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Welcome to the Synergos MENA page highlighting our work with social entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa.

Our work in the Middle East and North Africa builds upon creating enabling environments that allow social entrepreneurship to thrive, supporting outstanding entrepreneurs from across the region, and focusing attention on particular geographic areas to ensure greater success for such entrepreneurs. We currently operate three related programs:

•The Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship is a collabor

ative program to help build a robust social entrepreneurship movement in select countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, with an initial focus on Egypt and Lebanon. Formed with the US Agency for International Development, in collaboration with Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the Alliance will raise awareness about social entrepreneurship and promote an environment that encourages social enterprises in different countries around the world.

•The Arab World Social Innovators program supports high-impact social entrepreneurs. To date, the program has served 46 exceptional individuals from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Palestine, whose programs address serious gaps in education, employment, community development, technology and the environment. Over a period of two years Innovators receive an integrated set of offerings, including a financial award, technical assistance and capacity building workshops, access to Synergos’ global network, mentorships, and peer exchanges.

•Mobaderoon Masr / The Pioneers of Egypt program represents an investment in young leaders of Egypt who have a key role to play in building a more prosperous future for their country. Over the course of two years, Pioneers of Egypt has expanded 52 successful community-led initiatives that promote economic and social change, built the skills and leadership capacity of 200 start-up social entrepreneurs, connected over 1,000 Egyptian youth to internships, and increase the visibility and profile of social entrepreneurship in Egypt. Social Innovators have pioneered change in their communities and offer original approaches, methods, and solutions to address social and economic problems. Through a diverse array of fields ranging from education to microenterprise, their entrepreneurial ventures continue to positively impact the lives of tens of thousands of people, including women, children, youth, and people with special needs. These grassroots leaders challenge the existing systems that perpetuate poverty and inequality in their communities in search of a more equitable outcome for society’s most underserved through projects promoting jobs and economic development, more sustainable agriculture, services for people with disabilities, opportunities for youth leadership development and civic participation, and the preservation of local crafts and culture. Synergos believes that improving the lives of people in poor and marginalized communities requires systemic change. Such change can only happen when individuals work in meaningful partnership with other citizens, institutions and sectors of society, to address the root causes of poverty and inequity. Synergos has a 25-year history of providing support to such partnerships in almost every part of the world, enhancing the capacity of governments, businesses, civil society, philanthropists and individual leaders to come together and create new solutions.

10/20/2016

Great meeting of the Kogi Agriculture Vision Group we convened in Kogi State, Nigeria. This is Mrs Abdulrahman of the Bank of Agriculture "Our experience is that women pay back loans more than men do"

07/27/2016

Perihan AbouZeid is part of Synergos Pioneer of Egypt. She is a cofounder and CEO of Qabila - قبيلة , a media content creator that capitalizes on crowd sourcing and digital media technology to produce content that bridges the gap between the entertainment and intellectual needs of their target audiences. Qabila enlists a network of volunteers to produce videos raising awareness about social causes on behalf of clients including NGOs and development organizations. This revolutionary business model ensures high levels of engagement on crucial social issues, and is also changing the market dynamics of an industry historically dominated by a few large production companies. Watch some movies make by Qabila Media Productions: http://ow.ly/wkut302Firf

Know more about Pioneers of Egypt Program on: http://ow.ly/H9RP302FiWL

03/03/2016

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02/01/2016

In Ethiopia, Synergos is working with key stakeholders in the agricultural sector to increase the food security and incomes of smallholder farmers...

01/21/2016

برنامج" المشاريع الناشئة لريادة الأعمال الإجتماعية " يبحث عن 50 رائد أعمال إجتماعي، ليكونوا جزء من برنامج مبادرون فلسطين، الذي يهدف إلى دعم ريادة الأعمال الإجتماعية في فلسطين.
http://www.synergos.org/pioneers/start-up-palestine.htm

برنامج" المشاريع الناشئة لريادة الأعمال الإجتماعية " يبحث عن 50 رائد أعمال إجتماعي، ليكونوا جزء من برنامج مبادرون فلسطين، الذي يهدف إلى دعم ريادة...

11/18/2015

Joumana Al Jabri uses creative processes & outputs to address pressing social issues in . Read here:http://ow.ly/OmN2Z

Joumana al Jabri’s work revolves around creative processes and outputs to address pressing social issues. She is a co-founder along with Ramzi...

11/17/2015

creates ’s first organization dedicated to theatre as a social & psychological therapy tool http://ow.ly/OmO2V

Zeina Daccache founded Catharsis-Lebanese Center for Drama Therapy in 2007, establishing Lebanon’s first organization dedicated to theatre as a...

11/17/2015

Learn about how uses engineering skill to bring to a zero waste society here: http://ow.ly/7jlsN

11/15/2015

Zeinab al-Momany promotes a profit-sharing cooperative for farming & traditional handicrafts in . Read here: http://ow.ly/OjDv6

Zeinab recognized how striking poverty is for rural women in Jordan as their social and economic situation has left them powerless to break this...

11/12/2015

is creating a volunteer network of youth in Irbid, Jordan dedicated to social change. Read here: http://ow.ly/OmNHl

Saeed Abu Al Hassan, one of our youngest Social Innovators, has created a rapidly growing network of youth in Jordan dedicated to social change....

11/11/2015

of conducts blood drives to increase & better the process of blood donation in http://ow.ly/QV0Gr

Yorgui has been working to better the blood donation cause in Lebanon for the past five years. Lebanon is a country lacking a national blood bank...

11/10/2015

is dedicated to improving the lives of & families experiencing the hardships of http://ow.ly/QUZba

Loryne Atoui is dedicated to improving the lives of women and families experiencing the hardships of breast cancer. Inspired by her own mother’s...

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