Target where your grant compounds. Prove the move.
Foundations work in grant cycles and board reports. OSE gives you the targeting lens — including the gender lens — the complementarities that make grants compound, and the longitudinal evidence to attribute what changed.
Well-targeted grants need a map that most funders do not have.
Support for women entrepreneurs, for instance, is rarely placed where the gender gap actually is; grants to isolated programmes dilute where a coupled bundle would compound; and the board asks for counterfactuals nobody pre-registered.
- Women-focused structures that do not track the countries where parity is lowest.
- Grants to single programmes when the evidence favours coupled bundles.
- Overlaps with other funders discovered after commitment.
- Board reporting that demands attribution without a measured baseline.
Measured on the live base — never declared.
Aligned Gender Index × ecosystem
Economic, social and representation dimensions (0–100) for 53 African countries, crossed with the share of women-focused support structures in each country's registry (‰ of actors).
Complementarities that compound
Association-rule complementarities between boosts — Test→Proto ×20.7, Sales→Market ×11.5, Team→Mentor ×9 — and the strongest VRIO bundle (L2 Cognitive ↔ L3 Relational).
Gaps by layer and by city
Coverage of the 5 layers and 14 boosts at the level of the urban module, where 68.4% of the variation lives.
Longitudinal attribution
10+ years of measured profiles for pre-registered comparison groups; methodology reviewed by the scientific council.
Three results that change the decision.
Published or replicated on the OSE database — the same numbers you will find in OSE Expert.
The social dimension lags far behind the economic one.
Across 53 African countries the Aligned Gender Index averages 49 (from 29 in Mauritania to 79 in Mozambique); the social dimension averages 19/100, the economic dimension 63/100. 9 countries have political representation without economic autonomy; 16 the reverse.
Women-focused support does not follow the parity gap.
The correlation between the Aligned Gender Index and the density of women-focused structures in the OSE registry is weak (ρ ≈ +0.13). Example: Morocco, AGI 50/100, rank 21/53 in Africa — 2 women-focused structures out of 604 (3.3‰). The targeting gap is measurable, and fundable.
Team-building compounds with mentoring — fund the bundle.
Association rules on the OSE base: organizations offering team support are 9× more likely to offer mentoring; testing and prototyping co-occur ×20.7. Grants to coupled bundles compound; grants to isolated programmes dilute.
Sources: COTEE replication on the OSE database (WGI 2023, World Bank outcomes); Guéneau et al. (2026), Journal of Business Venturing Insights; Aligned Gender Index (World Bank Gender Statistics); AEEI (africa.ecosystem.build). Measures are computed live in OSE Expert.
What you get.
Targeting diagnosis
Where grants will compound and where they will dilute, in your geography of focus — with the gender lens built in.
Portfolio dashboard on OSE Expert
Quarterly tracking of funded organizations against their peer set; intervention map shareable with co-funders.
Impact attribution
Pre-registered counterfactual, comparison groups, scientific-council-reviewed methodology: the evidence pack your board accepts.
Three steps, no commitment before the first.
- 1
Portfolio review
Your geography read through gender, layer and complementarity lenses — live, in 30 minutes.
- 2
Target and pre-register
Targeting diagnosis and a pre-registered baseline for the grants you commit.
- 3
Track and attribute
Quarterly dashboard, then an attribution assessment reviewed by the scientific council.
Other audiences.
- Governments & Ministries
- Donors & DFIs
- Gulf Sovereign (GCC)
- Embassies & Bilateral
- Investors & VCs
- Researchers & Universities
- Founders & Entrepreneurs
Galaxy OSE observes; ADALIA trains; EERS advances the science. See how they combine →
Place the next grant where it compounds.
Thirty minutes on the live base, with the gender lens on your geography of focus.