Enterprise and Market

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Enterprise and Market Development Initiatives
NEW!
The SEEP Network Conference Call Presentation -
March 13, 2008
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Invitation
The SEEP Network invites you to get involved in
new Enterprise and Market Development
Initiatives

• LEARN
• ACCESS SERVICES
• VOLUNTEER

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NEW!
Enterprise Market Development Initiatives
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Common Goal
Linking communities of practice to advance
sustainable poverty eradication.
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What is the Enterprise Development Exchange?

• An interactive website
• A global community
• For experts and practitioners of all levels

LAUNCH DATE APRIL 2
edexchange.seepnetwork.org
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How can you benefit?
Access and post key publications, learning
tools, and announcements Network via
Profiles Learn and contribute to global
learning with - Ad hoc discussions -
with expert
facilitators
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How can you help?
Create the buzz, set the tone, invite your
partners, create your community, . . . and . . .
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Advisory Committee

• Policies
• Marketing
• Adjustments and Developments

4 days per year commitment. April 2008
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Provide Pre-Launch Information

• TO WELCOME USERS
• Fill out a Profile
• Share a promising practice
• Post events and announcements
• Launch a discussion

March 2128, 2008 1530 minutes
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Online Conference

• Urban Value Chain Development
• Overview of urban development
• Value Chain Development issues
• Adapting VCD to urban areas
• Value Initiative Launch

April 22May 15, 2008 - 13 hours per week
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Enterprise Development Exchange
Linking communities of practice to advance
sustainable poverty eradication.
mcvay_at_seepnetwork.org
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Volunteer Opportunities

• Advisory committee
• Profiles
• Events and announcements
• Discussion
• Urban Value Chain Development Conference
• Tagged experts
• Participate

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Market Facilitation Learning InitiativeMoving
from Market Assessment Design to Action
SEEP Market Development Working Group in
partnership with the Livelihoods Network 20082009
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Defining Market Development
Pro-Poor programming that assists enterprises and
households to participate in, and benefit more
from, the existing and potential markets in
which they do business as well as access
products and services
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Defining Market Development

• The Market Development Approach recognizes that
• Enterprises and households interact with larger
  market systems
• Programs seeking to promote pro-poor incomes,
  employment, and access to services and products
  must take market trends and forces into account
  to achieve sustainability and scaleable impact

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Why Market Facilitation?

• Wide body of guidance and tools on market
  research and program design available
• Far fewer resources exist on implementation to
  assist in
• working effectively through markets
• building relationships, trust and shared vision
  among market actors over time
• working with local market actors to enable them
  to pursue the opportunities identified
• strategic use of subsidiesboth in conception and
  disbursementto encourage risk-taking and scale
• promoting copy cats
• determining the pros and cons of different
  approaches to market facilitation, e.g. working
  via market systems vs. market actors

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Roots of the Facilitation Initiative

• Prioritized by both the SEEP MDWG Livelihoods
  Networks in 2007
• Opportunity to expand practitioner-led learning
  agenda on market facilitation practices and tools
  between the two global networks

• Livelihoods Network
• To promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and
  advocacy around livelihoods approaches
• 171 members
• Operating since 2005

• SEEP Network
• A global network connecting practitioners in a
  global learning community
• 73 member organizations
• Operating since 1985

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Market Facilitation Initiatives Objectives

• Advance facilitation practices based on SEEP and
  LN members needs and collective learning
• Identify existing resources and promote consensus
  learning in market facilitation to fill the gaps
• Develop practical tools and other resources for
  practitioners to achieve better implementation
  and impact
• Facilitate broader visibility and interactions
  among the global community of donors and
  practitioners in MD

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Outputs

• Review of facilitation literature and resources
  within the development, private, and public
  sectors
• Summary of challenges and opportunities in market
  facilitation as identified by practitioners
• Development of case studies and vignettes of
  market facilitation practices
• Compilation of existing and new tools and
  resources developed for market facilitation

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Opportunities for Participation

• Submission of literature, tools, program
  documents and case studies for the literature
  review (AprilJune, 2008, 1 day or less)
• Participation in the virtual conference on state
  of the practice in market Facilitation (September
  2008, up to 1 day)
• Conference calls and virtual community to
  identify agenda for tool and resource development
  (November 2008, 1 day)
• Participation in groups developing tools and
  other market facilitation resources (JanuaryMay
  2009, 1 day or less per month)
• Global Launch of Facilitation Tools and Resources
  via SEEPs Enterprise Development Exchange
  (JuneJuly 2009, 1 day or less to prepare and
  present)

