KAGALI Green Ventures

Kagalifood - a sustainable green bicycle delivery service that supplies customers with delicious dishes from select restaurants in Kampala. The food is also packaged in a biodegradable manner. 

When we begin removing the dominance of cars and motorcycles and invest in more sustainable and human mobility options for business like biking (Cycling); we’re having a direct and positive impact on the physical, social and mental health of our citizens. Our solution offers a sustainable and environmentally conscious green delivery for our communities who order their meals through our  60+ partner restaurants deliverd to them in a biodegradable packaging and by bicycle.  

Sustainable delivery.

Our couriers only ride bicycles so that not a single gram of CO2 is released into the atmosphere. Restaurants only use biodegradable packaging for our deliveries so that everything is packaged gently and safely.

Unemployment in Kampala 

We are offering affordable opportunities for gig/ freelance workers in Kampala. Everyone with a bicycle and a smart mobile phone that's in good mechanical condition can be a courier. 

Real time & healthy delivery tracking

Customers get their food delivered on time. Cyclist can navigate freely through the heavy Kampala traffic and congestion to ensure they deliver on time and its healthy to cycle. 

In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report, which found that global warming is advancing more quickly than expected.

In Uganda, this means we are likely to have hotter and drier weather, more regular droughts and harsher bushfire weather. We’ll also have more intense and extreme rainfall events, severe thunderstorms and increased flooding from rising sea levels.

Our planet is undergoing climate change, and yet unsustainable delivery service business mobility models is one of Uganda's biggest contributors to carbon emissions and pollution.

 In Uganda, 98% delivery services use motorcycles and cars to move packages and food around and this has contributed enormously to the emission of greenhouse gases and  especially carbon dioxide and nitrogen which have become a danger to the environment. 

The issue of the “last mile”—the final step in the delivery process when a package goes from transportation hub to customer—has become a headache for our cities, where delivery trucks cause congestion and spew carbon emissions as they drop off more and more packages.

My solution serves everyone in Uganda that inhabits the urban and rural space in one way or the other. But most importantly,  the low income earners in Uganda who might not be able to afford motorbikes or cars as entry into the delivery service industry.  

With my solution,  they are able to earn directly income and a healthy regimen for their deliveries made using their bicycles.  

?There's no better way of rapidly reducing transport CO2 emissions than investing in #MoreCycling for communities.

We have ( and still are) engaging potential users in the prototype design and development of the solutions including potential couriers, community leaders and concerned members ( our potential clients) of the community who are appalled and disturbed by the effects of air pollution,  congestion, etc and who have rallied behind our cause to support us donating bicycles, demanding that community leaders enforce mandatory designated Cycling lanes and sustainable business practices for the future of a livable lively city. 

We are also collaborating with organizations such as Reform Africa -- a Ugandan company that makes biodegradable packaging,  recycled plastics into useful materials,  bags etc to co-create and prototype our packaging and courier bags because we are fully committed to conscious environmentally friendly design practices. 

We have been part of focus groups including the European Cycling Federation,  Dutch Cycling Embassy, World Bicycle Relief, International Cargo Bike Festival, Conscious Mobility, African Cycling Association,  European Transport Safety Council among others. 

As per our research;

•  the product lifestyle of a bicycle is 93% lower than that of a car in terms of Carbon dioxide per traveled Kilometer. 
• Cycling to work enhances productivity and decreases sick leave among employees.  
• Cycling provides poor people access to socioeconomic opportunities.
•  Cycling is inclusive: More women, children and the elderly can cycle as well.  

• Helped us Define our Product Features

The prototype stage is helping us gain greater clarity of our service features and functionality. At this stage, we have been able to expand our product idea and build finely detailed service attributes into our idea including the use of biodegradable packaging as part of our offerings so that we can be a fully environmentally conscious brand. 

• Helped us Test And Sell Our Idea.

At this stage, we have been able to interview future potential customers in areas of Kampala city ( approximately 500 people have responded to our impact surveys) to learn about their needs and expectations by Co-creation with them. The interviews have helped us better understand our market gap and opportunity to create a solution people need and will pay for.

Also, we have been successful at creating a clickable prototype that incorporates our value proposition refined from the insights gained through customer interviews.

This stage affords us the luxury to design an irresistible pre-sale offer for our product and present it to our interviewees while using our prototype to demonstrate the value proposition.

• Allowed us to raise seed Capital,  Grants and  Funds

Our prototype is attracting supporters and potential investors engaging them with our value proposition through visuals, and better yet, functional solutions.

Our solution utilizes a mobile apllication technology to allow both the consumer and courier to achieve the desired results.  The client simply has to make an order through our mobile apllication or web apllication.  And then couriers are pinged through the Application to get the orders. Also onboarded restaurants can get real-time  notifications for every order made at the restaurant. 

Our solution aims to serve directly  and meaningfully over 5000 people onboarded as couriers and 10,000 as customers for the first year.

• we intend to create over 5000 work opportunities for low income rural and urban female & male dwellers in Kampala Uganda who will become our cyclist couriers and operations staff. 

• Reduce our Carbon footprint and contribute innovative solution to climate change  by rolling out over 5000+ bicycle courier delivery means which contribute 0% Carbon dioxide.  

