About Centre for Entrepreneurship and Evaluation Development (CEED)
Centre for Entrepreneurship and Evaluation Development (CEED) is a Business Accelerator, Management Consulting, Research, and Impact Measurement Platform that is committed to the holistic development of youth, advancing and supporting the spirit of youth and women entrepreneurship and growing businesses to become sustainable, scalable and investment ready. CEED supports women and youth led MSMEs by providing them with technical assistance services in terms of capacity building and linkages to investors to facilitate financing for their growth.
CEED has experience and capacity in building BDS, market research and development across businesses in all three business phases (startup, growth, and established), ranging from “tailored” advisory to “bundled” services for SME groups i.e.
- Matchmake businesses with capital providers
- Facilitate business incubation/acceleration to build entrepreneurship skills of SMEs
- Enable equitable access to SME services for firms led by women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
- Support SME by collaborating with institutions to build understanding and willingness to invest in activities that increase the supply of and demand for safe, and social impact outcomes.
- conduct Feasibility studies, baseline and impact assessments
- led Strategy development and programme design
- provide Technical Assistance on Monitoring, information and reporting systems
- led capacity-building in areas of monitoring and evaluation and results-based management
- Impact investing /impact measurement–development and oversight
We pride ourselves as being a place where entrepreneurs can access the knowledge and expertise they need to begin their journey, grow their current business, or gain the knowledge to filter their thoughts into business Ideas.
OUR APPROACH
CEED provides innovative and evidence-based solutions to development challenges, by maximizing both social development and public value. We offer our corporates, philanthropic as well as public sector clients a range of services aimed at improving performance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of their development programmes and social investments. Some of our evaluation and advisory services include
OUR EXPERTISE
1. Peer to Peer Knowledge Exchange
CEED creates a platform for groups of entrepreneurs at similar stages of growth to deliver practical solutions in a trusted environment. Peer interactions have shown to drive revenue growth, especially over time. The groups are meticulously moderated and managed to ensure that entrepreneurs are (1) open in sharing their challenges and (2) sharing solutions based on their own experiences. (3) Strategy development and programme design and co-creating Practical solutions which lead to real change.
2. Understanding Entrepreneurs Stage of Growth
Our teams take time to conduct an entrepreneurs assessment of challenges to best connect them to the other entrepreneurs who can provide the solution and knowledge needed at particular stages of growth. We place entrepreneurs into peer-groups based on this assessment process where they learn from each other and are given resources to overcome their challenges.
3. Leveraging our investment Lens
CEED leverages our relationship with Assadaqaat Community Finance (ACF) and Africa Angel Academy to bring best practices in investment readiness to our entrepreneurs. This helps to make them investment ready and gives them an opportunity to approach investors when the need arises. Partnerships with capital providers is another value-add CEED provides to its local networks.
4. Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning Accountability, Reporting Research and Assessment
Conducting research and assessment of market development, entrepreneurship programme evaluations, youth pathways assessment, baselines and bootcamps to promote standardization; develop tools to gather data, and integrate data into programing to demonstrate progress for locally-based entrepreneurs to create opportunities for new business models, and products/ services attractive to impact investors.
5. ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
CEED works with various institutions, including schools to change mind-set. CEED focuses on entrepreneurial approaches to problem solving as well as building programs to promote entrepreneurship in the greater society.
6. ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
Sharing best practices in supporting entrepreneurs not only helps the greater ecosystem but also increases the impact of our organization. CEED regularly works with partners who want to better serve entrepreneurs by sharing our experience and approach. Partners include investors, funders, and other business support organizations aiming to improve conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive and give back to their communities.