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Growing Business with Smallholders BoP Sector Dialogue - Practitioner Workshop
Growing Business with Smallholders in Southern Africa workshop provided an introduction to the “Guide for All Seasons” with its five steps. In interactive sessions, participants had the opportunity to apply the framework to their business models. The participatory workshop also provided a platform for networking with potential business partners, as well as sharing experiences and best practices.
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RTT's Unjani Clinic Model
The following case study was conducted to gain additional knowledge for the further development of the B4D-Toolkit. It articulates business' experiences of steps taken to reach and involve the poor. It also identifies what challenges must be taken into consideration when it comes to looking for new markets and the design and distribution of pro-poor products. Access to health care plays a fundamental role in the economic development and prosperity of a country.
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Standard Bank's Inclusive Banking Model
Standard Bank Group (Standard Bank) is Africa’s largest financial institution. Like all other established legacy banks in South Africa, it has, over the past decade, expanded access to financial services and provided affordable banking solutions to people living in poverty. As the cost base of traditional retail banking is comparatively high in South Africa, Standard Bank, like its competitors, has had to innovate in order to reduce the cost of providing retail banking services to the unbanked and under-banked sectors of the population.
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Doing Good Business
Business can play a key role in accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Southern Africa Trust's Business for Development (B4D) Pathfinder focuses on 'inclusive business' as the most effective way for companies to optimize the social benefits of doing good business. Inclusive business is the profitable integration of the poor in the value chain of a company - both in supply chains and market development.
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The Southern Africa Trust and Solidaridad - Panel on Inclusive Business as option to make markets work for small scale farmers
The international organization Solidaridad, in partnership with the Southern Africa Trust and Idasa, hosted a conference on "Making Markets Work for Smallholders in Southern Africa" on the 29th and 30th May 2012 in Pretoria. Discussions and presentations included a half-day panel on the question whether and how the option of inclusive business, i.e., the profitable integration of the small scale farmers in the value chain of companies, improves market for the small scale farmers.
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Make markets work for small scale farmers in Southern Africa
On the 29th and 30th May 2012, Solidaridad, the Southern Africa Trust and Idasa jointly hosted a conference on "Making Markets Work for Smallholders in Southern Africa" at the Manhattan Hotel, Pretoria. The aims of the conference were to discuss and find solutions to market access barriers for smallholders and to increase their role and contribution in the agricultural commodity value chains in Africa and beyond.
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The Southern Africa Trust and the Nepad Business Foundation Joint Workshop on Inclusive Business
The Southern Africa Trust and the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) jointly held a workshop on profitably integrating the poor into the value and supply chains (inclusive business) of businesses. The workshop aimed at motivating companies to engage in inclusive business practices was held in April 5, 2012 at the NBF offices.
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