New Survey Finds African Food Processors Face COVID-19 Challenges
Food companies already report significant disruptions to marketing and distribution networks and eye future supply problems
Entrepreneurship
Survey: Africa’s Food Processors in the Face of COVID-19
TechnoServe surveyed 106 food processors, representing seven countries in Africa, on the impact of COVID-19 on their operations. This survey presents our findings.
Challenges and Responses for Africa’s Food Processors Facing COVID-19
TechnoServe offers a guide on the challenges and responses facing food processors during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a survey of 106 food processors from seven African countries.
TechnoServe Develops Plans to Serve Farmers and Small Business Owners Post Pandemic
On the Business of Giving podcast, TechnoServe CEO Will Warshauer describes how the organization is reacting to COVID-19.
Empowering Shopkeepers in Times of Crisis
In Kenya, the coronavirus pandemic is presenting new challenges for shopkeepers who must continue supplying their customers with essential goods, even amidst a global crisis. We talked to Alice Waweru, TechnoServe’s entrepreneurship regional program manager, about the challenges these micro-retailers are facing and what TechnoServe is doing to help.
Creating job opportunities in South African mining communities
TechnoServe is collaborating with Anglo American on providing enterprise development training to youth in response to South Africa's national priority of reducing unemployment and poverty.
Supporting Young Entrepreneurs in South Africa (Box Shop Program)
This initiative offers a unique approach to supporting young entrepreneurs by creating several Box Shop stores in South African townships. This effort will support 240 young entrepreneurs to bring their products to store shelves and encourage more support for buying and building local brands.
How to Support Entrepreneurs in the Time of Coronavirus
As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spreads around the world, it is having a devastating economic impact. TechnoServe’s work developing capacity and building ecosystems to support entrepreneurs in countries across Latin America, Africa, and South Asia yields important lessons for today’s businesses struggling to withstand the crisis.
How to Support Entrepreneurs in the Time of Coronavirus
In this NextBillion article, Juan Carlos Thomas and Andrea Bettosini describe how TechnoServe's entrepreneurship programs are responding to COVID-19.
New Reports Provide Strategies to Support Small Businesses through Coronavirus Crisis
TechnoServe’s resources highlight digital training and other methods to help enterprises in developing countries
