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Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are working to ensure that labor benefits rather than exploits people and the environment:

Every year innumerable women disappear into the throes of sexual slavery yearly and millions of children are forced into child labor, but you can help put an end to this global blight by looking for ways to buy goods approved by organizations such as RugMark, The Emancipation Network, and TransFair USA.

These three Changemakers competition finalists are featured in the following video that shows how they are supporting economic freedom and justice for some of the world's most vulnerable populations. 

El Ganador del Desafío G2012 México Inclusión Financiera es Juntos Finanzas!

La victoria de Juntos Finanzas como ganador del Desafío G2012 México Inclusión Financiera fue anunciada el 3 de noviembre, durante un evento especial en la Cumbre G20 en la ciudad de México. Juntos Finanzas fue seleccionado como ganador por un panel de jueces expertos del desafío, entre 257 entradas provenientes de 62 países.

Juntos Finanzas recibirá un premio de US $100,000 patrocinado por el Banco Nacional de México (Banamex) y el BBVA Bancomer.

Desde trabajadora del hogar a organizadora y emprendedora social

Casimira Rodríguez Romero fue reconocida como una agente de cambio en la campaña Ashoka ChangemakeHERS, una celebración de las mujeres más influyentes e inspiradoras de todo el mundo. Te invitamos a conocer a las demás mujeres emprendedoras sociales destacadas en la campaña aquí (aqui links to http://www.changemakers.com/es/node/101967). 

 

Casimira Rodriguez

Casimira Rodríguez Romero, fundadora y directora de la Fundación Madre Selva

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A sus 13 años, Casimira Rodríguez migró de una comunidad quechua campesina a la ciudad para trabajar como trabajadora del hogar. Esta experiencia marcó su vida, pues le permitió conocer las injusticias que vivían las mujeres trabajadoras del hogar. A los 19 años, Casimira comenzó a participar de un grupo del que derivó la fundación del Sindicato de Trabajadoras del Hogar de Cochabamba, el cual ella llegó a dirigir. Desde entonces, Casimira ha luchado por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y de las mujeres migrantes. Ella ha sido cofundadora y Secretaria General de la Federación de Trabajadoras del Hogar de Bolivia, cofundadora de la Confederación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de las trabajadoras del Hogar, y en el 2006 llegó a ser la primera mujer indígena designada Ministra de Justicia del País.

Shared backyard food gardens with community kitchen

The existing groups of backyard food gardens provided portion of household needs of nutrients, mostly fruits and vegetables. They will be enhanced and organized to create closer-to-balance nutrient supply at the community level. Community kitchen will provide freshly-cooked food with local material.

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FundUni

FundUni is a web-based software platform designed to create a free market connection between those who require and those who provide capital (crowdfunding). The firm plans to dramatically reduce the national level of student debt by revolutionizing the way students fund
their education.

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Dinero Global

El Dinero Global creará una nueva fuente de riqueza a la cual tendrá acceso toda la población mundial expandiendo de forma explosiva no sólo el mercado mundial de nutrientes sino también los recursos disponibles para tal fin.

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PRODUCTION OF BIO PANCHAGAVYA AND BIO AMRUTHA JALAM.

Experiments
1. Saving precious water,
2. Improving soil fertility,
3. Reduction of labor cost,
4. Reduction of input cost
5. Avoiding loss of production during conversion,
6. Remunerative price to farmers and make agriculture sustainable
Answers
A.1 Use of Laser Leveler, SRI method, grown green manure crops to save water
A.2 Green manure crop, using Bio Amrutha Jalam resulted in earthworm and microbial population growth, helped formation of rich humus, improved soil fertility
A.3 Use of agricultural machinery reduced labor cost

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DUMA - The Future of Hiring in Emerging Markets

DUMA, the Swahili word for cheetah, is a job-matching service designed for emerging markets. Our mission stands: To be the developing world’s job reference system, to deliver a superior system to word-of-mouth hiring, and to enrich and empower a global workforce.

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Bridging the Gap

We bridge the gap between youth and companies by providing youth with practical skills for the workplace and showing companies the benefits youth provide.

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Sobre ti

Nombre

Salima

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Estados Unidos

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Canadá, BC

Tu organización es

No registrada

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Menos de un año

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Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

Esta presentación se trata de

Resúmen: ¿De qué tema o problema específico trata tu emprendimiento?

Our venture addresses the issues of youth unemployment and youth underemployment. Youth are the only demographic that has not yet recovered from the employment losses suffered during the recession, and the unemployment rate for youth currently sits at 14.8%. In addition, 1 out of 3 individuals with a post-secondary diploma moved into a low-skilled occupation after graduation. These youth are bright and passionate and just need the tools to land the right job after they graduate.
While we believe further research is necessary to fully understand the scope of the problem, some of our existing research (http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1296040--how-did-we-create-su... & http://youngandjobless.com/) shows that the problem is a skills gap.

Enunciado de tu misión: ¿Qué hace tu emprendimiento?

