Kenya - Business creation project

Describe your project or startup in a few words

This tech startup seeks to address the challenges of unemployment and limited access to job opportunities in Africa by creating a comprehensive marketplace connecting skilled individuals with clients through an innovative mobile application.

01.01 Describe your project in more detail

A tech startup targeting the African market aims to connect individuals with formal and informal technical skills and services. Users can create accounts, categorize their skills, specify areas of specialization, and showcase previous work. Those with formal skills and relevant accreditations receive a special status page. The app functions as a marketplace, linking service providers with clients based on criteria like experience, quality of work, and ratings. It includes geolocation to facilitate service mobility and provides a rating and feedback system to help clients make informed decisions. The platform supports job creation by allowing skilled individuals to offer services without incurring high licensing and marketing costs, and it helps established professionals expand their client base.

01.02 What is the main problem you are trying to solve?

This app addresses the challenges faced by skilled individuals in Africa who struggle to access job opportunities and market their services effectively. By providing a centralized platform for showcasing skills, connecting with clients, and receiving feedback, the app aims to overcome barriers to employment and enable individuals to leverage their talents for economic empowerment. Through streamlined service matching, skill categorization, and a rating system, it seeks to bridge the gap between supply and demand, facilitating efficient and transparent transactions in diverse sectors, from formal technical fields to informal service industries.

01.03 Tell us the major benefits and/or advantages of using the product/service that your project intends to provide (at least 3).

This African startup tackles the challenges faced by skilled individuals by providing a centralized marketplace for job opportunities, overcoming limited access and geographical barriers. It enhances trust and credibility through rating systems and accreditation verification, easing client concerns. By reducing search costs through detailed profiles and geolocation-based matching, it streamlines the process of finding suitable service providers. Additionally, the platform expands market reach for informal service providers, empowering them to market their skills to a broader audience. For clients, it offers cost and time efficiency, while stimulating economic growth by creating employment opportunities and fostering entrepreneurship. Overall, it presents a transformative solution for Africa's workforce, benefiting both skilled individuals and clients.

01.04 Please describe who exactly your project is aimed at serving. Who are the targeted beneficiaries?

The project aims to benefit skilled individuals (both formally trained and informal sector workers) by providing job opportunities and visibility, and clients/employers by offering a vetted pool of professionals. Entrepreneurs and small business owners will gain enhanced marketing and reach. Local communities will experience economic growth and better skill utilization. Educational institutions can tailor programs to market demands, while government policymakers can use labor market insights for informed interventions. NGOs and development agencies can connect beneficiaries with jobs and measure program impacts. Overall, the platform fosters economic growth, improved skill utilization, and a dynamic, inclusive job market in Africa.

01.05 When did you start working on your project?

2023-08-08

01.06 How many other partners are associated with your business venture?

0

01.07 Among the other partners, how many are female?

0

01.08 Please describe the profile of each of the other partners (skills, experience, etc.)

N/A

01.09 If you have a website, a social media page (Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin…), or app, please provide the link here:

01.10 Which industry best describes your project?

h) IT (digital services, equipment and software)

02.01.01 My project contributes to the No poverty goal

7 - Strongly Agree

02.01.02 No poverty - Justification

02.02.01 My project contributes to the Zero hunger goal

5

02.02.02 Zero hunger - Justification

02.03.01 My project contributes to the Good health and well-being goal

5

02.03.02 Good health and well-being - Justification

With financial power comes opportunity to eat healthy determine other social and economic conditions that lead to Good health

02.04.01 My project contributes to the Quality education goal

7 - Strongly Agree

02.04.02 Quality education - Justification

From statistics the young generations prefer to be self employed that formal employment this apps gives the opportunity to strive for quality education that offers them financial independence and an opportunity to venture it fields that gives them that independence

02.05.01 My project contributes to the Gender equality goal

6

02.05.02 Gender equality - Justification

The app offers diverse customer preference interms of services offered by both genders and open visibility interms of marketing first in offers traditional industries that where mostly women centered competitive edge as well as the modern industries

02.06.01 My project contributes to the Clean water and sanitation goal

3

02.06.02 Clean water and sanitation - Justification

02.07.01 My project contributes to the Affordable and clean energy goal

4

02.07.02 Affordable and clean energy - Justification

02.08.01 My project contributes to the Decent work and economic growth

6

02.08.02 Decent work and economic growth - Justification

It justifies work regardless of the industries, improves visibility, creates employment and sparks economic growth

02.09.01 My project contributes to the Industry innovation and infrastructure

7 - Strongly Agree

02.09.02 Industry innovation and infrastructure - Justification

This app will spark innovations cause the platform offers marketing for such innovation and helps them reach their target market and other barriers

02.10.01 My project contributes to the Reduced inequalities goal

6

02.10.02 Reduced inequalities - Justification

Inqueality comes with financial power ones we aclaim in even to the less considered industries it means they will have a voice

02.11.01 My project contributes to the Sustainable cities and communities goal

7 - Strongly Agree

02.11.02 Sustainable cities and communities - Justification

This app offers mobility of labour in that one can app to offer his or her services where ever he or she is connecting to knew customer bases everyday this reduces rural to urban migration

02.12.01 My project contributes to the Responsible consumption and production goal

4

02.12.02 Responsible consumption and production - Justification

02.13.01 My project contributes to the Climate action goal

4

02.13.02 Climate action - Justification

02.14.01 My project contributes to the Life below water goal

4

02.14.02 Life below water - Justification

02.15.01 My project contributes to the Life on land goal

4

02.15.02 Life on land - Justification

02.16.01 My project contributes to the Peace justice and strong institutions goal

4

02.16.02 Peace justice and strong institutions - Justification

02.17.01 My project contributes to the Partnerships for the goal

5

02.17.02 Partnerships for the goal - Justification

05.01 There are a large number of customers who already use a product/service very similar to the product/service we envision creating.

2

05.02 The product/service we envision creating represents an entirely new type of product/service.

3

05.03 The product/service we envision creating could be described as a new technology.

1 - Strongly Disagree

05.04 The product/service we envision creating is an improvement on an existing product or service.

4

05.05 The product/service we envision creating could be described as an extension of a range of products or services.

7 - Strongly Agree

05.06 The product/service we envision creating responds to a demand or need that has not been satisfied by other products/services.

7 - Strongly Agree

05.07 The product/service we envision creating is a new version of an old product/service.

4

05.08 Justification

The project is in an amalgamation of diffrent ideas and apps used in diffrent spaces for other things and it's features are used in this project to tackle a whole different issue

05.09 Who are your main potential competitors and what makes you stand out from them?

Web pages used to offer single services.

10.06 Are you initiating actions within your community to promote the role of female entrepreneurs?

This app will help improve the issue of female entering in the space of entrepreneurship as it will help remove many traditional barriers that prevented women from venturing into enterprenureship