Inclusive Business in Emerging Markets World Vision Interna/onal April 2012
Jan 13, 2015
Inclusive Business in Emerging Markets
World Vision Interna/onal April 2012
ADP (Area Development Program) Eco-system
Eco-system – child focused
Eco-system – phases and time frames
Eco-system – the model
Child-‐focused Children are included as agents of change in the communi8es
Community-‐based ADP design and implementa8on is based on community needs and priori8es
Long-‐term Commitment to long-‐term funding and involvement with communi8es – upto 15 years
Mul/-‐sector Interven8ons address the mul8ple causes of poverty and injus8ce
Sustainable Empowered communi8es are able to sustain their own development
Mul/ple funding sources Funding comes from a combina8on of public and private funds as appropriate
Empowering Building the capacity of communi8es, and empowering them to carry out their community development processes.
World Vision Global presence
Operating in 98 countries
100 million beneficiaries
44 000 employees
Revenue of USD 2.8 billion
1000 communities in excess of 1 million beneficiaries
World Vision’s presence in India
Over 6700 communities covering 147 districts across the country
Challenges within the eco-system - Overview
• Nutrition - hunger, malnutrition
• Health - immunization, water, sanitation, hygiene
• Economic Development - poverty, livelihood, sustainability
• Agriculture - food security, climate change
• Education - literacy, school drop outs
• Child Protec8on -‐ child abuse, child labor, trafficking
• Environment -‐ waste management, contamina8on, conserva8on
• Gender -‐ empowerment and gender balance
• Disability -‐ s8gma, lack of opportuni8es
• Peace building -‐ conflicts, do no harm
BASE OF THE PYRAMID
The Base of the Pyramid (BoP) is the largest but poorest socio-‐economic group worldwide with over 4 billion people; they are economically ac8ve as consumers, producers, entrepreneurs and employees
WORLD ECONOMIC PYRAMID Overview of market segments, by annual income (in USD per capita, PPP 2005)
Most companies focus on mature and emerging markets, while the huge market of 4 billion people living on less than USD 3,260 a year goes largely untapped
source: UN World Development Reports
Models of engagement between NGOs and private sector
Conclusion Relevant proposi8ons for World Vision’s involvement in BoP ini8a8ves are core-‐business-‐to-‐core-‐business collabora8on and convening various stakeholder groups based on convergence of issues
Model Proposi/on
1. conventional charity § donations: fiscal benefits § employee sponsorships: employee motivation § coverage & communication: press info & general image
2. corporate social responsibility
§ corporate sponsorship § specific projects with linkage to corporate focus § involvement of resources (financial, goods-in-kind, people)
3. core business collaboration
§ corporate products (e.g. dairy products) § services (e.g. forming dairy cooperates for economic
development) § connecting the supply chain / distribution / sourcing network
of WV and the corporate in the same geographies
4. convergence on issues § cluster of various private and public sector stakeholders (NGOs, local business, multinationals, governments)
§ converge around specific issue (e.g. health & nutrition) § convenor defines issue/scope, stakeholders, geographies,
structure and initiates collaboration
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BoP proposi/ons source: team analysis / Arjen Joosse (2011)
OPPORTUNITIES
Areas of biggest opportunities for BoP collaboration
According to research the winners of collabora8on and innova8on will be convening stakeholders across various eco-‐systems with convergence on issues
source: synthesis of frameworks by Accenture Development Partnerships (2011), Convergence Economy; and Booz & Company (2008), Megacommunities
Next game-changers will come through:
Collabora'on
Convergence Convening
Game-changers & innovation
ShiB to New
Innova/ve Business Models
Successful companies must reinvent their processes Prahalad (University of Michigan): we need to focus on Business Process Architecture Change
