Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks for Sudan

Private sector led business models to transform conflict into Peace

Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks for Sudan

Private sector led business models to transform conflict into Peace

April 1, 2007

Kevin McKague & David WheelerApril 1, 2007

Kevin McKague & David WheelerFoundation for Sustainable Enterprise and DevelopmentFoundation for Sustainable Enterprise and Development

www.fsed.cawww.fsed.ca

• The Business of Peace (2000) • WSSD Johannesburg (2002)• UN Unleashing Entrepreneurship (2004)• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2004)• Eradicating Poverty Through Profit (2004)• World Bank Doing Business Reports (2004-7)

• Microfinance and mobile phone revolutions• NGOs launching market-based interventions• Businesses experimenting with BOP markets• Donors and governments partnering• Hybrids and networks emerging

Global ContextGlobal Context

About the Research About the Research … Private-sector led business models: 50 case studies of

sustainable enterprise in emerging markets…

ACACIA Fund

Acleda

Alexandria Carbon Black

Arcelik

Aucmen Fund

AREED

AmaZoncoop

AVIVE

Balrampur Chini Mills Limited

Bamburi Cement

Body Shop Community Trade Program

Bolsa Amazônia

BTC Pipeline (BP)

Café de la Selva

Campina Dairy

CatGen

Cemex

Certified Pure Ingredients

City Water

Compartamos

Conservation Corporation Africa

Global Forestry Products

Global Giving

E+Co

EcoEnterprise Fund

EnterpriseWorks

Escondida

First Rand

First Voice International

ForesTrade

Grameen Bank

Grameen Phone and Telecom

Grameen Shakti

Grand Turk Greenhouse

Hipotecaria Nacional

Holcim (Vietnam)

Honey Care Africa

HP e-inclusion

ICICI Bank

Il Ngwesi Group Ranch

Indigenous Designs

Irupana

Karsten Farms

Kenya Tea Development Agency

KickStart (ApproTec)

Kilombero Sugar

Magadi Soda Ash

Manila Water

Microvest

Mozal

Natural Resource Business Development Project

Ocean Desert Enterprises

Odebrecht

PamirEnergy

Rural Finance Outreach

Seawater Farms and Seawater Forests Initiative

Sekem

Selco Vietnam

Self-Employed Women’s Association

Serena Hotels

Soluz Honduras

Spier Estates

Sumaria Group

Sustainable Healthcare Enterprise Foundation

Ten Thousand Villages

Tigar

Tiviski Dairy

Treetap (Couro Vegetal da Amazônia)

Tusk Bank

Uganda Village Phone

VegCARE and VegPro

WorldWater

50 Case Studies

50 Case Studies

• Grounded Theory Methodology: cases approached without preconceived hypothesis or expectations (useful for understanding new phenomena)

• Kenya & Tanzania: high quality honey

• Honey Care + local NGO + microfinance

• Innovative and replicable business model

• New technologies introduced

• 2,500+ rural honey producers – income

• Biodiversity protected

• Regional and international expansion

Honey Care Africa:Case Study Example Money for Honey and Bees for Trees

Honey Care Africa:Case Study Example Money for Honey and Bees for Trees

• Mauritania: first camel dairy in Africa

• Reversed Mauritania’s dependence on imported milk

• Created a new thriving market for domestic milk and milk products

• Livelihoods for 450 semi-nomadic herders

• 100 employees

Tiviski Dairy:Case Study ExampleLocal Livelihoods and National Self-Reliance

Tiviski Dairy:Case Study ExampleLocal Livelihoods and National Self-Reliance

Uganda Village Phone:Case Study ExampleAccess to Communications

Uganda Village Phone:Case Study ExampleAccess to Communications

• First replication of Grameen’s village phone concept outside Bangladesh

• MTN Uganda, Grameen Foundation, MFIs and Village Phone Operators

• 3,097 Village Phone Operators

• 9 Microfinance Institutions

• Access to communication allows rural individuals access to market prices and information that saves time and expense

E+Co:Case Study ExampleEmpowering Clean Energy Entrepreneurs

E+Co:Case Study ExampleEmpowering Clean Energy Entrepreneurs• Hybrid venture capital firm and NGO

• Investment and business dev. services

• Enterprise-centered model

• 140 Enterprises invested

• 3 million people with modern energy

• 2,663 jobs created and sustained

• $3m invested in African enterprises

• Kenya: livelihoods for nurses to run micro-franchise pharmacies & clinics

• Start-up financing, business training, community outreach

• 66 HealthStores

• 400,000 patients

• Improved health care in slums, rural areas and underserved communities

HealthStores:Case Study ExampleMicro-Franchise Pharmacies

HealthStores:Case Study ExampleMicro-Franchise Pharmacies

Research FindingsResearch Findings

• Dense Networks• Financial Anchor• Overt Social Mission• Sustainable Outcomes• Attracting resources and investment from

public, private and development sectors

Sustainable Local Enterprise Network Model

Sustainable Local Enterprise Network Model

• Invest in Human Capital• Exposure to sustainable enterprise models and options;

Entrepreneurship training

• Invest in Social Capital• Strengthen relationships and linkages between Sudan and

international sustainable enterprise organizations

• Invest in Financial Capital• Support for MFIs, venture and growth capital for SMEs,

tailored to needs, combined with business services

• Investment in Ecological Capital

• Invest in Human Capital• Exposure to sustainable enterprise models and options;

Entrepreneurship training

• Invest in Social Capital• Strengthen relationships and linkages between Sudan and

international sustainable enterprise organizations

• Invest in Financial Capital• Support for MFIs, venture and growth capital for SMEs,

tailored to needs, combined with business services

• Investment in Ecological Capital

Implications for Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise

Networks for Sudan

Implications for Creating Sustainable Local Enterprise

Networks for Sudan

Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks for Sudan

Private sector led business models to transform conflict into Peace

Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks for Sudan

Private sector led business models to transform conflict into Peace

April 1, 2007

Kevin McKague & David WheelerApril 1, 2007

Kevin McKague & David WheelerFoundation for Sustainable Enterprise and DevelopmentFoundation for Sustainable Enterprise and Development

www.fsed.cawww.fsed.ca