Our venture aims to bridge the gap between seemingly unattainable jobs and recent graduates. For recent graduates we hope to provide skills training that will help enhance skills they have already learned and obtained in their post-secondary education. This will better prepare them to find a job that reflects or stems from their education. Next, we aim to work with employers to understand the value that youth can bring to the workplace - from fresh and youthful perspectives to their tech savviness. In addition, we hope to utilize the Get Youth Working grant available to employers from the government to further encourage them to hire youth. This venture works both with youth and employers, understanding that both can work together to start to solve this problem.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

A fourth year Sociology student is looking for a job upon graduation. She is not planning on going back to school but isn't sure what she can do with her degree. She comes to us because she heard about our data analysis workshops. She took survey methods and statistics in school, so she has a background in analysis, but she wants to enhance her existing skills.

On the other end of things, we are talking with a local market research company that is looking to hire. We help them see the value in youth and introduce them to the Get Youth Working program. As a result, they are keen to hire some recent university grads with a background in data analysis for their market research projects.

After the student finishes our workshop, she is confident in her data analysis ability. In addition, she has practiced in her own time and applies to the market research company. She is hired because she has proven proficiency in data analysis. The company has a fresh outlook from her perspective and is also fortunate to receive a grant from Get Youth Working for hiring a youth.

La comunidad: Define tu comunidad, local, nacional o internacional, con la cual vas a trabajar. ¿Cuál es tu público objetivo, a qué población vas a dirigir tus acciones? ¿Existen otras organizaciones que ya trabajan en este tema en tu comunidad?

The Vancouver community will be the initial community we will target, as we are able to meet with both students and employers in the region. The population that will be affected is youth, specifically upper year students and recent post-secondary graduates. There are organizations working in this space including organizations like Get Youth Working as well as career centres at post-secondary institutions. What sets us apart from these groups is that we are in the same position as these grads so we can understand them and their grad fears better than any other generation. The Get Youth Working program focuses on younger youth for their job postings. Career centres are limited and stretched to help all students with all barriers and backgrounds on a campus, whereas we are focused.

El fundamento de tu Historia: ¿Qué fue lo que te inspiró para hacer tu emprendimiento y por qué?

As university students, we have personally seen the way the job market is affecting youth. Seeing the students around us worry about the job market and their ability to obtain a job, and we have also seen recent graduates who are struggling to find work. Students are trying to work, volunteer, do extracurricular activities, etc. all while taking a full class load, in order to try and better themselves for when they graduate. Recent grads are faced with rejections and entry-level positions that they do not qualify for. Being surrounded by this constant worry has led us to become extremely passionate about helping youth find meaningful work.

¿Cuál es la visión a largo plazo de tu emprendimiento?

Our long-term vision for our venture is to expand nationally and to help put a dent in youth unemployment. We want to become a premier service that both students and employers turn to in order to find the right candidates and the right jobs.

Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas.

We bridge the gap between youth and companies by providing youth with practical skills for the workplace and showing companies the benefits youth provide.

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¿Qué quieres lograr en tu primer año?

In 12 months we want to have found out which industries post-sec grads are struggling the most in and which employers are interested and willing to hire youth, but need additional support and prepared students. We want to work closely with grads to follow their stories and identify the strengths and weaknesses of our pilot program. We can learn from and improve upon this pilot and by the end of the 12 months we hope to have built a successful working model through our pilot that we can then expand into other career centres and cities while working within the industries that we have identified need it the most.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Our 6 month milestone will be to complete the research to identify what is contributing to youth unemployment.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Analysis of unemployment markets

Tarea 2

Hold 6 focus groups, with 7-10 individuals each

Tarea 3

Meetings with potential business partners and career centres

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

By our 12-month milestone, we will have completed our first pilot and have iterated our program based on the results.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Hold 3-4 workshops

Tarea 2

Continue meetings with potential business partners and university career centres

Tarea 3

Online website created where attendees from workshops can continue the conversation

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¿Cómo definirás el éxito de tu emprendimiento durante el primer año de operaciones (1-6 meses)?

In the short term we will define success by having the market research completed to show us which area is the greatest need. This will include an analysis of the national/provincial/local stats on youth unemployment to give us a snapshot of the current state. In addition, a documented “business case” will be created to provide to employers on why it makes sense to partner with us and find the right youth for their organization.

¿Cómo definirás el éxito tu emprendimiento a largo plazo (1 año)?

Our long-term definition of success includes working through a pilot project to help us better understand and identify the barriers and opportunities we will face. This will give us a better understanding of iterations we will need to make, and will allow us to create a model that works and is successful based on our research and testing of assumptions.

¿Qué indicadores(s) usarás para medir el éxito de tu emprendimiento durante el primer año?

In the short-term, we will measure success by completing our research, having help 6 focus groups with youth and signing on 2 business partners and one career centre.

In the long-term, we will measure success by completing our pilot project in one industry. In addition, we will complete pre and post surveys and video interviews to document the students' growth and identify their remaining weaknesses so we can improve these gaps for the next stage. We want to help a minimum of 2 students get hired. In addition to the business partners and career centres from the short-term, we hope to gain interest from at least one new business partner and one new career centre.

¿Por qué?

We need to focus both on strong research as well as actions through the pilot project to plan for long-term success.

Count On Us - HRRS benefiting companies, vulnerable people & NGOs

This solution has a triple goal: to develop among NGOs a model of social economy which provides access to the labor market and improves the financial situation for vulnerable groups, as well as to create an accesible employment tool for economic agents that focus on financial efficiency, social responsibility and solidarity.

