Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Assessment

New Silk Roads conducted an assessment of Tripoli’s entrepreneurship landscape, with a focus on identifying sustainable and systemic opportunities to strengthen the ecosystem for marginalised groups. Our team used a mixed methods approach composed of surveys, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions.

Our approach was rooted in ILO's Inclusive Entrepreneurship Framework and the Isenberg Model, which organises the entrepreneurial environment into six interconnected pillars: human capital, policy and regulation, access to finance, culture and social norms, support services and infrastructure, and market access. Our study also integrated three cross-cutting dimensions: gender and social inclusion, conflict sensitivity, and environmental sensitivity.