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Benefits of Participation

• Development practitioners looking to promote
  quality programming in their agencies
• Practitioners interested in advancing the state
  of the practice in market-based programs
• Individuals seeking professional development
  opportunities for themselves and their colleagues

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For More Information
And to get involved Contact Tracy Gerstle and
Lucho Osorio tgerstle_at_chfinternational.org Luis.O
sorio_at_practicalaction.org.uk
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Social Enterprise Working Group
A Collaboration of Virtue Ventures and the SEEP
Network
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What Is Social Enterprise?
Social business will be a new kind of business
introduced in the marketplace with the objective
of making a difference in the world.
Mohammad YunusFounder, Grameen Bank and
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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Social Enterprise
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Definition of Social Enterprise
A nonprofit organization or socially oriented
venture that advances its social mission through
entrepreneurial market-based approaches to
increase its effectiveness and financial
sustainability with the ultimate goal of creating
social impact or change.
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Cause Célèbre
Social enterprise is a hot topic Garnered a
huge amount of attention media, universities,
practitioners, competitions Attracted
numerous new funders Venture philanthropists,
social investors, private philanthropists, and
business-oriented foundations Global
Participation Numerous practitioner networks
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What Social Enterprise can do for you

• Support market-based poverty alleviation
• Augment current approaches
• Cross-sector collaboration
• Open the door to more money and partners
• Improve sustainability and social impact
• Increase innovation
• Expand peer network
• Gain new tools and resources

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What you can do for Social Enterprise

• Share your knowledge, experience, and resources
• Help develop SE methodology and tools
• Engage the economic development sector in global
  cross-sector collaboration
• Lead a bottom-up approach to building the SE
  field
• Help advance a cohesive effort

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Working Group Objectives

• Summarize SEs benefits, synergies, and risks,
  related to other poverty alleviation practices
• Frame issues in a structure that lays the
  foundation for social enterprise methodology for
  poverty alleviation
• Capture stories and examples of existing social
  enterprises among SEEP members
• Determine if the Social Enterprise Working Group
  should be an ongoing concern of SEEP

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Underlying Assumption
Social enterprise has synergies with existing
poverty alleviation approachesvalue chain,
market development, and microfinanceand can
augment and add value to current initiatives as
well as provide new tools.
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Outputs

• Positioning paper about social enterprise
  applications in poverty alleviation
• SE Framework in international economic
  development/ poverty alleviation context
• Published summary of virtual conference
  discussion
• Stories and examples that illustrate SE framework
  
• Recommendations for moving forward
• Final SE positioning paper and framework

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Whats expected of you?
You may participate in any one or all of the
following

• Review/comment on 30-page positioning paper
• Use workspace or word (MayJune)
• Participate in virtual conference to develop SE
  framework
• Brainstorm framework (virtual and/or conference
  call)
• Periodic input (virtually over 6-week period,
  JuneJuly)
• Provide brief examples to illustrate framework
• Virtually over 4-week period (August)
• Provide input on recommendations going forward
• Virtually prior to AGM (September)

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How much time will it take?

• We welcome all levels of commitment
• Pick one or more outputs
• Two conference calls (TBA)
• Beginning June
• End September

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For More Information
And to get involved Contact Will
Morgan will_at_virtureventures.com
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The Value Initiative
Advancing Urban Value Chain Development Helping
millions of people work their way out of poverty
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The Value Initiative

• What is the Value Initiative?
• Why focus on urban areas?
• Why Value Chain Development?
• How will the Value Initiative work?
• How can you benefit?
• How can you contribute?

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The Value Initiative
Advancing urban value chain development
Helping millions of people work their way out of
poverty
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The Value Initiative
Grants for expansion planning, capacity building,
lateral learning Links to expansion funding
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Why Urban Value Chain Development?
Sustainable poverty eradication!
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The Value Initiative

• What is the Value Initiative?
• Why focus on urban areas?
• Why Value Chain Development?
• How will the Value Initiative work?
• How can you benefit?
• How can you contribute?

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The Urban Poverty Challenge
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL By the year 2015,
reduce by half the number of people living in
extreme poverty.
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The Urban Poverty Challenge
In 2008, for the first time in history, over half
of the worlds population will live in cities.
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The Urban Poverty Challenge
By 2030, 81 of the worlds population will live
in towns and cities in developing countries.
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The Urban Poverty Challenge

• Currently in developing countries
• one out of three people live in slums
• there are a billion people
• who make up a sixth of the worlds population

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Urban Potential

• In cities you find
• economic growth
• external investment and markets
• emerging culture and technology
• institutional and human resources

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How can we harness the resources of todays
cities to reduce poverty?
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Economic growth can create

• sustainable, large-scale benefits for the poor
• jobs, income, and real assets
• a strong tax base and infrastructure
• sustainable cities and stable society

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The Value Initiative
advances a local economic development strategy,
Value Chain Development, generating sustainable,
pro-poor growth.
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The Value Initiative

• What is the Value Initiative?
• Why focus on urban areas?
• Why Value Chain Development?
• How will the Value Initiative work?
• How can you benefit?
• How can you contribute?

