KickStart International is a nonprofit social enterprise founded in Kenya in 1991 with a mission to enable millions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to make a lot more money and climb out of poverty. To succeed, it develops, mass produces, and widely promotes high-quality irrigation tools that enable smallholder farmers to harvest high-value crops year-round—independent of the rains—sell at high prices in the off seasons, and adapt to climate change. KickStart sells and distributes its easy-to-use, affordable, durable tools through sustainable local private-sector supply chains in 17 highest potential SSA countries. And it partners with a multitude of NGOs, United Nations (UN) and government agencies and private-sector players to: innovate new tools and new ways of educating and financing farmers; reach and educate farmers about irrigation; promote and distribute its irrigation tools; and advocate for the policies and funding that will enable widespread uptake of smallholder irrigation across SSA. To date, over 370,000 of KickStart’s irrigation pumps are in use by smallholders who are using them to gain year-round food and income security and lift their families out of poverty. But with only 4 percent of SSA irrigated (versus >40 percent in Asia) and an abundance of renewable surface and shallow ground water, there is a huge unmet need for food in the “hungry seasons,” and a huge potential for rapid scale-up of smallholder irrigation. KickStart is massively partnering and collaborating to scale its impacts and catalyze its goal to “Irrigate Africa.”