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The document discusses Unilever's Project Shakti in India, which aims to market fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) to rural consumers. Through Project Shakti, Unilever partners with self-help groups (SHGs) by selecting village women as micro-entrepreneurs to sell Unilever products. This allows Unilever to access rural markets while providing economic opportunities for women. Project Shakti has the dual objectives of increasing Unilever's revenue from rural areas and creating social impact.
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Hindustan Unilever launched Project Shakti in 2001 to target small villages in rural India. The project aims to create earning opportunities for underprivileged women through a micro-enterprise model where women ("ammas") are appointed to sell FMCG products door-to-door. Over 45,000 ammas covering over 100,000 villages have been appointed. The project strategies include deep rural penetration, high margins for entrepreneurs, and a door-to-door supply chain. The project provides income generation and women empowerment while increasing brand awareness and reducing fake products in rural markets.
Project Shakti was launched by Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) in 2000 to boost sales in rural India and provide income opportunities for women. It trains rural women as direct-to-home sales agents for HUL products. Over 12,000 women entrepreneurs have been trained to date. The project aims to reach 100 million rural consumers by 2006 and scale up the number of women entrepreneurs to 25,000. It helps HUL penetrate untapped rural markets while empowering women economically.
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- #SIFStories showcases projects that received funding and helped develop solutions to issues like the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Upcoming events include competitions for funding innovative ideas in areas like sustainable plastic packaging and a competition launch for the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
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2) The organization's vision is to position African brands globally through networking forums and events. Its mission is to create opportunities for new African businesses and professionals to network and grow.
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The document discusses developing infrastructure like universities, colleges, and digital centers to support the creative and digital industries sector. It focuses on accelerating and bridging digital skills by increasing collaboration between government, businesses and education. It also addresses responding to new employment patterns like rising self-employment and ensuring business environments are inclusive. Past initiatives that invested in community media, creative industries and digital skills are highlighted as building legacies from prior investments.
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(𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝟏𝟎𝟎) (𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏)-𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐏𝐏 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬:
- Understand the goals and objectives of the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) curriculum, recognizing its importance in fostering practical life skills and values among students. Students will also be able to identify the key components and subjects covered, such as agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, and information and communication technology.
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-Define entrepreneurship, distinguishing it from general business activities by emphasizing its focus on innovation, risk-taking, and value creation. Students will describe the characteristics and traits of successful entrepreneurs, including their roles and responsibilities, and discuss the broader economic and social impacts of entrepreneurial activities on both local and global scales.
3. Innovation Marketplace 2010
EXAMPLES OF KNOWN AND VALIDATED
INNOVATIONS ORIGINATED IN ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC:
- Self Help Groups and Village Banking
- Intensive and sustainable natural resource
management: land and water
- Use of Information and Communication Technologies
for Microfinance, Market Information and e-learning
5. Innovation Marketplace 2010
THIS YEAR AT THE INNOVATION MARKETPLACE
- Asia and the Pacific
- East and West Africa
- South and Central America
6. Innovation Marketplace 2010
HOW TO PROFIT THE MOST OF THE IMP?
Meet the Innovators in their stands
One recommendation:
PLAN your 45 minutes KNOWLEDGE SHOPPING by
using THE LEAFLET IN YOUR FOLDER
7. Innovation Marketplace 2010
LET´S WELCOME THE INNOVATION
CHAMPIONS WITH A BIG RAIN
CLAPPING BROUGHT FROM
TANZANIA
CLAPPING CLUB PLEASE TEACH US…
8. Md. KhalilurRahman
Project Director
MIDPCR, LGED Bangladesh
Khalilpd_midpcr@yahoo.com
Innovation Marketplace 2010
Road Map to Reduce Poverty of Ultra Poor Women applied by MIDPCR/
LGED
We are involved in Labour Contracting Society (LCS), as an alternative to
private contractor. Targeting 17000 destitute women the approach provides
secured employment and wage. Savings and profit are invested Income
Generating Activities (IGA) that are improving their livelihood, self esteem
and social capital.
9. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Local Resource Person: Filling the technical Gap in the Rural
WUPAP works in extreme remote ultra poor areas, promoting livelihood
improvement. Due to this, a regular and reliable technical service has been
a critical issue. With the promotion of Local Resource Persons, the Project
sustain in time technological support and inputs supplies to farmers. LRP are
today a role model
10. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Concrete Block Road: a better option to build environment and climate
friendly road infrastructures
Concrete block-based rural road pavement has been designed and
introduced for the first time in rural Bangladesh. It is Labor intensive, cost
effective, environment and climate friendly. It also involves community over the
whole cycle of its construction. The design has been endorsed to other rural
areas in the country.
11. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Rural poor towards prosperity through the management of Revolving
Funds
Poor build confidence by using Revolving Fund for activities of their livelihood
improvement managed by their own community organization (CO) and
developing institution of poor in managing finances, production and marketing.
12. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Women’s Cooperative Livestock Farming
Women’s Cooperative Livestock Farming was developed through an
embedding scientific technique in goat rearing targeting women in poor rural
areas aimed at profit maximization in livestock trading. The product was
designed as an integrated group lending cooperative farming facility with an
aim to yield increased monthly income for the beneficiaries.
13. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Traditional Skills to Global Deals
A poverty alleviation strategy harnessing the indigenous skills and
resources of the beneficiaries and relates with other relevant development
themes to make the undertakings sustainable.
14. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Improved terrace system for the rural poor
Terrace system is a simple rectangular system which retain surface runoff
water. Mostly, sorghum is planted and land is treated by chisel and ridgers, or
traditional hoes. The embankments are usually constructed manually or by
oxen drawn tools, but recently raised by tractors and earth moving
machines.
15. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Make visible women empowerment through marketplace and policy
dialogue
Extend achievements of poor women to the outside through the event
Results Recommendation indoor and Products Marketplace in commercial
area strengths impact of pro poor investment and to elevate the economic and
social status of women by improving market access and mainstreaming gender
in government policies making.
16. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Commercial insects: part of a sustainable solution for biodiversity
loss and climate change
Biodiversity is the basis of our livelihood and economy at household and
national levels, gives us resilience to overcome droughts, famine and natural
shocks. Biodiversity is not only just species and genes, is livelihood for all
stakeholders.
17. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Cashless Credit Model in Agric value Chains Financing
We came up with a cashless credit system that links famers with input dealers
and service providers and forward to marketing companies. The facilitating
Agency and the project ensure mutual trust, transparency and enforcement of
signed Agreements.
18. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Local Committee for Resource Allocation (CLAR)
Local Committee for Resource Allocation (CLAR) is a public contest to hand
out resources to organized smallholders groups in the rural. The contests are
organized by local governments, chaired by the mayor and a jury conformed
by social leaders, advanced entrepreneurs and technical advisers, all
chosen and legitimate by the local community.
19. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Rural Eco Turism in Guatemala
This innovation brings opportunity to a producers group who did not owned
land, but the nature benefited them with a river that crosses their community.
This group sells to the international tourism the rafting service, restaurant
and hostel service, using the web as a commercial platform.
21. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Farmers with checkbook, an innovative strategy to overcome rural
poverty
Empowerment of rural entrepreneurs is achieved when trust is mutual between
governments and civil society, project disbursement are made directly to the
farmer bank accounts, who are responsible for executing, following and
auditing and for the public accountability of the public resources awarded
22. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Pawan Kumar,
ULIPH, India
Self Help Groups
The Project has established 3500 self help groups and aggregated them as federations
for taking up social and business issues. Knowledge sharing workshops with the
federations has helped the federations to network with each other, establish linkages with
stakeholders and develop business plans and ensuring sustainability of project
interventions.
SMS for good business
Piloted use of SMS based information through mobile phones for providing customised
information on weather, market, crop advisory, government schemes for women in
Uttarakhand. The service is being up-scaled to cover more than 1500 HH in project
area.
23. Innovation Marketplace 2010
LETS GO AND FIND OUT BY PARTICIPATING IN
THE INNOVATION MARKETPLACE
MAYBE YOU ARE AN INNOVATION CHAMPION AS
WELL
THANKS
25. Innovation Marketplace 2010
Please share your insights:
1. What did you find interesting?
2. What innovations do you feel there are
missing this year?
3. Interested in following up with the
exchanges?
26. Innovation Marketplace 2010
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CLOSING THE
DEAL
JOIN OTHER PRACTICIONERS IN THE
KNOWLEDGE BUSINESS TABLES
27. Innovation Marketplace 2010
WHAT ARE THE KNOWLEDGE BUSINESS TABLES (KBT)?
Is an interactive face to face, PEER TO PEER
METHODOLOGY to:
• Identify our CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES
inside and outside of Asia and the Pacific
• In order to HARVEST THE EFFECTIVE DEMAND and
CONTENTS for a LEARNING HIGHWAY PROGRAMME
28. Innovation Marketplace 2010
BASIC BUSINESS TABLES YOU CAN SUSCRIBE TO
1. Public, private and mix rural 4. Access and management of Information 7. Natural resources management in times
development projects implementation and Communications Technologies in the of food insecurity and global warming
cycle rural areas
2. Advocacy, policy dialogue and 5. Rural microfinance innovative services 8. Targeting right: experience of success
public policy influence within IFADs and products for the poorest of the poor work with youth, women and traditional
project communities
3. Promotion of grassroots 6. Rural microenterprise access to local, 9. New rural business: diversifying income
organizations and network national, international and especial markets alternatives for the rural poor.
31. Innovation Marketplace 2010
• HOW TO SUSCRIBE TO THE KBT AND MAKE YOUR
OPINION COUNT:
1. FILL THE SECOND SHEET OF THE LEAFLET
2. HANDLE IT TO THE KNOWLEDGE FACLITATORS
3. WE WILL COMMUNICATE BACK TO YOU
KBT: TUESDAY 17:30 (free beer and juice)