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Value Chain a Market System
The businesses, institutions, and relationships
moving a product or service from beginning to
end, from raw material to finished product, from
concept to customer
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Embroidery, Pakistan
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Value Chain Development

• Strengthens the market system by
• Linking the poor to growing, higher value markets
• Developing vibrant, competitive industries
• Attracting private and social investment
• Increasing employment, income, and assets

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Embroidery, Pakistan

• Trained sales agents
• Facilitated market linkages
• Introduced pattern designers

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Embroidery, Pakistan

• 600,000 over 3 years
• Reached 9,000 home-bound women embroiderers
• Trained 185 profitable sales agents
• Increased income for engaged embroiderers
• Facilitated sustainable expansion new
  embroiderers and sales agents enter the market

• For most, income increased from zero to 170 per
  year
• For active workers, income increased from 70 to
  240 per year

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Making VCD Work Better

• Scaling up to reach millions
• Measuring and improving impact
• Attracting significant investment to expand local
  industries

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Making VCD Work in Cities

• Enhancing rural-urban linkages
• Strengthening retail and service markets
• Facilitating private supply of urban services
  (water, housing, electricity)
• Leveraging the urban presence of microfinance and
  other large urban institutions

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These challenges call for innovative and
practical solutions.

• Join the Value Initiative
• Mobilize experts and practitioners from related
  communities of practice
• Take advantage of grants, technical experts, and
  global exchange
• Expand our industry

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The Value Initiative
What will the Value Initiative look like?
Thats up to you.
And others who get involved.
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The Value Initiative

• What is the Value Initiative?
• Why focus on urban areas?
• Why Value Chain Development?
• How will the Value Initiative work?
• How can you benefit?
• How can you contribute?

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Two Programs

• Sustainable Scale-Up
• Urban Value Chain Development

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Sustainable Scale-up Program

• For Advanced Value Chain Developers
• To
• Go to the next level
• Develop sustainable models for reaching millions
• Offering
• Business planning grants of US 10,00015,000
• Exclusive peer exchange
• Links to expansion funding
• Led by Linda Jones

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Sustainable Scale-up Program

• TIMELINE
• RFA May 15, 2008
• Plans due OctoberNovember 2008
• For funded plans 3-year commitment to lateral
  learning

Pioneer new models for other practitioners to
follow
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Urban VCD Program

• For 3 consortia comprising
• practitioners pursuing Value Chain Development
• a team of technical experts to build their
  capacity

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Urban VCD Program Grants

• Offering 400,000700,000 over 3 years
• Supporting capacity building, action learning,
  demonstration programs, peer interaction and
  exchange.
• Demand-driven learning each group selects a
  theme.
• Facilitating long-term expansion planning
• Linking to expansion funding

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The Value Initiative

• What is the Value Initiative?
• Why focus on urban areas?
• Why Value Chain Development?
• How will the Value Initiative work?
• How can you benefit?
• How can you contribute?

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Who should get involved?

• Institutions and individuals
• Technical communities
• enterprise development
• value chain development
• urban development
• social enterprise
• other interested technical fields
• SEEP members and non-members

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Who should get involved?

• Innovative, effective leaders
• Dedicated to sustainable poverty eradication
• Committed to lateral learning
• Operating or linked to on-the-ground
  organizations
• (Learning activities will take place online and
  in English)

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Open Opportunities

• Take advantage of
• the Enterprise Development Exchange
• edexchange.seepnetwork.org
• Participate
• in the Urban Value Chain Development
• April 22May
  15
• Apply for Grants
• Access publications and trainings

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SEEP Member Opportunities

• Working group/Advisory committee (at least
  4 days/year, more is up to you)
• VCD Expert flag for UVCD conference (intense
  participation AprilMay)
• Advance notification of the program (now)

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The Value Initiative

• What is the Value Initiative?
• Why focus on urban areas?
• Why Value Chain Development?
• How will the Value Initiative work?
• How can you benefit?
• How can you contribute?

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Please Volunteer!

• Value Initiative Advisory committee
• Expert for the UVCD conference
• Participate in the UVCD conference

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For More Information
Contact me directly Mary McVay, Director, The
Value Initiative mcvay_at_seepnetwork.org
edexchange.seepnetwork.org/ (LAUNCH DATE APRIL 2)