final power point in guede 2
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Entrepreneurship & Value Chain
Mamadou Oury Ba, Lamine Cissé, Al Hassane Ndiaye, Shaunna
Ridge, Defa Sakho, Thor Tillberg
Entrepreneurship Defined
“A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.”
Reactors to Problems &Opportunity
What is a Value Chain?• Network of companies /individuals which interact to
deliver goods and services• Full range of activities required to bring a product /
service through different phases of production to Market
• Interactions of firms and processors required to deliver a product to the end user.
• Identifying opportunities and constraints to increasing productivity.
• Focus on value creation, innovation, product development and marketing
Entrepreneurship and Value Chain
General Objective
To gain a better understanding of the challenges and strengths of the Entrepreneurs of Guédé Chantier
Specific Objective
To Assess the Interest and Possibilities of Entrepreneurship in Guédé Chantier
To make Value Chain more transparent To give farmers the ability to discover wherein the most value is
lost/can be gained Identify Entrepreneurial Organizations and their functions
Specific Needs as Declared by the People
• Agriculture: Access to machines, Barriers/fences around crops
• Fisheries: fish farming project; access to affordable fish; refrigerated transportation of fish
• Gender: Autonomy from patriarchal dominance (access and opportunity), Resources (farming machines, health center supplies, Tosten Library etc.)
• Herders: Veterinarian, Warehouse: feeding and keeping animals closer to families, milk preserve
Specific Needs (cont.)
• Microfinance: Women’s access to loans, more accessible loan options for everyone (not just through the GIEs)
• Value Chain: Better Communication (Top-Down) Govt. Unions GIE Farmers
• Miscellaneous: $ Funding $, Transportation
Problems with Microfinance
• Difficult getting loans– Individual– Women
• Vicious Cycle of Conditional Microcredit Loans to GIEs• Loans from Banks who give vouchers• Limited Variety (Unions)
– Forced to buy fertilizers Ruins Land Lower yields– Can’t pay back on time
• Not enough $ from yield• Pay back late = Start late next year, because waiting on new
loan Start late, miss best seasonal opportunities, low yields (cycle)
Loan Cycle Recommendations
In order for anyone to get out of this cycle, they must free themselves from the banks by paying
back debt
– Allow women to contribute more to family’s income– Short term sacrifices
– Money management– Courses for adults– Courses in school
» Savings account
SOCAS• Farmers are contracted to sell
their tomatoes to SOCAS at 51.5 cfa/kilo
•50 cfa = SOCASS•1.5 cfa = Salary of Union Reps
• Farmers can potentially sell tomatoes for more
Simple Explanation
DakarSOCAS
SOCAS
30 boxes: 1,545
45 boxes: 2,317.5
Dakar30 boxes x 4,000 cfa = 120,00045 boxes x 4,000 cfa = 180,00030 boxes x 12,000 cfa = 360,00045 boxes x 12,000 cfa = 540,000
GOVT
farmer farmer farmer Farmer/BanaBana
SOCAS
farmer
MARKET
BANABANA
MARKET
UNION UNION
GIE
MARKET
Farmer(as buyer)
Farmer(as buyer)
Gov’t
Unions
GIE
Farmers (Male and Female)
Solution:
Transparency (Top-Down)
Rotating Positions
UNION REPS
FARMERSGIE GIE
Information Flow as a Continuous Process
Revolving Market
Some vendors choose to sell their products every day at different
weekly markets
• Transportation– Costly– Inconsistent
Recommendations for Transportation
• Work with Bana Banas• Organizations dedicate a savings account
specifically to a truck– Periodic contributions (bi-weekly, monthly)– Tontines– Loan for Truck
• Carpooling
Thank YouMerci
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