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9789460221552

Facilitating Pro-Poor Business : Why Advice Goes Further When It’s Backed by Investment

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    9789460221552

  • ISBN10:

    9460221556

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-08-31
  • Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

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Summary

In development cooperation there is a trend that the private sector is seen as an integral part of the solution to reduce poverty. As a result pro-poor businesses emerge, involving actors such as private businesses, the public sector, farmer organizations and NGOs. There are some challenges in bringing these different actors together in a social enterprise. Generally, there is a need for a facilitator to align interests, bridge cultural differences, fill gaps in skills, and deal with power differences, wrong expectations and prejudice. The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) has experience in playing this role. But over time this role has changed from being an advisor with little mandate to act and no ownership to being a full business partner, backed by investment. Through this new role they have achieved more direct influence on the conditions under which smallholders are active participants in business. But other roles are also important. The five cases in this bulletin (ginger in Sierra Leone, tuna in Ghana, organic cocoa on the Dominican Republic, biodiesel in Mali and a trade house in Mali) illustrate that each type of facilitating role has its advantages and disadvantages, and that there are many factors a good facilitator needs to take into account when bringing together the public and private sector and civil society to form a pro-poor business. The hope is that other organizations recognize themselves in these roles and are inspired to make similar (or better) choices so more people will benefit.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. 5
What is this bulletin about?p. 5
Who is the bulletin for?p. 5
Parts of the bulletinp. 6
How was the book produced?p. 9
The writeshop processp. 6
Writeshop advantagesp. 7
Facilitating pro-poor businessesp. 9
Introductionp. 9
The role of the facilitatorp. 9
Changing position, responsibilities and challenges of actors involved in pro-poor businessesp. 11
Private sectorp. 11
Producers and local tradersp. 14
Public sectorp. 15
Ngos and donorsp. 16
Tensions between different actorsp. 16
Bridging business and development - in practicep. 19
Sourcing ginger from Sierra Leone: no success without transparency and communicationp. 21
Introductionp. 21
Reviving the ginger industryp. 21
Need for a full mandatep. 25
Inclusion of small producersp. 25
Communication and leadership is to be blamedp. 26
The futurep. 26
Supporting sustainable tuna fishing in Ghanap. 27
Introductionp. 27
Starting a new partnershipp. 27
Exploratory stagep. 28
KIT's evolving rolesp. 31
Pro-poor impact ù more potential than facts so farp. 32
Achieving transparencyp. 33
Organic Cocoa Dominican Republic S.A.p. 35
Introductionp. 35
The start-up processp. 35
KIT Reflections on changing rolesp. 38
Pro-poor business vs. conventional business approachesp. 38
Processing biodiesel from jatropha with smallholders in Malip. 41
Overviewp. 41
How a biofuel business was bornp. 41
Jarropha goes globalp. 42
Overcoming constraintsp. 44
KITs changing rolep. 45
Designing for pro-poor impactp. 45
Towards good governancep. 33
Yiriwa SA: Setting up a trade house for organic products made in Malip. 47
Introductionp. 47
Growing organic - responding to demandp. 47
KIT reflectionsp. 49
KITs changing role: from advisor to active shareholderp. 53
Seeking pro-poor impactp. 54
Governancep. 55
Facilitating pro-poor businesses: what have we learned?p. 57
Lessons from casesp. 57
Changing positions of pro-poor business partnersp. 59
The involvement of a knowledge institute in pro-poor businessp. 60
Contextualizing rolesp. 61
Final reflectionsp. 63
Epiloguep. 65
Common problems with business plansp. 67
A local network in the South is crucialp. 68
Public funding is neededp. 68
New investmentsp. 69
The futurep. 69
Resourcesp. 71
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