• children • parents • sponsors • donors • staff • partners • investors
Focus on the Individual
• exis8ng resources • new resources • reconfigured resources • knowledge and analy8cs • networks • leveraged owned assets • leveraged other assets
Focus on Resources
Reinven/ng Business Processes
Strategy
* Informa8on & Communica8on Technology
* Supply Chain
Finance & Treasury
People & Skills
* according to author ICT and Supply Chain are predicted as most important areas for business process reinvention in the next decade source: C.K. Prahalad & M.S. Krishnan (2008), The New Age of Innovation (University of Michigan)
Shift from focus on transactions and interactions
Shift to focus on responsiveness
and events
Shift from pure aid with single
resources
Shift to co-creation with
mixed resources
Opportunities for companies to interact – For example
Recycling
Forestry
Waste management
Cleantec
Solar power
Wind power
High-tech solutions
ICT4D
Virtual learning
Pollution
Drinking water
Irrigation
World Vision’s value proposi/on
• World-‐class grass-‐root knowledge of the BOP markets
• Access to more than millions of people in 90+ countries
• Innova8ve ways of delivering the services to under-‐served
segments
• Hands-‐on inclusive co-‐crea8on with the local communi8es
• Ethical, sustainable and scalable development
What will a partnership look like? – Overview
Opportuni/es for companies
• Apply their core competencies – innova8ve approaches
• Contribute to reducing poverty and social development
• Engage in a new business models accessing new markets
• Enjoy increased longer-‐term outcomes
• Introduce locally applicable, replicable and low-‐cost solu8ons
• Network and collaborate
Industry Sample Partnerships Agricultural Inputs • Iden8fy and provide products and services that improve crop quality (e.g., irriga8on equipment),
specifically for small scale or low-‐income farmers or for environmentally sustainable farming methods • Provide training to promote beger use of products and farming prac8ces
Banking, Finance, and Insurance • Banks provide savings programs or micro financing • Banks provide small business or entrepreneurial training • Insurance companies provide life, health, or crop insurance geared towards low-‐income consumers
Basic Materials (e.g., mining, oil) • Pay for social services (e.g., water, educa8on, health posts) in areas of opera8ons • Implement environmental sustainability projects as a part of social mandate • Provide skills training and employment programs
Retail & Wholesale • Strengthen social services (e.g., health, educa8on) in communi8es where they are sourcing to make sourcing sustainable in the long term
• Incorporate environmentally sustainable sourcing methods for crops being sourced • Provide agricultural extension services or training for sourced products to improve crop quan8ty and quality
• Adopt fair trade or organic cer8fica8ons to improve environmental impact and poten8ally increase profit margins
• Provide access to informa8on (e.g., pricing, technical advice) for farmers so that they can improve the quality of their crops and have beger nego8a8ng power with middlemen
Consumer Goods (e.g., food, personal products)
• Any projects noted in Retail & Wholesale (above) when company is sourcing products • Provide foods that fight malnutri8on (e.g., micronutrient biscuits or “sprinkles”) • Promote usage of health-‐related products (e.g., soap, condoms) through health campaigns with government or NGOs
(Accenture, 2012)
What can a partnership look like? – Overview
(Accenture, 2012)
Industry Sample Partnerships Entertainment & Leisure (e.g., hotels, travel companies, restaurants)
• Source food locally • Train local labor force in hospitality
Healthcare • Build health care plakorms that can reach hard-‐to-‐reach rural popula8ons by making services more mobile (e.g., telemedicine)
• Create innova8ve healthcare technologies to serve low income consumers with quality products and services
• Pharmaceu8cal companies improve supply chains to reach more rural markets Industrial Goods (e.g., construc8on, cement)
