African Social Entrepreneurs Network
Organization Details
African Social Entrepreneurs Network (ASEN) seeks to play a pan-African role through its core affiliates by:
• supporting regional Social Enterprises / SMEs to achieve their corporate aims, and the long term development of the Social Economy across Africa.
• engaging actively with partners in public-private policy dialogue and advocate around issues of global importance, including achieving developmental goals, improving the investment climate and enhance aid effectiveness across Africa.
• aggregating, leveraging and deploying resources, financial and non-financial empowerment of social enterprises / SMEs across sub-Saharan Africa
• encouraging human investments and regional institutional capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa.
• seeking to foster closer regional integration by enlarging markets, generating economies of scale to tackle the region’s most pressing supply-side constraints.
Impact Story
We offer a wide range of reasonably priced, revenue-generating services to support SME and start-up growth. These include training, resources, information, conducting surveys, conferences, roundtables, accounting, legal, registration, partner and investor search, etc.
The aim is for SMEs, start-ups and entrepreneurs to utilize these services to promote their ideas, raise funds, conduct market research on their product, and interact with potential customers as well as investors. The ultimate goal is to connect all SMEs and start-ups and promote intra-trade relationships among them.
