One of the 6 projects prototyped during the Hack With Refugees week-end in Brussels

1. Abu Mahmood, Jordan, Syrian pizza shop owner
Entrepreneurs Without Boundaries (EWB)

2. The Opportunity
Refugees entrepreneurs create employment
opportunities for themselves and for their host
country nationals - UNHCR Innovation
“They are not the type of people that would sit around, cross their
hands and wait for you to do something for them. They are actually
very creative and very active.” - UNHCR Innovation

3. Refugee
Candidates
Experienced
Businessperson
Aspiring
Entrepreneur
Freelancer
Artisan
Merchant





- Replicate Business
- Extrapreneur
- Found Startup
- Join Startup
- Self-employed
- Employee
- Open office/shop
- Employee
- Open workshop
- Employee

4. Our Solution (1)

5. Our Solution (2)

6. Our Solution (3)

7. A Marketplace
Mentors Cultural
mediators
Entrepreneurs of the
same communities
EWB
Alumni
Companies
with needs Refugees
Entrepreneurs

8. Micro-Hubs
EWB Micro-hubs dedicated to refugees entrepreneurs

9. Revenue streams
• Access fee to the platform and the “connectors”
• Success fee from each individual successful entrepreneurial project
• Crowdfunding / Crowdlending campaign (counterparts = products / services
from refugee entrepreneurs)
(and little bit later)
• Social Impact Bond to support an initiative that saves government money

10. Today - A first prototype
1st EWB Micro-hub
sourced via
Oksygen Lab, i-Propeller
Mentoring pool
Koksijde, Petit Château, Rixensart
HERE !
Interviewers
Some of you and / or
your networks
Tapping refugees’
entrepreneurIal potential
Positive–minded
companies
Some of you and / or
your networks
A Marketplace

11. Tomorrow - Our call to build a sustainable ecosystem
Tapping refugees’
entrepreneurial potential
Network of Micro-hubs
Positive-minded
companies
Mentoring Pool
Interviewers
(Micro-)Funding
Entrepreneurs
Without Boundaries
Admin/accounting service
[Entrepreneurs
of same origin]

12. Tomorrow – A multi-stakeholders & cooperative governance
• Objective : set up a co-op steered by representatives of the different stakeholders
Refugees
NGOs
Hosting
centers
Micro-
Hubs
Coaching
Pool
(Micro-)
Funding
Companies
/ Sectorial
Assoc.
EBW Team
Admin /
HR services

13. After tomorrow - Refugees Social Impact Bond
● Objective : Issue Social Impact Bonds as a new revenue stream
● Social Impact Bonds fund services that will save government money
Asylum & Migration
government agency
Entrepreneurship
Without Boundaries
Impact investor 1
Impact investor 2
Impact investor 2
● EWB promises to achieve
outcomes
● Government makes payment
when outcome is achieved
Refugees
EWB works with refugees and
partners and report progress
EWB promises return to
investors if successful
Impact investors
fund EWB
Partners

14. APPENDIX

15. The EWB Ecosystem
Refugees
• Skills
• Entrepreneurial
DNA
• New perspectives
• Professional activity
• Income
• Fulfilling projects
• CV / résumé
(Micro-)Funding
• Funding skills
• Funds
• New customers
• New businesses
Admin / Legal
Support
• # Administration skills
• # Knowledge of the
regulatory landscape
• New businesses /
customers
• CSR / Reputation
Coaching Pool
• Coaching skills
• New challenges
• Extended business
Successful entrepreneurs
of the same origin
• Success stories
• Role models
• Cultural connectors
• Support to compatriots
• Quickly actionable skills
HR Services
• Recruitment skills
• Skills mapping
abilities
• Updated pool of
talents
• Reputation / CSR
Companies /
Sectorial Associations
• Money
• Structure
• Projects
• Skills
• New mindsets
• Resources for
development projects
• Reputation / CSR
RESOURCES NEEDS
Micro-Hubs
• Physical place
• Interactions with
other entrepreneurs
• New customers
• New businesses
• Diversity