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Preface | p. 5 |
What is this bulletin about? | p. 5 |
Who is the bulletin for? | p. 5 |
Parts of the bulletin | p. 6 |
How was the book produced? | p. 9 |
The writeshop process | p. 6 |
Writeshop advantages | p. 7 |
Facilitating pro-poor businesses | p. 9 |
Introduction | p. 9 |
The role of the facilitator | p. 9 |
Changing position, responsibilities and challenges of actors involved in pro-poor businesses | p. 11 |
Private sector | p. 11 |
Producers and local traders | p. 14 |
Public sector | p. 15 |
Ngos and donors | p. 16 |
Tensions between different actors | p. 16 |
Bridging business and development - in practice | p. 19 |
Sourcing ginger from Sierra Leone: no success without transparency and communication | p. 21 |
Introduction | p. 21 |
Reviving the ginger industry | p. 21 |
Need for a full mandate | p. 25 |
Inclusion of small producers | p. 25 |
Communication and leadership is to be blamed | p. 26 |
The future | p. 26 |
Supporting sustainable tuna fishing in Ghana | p. 27 |
Introduction | p. 27 |
Starting a new partnership | p. 27 |
Exploratory stage | p. 28 |
KIT's evolving roles | p. 31 |
Pro-poor impact ù more potential than facts so far | p. 32 |
Achieving transparency | p. 33 |
Organic Cocoa Dominican Republic S.A. | p. 35 |
Introduction | p. 35 |
The start-up process | p. 35 |
KIT Reflections on changing roles | p. 38 |
Pro-poor business vs. conventional business approaches | p. 38 |
Processing biodiesel from jatropha with smallholders in Mali | p. 41 |
Overview | p. 41 |
How a biofuel business was born | p. 41 |
Jarropha goes global | p. 42 |
Overcoming constraints | p. 44 |
KITs changing role | p. 45 |
Designing for pro-poor impact | p. 45 |
Towards good governance | p. 33 |
Yiriwa SA: Setting up a trade house for organic products made in Mali | p. 47 |
Introduction | p. 47 |
Growing organic - responding to demand | p. 47 |
KIT reflections | p. 49 |
KITs changing role: from advisor to active shareholder | p. 53 |
Seeking pro-poor impact | p. 54 |
Governance | p. 55 |
Facilitating pro-poor businesses: what have we learned? | p. 57 |
Lessons from cases | p. 57 |
Changing positions of pro-poor business partners | p. 59 |
The involvement of a knowledge institute in pro-poor business | p. 60 |
Contextualizing roles | p. 61 |
Final reflections | p. 63 |
Epilogue | p. 65 |
Common problems with business plans | p. 67 |
A local network in the South is crucial | p. 68 |
Public funding is needed | p. 68 |
New investments | p. 69 |
The future | p. 69 |
Resources | p. 71 |
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