Creating greater opportunities with social entrepreneurs

Currently, IKEA is present in over 50 markets around the world and with our global reach, we also acknowledge our responsibilities, both in how we do business and our impact globally and locally.

The pandemic continued and called for measures to mitigate the effects through the entire value chain. At the same time, the IKEA business continued to deliver important sustainability achievements and make improvements throughout the value chain to further reduce the IKEA climate footprint in absolute terms.

In 2020 Acumen and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship co-created a five-month accelerator that strengthened the work of 19 social enterprises across East Africa. These pioneers for positive change scaled up their business and impact, reaching more customers, finding new partners and supporting more people living in poverty.

Curious to know what systems change is and how the Dela programme supports the social entrepreneurs with their systems change strategies? Watch this short animation to find out.