AfriLabs Capacity Building Needs Assessment

KEY EVALUATION INDICATORS Taking the key themes elaborated on earlier, we have identified several indicators that can be used to evaluate the impact of capacity building programs. These indicators are aligned to the key trends captured from the data, focus group interviews, and existing literatures. They are globally summarized as supporting business conditions for ESOs and entrepreneurs. The indicators are organized as follow: 1. Business Development Skills: Critical areas to be evaluated are product development, market research, marketing & sales, finance management, business leadership, partnership management, and talent acquisition and retention, which consider female participation. 2. Mentorship and coaching: Successfully matched mentors and mentee as well as the number of mentors and mentees. 3. Sustainability: Sustainability: Investments facilitated, successful investments facilitated, Breakdown of ESOs revenues, Breakdown of entrepreneur's revenues, current financial situa- tion, access to finance, sales growth rate, and product or service performance.

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Trends and insights from ESOs, entrepreneurs, and investors

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