Our Solution: BOMA’s Adaptive models for Economic Inclusion

Through our Rural Entrepreneur Access Program (REAP), BOMA equips individuals and groups with the resources to launch sustainable businesses. Each participant receives seed funding, hands-on training, and mentorship to ensure long-term success.

Participants receive mentorship and training that covers:

Business
and
financial
management

Savings
and
resilience
building

Household
health
and
nutrition
best
practices

Shock
preparedness
and
resilience
building

Our Adaptive Solutions

REAP

Women's Economic Empowerment

Our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) model enables participants to gain essential life and money management skills, start their own sustainable businesses, and join savings groups to build resilience to future shocks. With support from mentors, households improve joint decision-making, better school enrollment/attendance, reduced childhood malnutrition and break the multi-generational cycle of poverty.

REAP for Climate Resilience

Climate Conscious Entrepreneurship

Africa’s drylands, and its people, are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change despite contributing the least to the problem. The people who call these regions home are facing impacts from prolonged droughts to devastating floods. In response, BOMA is creating a network of climate-conscious entrepreneurs who are committed to protecting and restoring the environment.

REAP for Nutrition

Fostering Household Nutrition

For many families in Africa’s drylands, a regular meal can be hard to come by — and a balanced one nearly impossible. As inflation and crises worsen, so does malnutrition. REAP for Nutrition prioritizes the nutrition of children and pregnant or breastfeeding women. Entire households, including men, are engaged in nutrition-centric education and interventions in addition to improvements in livelihood and savings.

REAP for Youth

A Beacon of Hope for Youth

Our youth-adapted model is designed to equip young women and men, ages 18-34, with tools and resources needed to build lasting livelihoods. Programs enroll an equal number of men and women and offers enhanced business training, coaching, and business development services. With a condensed 12-month timeline, it serves as a beacon of hope for young people.

REAP for Refugees

Economic Inclusion for Refugees

Our adapted approach is designed to address the unique and intertwined challenges faced by refugees, displaced persons, returnees, asylum seeks, and host communities living in extreme poverty. By promoting economic and community integration, local representation, and advocacy within government spaces, we are helping to create complementary pathways to resiliency and success.

Partnering with Government for Scale

At the core of BOMA’s work is our goal to reach millions of extreme poor households across the drylands of Africa. To scale our approach, partnership with government is key. By leveraging existing social protection programming and the resources, data, policy, and knowledge of national and local government agencies, we can expand our reach, further adapt our model, and serve a more diverse set of participants.

Our Approach Works!

Our Approach
Works!

509% Savings increase

32% Income increase

509% Savings increase

32% Income increase

81% Continued to operate a business

20% Increase in total business value

81% Continued to operate a business

SOURCE: UCDAVIS

KEY IMPACT MILESTONES

Our Impact to Date

Cumulative Reach

Participants Supported

Household Members Supported

Businesses Launched

Savings Group Established

Your Investment Makes a Difference!

With a 3:1 return on investment (ROI), every $1 spent generates $3 in community benefits, creating lasting economic change. So far, +170,000 participants have started +50,000 businesses growing our reach to +1 million individuals, building resilience and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty across Africa’s drylands.

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