• Save over several 10,000 tonnes of plastic by using biodegradable packaging solutions used by our couriers while on their delivery trips.  

• Contribute to healthy wellbeing and living conditions for our Cycling community through cycling. 

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS THAT ALIGN WITH OUR SOLUTION.

• SDG 3 - Goodhealth & Wellbeing: Cycling is healthy for the body that's why our team loves Cycling for business.  

• SDG 7- Affordable & Clean Energy: Bicycles release 0% Carbon dioxide and are very affordable for all. 

• SDG 11- Sustainable cities & Communities: The future of sustainable cities is ecologically friendly and conscious mobility.  We are for this.

• SDG 13- Climate Action: We contribute to averting the effects of climate change by using conscious and sustainable tools including biodepackaging and bicycles for business.  Our carbon footprint is reduced way alot. 

• SDG 8- Decent work and Economic Growth: We provide decent work opportunities for freelance workers and low income urban and rural dwellers in Kampala, Uganda 

HOW WE WILL MEASURE OUR PROGRESS 

• The number of customers and revenue generated especially as a result of those that opt to use our platform for their daily meal deliveries. 
• The number of people that are onboarding onto our platform as couriers and riders. 
• The number of restaurants that choose to partner with our sustainable platform.  
• The tonnes of plastic saved  from endangering our ecological ecosystem by using our biodegradable packaging solutions.  
• Our carbon footprint summation for those opting to use Cycling as a delivery service alternative.  

• Identification with cycling

Cycling has a number of negative stereotypes. In contexts like Uganda where many individuals still aspire to automobile ownership as a status symbol, cycling is associated with poverty. Conversely, the dominant image of a “cyclist” in certain contexts is associated with that of an able-bodied, wealthy, black man. Cycling is also often perceived as solely for recreation or sport. This excludes certain groups from identifying with this mode as transportation or delivery business.

• Access to cycles

While cycling is a relatively affordable mode of transportation, the purchase of a bicycle, as well as perceived maintenance costs and fear of theft, can create barrier for low-income demographics. The high cost of specialised cycles such as e-bikes or adapted cycles also creates a barrier for people with disabilities or elderly populations.

• Funding challenges 

Since we are at prototype stage. Our ideas need funding to ensure we improve on our technology and user experience, acquire bicycles, biodegradable packaging bags, rent premises for our dispatches, onboard restaurant partners, marketing, staff salaries, paraphernalia, among others.

• Cultural barriers

Uganda's motorcycle, Car-centric street environments have hindered the perception of cycling as a viable transportation ( delivery service) option for many. Hence there's less lobbying of policy makers and dedicated transportation ministries and government agencies to ensure Cycling  infrastructures like roads are bicycle safe spaces including consciously and deliberately incorporating bicycle lanes, bicycle parking areas among others to make it easy for our couriers.

Our team is comprised of recent university graduates who are mobility conscious and climate activists. In our various capacities we have all worked, volunteered, donated, supported and are part of network groups promoting green mobility.  

For instance,  Wabwire Joseph Ian our C.E.O and Co-founder is a delivery mobility consultant having worked with Deliveroo in the UK as part of its youth focus advisory board and member of the World Bicycle Relief Network. He's also a member of the Global Cyclists Forum and a passionate cyclists using Cycling to raise funds for disadvantaged communities in Uganda. He also rides with KagaliFood prototype team as a messenger. 

Our Chief Product Officer Atite Prisca is a web and mobile Applications designer. A  developer with over 2 years experience working as intern for Glovo Uganda Technology team. She's passionate about coding and a member of the Coding in Heels network. Prisca brings her knowledge is website design, graphics and UX design to help set the pace for our product user experience.  She's also a passionate Cyclist. 

Our Chief Operations Officer Kisakye Nicholas is an experinced Program Lead helping us ensure our operations are in good books and managinour Cycling community Ambassodors in rural and urban Uganda. He brings his life experience having worked in the past as Programs Associate The Innovation Village Kampala(2019). With his experience, managing people and programs he's be a great resource to our operations platform including onboarding new couriers. 

Our Chief Financial Officer, Aiko Mills is a Certified Public Accounts Officer and a graduate with an Accounts Diploma. His role is to manage our financial operations ensuring they are in sync with our plans. He brings with him a wide experience having worked as Finance Associate Stanbic Bank, Accounts Lead at Standard Chattered Bank Uganda. He's passionate about Green Financing and leading our campaign for green financing in Uganda. 

KAGALIFOOD currently partners with several Cycling networks and associations including;

• World Bicycle Relief and Coop Africa who have helped provide bicycle grants for our prototype sessions and intend to provide more at our next stage of focus.  

• Copenhagenize Design Co . have helped us with the design of the technology and user experience including marketing and branding strategies when we get to pilot stage.

• Dutch Cycling Embassy, Uganda Cyclists Association,  Dutch Embassy in Uganda, Makere University Have provided a grant to prototype our solution and get it to activation stage. 

Our team is comprised of a teen female Product Designer, Atite Prisca who is directly involved in creating environmentally friendly solutions as part of KAGALI GREEN  VENTURES.  We would use the Prize to bolster our 2022 Piloting stage operations including rolling out our operations in various parts of our community, improving our technology, onboarding more consultants, lobbying leaders, research among others.