CARE Enterprise Partners www.care.ca/cep

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CARE Enterprise Partners www.care.ca/cep
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OUTLINE

• Challenges and Opportunities
• CARE Enterprise Partners
• Who we are
• What we do
• How we do it

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Challenges and Opportunities

• Large populations operate in the informal
  economy
• Barriers to entry continue capital, market
  access, business formation
• Aid flows can be erratic and driven by planned
  strategies
• A growing middle economy more opportunities and
  economic growth, stability
• Formalization access, sustainability, voice

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OUTLINE

• Challenges and Opportunities
• CARE Enterprise Partners
• Who we are
• What we do
• How we do it

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WHO WE ARE

• CARE Enterprise Partners (CEP)
• Division of CARE Canada Canadas largest non
  for profit development organization
• Affiliated to CARE International Global Network
  CARE Internationals work benefits more than 30
  million people in 70 countries annually
• Currently operates in 15 countries in Asia, Latin
  America and Africa

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WHAT WE DO

• CARE Enterprise Partners (CEP) was created to
  support fledgling social enterprises, promote
  widespread market-based development, and help
  entrepreneurs generate sustainable economic and
  social returns for poor families and communities.
• As an extension of CARE Canada, CEP twins the
  tools of business with the community development
  acumen to create commercially competitive and
  socially positive enterprise.

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WHAT WE DO

• CEP operates as a social venture capital firm,
  incubating business models that generate both
  economic and social value in 'base of the
  pyramid' markets that are often below the radar
  of mainstream investment.

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HOW WE DO IT CEP Capital

• Social Venture Fund
• Provision of patient capital such as loans,
  equity, trade finance, to spur economic growth
  and seed pro-poor businesses in developing
  countries
• Incubation of business models that generate both
  economic and social value

Vegcare -Kenya Vegetable Exports
Selco India (potential) Solar Energy
Serviagro - Peru Artichoke Production
Casafruit Senegal Juice Production
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HOW WE DO IT CEP Capital

• Venture Fund Investment Process
• Prospecting
• Business Planning and Preliminary
  Analysis
• Due Diligence
• Approval and Authorization
  
  from Investment Committee
• Closing and Implementation
  
  post Approval
• Monitoring
• Exit

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HOW WE DO IT CEP Capital

• Venture Fund Investment Principles
• Financial viability and sustainability
• Entrepreneurship and local ownership
• Effective governance
• Positive social returns
• Proactive corporate conduct

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HOW WE DO IT CEP Solutions

• Enterprise Assistance and Trade Facilitation
• Provision of business development services to
  enhance economic opportunity for local
  entrepreneurs
• Facilitation of market linkages and cross-sector
  partnerships to enhance market access and trade

Rural Sales Bangladesh BOP Model
Gone Rural Swaziland Handicraft Exports
Health Store Kenya Health clinic micro-franchise
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HOW WE DO IT CEP Knowledge

• Centre of Excellence
• Provision of trainings, workshops and research
  collaboration to broaden capacity, competency and
  support for individual social enterprises and the
  overall concept of market-based development
• CEP MBA Associates Program

2006 Alumni, Toronto pre-departure training
Neil Foster Kenya Grading,
Acacia Farm in Kibwezi
Alice Wan and Mike Ngensheki with Magu district
farmers, Tanzania
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CEP MBA Associates Program Description

• The CEP MBA Associates Programme is a summer
  program that provides talented top MBA students
  with the unique opportunity to use their business
  skills and professional experience to assist
  small to medium enterprises in developing
  countries.
• Associate placements run from May to August.
  After a comprehensive orientation and training in
  Canada, Associates travel abroad to a field
  placement where they work on developing business
  solutions that deliver highimpact social and
  economic returns.

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