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Designing, Activating, and Empowering a Digital Community of Informal Micro-entrepreneurs
Authors Mastercard Strive
With the support of
This publication offers practical insights and lessons from MESH, the first online community for young entrepreneurs in Kenya’s economy.
Since its founding in 2021, MESH has built and empowered a digital community of more than 400,000 informal micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya. This publication is organized into two parts. The first focuses on lessons and insights on building and empowering an online community; the second focuses on designing an agile monitoring, evaluation, and learning approach.
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