AIDRE serves as a local partner of the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED), based in Mannheim, Germany on the Boosting Green Employment and Enterprise Opportunities in Ghana project – also known as GrEEn Project. The GrEEn – project is a four-year joint action from the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ghana, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), and SNV. The project is aligned with the EUTF overall objective of addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa, and more specifically its strategic objective is to create greater economic and employment opportunities. The joint action focuses on creating climate resilient communities, addressing skill gaps, and increasing access to finance for selected returnees, youth, and women. Additionally, it supports job creation and self-employment opportunities by incubating and financing MSMEs, thereby creating decent and sustainable jobs.
As the local partner to C4ED, AIDRE will follow a mixed-methods approach, with both quantitative and qualitative data collection to assess the impact of the intervention. This impact assessment aims to estimate changes that are experienced by the SMEs who receive incubation and/or acceleration services from SNV. The key outcomes of interest are business performance, the ability to create jobs, access to finance, and business resilience. The impact assessment will also shed light on how and why these changes occurred.
The quantitative design is based on a panel data, capturing baseline characteristics of the SMEs and tracking beneficiaries’ outcomes over time. Three data collection waves will be conducted, one per year over the period 2021-2023. The tentative sample size for the three data collection waves are 66-100-100.
- May 31, 2023