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Waving Goodbye to Youth Unemployment

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Labour Connect

Labourconnect.org is a portal using web based application software to connect unorganized blue color informal sector to organized sector for better job opportunity and platform for informal sector workers to increase their livelihood by the use of technology.

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Labour Connect

Sobre ti

Nombre

Anurag

Apellido

Shanker

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

NIDAN

Sitio web de la organización

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

India, DL, Delhi

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

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La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Labourconnect.org is a joint initiative of NASVI (National Association of Street Vendors of India), and NIDAN.

We at Labourconnect.org believe that we should not view this blue color jobs (informal sector workers) as nuisance but should be seen as an assets for job creation and helping our economy to grow.

For blue-collar workers such as drivers, maids, cooks, and construction workers etc, finding out about the jobs available with various employers is often considered to be an arduous task and the employers, too especially urban population, struggle and sometime they don’t even find a right person they intend to fill.

To minimize this gap NIDAN comes up with an idea of (Labour Connect).

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Labourconnect.org is a portal using web based application software to connect unorganized blue color informal sector to organized sector for better job opportunity and platform for informal sector workers to increase their livelihood by the use of technology.
At the moment, we're focusing on Delhi NCR, Uttrakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Harayana and Bihar areas as our first phase of launch and soon we will enter to other states with the help of our partners NASVI and NIDAN.
It will help unorganised workers
For blue-collar workers such as drivers, receptionists, office assistants, etc, finding out about the jobs available with various employers is often an arduous task.

The employers, too, struggle to attract the right people for the various vacancies they intend to fill.
The present situation, however, will soon be a thing of the past. Labour Connect, a job portal developed mainly for unorganised workers and to bridge the large gap between the demand and supply of skilled manpower.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

1. Fresh as well as experienced unorganised workers can register with www.labourconnect.org, service providers, and job trainers can also register in the same way. Registration is free.
2. Since many candidates looking for jobs in the unorganised sector might not be proficient in using the internet and thereby creating their profiles properly, our field workers and vocational training institutes should submit the details on their behalf.
3. Currently, the portal offers information about jobs in Delhi NCR area only, in other states we are creating database of job seekers at the moment.
4. Labour Connect is building an online data repository to provide labour intelligence on blue collar jobs in India. It is intended to help participating organizations visualize the current and near-future size of the demand for blue collar workforce, while being able to populate the repository with their own data. The data is aggregated, anonymized and syndicated* for participants to gain from an overall perspective of the demand for blue collar workforce in their geography.
The value that labourconnet offers to both its employers and job seekers is in its ability to provide access to critical job and job seeker information through various technology platforms. By leveraging web and mobile technology, labourconnet is able to scale and engage a wider audience creating greater efficiency for employers and having a social impact on job seekers. Employers can conveniently browse job seeker profiles based on salary, location, languages, employment background, skills and references.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

300 million working age, non-farm, informal sector workers with a mobile in the home. Various studies on India’s unorganized employable workforce range from 300 million to 360 million so Sean’s market size number is within the range. Interestingly, the size of the migrant population is 100 million – in other words, 1/3 of the informal sector workers are on the move.At this early stage of the informal sector job marketplace, labour connect doesn’t have a direct competitor.

Changeshop

This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Count On Us - HRRS benefiting companies, vulnerable people & NGOs.

Count On Us! - Human Resource Rental Service benefiting companies, vulnerable people and NGOs.

Encourage and facilitate self development among vulnerable people through immediate actions and programs that lead to their socio-economic independence.

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Sobre ti

Nombre

AMURT

Apellido

Romania

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

AMURT Romania

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Rumania, B, Bucharest

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Rumania, B, Bucharest

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.

Award from Ministry of Education in 1994, AMURT Center as good model for alternative home for orphanages.

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Innovación

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Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Sigue en fase conceptual, pero se espera que se lance pronto.

¿Cuál de las siguientes describe mejor la(s) barrera(s)s a la que da respuesta tu innovación? Elige hasta dos.

Acceso, Calidad.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

In Romania the socio-economic consequences of the current economic crisis has caused three major problems:

(1) The disappearance of economic agents in the market.
(2) The worsening of social-professional and economical problems concerning disadvantaged youth and vulnerable people.
(3) The financial difficulties encountered by NGOs when continuing to provide services for their beneficiaries.

Due to the lack of job opportunities homeless youth are forced to work on the black market in order to survive. The black market is not a viable solution for homeless people because it does not offer financial security or social insurance. It is not a solution for companies or NGO-s either because they risk of jeopardizing their own existence.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

By creating a social-economical agency, which responds to the temporary needs of the companies, we can support vulnurable people in finding their way back into the labour market, becoming contributing members of society, while partially sustaining the service expenditures of the NGO.

The Human Resource Rental Service (HRRS) is an agency which aims to solve both economic and social issues. This temporary employment agency is a solution which provides vulnerable people with access to the labour market in order to improve both their financial situation and their quality of life. This agency also represents an income generated activity for NGO's, that provide services for disadvantaged groups, who also need to sustain their daily costs.

