The Africa!Ignite core team and our associates are well qualified and experienced professionals. We are therefore able to also offer various consulting services as the need arises. What makes the organisation’s inputs so valuable is the fact we have established our own SMMEs as local tourism hubs in and SMME incubators, and in the process have built a knowledge base and have learned valuable lessons ‘on the ground’, which are not always available elsewhere. While we have an inclusive approach, we work with mainly local youth and women to co-develop businesses, tourism itineraries, routes, experiences and accommodation offerings based on the local assets, from skills and traditional knowledge, to cultural, physical, environmental and financial assets. We help create linkages with other sectors such as arts and crafts, agriculture, agro-processing, biodiversity industries, construction and manufacturing. The organisation has therefore gained more than 15 years of practical learning, and has a deep understanding of what works and what does not work in rural communities, how to navigate the political and local governance landscapes and reach the community members most in need of opportunities and support. We have an appreciation of the challenges faced by communities – and in particular youth – and how to overcome these. We can therefore add tremendous value to projects through sharing of our own knowledge and experience in addition to presenting the findings from desktop analysis and primary data collection.
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We regularly consult on projects to help develop and support SMMEs and emerging entrepreneurs, especially in Tourism, Craft, Art and Small Scale Farming. We offer general business consulting services as well as training and mentorship.
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We have over the years conducted many feasibility studies, especially in the Tourism space.
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Our team can offer both accredited and non-accredited training and can run learnerships on behalf of accredited partners. We support various organisations with ad-hoc or ongoing training, facilitation or learnerships, e.g.
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While we run our own tourism programmes, we also provide services to other organisations who wish to develop tourism initiatives. Once developed, we can add new products to itineraries which are sold to various local and international tour operators.
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We run bespoke projects that speaks to the specific needs of our clients.
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This is a relatively new area for Africa!Ignite we have been asked on many occasions to add this to our repertoire. Small scale farming and agro-processing ads additional opportunities for livelihoods in the areas where we work, and add and additional product stream for our WOWZULU/WOWAFRICA MArketplaces and WOWBIZ Centre. We run training programmes to teach people to make food gardens in small spaces, and to make various products form harvested or agricultural waste materials. We work with partners should the need for larger interventions arise.
