Case Studies

What will you find in a case study?

The Care Economy Knowledge Hub aims to address the knowledge gap around care businesses by showcasing various business models and creating a resource base for relevant stakeholders. These case studies present care economy social innovations and impactful businesses, helping to demonstrate viable and impactful business models. They present a wide variety of ways in which care work can be recognized, rewarded, reduced and redistributed, from different sectors and geographies, to different stages of the growth journey and business models, to different products and services. The case studies offer a unique and nuanced understanding of the businesses’ theories of change and impact journeys. They also help to share the lessons these innovators have learned on their pathways to scale, and it is our hope that they will attract more capital into the care economy for deepened impact.

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Africa

Bidhaa Sasa – Kenya: Bidhaa Sasa is a for-profit company that supplies a range of products to customers in rural communities of Kenya.

BURN Manufacturing – Kenya: BURN Manufacturing is a Kenyan for-profit enterprise that designs, manufactures, and distributes fuel-efficient cooking appliances.

Emerging Cooking Solutions – Zambia: Emerging Cooking Solutions is a for-profit company that manufactures and distributes SupaMoto® clean-burning stoves and biomass cooking fuel for low-income urban families and businesses in Zambia.

Jazza Centre – Kenya: Jazza Centre is a for-profit social enterprise in Kenya that trains domestic workers, primarily vulnerable young and middle-aged women.

Powerstove Energy – Nigeria: Powerstove Energy is a social enterprise based in Nigeria that provides cookstoves and biomass pellets for clean household cooking.

Strong Start – Kenya: Strong Start is a for-profit company that provides caregivers and domestic staff in Kenya with technical skills training in early childhood development, household management, self advocacy and job search training.

Tiny Totos – Kenya: Tiny Totos is a social enterprise that aims improve informal daycare by partnering with private, informal daycare entrepreneurs and delivering training and investment to upgrade standards, foster business sustainability and deliver improved care to children in Kenya and Rwanda.

Xalco – Kenya: Xalco Limited is a Kenyan enterprise that addresses the health and care needs of the elderly, including elderly people with disabilities and post-hospitalized patients.

Asia

ATEC – Bangladesh & Cambodia: ATEC is a for-profit entity that provides sustainable, affordable and accessible clean cooking products for base of the pyramid households in Bangladesh and Cambodia. Fair Employment Foundation (FEF): FEF is the parent organization for an integrated set of market solutions to prevent forced labor among migrant domestic workers across Asia by addressing deficiencies in the recruitment system. HelloTask – Bangladesh: HelloTask is a for-profit online platform connecting domestic workers to potential employers in Bangladesh. Jupviec – Vietnam: JupViec is a platform that recruits, trains and connects domestic workers to customers in Vietnam. The company’s work has led to reduction in care work in households through provision of services by trained workers. Nazava Water Filters – Indonesia: Nazava is a for-profit enterprise that produces affordable gravity based ceramic household water filters, replacing the need to boil water on wood or LPG. Phulki – Bangladesh: Phulki is a non-profit enterprise that provides affordable daycare facilities for children of low-income households in urban areas of Bangladesh.

Latin America

aeioTU – Colombia: aeioTU is a social enterprise created and led by women that develops the full potential of children to transform communities in an innovative and sustainable way.

Best Care – Honduras: Best Care has a network of caregivers in several countries around the world that provide care, assistance, and support services to people, both in hospitalization and at home.

Hogaru – Colombia: Hogaru is a digital platform that provides housekeeping, cafeteria and childcare services in Colombia.

Homely – Mexico: Homely is a digital platform that connects clients with a trusted cleaning professional for their home or office more easily, quickly, and securely.

Symplifica – Colombia: Symplifica is an innovative platform that seeks to provide social security and extralegal benefits to domestic workers and nannies.

Tierra Grata – Colombia: Tierra Grata is a social enterprise that provides access to clean energy, drinking water, and safe sanitation.