In addition, this agency is a permissive instrument for those ecomonic agents who are interested in new trends within the employment market, based on their effectiveness but also their commitment to fulfilling their goals for social responsibility

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

This agency creates jobs for vulnerable people: opportunities to plan a better future for their careers; learn how to respond to challenges; learn how to manage their own income, create a secure environment for themselves and become responsible and well respected citizens. It improves their self esteem and bring stability into their lives. This is a transitional point for them from a socially dependent background, to becoming part of the 'big labor market', that can offer a future within their independence. If they do not succeed in this transitional stage they still have the opportunity to go back to the AMURT Romania Life Skills Training Programme located in Domnesti. Here they benefit from entrepreneurship courses as per the model of Street Kids International (UK): learn how to start a small business and be "self-employed".

This solution offers the company quick access to a preselected and qualified workforce, covering a temporary employment need, sparing the time and money of the companies in finding the right person and offering guaranteed quality work. The quality of the employees' work is guaranteed in two ways:

1) Recrute vulnerable people who have already attended the Life Skills Training Programme at the AMURT Center or the Work Skills Training programmes sustained by AMURT's Partners
2) Qualification providers will evaluate and give certified diplomas to people in vulnerable situations, based on their performance/acheivment. This solution offers the NGO an income which will cover basic costs for service users, to sustain them on their way to independence.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

In Romania there are 212 employment or human resource counseling agencies: 79 in Bucharest; 5 in sector 6, which has the 2nd largest number of agencies. Our agency is in sector 6. No agency has taken the innovative approach of creating a 'social plus' agency that covers major social and economic issues.

Our unique advantage is that we have three areas of focus:
- Companies quick access to preselected and qualified workforce
- Job opportunities and career guidance as well as the possibility of creating a self-sustaining environment for vulnerable people.
- NGOs sustainability.

Should other agencies decide to engage in with a similar target group, our project would actively encourage and support those efforts. The more agencies working toward the same goal, more job opportunities.

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When we started the project in 2009, other NGOs working with homeless youth told us about the difficulties with this target group. They said that only 2 or 3 youths out of 10 will succeed.

With our successful training in Life Skills, which is provided for in our friendly center together with the youths joy and inspiration when they receive their certified vocational skill diplomas, 8 out of 10 suceeded. But life skills and vocational skills are NOT enough. 50% of the youth find themselves back on the streets again. If jobs are not available, then the ovious solution is that the NGOs themselves will have to provide. The question is, HOW?

Six months ago when our project manager visited Strasbourg (France), she heard about a successful human leasing agency for disadvantage people. This information itself was an immediate idea as the best and most suitable solution in creating jobs for homeless youth, taking in consideration their background and psychology.

Por favor, describe el objetivo de tu iniciativa: un resumen de lo que están tratando de lograr

There is a dual goal: to develop among NGOs a model of social economy which provides access to the labor market and improves the financial situation for vulnerable groups, as well as to create an accesible employment tool for economic agents that focus on financial efficiency, social responsibility and solidarity.

- Increasing employment opportunities for the target group by training them in social entrepreneurship and providing vocational qualifications required in the current job market.
- Creating jobs for the target group by establishing an innovative socio-economic model: a temporary employment agency.
- Promoting the economic activity of the agency and ensuring its financial sustainability through publicity campaigns and partnerships with the private and public sector.

¿A qué barrera(s) a la inclusión financiera tu solución busca dirigirse? (selecciona todas las pertinenetes)

Físicas y otros obstáculos de accesibilidad que impiden que los servicios financieros lleguen a las comunidades, Falta de productos financieros asequibles adaptados a las necesidades de las comunidades marginadas y excluidas, Otro (Por favor, describa a continuación).

Si ha seleccionado "otro", por favor especificar qué otras barreras a la inclusión financiera tu solución busca dirigirse

Increasing the credibility as “reliable workers” among economic agents who have already had negative experiences with homeless.

¿Para qué comunidades marginadas o excluidas tu solución creará un acceso a servicios financieros valiosos, asequibles, seguros e integrales?

This initiative is proposed for homeless youth (aged between 18-26 ), vulnerable people (aged between 2 7-35) and the unemployed, from rural areas surrounding Bucharest, who will be identified by our organization in the local community or refered to us by AMURT's collaborators.

¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?

The Human Resource Rental Service (HRRS) is a model which can be used by all the NGO's in Bucharest that deal with the same target group, as well as NGO's throughout Romania, which provide social services and vocational/life skills training for homeless youth or vulnerable people.

This solution is also a way of stopping the migration of the population from poor rural areas to the capital, cities or towns. This initiative is a local solution for local problems.

There is a strong possibility that this solution can be replicated in other countries that encounter the same problems with vulnerable groups.

Si tu solución tuviera un éxito espectacular, ¿cómo serían las cosas diferentes en 10 años?

In 10 years this solution will drastically reduce the number of people dependent on social services ('hoppers” from one social service to another).

It wil significantly reduce the rate of unemploymet, increase the variety of craftsman and skills available, be a strong financial support for the NGO who develops this kind of income generating activity (at least 5 % from annual NGO budget will be covered by the agency).

It will also create a functioning network of HRR services developed by NGO's in Romania, be a platform for social community, a tool for temporary employment used by all big companies for casual jobs as well as for SMEs which have a organizational culture based on efficiency and effectiveness.

¿Qué tendría que haber cambiado para que esto sucediera?

