Annual Africa Conference on Social Entrepreneurship

The Annual Africa Conference on Social Entrepreneurship (AACOSE) is an initiative set in place to foster the interaction between the key actors who contribute to creating favourable conditions for the growth of sustainable social enterprises in Africa

Br Jonas Director Institute of Social Transformation Tangaza University College

Ashoka East Africa is a non-profit organization that creates and nurtures a community of individuals and organizations to be changemakers for the betterment of society.

Ashoka Partners of AACOSE

Thematic Focus Areas

Co-creating Pan-African conference with a diverse network of partners, showcasing innovative
systems change social innovation, learning from social innovators and fostering collaboration for
Social Transformative of the African Continent.

Human Capital and Capacity: Diversity inclusion (Women, Youth, PWDs)

Capacity building for social entrepreneurs is critical for achieving critical mass, which will drive the growth of social enterprises.

Funding & Finance: Climate Change

Access to finance and forms of finances to enable the growth of social enterprise is of essence. Many social entrepreneurs face funding challenges as they seek to expand and scale their innovations.

Network: Faith Inspired Changemaking

To carry out their missions, faith-based organizations have adopted social innovation approaches. There are more and more faith-based initiatives that are making significant contributions to Africa's transformation.

Legal and Policy Framework: Social Enterprises

This refers to the role of the government in creating a friendly and convincing environment for the social entrepreneurs. The importance of recognizing the crucial role social enterprises play in addressing major social problems and the complementarity of the services they provide.

Market: Agriculture and Food Security

Access to the market remains a main challenge for many social entrepreneurs. There is a need to create systems and collaboration in order to improve market access and remove bottlenecks that entrepreneurs face.

MARKET AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY

We witness in the recent past great innovation along the agriculture value chain. The promise of the agricultural revolution of food security in Africa is underway but a lot needs to be done. There numerous bottlenecks that prevent maximum exploitation of the potential of the sectors.

AACOSE PARTNERS

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself,"