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Research and Mapping Projects
ATC has partnered with organizations across the MENA region to conduct comprehensive research and mapping of initiatives stakeholders, providing actionable insights into initiatives and institutional networks.
Regional Research on Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Sustainability
ATC has embarked on numerous region-wide research studies on sustainability practices, enabling its team to gain deep insights into the main challenges and facilitators of sustainable business across the region. These include a regional study (covering Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE), entitled Trends in Responsible Business Practice and Social Entrepreneurship: An Overview of the Arab Region, conducted in partnership with The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the American University of Beirut (AUB); and the first of its kind assessment of sustainability reporting practices across 17 of the MENA region’s countries, conducted in partnership with the German Development Cooperation’s (GIZ) Responsible and Inclusive Business Hub (RIBH_MENA). Both studies aim at fostering local knowledge creation as well as building a sustainability management paradigm that is sensitive to local realities.
Mapping Entrepreneurship Funding Opportunities in the MENA Region, with INJAZ Al Arab
INJAZ Al Arab contracted ATC to conduct a wide-ranging mapping study of funding opportunities for entrepreneurs in the MENA region. The study covered six Arab countries, including Egypt.
Mapping Women Economic Empowerment Initiatives in Egypt, with UN Women
Drosos Foundation is an organization that provides assistance to marginalized communities enabling them to live a life of dignity and achieve financial sustainability. However, Drosos program managers face difficulty when assessing the eligibility of small non-profits for funding. ATC’s trainers and consultants led a multistage assessment of the Foundation’s grant application, selection, and monitoring and evaluation pipeline. This exercise focused on integrating business and financial modelling principles to grant making to ensure funded long-term project sustainability after the grant-making period.
Expanding Horizons in Development: The Rising Role of the Private Sector, with UNDP
In addition, we worked with several Drosos and Ashoka grantees on enhancing their internal capacity and eligibility for grant-funding. We tailored Ahead of the Curve has tailor designed an organizational development training to enhance the viability and sustainability of these non-profits. Our work included a) a review of their business plan, financial model, evaluation tools, and other relevant documents; b) a pre-assessment of the organization (review and site visit); c) inception report that includes findings from the desk review and site visit, and the training modules that will be delivered accordingly; and, d) implementation of the tailored training.
Conducting Gender Sensitive Value Chain Analysis (GSVCA), with UN women
The Welfare Association is a long-standing client and partner for ATC. The company has produced the foundation’s annual reports and sustainability reports including the first Global Reporting Initiative “Grade A” report to be accredited from Palestine. We have also partnered with WA on conducting an in-depth assessment of the potential of introducing an impact investment fund.