We have to accelerate the process of growth, in terms of the number of clients (companies) and the number of employees (qualified homeless youth&vulnerable people), in accordance with the dynamics of the labour market. Obtaining accreditation for the agency to become a certified qualification and entrepreneurship provider, having a long term marketing & communication strategy as well as annual action plans and operating standards procedures will become essential.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

In our annual report for 2011 our Life and Vocational Skills training programme had 21 recipients, 13 recipients for the independent living skills programme, 12 acquired knowledge about community resources, 6 managed their financial resources efficiently, 11 developed personal skills, 13 have improved self-image, 10 are able to develop lasting personal relationships, 13 acquired minimal knowledge of the legal system and can work with them, 4 have formed artistic expression, 10 have achieved career planning skills, to identify a job and how to keep.

Impact on the community: youth became a useful and active resource for the local community, real potential employees - a contributing member of society.

Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 5 años?

Within the next five years, AMURT Romania will create a model for a complete social and professional integration programme. We are committed to helping homeless youth and those young people leaving the care system to acquire life, vocational, and entrepreneurial skills, secure jobs and resources to become self-sufficient in the basic necessities needed for sustaining an independent lifestyle.

The agency creates a variety of jobs, not only in one area but in many areas according to market demands.

There is no minimum or maximum number of people that may be employed by leasing. From the experiences, there is usually no drop but steady increase in number of requests from companies thereby ensuring the availability of jobs for the vulnerable people.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Barriers:
- The costs of leasing can be higher than the salary of the job.
- The unwillingness of companies to hire people who have an unstable personality.
- Companies will have to justify, to the authorities ,that this is a temporary activity.
- Attitude and lack of loyalty.

Plan to overcome barriers:
- A marketing manager working on behalf of the agency will persuade the companies that this type of service is more efficient in the long term.
- The agency will offer the guarantee that the activity of the company will be properly fulfilled.
- For companies who work on a project it becomes easy to justify. Natuarlly, projects means temporary work and temporary activity.
- a social worker from AMURT and a psychologist will act as a mediator between them and the company.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Completed business plan of the agency.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Feasibility study of the job market - supply and demand, the interests and trends of the market.

Tarea 2

Sustaining courses for certified qualified persons.

Tarea 3

Obtaining approvals from public institutions for establishing the agency.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Create leasing contracts.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Strategic partnership with online recruitment agencies.

Tarea 2

Promotional champagnes to arise the awareness of this new style of service.

Tarea 3

Public institutions to hire the services thereby supporting the people in need.

Sostenibilidad

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Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

- APEL Association providing certified vocational skill trainings and referrals for companies.
- Parada Foundation ans Samu Social Association selecting and providing vulnerable people.
- Concordia Foundation providing certified professionals
- Streets Kids International (UK and Canada) – providing “know how” in social entrepreneurship

¿Actualmente te estás dirigiendo a otras poblaciones, lugares o los mercados para tu innovación? Si es así, ¿dónde y por qué?

Not at the moment. But since we are dealing with vulnerable groups and low income, the agency would consider including pensioners with a small pension, as a future development. Although they are already qualified, according to the labour law, they can only be employed part-time.

¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?

This innovation has a great chance of success because of; our organizational culture based on efficiency and performance, our skilled staff who create a youthful and friendly working environment and the enthusiasm of both personnel and volunteers involved in designing this new approach for the social-economic field.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Increase the number of women in computing

Why isn't there enough women in computing? Can women learn to code? We know there's a solution. We aim to teach women how to code in a safe learning environment

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Organización: Hacker Collective más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar

Sobre ti

Nombre

Vincent

Apellido

Ohprecio

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Hacker Collective

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Canadá, BC, Vancouver

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canadá, BC, Vancouver

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.

Tu organización es

No registrada

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Menos de un año

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Innovación

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Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Sigue en fase conceptual, pero se espera que se lance pronto.

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Acceso, Costo.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

There is a gender imbalance in software and computing fields. Very few women opt to become programmers, system administrators, or hardware/software engineers. The number of women who try, seems to be falling rather than rising.

Many solutions try coercive schemes to achieve “gender parity”. We propose to treat this as a journey, hoping for a global movement. There are many barriers faced by women in computing, such as the cost of education, and there is a struggle through the academic pipeline, from childhood to postdoctoral studies.

Whether it's social conditioning or systematic institutional discouragement, women are simply not on equal footing for learning opportunities.

Our aim is to share our success and give the tools to the community to reproduce in other communities.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Our program is a three-month, full-time, skills workshop for becoming a better programmer. The program will be free and provide space, structure, time to focus, and a friendly community of smart mentors.

We are an agile, motivated, and passionate group dedicated to self-powered learning Ruby on Rails in several weeks, in a safe learning space for beginners. We provide an awesome space, a safe learning environment for beginners, and a learning structure to keep them on track. Each woman will bring passion to learn and we’ll give them an experience they will never forget.

We will take 12 women who are not software engineers and provide them skills to enter the workforce as Junior Developer/Programmers. Our goal will be to have all them employed as software engineers in BC.

We intend to publish (open source) all of our budgets, lesson plans, and lectures.

We want to teach women about software development in order to help them pursue their passions, their dreams, and ideas.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Twelve women will attend a safe learning space in the city of Vancouver. The immersive learning opportunity will be similar to a 90-day programming bootcamp. All computers and software will be available to use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to complete classroom projects. They will learn from experienced mentors using a proven industry curriculum.

