The Argidius Foundation supported international market-driven business development initiatives to alleviate poverty since 1992. Yunus Social Business Foundation (YSB) Global Initiatives was launched in 2011 as a non-profit social venture fund that aimed to bring sustainable solutions to social problems through growing social businesses. In January 2016, the Argidius Foundation entered into a four-year partnership with YSB, aimed at supporting its social entrepreneurship acceleration and financing services in Uganda and scale them in the East Africa region.

Argidius contracted MarketShare Associates (MSA) to carry out an external evaluation of its support to YSBU, focused on assessing YSBU’s acceleration, businesses development, and financing services to social businesses (SBs) in the East Africa region. MSA also conducted an impact case study of one of YSBU’s top performing investees.