About

The SWEET Africa Cafe

The Tuition-Free SWEET Africa CAFE is premised on bonus of Global and African Tutor volunteers with skills in the design and delivery of Electronic learning content in a variety of disciplines including social entrepreneurship..

Background

The SWEET Africa CAFE was conceived to create African Grown Afriprenuers to take charge of a large share of ownership in achieving the Global goals in Africa by 2030.

Founded by the Canadian International based SWEEP Africa Programme in partnership with the Ugandan WIRDA Programme ;- and Reliant on a content rich wealth of Global and African Tutor volunteers ranging from retired university professors, PhD and Masters degree holders , religious and community leaders, the all-inclusive, long-term SWEET Africa platform does not charge tuition fees for boarding and study materials. Instead SWEET Africa, offers free Entrepreneur empowering opportunities for learners to advance social enterprises for reducing poverty and hunger .

Beliefs and Values

Inspired by the characteristics Richard Branson and Bill Drayton plus the work of Mother Teresa, and Muhammad Yunus, we have an unwavering belief in the innate capacity of all people to contribute meaningfully to economic and social development-with a driving passion to make that happen. We believe that an African grown Social entrepreneur can drive African social innovation and transformation in various fields including education, health, environment and enterprise development that will ultimately lead to poverty reduction of all forms . We further believe that an African grown Social entrepreneur can be cultivated through the rigorous Tuition- Free -SWEET Africa CAFE Platform. We believe in zeal to measure and monitor our social entrepreneurship promotion. Both quantitative and qualitative data collection are hall marks of all the SWEET Africa activities, including guiding the continuous feedback and improvement. All the above core values and beliefs positively correlate with our deeply rooted beliefs in Accountability and Transparency, Responsibility and Confidentiality, Networking and Team Work, Peaceful coexistence in Diversity , and Mutual Respect in Partnerships .

SWEET Africa Country Focus

The SWEET Africa initial efforts (2016) are focused on spreading the gospel of Afriprenuership in the following Africa Countries: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Malawi , Zambia , Zimbabwe, Somalia and South Africa. Logistical considerations have dictated the initial SWEET Africa focus to be in these countries , but plans are underway to expand into other countries.

Support for Applicants

SWEET Africa is aware that identifying an opportunity among the many Africa development problems is a challenge many aspiring and eager learners may not take on alone. Several obstacles may stand in the way including lack of Experience, Guidance, Statistics, and where available, lack of skills to repackage the Statistics into a compelling problem statement, together with a corresponding social enterprise to purse.

The SWEET Africa CAFE is here to assist aspiring learners to overcome the above problem before they submit their application for learning under the SWEET Africa CAFE. Therefore, before learners submit their application for the SWEET Africa learning, we request that they take a moment and review the resources provided below.

SWEET Africa is confident that following the learner thorough review and internalization of all the guiding resources provided below, the learner will be a‐ready‐made SWEET Africa CAFÉ student with a Resource Winning and Society Profiting business idea‐simply requiring a‐state‐of‐art polishing expected to occur during the learning under SWEET Africa Cafe .

Need for Local facilitators

The SWEET Africa CAFE model among other things, has come to removes wealth obstacles to participation in productive adult learning to address pressing social problems, tackles barriers to equal education opportunities, and also facilitates an affordable and accessible per-university training programme to aid transition to degree study. SWEET Africa achieves this goal through use of non-profit local country facilitators. The basic requirements for becoming a local facilitaor include:
  • Must have successfully mobilized 30 plus learners to register for the SWEET Africa CAFE learning
  • All facilitator mobilization effort-led registered learners have endorsed the facilitator in their submitted SWEET Africa application form for learning
  • All supported learners are preferably either located in hard-to-reach , or under-served rural communities, or among vulnerable urban communities
  • Be a legal person capable of entering into contract (School, Church, NGO, CBO , Business internet café etc), and recognized at community level
  • Has the support supervision staff to enhance on-site computer skills of your group learners, and is spacious enough to facilitate off line reading, note taking, and typing for more 30 learners for 3 hours per day, every two days per week for 12 weeks and able to provide internet access to facilitate learner submission of assignments
  • Local Charities/Service providers(Schools, Churches, NGOs, CBOs , Business internet cafés etc) can therefore mobilize learners for the SWEET Africa Cafe course. Learners themselves can also mobilise fellow learners to offer the above facilitation for the SWEET Africa learning, provided such learners can fulfill all the above required conditions
  • When applying as SWEET Africa CAFE facilitator , please indicate the number of learners identified/mobilised including their names, and other required identifying information in order to facilitate tallying with the learner application information provided.

Need for Local mentors

The concept behind the social entrepreneurship mentorship is to turn social enterprise opportunities into realities for start‐ups and as well as growing enterprises. For social entrepreneurs, turning a passion into a business is the ultimate dream.

But that dream doesn’t come easily. It’s hard work, and there are challenges around every corner. Entrepreneurs don’t have to go it alone. Their chance of success increases with access to the business knowledge and guidance of experienced professionals

Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

The SWEET Africa has a scorecard to track (1) engagement, (2) uptake and (3) use (influence) indicators for any project/clients directly undertaken/supported. Based on all UN goal oriented supported projects , SWEEP Africa will increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data of the its achievements disaggregated by number of graduates , social enterprises developed ,those successful funded and implemented including documenting quantifiable outputs, outcomes, impacts, best practices, and lessons learn by geographic location and other characteristics relevant in reporting on the achievement of the Global goals in all African participating countries.

Dissemination of Project Results

SWEET Africa is always eager to share the lessons learn from projects it implements with partners through the distribution of quarterly reports, website, twitter face book and emails. We also conduct two categories of dissemination meetings at the end of projects. In first case, we conduct local dissemination meetings in each projected supported administrative unit (sub county/municipality) in which all civic, health, and traditional leaders, as well as the general community are invited to review the successful strengths and weakness of the project results. Following the local dissemination community meetings, we conduct a national dissemination seminar in which the invitees include representatives of the relevant departments, national and international NGOs, and the press. The one-day seminar allows the interested parties in the country to discuss the project results prior to their publication in the international literature thus, providing a sense of country ownership in the results. Other other disseminations include development of exportable newsletters, leaflets and posters.

Need for Partnerships

We are eager to partner with both International Federal and Development agencies ,Private foundations and directly with Africa Country partners. We are interested in partners who can support our "SWEET Africa Market Place " where the Platform graduates pitch their ideas of which the best ones are selected for SEED support. In aspiring to work with our partners, we are guided by our core values and beliefs in Accountability and Transparency, Responsibility and Confidentiality, Networking and Team Work, Peaceful coexistence in Diversity , and Mutual Respect in Partnerships.

Instruction Expertise

Design of E-learning Content (90%)

Delivery of Electronic learning (85%)

Design of E-assessment tools (90%)

Electronic Marking /Assessment (85%)

Sector Expertise

Health, Agriculture, & Education (90%)

Economics & Other Social Sciences (95%)

Climate Change/Environment (100%)

Business & Entrepreneurship(90%)

Expert Qualifications

PhDs (40%)

Masters (45%)

Other(15%)

Country Expertise

Canada/US (30%)

East Africa (45%)

Other (25%)

Language Expertise

English (58%)

English/Swahili(42%)

Gender

Males (63%)

Females (37%)

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