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21/08/2026

“When we talk about financial inclusion, we have to really include everybody.” — Asfaw Alemu, CEO, Dashen Bank

Through our partnership with Dashen Bank, the bank’s perspective on displacement-affected communities has evolved. This is why collaboration is essential to expanding access to finance.

By combining Dashen’s financial services with Inkomoko’s community relationships and market knowledge, we’ve been able to reach more entrepreneurs with relevant financial services, offering an example of how similar partnerships with banks and MFIs can expand access to finance.

Learn more about how the partnership began in an earlier episode of our INKOnversation podcast: https://shorturl.at/ciRt7

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12/08/2026

At 23 years old, Rahel and Ribka have turned a childhood ambition into a growing business.
What started with experimenting with natural ingredients at home is now Twins Herbal, with eight employees, daily orders, and customers in across Ethiopia.

They took an idea, tested it, improved what worked and turned it into products people now order from across the country. Their story shows what aspiration and innovation can look like when young people build solutions around real needs.

Twins Herbal already has demand beyond their home town of Assosa. The next opportunity is stronger retail and distribution. Beauty retailers, wholesale buyers, distributors and e-commerce platforms can partner with businesses like Twins Herbal to connect locally made products with more customers across Ethiopia.

🚨Inkomoko is seeking qualified consulting firms to support photography and videography field content collection in Et...
21/07/2026

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Inkomoko is seeking qualified consulting firms to support photography and videography field content collection in Ethiopia.

The assignments will ensure that authentic visual stories of entrepreneurs, programs, and communities are captured for use across our publications and digital platforms.

Apply Today!.

Submission Deadline: Monday27 July 2026

Access the full TORs and application details below:

here: https://tinyurl.com/rend37d7

Last week, Ethiopia's national World Refugee Day commemoration was held at Ura Refugee Site in Benishangul Gumuz. What U...
25/06/2026

Last week, Ethiopia's national World Refugee Day commemoration was held at Ura Refugee Site in Benishangul Gumuz. What UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency High Commissioner H.E. Dr. Barham Salih found there was a working economy.

Over 14,500 displacement-affected community members living and working alongside local residents. Children studying in the same classrooms. Entrepreneurs running businesses, serving customers, trading with neighbours.

Our MD Dawit Tilahun was there alongside H.E. Ashadli Hassan, RRS Director General Teyiba Hassan, and regional leaders to mark the day.

Across Bambasi, Sherkole, Tsorie, and Ura, Inkomoko teams led market linkage events connecting displacement-affected entrepreneurs with buyers and markets they could not reach alone. In Sherkole, those events ran for six days. These are functioning businesses with customers, cash flow, operating history, and room to grow.

The Makatet Roadmap, launched two days before the commemoration, gives this work policy weight. It sets a path toward self-reliant communities integrated with national services - legal status, bank accounts, business licences, and freer trade for the entrepreneurs we work with every day.

The direction is right. Private sector follow-through must move with it.

Economic inclusion is the mechanism that makes self-reliance possible. When displacement-affected entrepreneurs can access finance, trade legally, and connect to broader markets, they start contributing to the economies around them.

06/06/2026

Forcibly displaced entrepreneurs are not looking for charity. They are looking for market access, buyers, capital, and business systems that take them seriously.

At the Yemen Alkhair Bazaar in Addis Ababa, organized by Tomorrow is Better, member-led businesses showed what happens when entrepreneurs get the right platform. They sell. They connect. They build real market relationships.

As Dawit Tilahun, our Managing Director for Ethiopia, shares in this video, the private sector needs to see displaced communities as active market players. These entrepreneurs bring technical skills, market knowledge, and customer insight. They are potential clients, suppliers, and partners.

Financial inclusion is safety. When entrepreneurs can access markets, finance, and reliable business opportunities, they gain more room to make decisions, grow income, and build stability.

At Inkomoko, our market linkage services help bridge that gap by connecting small businesses to structured markets and stronger revenue opportunities.

REthink the displaced entrepreneur. REframe the opportunity. REspond with market access.

The private sector often pays consultancies to understand markets that refugee-led organizations already work inside.RLO...
22/05/2026

The private sector often pays consultancies to understand markets that refugee-led organizations already work inside.

RLOs know where trust sits, where demand is growing, and where entrepreneurs are being held back. That knowledge is operational, tested, and current.

In Addis Ababa, Tomorrow is Better is already doing this work: connecting women-led businesses to buyers, supporting small-business growth, and identifying entrepreneurs with the potential to scale.

For companies, investors, and financial institutions, partnering with an RLO is a market strategy. It cuts entry costs. It builds community trust faster than external programmes. It opens pathways for supplier development, customer research, and financial inclusion.

The organizations are already here. The market intelligence is already built.

This is what Inkomoko’s REframe campaign is calling for this World Refugee Day: economic inclusion is safety.
When people can work, earn, trade, and build, safety becomes more durable. For the private sector, that also makes economic inclusion a serious business case.

Read the full piece by Olive Ashimwe here: https://tinyurl.com/mr43nycd

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