Contact in Nicaragua for TecAp Hermogenes Zelaya, Technical Coordinator hermogenes@ideasnet.org Esteli, Nicaragua Telefonos: (505) 8643-1480 móvil Claro; (505) 7524-6655 Móvil Movistar International Contact for IDEAS and TecAp Carter Garber, Ph.D., Executive Director, IDEAS cgarber@ideasnet.org 1702 Dancing Fox Road, Decatur, GA 30032 USA Telephone: (1) 404-378-7544 Fax: (1) 404-378-9322 www.ideasnet.org
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Volunteer or Intern TecAp has operated on a shoe-string, so has always been fortunate to have a variety of volunteers. IDEAS can assist if you have made an arrangement with your university to get academic credit for being an intern. If you are interested in volunteering or interning, contact: Carter Garber, Executive Director of IDEAS […]
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Training on Microfranchising
IDEAS helps your organization learn how to do microfranchising IDEAS is a 35 year old international development organization that has worked for decades in women’s enterprise development. It also has evaluated over 100 women’s programs in Latin America, Africa, Asia and North America.
TecAp is the first microfranchise in Nicaragua Microfranchising, based on some of the advantages of the commercial franchising system but tailored to help replicate poor women’s microenterprises, has been very successful in Asia and Africa but is largely unknown in Latin America. An IDEAS study based on interviews of 50 enterprise development professionals in 2011 […]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Youth micro-technicians: TecAp’s second type of microfranchisees TecAp is one of the first microfranchises or even commercial franchises worldwide to have two different types of microfranchisees. The two sets of microfranchisees mutually reinforce each other The two types of microfranchisees are mutually reinforcing in selling solar energy TecAp has launched a second […]
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Solar & Tech
TecAp solves a financial problem so the poor have access to valuable, life-changing technologies TecAp works to identify solar and other appropriate technologies and to make those technologies available and affordable for the people that need them most. Some of the technologies that TecAp is looking into include solar energy, smokeless stoves (“improved cook stoves”), […]
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IDEAS has trained 76 “micro-technicians,” who are youth and women to be trained formally in how to diagnose the size, install & repair the solar roof-top systems. This provides them new employment while providing a local repair person for the hundreds of systems that have been installed but not gotten repair because the technicians live […]
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Women microfranchisees
TecAp assists women in rural Nicaragua to become microfranchisees. These rural women receive training on sales and marketing strategies so that they can successfully sell solar-powered products and promote larger systems of solar energy and labor saving technologies to their neighbors. This has succeeded in improving their incomes and their neighbors’ quality of life in […]
The Institute for Development, Evaluation, Assistance and Solutions (IDEAS) is a non-profit that has become a microfranchisor. It created a microfranchise, TecAp, which is an innovative technology program to assist women in rural Nicaragua to become microfranchisees. This means that TecAp trains the women microfranchisees about solar energy and other appropriate technologies. It also provides […]