• In Kenya, youth have been structurally guided to forge partnerships through the framework of EBAFOSA Innovative Volunteerism combining their skills in clean energy, marketing and ICT and have come up with a 1st ever climate action enterprise ICT application called EBAGroPamoja.. EBAGroPamoja is the first ever connecting the dots app in Africa that connects challenges to solutions in the entire agro-value chain. Through EBAGropamoja, agro-value chain are linked to organic inputs like organic fertiliser as well as clean energy solutions like solar driers etc., at the comfort of their phone. Transporters are now posting their logistics services online and getting linked to producers who want their produce transported to markets or consumers who want produce transported to their homes. Financers – cooperatives & micro-financers – are now registering their products for easy access by actors who need financing. EBAGropamoja also has an online training module where actors engaged in these enterprises actions along the continuum can offer training for a fee. In rural areas where actors don’t have access to smart phones, tech savvy youth are leveraging Ebagropamoja to scout for affordable intervening services. EBAgroPamoja also features an online store where agro-produce grown using EBA / processed using clean energy is promoted to markets across Kenya. In all these cases, value is exchanged, and incomes earned while clean energy and EBA are upscaled through enterprise-based interventions. Since its launch 2 months ago, EBAGroPamoja has engaged service providers across the value chain and assets in excess of $37 million engaged in value exchange.

• In Nigeria, have been structurally guided to forge partnerships through the framework of EBAFOSA Innovative Volunteerism to provide brokerage services for agro-value chain actors by linking them to clean energy solutions and to markets. 10 solar driers/ solar fridge actors have been engaged with focus on the fish value chain where use of solar driers has provided alternative to smoking. As a result 500 farmers and 20 cooperatives have been engaged to acquire solar driers & solar fridges to minimise their postharvest losses. This is not only enhancing quality of fish to ensure better market process but also preventing use of charcoal & firewood to prevent deforestation hence preserve sinks. Two fishing cooperatives capable of processing up to 2 tonnes of fish a month have been engaged in this paradigm. These were using charcoal for drying – meaning over half-tonne of charcoal equivalent of wood being saved.

In Uganda through the framework of EBAFOSA Youth skills retooling Academy called Africa Youth Agro-Industralization Academy (AYAA) have been established for nurturing climate action actors and enhancing, refining and realigning their skills especially of youth to tap opportunities along the agro-value chain – structure for nurturing Innovative Volunteerism. Through AYAA, youth are mentored and trained with hands-on skills on climate-action enterprises. Specific focus of training is on hands-on skills in fabricating, marketing & installing solar driers; key to drive Uganda’s mitigation / clean energy NDC priorities; agro-processing focusing on the cassava value chain - driving Uganda’s adaptation / climate smart agriculture NDC priorities; entrepreneurship – key to convert such climate actions to enterprises. Over 100 youth are being engaged. Lessons from EBAFOSA AYAA Uganda will be used to set up similar training centres for climate actions across the continent.

• Model for partnership innovations incentivising youth to leverage their skills and develop enterprises that bridge NDCs implementing gaps have been further fostered in Ghana, Togo, where Youth through th framework of EBAFOSA Innovative Volunteerism have been structurally guided and inspired to leverage on their skills, talents and ongoing work and forge complementary partnerships to establish climate action enterprises that drive climate action from a solutions perspective. Over 20,000 youths have been engaged across Africa, at different levels of developing climate action enterprises.