• Iden8fy and cater to needs of low-‐income customers (e.g., lack of savings or financing) in order to serve their needs and increase sales
Manufacturing • Provide HIV/AIDS tes8ng, awareness, and educa8on to workers or informa8on on other health related campaigns
Media, Adver8sing, or Public Rela8ons
• Provide input on running effec8ve behavior change or awareness campaigns (e.g., health, HIV/AIDS) • Provide media coverage of events
Technology • Innovate new products and services that serve the needs of low income consumers (e.g., solar lamps) • Promote ability to make social services more mobile or virtual (e.g., virtual classrooms, agriculture and health data via cell phones)
• Support students’ technology educa8on Telecommunica8ons • Provide informa8on on pricing, weather, and farming techniques via a paid subscrip8on service over
mobile phones • Provide mobile health updates via text message
Transporta8on (e.g., airlines, car companies)
• Innovate new products that serve low income consumers (e.g., Tata Nano) • Innovate ways to get transporta8on products into the hands of low income consumers (e.g., financing of motorbikes)
Business Services • Tap unemployed youth to provide Business Process Outsourcing services – where youth work at computer centers on simple back-‐office data tasks for larger outsourcing firms
What will a partnership look like? – Overview
(Accenture, 2012)
• Philips Ligh8ng created a solar lantern that provides rural, off-‐the-‐grid communi8es with access to light which improves the ability to study, provide healthcare, and perform livelihood ac8vi8es amer dark
• DGIS (The Dutch government’s interna8onal development agency) provided €24,000 (~$32K USD) to pilot the project in rural Ghana in conjunc8on with WV Ghana
• WV Ghana and their microfinance arm, APED, worked with Philips to iden8fy and loan funds to retailers/sales agents who sold the products to buyers in local communi8es
A nurse aJends to a pa/ent with a Philips lantern
Students near Bolgatanga, Ghana learn with the aid of a Philips lantern
What will a partnership look like? – Philips
• Dimagi, a US-‐based somware company, created a mobile applica8on that allows healthcare workers to track pa8ent data and access health care informa8on
• USAID funded the development of Dimagi’s mobile applica8on, WV provided the healthcare content, and the Government of India healthcare workers used the phones to improve quality of service to women and children
• Current plans are for WV India and the Government of India to scale this project to new areas
(Accenture, 2012)
mHealth applica/on
Government of India Asha health workers
What will a partnership look like? – Dimagi
(Accenture, 2012)
• IDE Bangladesh iden8fied a market need for a technology to improve field water management for rice cul8va8on and iden8fied a plas8c pipe technology called “alterna8ve werng and drying” (AWD), developed by the Interna8onal Rice Research Ins8tute, that could fill that need
• IDE partnered with Ha8m Industries Limited, a plas8cs pipe company, to develop the pipes, produce them at scale in Bangladesh, and market the finished product
• Ha8m Industries Limited gained a new product and revenue stream
• Farmers have seen a reduc8on in costs due to a 20%
reduc8on in water required as well as 5-‐7% increase in yield due to more effec8ve management of available nutrients and increased 8llers
What will a partnership look like? – IDE & Hatim Ind.
(Accenture, 2012)
• Coca-‐Cola worked with WV India to run several water programs that would improve access to water in villages and publicized these dona8ons through local and na8onal media outlets
• Therefore Coca-‐Cola along with its boglers Amrit Boglers Pvt. Ltd. and Brindavan Boglers Pvt.Ltd has
partnered with World Vision India in the construc8on of 20 rainwater harves8ng tanks in the villages of Nindura Block, Ugar Pradesh. This interven8on is aimed at enhancing the irriga8on facili8es and has led to increase in the water table, providing easy access to water through tube wells,hand pumps and wells.
