About Us
Welcome to African Centre For Poverty Aleviation Strategy. We are a Non-Profit Organization (NGO) based in Ghana and founded on the 20th of September, 2020. Our focus and desire is to improve the lives of people and gradually alleviate poverty by helping with the growth of Small Informal Enterprises (SIEs).
- African Centre for Poverty Alleviation Strategy (ACPAS), aims to provide a think-tank to research, advocate and implement poverty alleviation strategies at the micro level to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially the Goal One, which is to end poverty in all forms everywhere – zero poverty – by the year 2030.
Vision
Mission
Core Values
- Creative
- Passionate
- Aspiring
- Service
Our Operations
SUPPORTING THE BUSINESSES OF THE POOR
- Introducing the poor to efficient technology-based production and marketing.
- Seeking funding to grow efficient, and profitable businesses of the poor.
- Creating locally made, low-cost technology to improve the business operations of the poor.
- Supporting agro-based enterprises to create employment and food security to the poor.
CREATING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE POOR
- Identify and design, through scientific research, skill sets, attitudes, and products that are feasible and marketable at specific local contexts.
- Introduce, train, and support the poor to engage in such feasible business opportunities.
Our Stratey
Our first step is to collate data on target groups to find out their poverty status, and skill set. We then seek funding for viable enterprises and provide provide management services. We also offer guidance in product development and ensure quick and effective marketing of the product.
APAS then Offers net profits to the poor from their supported businesses, but we ensure they save at least 10% of the net profit to create wealth that will ultimately lift them out of poverty.
Our Model
Our focal strategy is to empower the poor to lift themselves out of their debilitating plight through skill acquisition and enterprise development.
We also provide modern business support services to the poor, and seek finance for their potentially profitable enterprises.
Our Activities
Our Major Activities include:
- Data gathering, analyzing and publishing on poverty alleviating Strategies
- Devising strategies for food security.
- Facilitating poverty reducing entrepreneural projects.
- Offering consultancy services to busieness of the poor.
- Microfinancing the poor.
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