We’re looking at a commitment of eight to ten weeks from attendees (that's roughly 400 hours). During weeks one to three, we’ll learn how to program in the Ruby language. Working in pairs and small groups, we’ll learn syntax, methods, tools, and command line. We’ll push the code to the cloud using Git. By week 3, you’ll be surprised what you know. We’ll code. We’ll make stuff. We’ll have fun!

Weeks four to five will expose us to HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby on Rails. We’ll slice and dice data with mad programming skills, explore how websites are built, and how web applications are made. We’ll continue to work in pairs and work on small projects. We’ll have guest instructors and speakers every week.

By the time week six rolls around, we’ll be ready to dive deep into Ruby on Rails and start building model view controller (MVC) applications. For the next three weeks, we’ll learn about SQL and work on larger projects, and still in pairs. We’ll make clone projects like, Twitter, Facebook, and bit.ly. We’ll use object oriented programming (OOP) techniques and mash them with HTML, CSS, and Javascript for fun. Together, we will build the extraordinary!

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

There are many ways for a beginner to learn how to program. You could pick up a book from the library and teach yourself or try online learning.

There is a gap between teaching yourself and going to University for a 4 year Computer Science degree. It's not just about time and money, it's about being productive, competitive and having the right skills. Our solution provides a clear alternative to either of the traditional learning paths.

Here’s some places that we have stumbled across in our search for learning opportunities for women in computing:

https://www.hackerschool.com/
http://www.girlswhocode.com/about/
http://devbootcamp.com/
http://railsgirls.com/
http://starterleague.com/
Read more at: http://hackercollective.ca/faq/

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Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

We have been passionate about providing opportunities to women in computing. Our small group of volunteers have noticed there aren't many women in technology. Why is that? How can we change that?

In the summer of 2012, we explored the full business plan to bring a group of mentors together to provide a learning experience for women, unmatched in BC. Our group formed the Hacker Collective and we plan to launch the project for the summer of 2013.

In the meanwhile, we have studied smaller weekend workshops targeting the Vancouver market. Following the success of the worldwide movement (http://railsgirls.com), we established Vancouver's first RailsGirls.

In less than one week we registered 12 women committed to learning how to code. (http://railsgirls.eventbrite.com/).

We have tremendous support from the programming community and we have found suitable space, built the curriculum, found mentors, and we are certain we will have an overwhelming response.

Por favor, describe el objetivo de tu iniciativa: un resumen de lo que están tratando de lograr

Our primary goal is to make 12 new women programmers in BC and provide them access to technology, life-long learning skills, technical computer skills, technology expertise, and to support them so they are leaders and mentors for other women in computing.

Our secondary goal is to establish a foundation of materials that promotes and encourages participation. We want to facilitate the replication of our program and services in other organizations so that they may also create an atmosphere of inclusion and belonging for women in computing.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

We are past the planning stages and committed to begin. We have identified volunteers ready to work with the project, and have planned out the logistics of the project.

The collection of volunteers have already started spreading the word and we have women already interested in participating.

Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 5 años?

Hundreds of women in computing. How will that change the industry? What might that do for BC?

We want to develop a sustainable ongoing program, with partner organizations, and a full complement of mentors. We want a dedicated learning space and we want to continue offering the program for free.

We want to be able to offer the program as barrier free for women. We envision industry support and community support. We look forward to establishing solid relationships and partnerships with the community.

We want to grow this project to reach all of the women in BC.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Staffing solely on a volunteer basis is not sustainable. This project is going to cost money: for the space, the equipment, and quality instruction.

For a project such as this to be sustainable, there will have to be both staff and volunteer positions. We will publish all of our materials because we think people make good projects, not just great ideas. We envision providing 'train the trainer' opportunities.

Each batch of graduates is a batch of potential mentors who can help teach classes on special topics.

The funds, if awarded, will be used to pay for the learning space, technology assets, and the sustainment of the program.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Teach and graduate 12 new women coders for the BC tech economy

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Train 12 women as employable junior developers, ready to tackle the BC software and computing industry

Tarea 2

Develop the 12 women social capital and public profile. Programs written by the women will be shared publicly on the Internet.

Tarea 3

Foster life long learning, mentorship and volunteerism with opportunities to return as mentors.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Establishing organizations with their own sustainable women learning to code projects and forging industry apprenticeships

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Publish for public consumption, the complete framework of learning materials from lectures to budgets.

Tarea 2

To establish a sustainable non-profit agency responsible for continuing the success of this project.

Tarea 3

Invest in mentor development and training, like "train the trainer" to evangelize the projects values and mission.

Sostenibilidad

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Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

We are currently leveraging the Rails Girls framework and material for weekend workshops. We are also leveraging experience from Hacker School. Our project lead and mentor is currently attending an exclusive free programming bootcamp in NYC with 50% enrollment by women. Industry sponsorship has provided enough funding to provide $5000 grant assistance for women during their stay in NYC, in addition to the free tuition.

We want to establish collaborative partnerships with community and industry to share our values and vision.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

Our target population are underemployed or unemployed women, who can't afford to spend the time and money on getting a Computer Science degree in four years.

Our target population are women who need support, encouragement, access to role models, access to technology, and access to a safe learning environment.

¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?

We are using the industries best practices to introduce women to computing. We are providing the best barrier-free learning environment for their learning. We are sharing our values, network, knowledge, and time for their life-long learning success. We are fostering growth, innovation, and social equality.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Please join us in our successful project. We are committed to the success of this project, regardless of the funding outcomes, but we would really like your support.

Changeshop

This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Count On Us - HRRS benefiting companies, vulnerable people & NGOs.

Count On Us! - Human Resource Rental Service benefiting companies, vulnerable people and NGOs.

Encourage and facilitate self development among vulnerable people through immediate actions and programs that lead to their socio-economic independence.

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Organización: AMURT Romania más ↓↑ ocultar↑ ocultar

Sobre ti

Nombre

AMURT

Apellido

Romania

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

AMURT Romania

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Rumania, B, Bucharest

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Rumania, B, Bucharest

Edad del/la innovador/a

18-34

Género del/la innovador/a

Femenino

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Count On Us! - Human Resource Rental Service benefiting companies, vulnerable people and NGOs.

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando menos de un año

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

In Romania the socio-economic consequences of the current economic crisis has caused three major problems:

(1) The disappearance of economic agents in the market.
(2) The worsening of social-professional problems concerning disadvantaged youth and vulnerable people.
(3) The difficulties encountered by NGOs when continuing to provide services for their beneficiaries.

We propose a type of solution which can resolve these issues. By creating a social-economical agency, which responds to the temporary needs of the companies, we can support vulnurable people in finding their way back into the labour market while partially sustaining the service expenditures of the NGO.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

The Human Resource Rental Service (HRRS) agency is an socio-economic structure which directly aims to solve both economic and social issues. This temporary insersion/employment agency is an innovative solution which provides vulnerable people with access to the labour market in order to improve their quality of life. This structure also represents an income generated activity for NGO's, that provide services for disadvantaged groups, who also need to sustain their daily costs.

In addition, this agency is a permissive instrument for those ecomonic agents who are interested in new trends within the employment market, based on their effectiveness but also their commitment to fulfilling their goals for social responsibility.

This approach, within the labour market, is a relatively new one in Romania compared with other EU countries. The concept of personnel leasing/employment agencies only appeared in the mid 1990's and then later, in 2004, was framed within the labour law.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

This agency creates jobs for vulnerable people, offers the opportunity to plan a better future for their careers, as well as the potential to learn how to respond to challenges, create a secure environment for themselves, become responsable citizens and well respected. Improve their self esteem and bring more stability into their lives. It is a transitional point for vulnerable people, from a socially dependent background, to becoming part of the 'big labor market', that can offer a future within their socio-economic independance. If they do not succed in this transitional stage they still have the opportunity to go back to the AMURT Romania Life Skills Training Prgramme located in Domnesti.

This solution offers the company quick access to a preselected and qualified workforce, covering a temporary employment need, sparing the time and money of the companies in finding the right person and offering guaranteed quality work. The quality of the employees' work is guaranteed in two ways:

1) Recrute vulnerable people who have already attended the Life Skills Training Programme at the AMURT Center or the Work Skills Training programmes sustained by AMURT's Partners
2) Qualification providers will evaluate and give certified diplomas to people in vulnerable situations, based on their performance/acheivment. This solution offers the NGO an income which will cover basic costs for service users, to sustain them on their way to independence.

The proposed idea ensures the junction between human resource, job place and time. “right man in a right place and in right time".

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Thoughout Romania there are 212 employment agencies or human resource counseling agencies. 79 are In Bucharest; five are in sector 6, which has the 2nd largest number of agencies. Our agency is also in sectgor 6. No agency has taken the innovative approach of creating a 'social plus' agency that covers major social and economic issues.

Our agency's competitive advantage is thet we have three areas of focus:
- Companies quick access to preselected and qualified workforce
- Job opportunities and career guidence for vulnerable people
- NGOs sustainability.

Should other agencies decide to engage in with a similar target group, our project would actively encourage and support those efforts. The more agencies working toward the same goal, more job opportunity for vulnerable people.

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Esta presentación se trata de

Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

In our annual report for 2011 our Life and Vocational Skills training prgramme had 21 recipients, 13 recipients for the independent living skills prgramme, 12 acquired knowledge about community resources, 6 managed their financial resources efficiently, 11 developed personal skills, 13 have improved self-image, 10 are able to develop lasting personal relationships, 13 acquired minimal knowledge of the legal system and can work with them, 4 have formed artistic expression, 10 have achieved career planning skills, to identify a job and how to keep.

Impact on the community: youth became a useful and active resource for the local community, real potential employees - a contributing member of society.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Within the next three years (until 2014), AMURT Romania will create a model for a complete social and professional integration programme. We are committed to helping homeless youth and those young people leaving the care system to acquire life, vocational, and entrepreneurial skills, secure jobs, and resources to become self-sufficient in the basic necessities needed for sustaining an independent lifestyle.

The agency creates a variety of jobs, not only in one area but in many areas according to market demands.

There is no minimum or maximum number of people that may be employed by leasing. From the experiences, there is usually no drop but steady increase in number of requests from companies thereby ensuring the availality of jobs for the vulnerable people.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Barriers:
- The costs of leasing can be higher than the salary of the job.
- The unwillingness of companies to hire people who have an unstable personality.
- Companies will have to justify, to the authorities ,that this is a temporary activity.
- Attitude and lack of loyalty.

