Aligning Incentives: How Impact-Linked Finance supports reduction of chores for women
With Aqua for All, we piloted a forgivable loan model that rewards real-world impact – bringing affordable water tanks to rural households across Kenya.
Saving Time, Changing Lives: Transforming the Care Economy
The Care Economy is often defined narrow but it’s really about saving time from daily chores that too often fall back on women.
Beyond Traditional Results-Based Financing
We worked on a pilot of impact linked incentive payments that go beyond measuring the number of products sold.
Financing Rural Farmers in Uganda through Mobile Money
Pioneering climate finance at the grassroots level in a Uganda pilot to test our model assumptions from Kenya
Bidhaa Sasa raises $500,000 in inventory finance for charcoal stoves
After a long due diligence process finally some relief for our stock situation.
Empowering Rural Women through Training: Our New Partnership with Siemens Foundation
We always used to meet our community ambassadors regularly and they asked for training beyond the products we sell. Now we can deliver that.
Scaling Impact: Our Journey with Miller Center’s GSBI Accelerator
“Participating in the GSBI Accelerator programs in 2018 and 2022 was transformative for Bidhaa Sasa, equipping us with the mentorship and resources needed to scale our impact and empower more women in rural communities.”
Reaching the Last Mile: How Social Networks Power Bidhaa Sasa’s Success
The Clean Cooking Alliance interviews our CEO and Co-Founder Rocío
Building a Smarter Backbone: Digitizing Our Last-Mile Operations
In last-mile operations, digitisation is king – our new CRM and ERP system, built with support from the Clean Cooking Alliance, is helping us scale smarter and faster.
Learning to Scale the Hard Way: Our Expansion to Uganda
In 2019, Bidhaa Sasa expanded to Uganda, applying a lean, experiment-driven approach to scaling—just months before one of the world’s strictest Covid lockdowns tested every assumption.