April 10, 2005

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April 10, 2005
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Introducing WILMA
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About WILMA and WilmaFund

• Who we are WILMA, a US non-profit organization,
  and WilmaFund, an African non-profit Community
  Development Financial Institution (CDFI).
• Brief history Projects began in 1999. WilmaFund
  established in 2003 for fund management in
  Africa.
• Activity to date 1.65 million invested by
  private donors in capacity building and pilot
  enterprise start-ups in Tanzania.
• Immediate goal Set plan for raising 20 million
  of capital for WilmaFund during 2006-10.
• By 2010 achieve sustainable scale of investment
  in four pilot countries - Kenya, Malawi,
  Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Long term goal achieve a quiet revolution in how
  the world supports African development.

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Problems and Opportunities

• Problems
• Under-developed human resources
• Undeveloped or unsustainable land and resource
  management practices
• Lack of access to capital, knowledge, markets
• Opportunities
• Strengthening community-based capacities to
  organize, lead, manage, and learn continuously
• Engaging and supporting women as emerging leaders
• Creating pathways out of poverty through
  asset-building
• Growing enterprises that build on and preserve
  natural, cultural, and social assets

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WILMAs Partners Will.

• Capitalize WilmaFund as an African CDFI tasked
  with capacity-building and developing
  sustainable, community based enterprises.
• Objectives
• Support pilot projects in four African nations
  Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda through
  innovative triple-bottom-line opportunities
• Identify and coordinate clusters of SME start-ups
  in communities with no access to mainstream
  financial institutions
• Partner with other companies and organizations
  seeking to build on natural and human ecologies

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WILMA Innovations

• Model WilmaFund as an African CDFI apply best
  management practices and rigorous performance
  metrics from the US CDFI experience.
• Harness country experts and opinion leaders to
  serve within National Managing Partners to
  identify and support capacity building.
• Transform informal grassroots organizations into
  formal Community Development Associations (CDAs)
  with ownership in their local enterprises.
• Establish clusters of community based start-ups,
  with research leadership creating commercial
  value for their CDAs and high potential for
  growth.
• Identify and appoint enterprise managers to grow
  the businesses, having accountability to
  WilmaFund and ownership stakes in them.
• Support micro-enterprises in the CDAs through CDA
  peer-managed revolving loan funds, potentially
  growing new small businesses.
• WILMA CDM Services LLC a way to capitalize
  WilmaFund by helping Africas large and growing
  corporations to use the Kyoto Protocol on GHGs.

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The Wilma Network and Its Partners
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Board and Management

• WILMA US
• WilmaFund Africa
• NMPs African Country
• CDAs Community
• Small business clusters Community

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WilmaFund Investment Priorities

• Renewable energy
• Women-owned enterprises
• Adding value to native resources
• Sustainable land and water use practices
• Innovative telecommunications

Solar Village Institute Centre
Women in Ahakishaka
New water tank and pumping station
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Example Small-Business Cluster Ahakishaka
Building a Regional Development Pole Through
Solar Power

• Community Development Association Solar Village
  Institute (SVI)
• Program components
• Research, analysis, and planning development of
  the CDA and
• management (WILMA Network services), one-third
  of program
• Investment in the enterprises, two-thirds of
  program
• Enterprises of the Ahakishaka Cluster (start-up
  capitalization in ltgt)
• Ahakishaka Water Bottling Company lt200,000gt
• Ahakishaka Bean and Corn lt150,000gt
• SVI Solar Home Systems Distributorship
  lt250,000gt
• Ahakishaka Model Integrated Farming System
  lt150,000gt
• Mobile Clinic AIDS Testing and Care Centre
  lt100,000gt

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WILMA CDM Services LLC

• A new, for-profit WILMA subsidiary, responding to
  the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, which
• provides clean technologies for community-based
  start-ups and advises established corporations
• secures Certified Emission Reduction credits
  (CERs) for local and global investors
• handles the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism)
  bureaucracy for busy business managers
• transfers 5 of the resulting CER value or new
  investment to WilmaFund as a capital grant
  matched by donors

technology for clean development
agricultural innovation
meat and biogas production
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Corporate clients of WILMA CDM Services LLC get
high returns on their investments

• By transferring capital to WilmaFund, they
  receive
• enhanced reliability in standards and delivery,
  as well as lower costs, of local supplies
• new markets inside and outside Africa
• access to new pools of talent entrepreneurial,
  managerial, and technical
• opportunities to adopt new ideas, successfully
  tested by WilmaFunds investments
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) credits
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• helping to achieve their countrys Millennium
  Goals
• adhering to the UNs Global Compact principles
• participating in poverty reduction activities

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Public Donors Get Unprecedented Bang for their
Aid Buck

• Public donors match corporate grants of capital
  to WilmaFund and thereby raise investment (by
  start-ups, SMEs, and large corporations) in
• cleaner industrial processes, reducing harmful
  emissions while reducing fuel costs and
  increasing profits
• alternative energy sources (e.g., hydro, wind,
  biogas),earning marketable carbon credits under
  the Kyoto Protocol
• innovative household and farm methods (e.g.,
  fuel-efficient stoves, solar-powered fencing,
  assured water supply) that improve health and
  welfare in poor (especially rural) communities
• diversified exports (e.g., all-season irrigated
  cash crops, products of improved animal
  husbandry, farm-raised fish, other agribusiness),
  linked to new energy sources and innovative
  methods

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WILMAs Services and Partners
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The Network of WILMA CDM Services LLC