Awards winners 2011
Meet the 2011 SEED Award Winners: 35 innovative start-up ventures in: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, The Gambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
Sawdust Entrepreneurial Initiative Among Oko-baba Commu...
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Nigeria
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Energy / Renewables|Waste management
The initiative processes waste sawdust from lumber mills into high-quality fuel briquettes, thereby reducing pollution levels and generating revenue for the local community. The Lagos Oko Baba mills produce large quantities of sawdust that in the past wer ... View project details
SEPALI - community based silk producers association
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Madagascar
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Agriculture (incl. aquaculture)
SEPALI is a local spin-off of an international non-governmental organization that provides technical and financial assistance to farmers and community-based enterprise groups in Madagascar. By promoting the production and processing of wild silk from mo ... View project details
Solar Bread Oven
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Burkina Faso
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Climate change adaptation/mitigation
The “Hybrid Solar Oven” is a large capacity hybrid oven that uses solar and gas-fired power. This saves valuable wood resources and reduces emissions of greenhouse gases. The aim is to create income for the rural population by promoting the benefits of sw ... View project details
Solar Sister – African women led grassroots green energ...
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Uganda
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Energy / Renewables
Solar Sister empowers African women by providing them with clean energy and economic opportunities. The initiative aims to spread solar power across Africa with the help of a direct sales network. By providing access to electricity in rural areas, especia ... View project details
Solid Waste Management and Community Mobilization Progr...
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Nepal
- Region:Asia (including Pacific)
- Subject:Waste management
The initiative seeks to enhance environmental conservation while generating income from recycled household waste, mainly in Kathmandu Valley. Women are provided with business and waste management training and access to micro-credit loans, and are encourag ... View project details
Sustainable development through processing natural prod...
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Zimbabwe
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management
The women-led initiative Marula Zimbabwe trains local women to produce, process, quality control and market marula tree products. The fruit, bark, juice, skin and leaves of this native plant are used to produce a variety of products, such as jam, wine, dr ... View project details
TAYAP ECO-ORCHARDS
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Cameroon
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Agriculture (incl. aquaculture)|Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Sustainable Tourism
Tayap Eco-Orchards (TEO) improves the living conditions of the rural population in Tayab through the promotion of organic agriculture and eco-tourism. The initiative contributes to the fight against deforestation and land degradation whilst creating new i ... View project details
The Development of a Khomani San Cultural and Nature Gu...
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:South Africa
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Sustainable Tourism
‡Khomani San Kalahari Guiding Experiences is a community-based ecotourism enterprise on ‡Khomani San owned land within and next to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It provides the community with sustainable employment opportunities through guided experi ... View project details
Thrive
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:South Africa
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Water and sanitation|Waste management
Thrive combines business principles with community engagement, unlocking synergies between symbiotic enterprises within Hout Bay to address issues in water, energy, biodiversity, local food and waste with proven, replicable, triple bottom line solutions. ... View project details
Upscaling the siliviculture based enterprises of coasta...
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2011
- Country:Kenya
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Agriculture (incl. aquaculture)
The initiative encourages community stewardship and conservation of coastal environmental resources by promoting nature-based enterprises that are economically beneficial. It does so by providing training in aquaculture, mariculture, mangrove cultivatio ... View project details
