Narrative of the artifact of the previous slideshare

1. MOOC FFD Final Project Social Entrepreneurship Artefact
The artefact above depicts a social entrepreneurship initiative being proposed to solve Ghana’s filth
and unemployed graduates’ problem. So Ghana, the West African country is seriously challenged with
water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues. The country surpassed the MDG target for access to
drinking water with coverage increasing from 53 per cent in 1990 to 86 per cent in 2011 according to
Water Aid1
. However, these statistics hide major developmental issues such as reliability of water
services, poor maintenance of facilities/systems and poor water quality. Progress in the area of
sanitation is much less impressive. Current trends suggest that Ghana is likely to attain only about 15
per cent coverage by 2015; far below the MDG target of 54 per cent (Water Aid, 2014).
Graduate unemployment is another canker the country is battling with and this is a real time bomb. A
study conducted by Boateng and Ofori (2002) hinted that about 98 per cent of unemployed graduates
raised the need for financial assistance and entrepreneurship skill development assistance to be able
to start their own businesses.
Clearly, given the foregoing, there is an opportunity: deploying unemployed graduates into water
sanitation and hygiene. By so doing, one would have given the youth employment and at the same
time contribute to solving the filth problem.
The artefact therefore depicts the model envisioned: resources are pulled from sources including
government of Ghana (through the Youth Enterprise Support scheme), crowdfunding (from
community members), donor agencies (ODA) and the private sector (Corporate Social Responsibility)
to create a wash fund. Unemployed graduates are then taken through wash entrepreneurship training
after which they work with a mentor to come up with a business plan. The business then gets a seed
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Financing of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Ghana, June 2014

2. MOOC FFD Final Project Social Entrepreneurship Artefact
money from the fund to commence business. Some of the start-ups foreseen include water storage
services, mobile toilet services, waste management, etc.….