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WEIForward — Women & Youth Economic Imperative

WEIForward GroundUp Alliance

Connecting Reality to Policy Actions and Implementation

This Alliance provides a dynamic, thought leadership and action platform. This platform is powered by thinkers and doers who contribute substantive knowledge, expertise, and experience. It serves as an accelerator for catalyzing transformational entrepreneurship and innovation to generate jobs and boost economic growth, strengthen communities, and promote social cohesion at national and sub-national levels.

Concept: A collaborative that functions as a social progress accelerator

Vision: A world in which every human being can flourish in justice, security, and peace.

Mission: To contribute to innovative, bottom-up solutions to selected challenges triggered by the current poly crises as they affect the everyday lives of national & sub-national populations in selected global majority countries with a particular focus on youth, women & girls, disadvantaged & under-represented groups

Three Integrated Pillars

The WEIForward GroundUp Alliance drives inclusion through three integrated pillars:

1

Advisory and implementation services

  • Leveraging the GroundUp team’s expertise and networks to provide advisory and implementation support to governments, private sector actors, and civil society.
  • Conducting analysis, co-creating and testing solutions, and translating insights into policies, systems change, and accountability frameworks.
  • Delivering transformational, impact-driven, and scalable projects in partnership with local actors.
2

Transformational entrepreneurship

  • Building pipelines of purpose-driven, transformational women and youth entrepreneurs in the missing middle.
3

Thought leadership: translating policy into action

  • Advancing human flourishing, social cohesion, and economic empowerment through innovative approaches to systemic challenges.
  • Developing case studies and insights from evaluating transformational policies and practices.
  • Facilitating cross-regional learning networks across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.

Impact on People, Planet, and Markets

The Ground Up Alliance addresses the interconnected challenges facing our world today, creating solutions that benefit people, protect our planet, and strengthen markets for sustainable economic growth.

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