"Tribanco case is REALLY interesting actually - would recommend SABMiller chat with them in Brazil, or perhaps even more broadly. Tribanco is an arm of the Martins Group which is a wholesale distributor of "white goods" (so non perishable).…"
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BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Cecilia Zevallos's discussion How can we best support entrepreneurship across the value chain?
BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Cecilia Zevallos's discussion How can we best support entrepreneurship across the value chain?
"Miguel, really provocative statistics - thanks for sharing. I can think of a number of companies (and one social entrepreneur, come to think of it) that I've worked with that have found that the women entrepreneurs in their value chains…"
BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Cecilia Zevallos's discussion How can we best support entrepreneurship across the value chain?
"Marzena, did you do a matrix of barriers/solutions for this competition? Is that still something Changemakers does? I poked around the website but couldn't immediately find one. Many thanks!"
BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Cecilia Zevallos's discussion How can we best support entrepreneurship across the value chain?
"Hi Sam!
Interesting tip on the Hystra study, thanks. I assume their finding that it is best to provide financing in-house applies primarily to consumer financing, since the study focused on marketing? Do you think it would suggest that SABMiller…"
BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Cecilia Zevallos's discussion How can we best support entrepreneurship across the value chain?
"Great comments so far!
Access to finance is one thing both opportunity entrepreneurs and survival entrepreneurs need to participate, grow, and be valuable parts of larger corporate value chains. For companies like SABMiller, financing can be tough…"
BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Richard Chiu's discussion Do you have any advice on forecasting demand at the BoP?
"Richard, I am not aware of any that demand forecasts are publicly available, but you might check the World Bank for projections such as "to meet Brazil's unmet need for housing xxx million new units will be needed by yyy year."…"
BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Marzena Zukowska's discussion Google Hangout: Conversation with the Ashoka “Nutrients for All” Gurus
"An idea for building a "nutrient replete population": KeBAL, franchise based healthy food carts in Indonesia where grocery stores are limited, kitchens small or non existent, people have a habit of snacking on street food. A…"
BFP TeamBeth Jenkins replied to Safiye Ozuygun's discussion How can we harness out-grower schemes to increase the availability of affordable finance for smallholder farmers?
"Thanks Andrew! What's the longest example of "long term" that you've seen - any investment they believe will pay off in more than the 2-3 years Jane mentions? I've seen 4 years, and that did rely also on the…"
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- I am a consultant, writer, and analyst focused on inclusive business and cross-sector partnership. I am Insights Director at Business Fights Poverty and Director at Inspiris. I am also a Senior Fellow at the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Beth Jenkins's Blog
Golden nugget from the new BAA report: "A step change in the way stakeholders collaborate to achieve real and transformative scale"
The new BAA report, "From Crisis to Opportunity," is a nice collection of articles from some preeminent folks. For me, the collection was on the whole a bit macro, leaving me wanting more on the "so what" and "how." But there was a really interesting theme in this vein that came out in a couple of the articles in section 3:… Continue
Posted on July 16, 2009 at 14:54 — 1 Comment
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- At 17:30 on August 23, 2008,
Adewale Ilesanmi said… - Hello,
I was a guest on yuor personal place onthe bussiness fights poverty and decided to write. And a policy specialist like me, do es your jpb covers formulating policy on poverty.
- At 18:58 on October 9, 2009,
James Oriarebun said… - Hi Beth Jenkins,
I have read your writeup on business fights poverty. keep it up.
James
- At 3:45 on November 16, 2009,
Parag Dave said… - I am From India and working in plastics Industry.
We aim to providing Business Model & creating Opportunity for the poor, Under and Un Educated Youths, Training and assistance to young ENTREPRENEURS to help them to start their own industry for growth, be Self Employed to escape the endless cycle of poverty.
We have specially developed Mini Plastics Injection and Blow machines, which are Efficient, Economical and Convenient for the common people to start and sustain own industry with very small capital.
We have been conducting training sessions as well visiting as Guest for training in EDP and other plastic industry and self Development programs by CIPET, SISI, SIES school of packaging, MCED, MITCON and other Government and Non Govt institutions.
We also have been publishing PLASTIC TECHNICAL HANDBOOK since 1994, which provides all the required information both technical and industry for Plastic industry and gives complete guidlines to new Entrepreneurs and students. (http://davetechnical.com/technical_handbook__consultants)
I like to make friends and work toward mutual growth and development
Await your reply and response.
Parag Dave
- At 23:05 on March 30, 2010,
Mandi Manga Obase said… - Hi am Mandi , work with the Royal Commonwealth Society of Cameroon, we are currently working on a project in developing social entrepreneurship in Cameroon and around the region.,one of objective is to foster africa development and to reduce the high rate of migration to the north.we are wondering if there are potentials to catch up discussion with you on this
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