What will a partnership look like? – Coca Cola
CASES
Most prominent examples of World Vision’s involvement in BoP initiatives
Ini/a/ve Partners Impact / catchment
Descrip/on
§ Rural Access to Clean Water
§ Zenon Environmental Inc. (now GE), Eureka Forbes, WV Canada, WV India
§ Water for 44.000 people in India
§ Completed: ini8ated in 2006, USD 230k programme to increase access to clean drinking water for rural communi8es while crea8ng income-‐genera8ng ac8vi8es for women and youth
§ TopSector Food & Agro
§ FrieslandCampina, World Vision Netherlands
§ Food for people in Ethiopia, Vietnam, India
§ Early discussions: collabora8on on issues related to / supply of child nutri8on in emerging markets with one of largest global dairy coopera8ves
§ Grow Business and Improving Women & Child Health
§ UN Founda8on/EWEC, World Vision through PMNCH, various mul8-‐na8onals/corporates
§ Global, focus on Africa, Asia, La8n America
§ Proposal: proposal “Growing Business and Improving Women’s & Children’s Health” for every woman every child in coopera8on with health related companies and other stakeholders
§ Made In Canada Farmers Ini8a8ve
§ Canadian Food & Agro Sector, WV Canada, various WV field offices
§ Livelihoods & food security in various countries
§ Ini8a8ng: assessment on how to connect the Canadian agricultural industry to BoP farmer’s value chain in the field
§ Nutririce § DSM, ADB, WVI Health & Nutri8on, various SOs (Canada, Switzerland, Taiwan, Netherlands)
§ Food in several countries, including China and DPRK
§ In progress: collabora8on with global supplier on how to make available for8fied rice to people in areas of need to receive food aid
source: WV internal info collection, team analysis
CASES
Most prominent examples of World Vision’s involvement in BoP initiatives
Conclusion
Ini/a/ve Partners Impact / catchment
Descrip/on
§ India Road Safety
§ FleetForum, Coca Cola, Vodafone, Shell, WVIndia
§ Pan-‐India road safety messaging
§ Launched at F1O 2011, programme to raise awareness and preven8on for children and families related to road safety as one of the top killers in India
§ PUR Water Ini8a8ve
§ Procter & Gamble, several NGOs incl. WVUS
§ 3.000.000.000 liters of clean water thus far
§ In progress: WVUS collaborates with P&G’s PUR ini8a8ve around the world, providing more than 2 billion liters of clean water annually, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCEuQt8nyfo
§ SUSTAIN Global Partnership
§ UPS, TNT, Accenture, Booz, World Vision, CARE
§ Improve last mile supply of relief and other goods
§ Ini8a8ng: World Vision ini8ated coopera8on with CARE, UPS, TNT, Accenture, Booz & Company and academia to stand-‐up collabora8on for beger supply chain solu8ons at the last mile
§ Bogom Billion Big Data
§ World Vision, LMMS, various other NGO and corporate partners
§ Enabling access to bogom billion as target market
§ Early: business planning and feasibility study on mul8-‐party big data ini8a8ve as service provider to NGOs and corporates for bogom-‐billion with coopera8ve structure / shared ownership
§ Value Chain Approach to Food Security
§ Shortlist of various companies in Food, Credit, Chemicals, Tools
§ Food security, pilot in HoA and Tanzania
§ Assessment/ini8a8on: value chain analysis of stakeholders and private sector collabora8on related to BoP food security programming
source: WV internal info collection, team analysis
The information collected from World Vision entities shows that there are a couple of prominent examples of World Vision’s involvement in BoP initiatives, all in various stages of development
PURE WATER INITIATIVE
Examples of World Vision’s involvement in BoP initiatives
Proposal is being developed for mul8-‐party big data ini8a8ve as service provider to NGOs and corporates for bogom-‐billion with coopera8ve structure / shared ownership
SUSTAIN GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
Examples of World Vision’s involvement in BoP initiatives
World Vision ini8ated coopera8on with CARE, UPS, TNT, Accenture, Booz & Company and academia to stand-‐up collabora8on for beger supply chain solu8ons at the last mile
SUSTAIN GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
Examples of World Vision’s involvement in BoP initiatives
Proposal is being developed for mul8-‐party big data ini8a8ve as service provider to NGOs and corporates for bogom-‐billion with coopera8ve structure / shared ownership
SUMMARY
World Vision’s proposition for private sector BoP
Conclusion
World Vision is uniquely positioned to partner and add value to BoP
§ assessing needs, gaps and situation of the population
§ providing last mile access to communities and aggregated information at
grassroot level
§ convening BoP communities, global private sector, local businesses, CBOs, local
and national government
§ working with communities to enhance capacity, governance, financial
management, information & knowledge management���
The proposi8on of NGOs like World Vision is pivotal for the success of private sector to effec8vely and efficiently serve the BoP as a target market so collabora8on is highly beneficial for both sectors
source: team analysis
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