Farouk Jiwa
Kenya
Sauve Scholar 2004-2005
Farouk Jiwa is the Director of CARE Enterprise Partners, a recently established unit of CARE Canada that seeks lasting solutions to poverty through market-based approaches designed to unleash entrepreneurship in developing countries.
Farouk is also the Co-founder and Director of Honey Care Africa, an innovative and successful private sector social enterprise promoting sustainable community-based beekeeping across Eastern Africa. Since its inception in 2000 Honey Care has grown considerably. Today it employs 50 staff and has helped over 9,000 rural households earn a supplementary income of US$ 180-250 per annum. It is also the largest producer of high quality honey and beeswax in the region.
Farouk has also worked with the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development in East Africa and served as a Consultant for the World Bank / IFC in the Balkans, the Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation in Tanzania, and CHF International in Ethiopia.
Farouk has received numerous international awards for his work, including the Equator Initiative Prize at the World Summit on Sustainable Development for his contribution to poverty reduction & biodiversity conservation, as well as the International Development Marketplace Innovation Award from the World Bank & Soros Open Societies Institute in 2002. Farouk received the World Business Award from the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum & UNDP in recognition of his contribution towards the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2004. In the same year, Farouk was awarded the Ismaili Youth Award for Entrepreneurship from His Highness Prince Amyn Aga Khan. At the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Farouk was recognised by the Schwab Foundation as among the World’s Most Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs. In 2005, he received the Bryden Alumni Award from York University.
He is an Aga Khan Foundation Scholar as well as a Sauvé Scholar (McGill University) and holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business & Environment from the Schulich Business School and a BSc. (Honours, First Class) in Environmental Biology from Queen’s University, all in Canada.
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