Plan to overcome barriers:
- A marketing manager working on behalf of the agency will persuade the companies that this type of service is more efficient in the long term.
- The agency will offer the guarantee that the activity of the company will be properly fulfilled.
- For companies who work on a project it becomes easy to justify. Natuarlly, projects means temporary work and temporary activity.
- a social worker from AMURT and a psychologist will act as a mediator between them and the company.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Completed business plan of the agency.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Feasibility study of the job market - supply and demand, the interests and trends of the market.

Tarea 2

Sustaining courses for certified qualified persons.

Tarea 3

Obtaining approvals from public institutions for establishing the agency.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Create leasing contracts.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Strategic partnership with online recruitment agencies.

Tarea 2

Promotional champagnes to arise the awareness of this new style of service.

Tarea 3

Public institutions to hire the services thereby supporting the people in need.

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

When we started the project in 2009, other NGOs working with homeless youth told us about the difficulties with this target group. They said that only 2 or 3 youths out of 10 will succeed.

With our successful training in Life Skills, which is provided for in our friendly center together with the youths joy and inspiration when they receive their certified vocational skill diplomas, 8 out of 10 suceeded. But life skills and vocational skills are NOT enough. 50% of the youth find themselves back on the streets again. If jobs are not available, then the ovious solution is that the NGOs themselves will have to provide. The question is, HOW?

Six months ago when our project manager visited Strasbourg (France), she heard about a successful human leasing agency for disadvantage people. This information itself was an immediate idea as the best and most suitable solution in creating jobs for homeless youth, taking in consideration their background and psychology.

Sostenibilidad

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Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

- APEL Association providing certified vocational skill trainings and referrals for companies.
- Parada Foundation ans Samu Social Association selecting and providing vulnerable people.
- Concordia Foundation providing certified professionals.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Global Distance MBA for Professional Employment.

Global Distance MBA for Professional Employment - an opportunity to learn and earn, upgrade skills and gain an education degree from the comfort of your home. We provide capacity building, personality development, skill enhancement, and recruitment. A opportunity to serve through sensitization programmes on current issues, advocacy and social change. Those interested visit our website for info.

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Sobre ti

Nombre

Michelle

Apellido

Vas

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

GMI / Global Management Institute

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

India, MM, Mumbai

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

India, MM

Edad del/la innovador/a

Más de 34

Género del/la innovador/a

Femenino

Tu organización es

Empresa

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

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Innovación

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Global Distance MBA for Professional Employment.

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

GMI / Global Management Institute has an innovative project to provide MBA Degree via Distance Learning to India for the largely informal labour market in dire need of such professional education compounded with a dearth of funds for foreign travel as well as time constraints while learning and earning to keep up with the technological changes in the global job market scenario; and the incredible insecurity of the current job situation worldwide.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

GMI provides for a huge target population of management students, adult educated personnel, employees and teachers who may need to upgrade their professional skills and young adults who may wish to prepare for the Corporate world. Millenniumrunner.com provides personality and skill enhancement for entrepreneurship and capacity building through its PDSE I-IV a creative programme for GMI`s aptitude testing of EQ along with IQ Testing to better prepare for Organisations in a Global Environment. The plan is to involve the key stakeholders in the solution and facilitation programmes have been initiated to form core teams to visit Select Schools and Colleges on completion of the First and Second levels each of 24 sessions respectively. The third level is due to start off next month so as to prepare the team to expand to wider markets to search and identify suitable personnel to join the core team in order to market the project to middle-level management to maintain their competitive edge.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

A plan to partner the EU and the Government in the Skill Enhancement of 92% of the Local Labour Force which is largely in the Informal Sector and is mostly unskilled in a market environment which has a shortfall of over 50% of skilled labour and in a situation where only 8% of the labour force matches the requirement. In a demographic situation where over 50% of the population is comprised of a very young population and a very old population the entire burden for productivity and progress lies with the middle-income groups who are battling inflationary market forces on the one hand and repressive taxation on their productive income thus stifling this supportive group. Our effort is to provide a support system to inculcate this quality education in the basic course curriculum to provide a timely, supportive climate for the present work force. If this effort is made by the government now in the present education system the graduates will already have basic professional skills and be ready to join the workforce & be productive almost immediately as they will be fulfilling a ready need of the marketplace and this may be replicated worldwide. Training & Facilitation of Personnel in Service Industries; Mentoring, Counseling facilities; Developing Business Strategies for targeting markets; harnessing capacities and developing potential in schools and colleges; for homemakers and professionals; for employees and students. Corporate Social Responsibility as agents of change and advocacy and policy change. Sensitization programmes along with NGOs (Non-Government Organisations).

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

India Skills, Millennium Business Solutions, other NGOs. A dire need for funding and resources although we have 24 years of training, counseling and management experience. Our work is mostly target-oriented with a view to maximize time utility and effort; a virtual office and flexi-time based entirely on delivery of products and services. These players need the skills we have and can only provide a supportive and encouraging base if approached correctly due to the dearth of skilled trainers and the huge requirement.

Impacto social

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a las cadenas de abastecimiento/logistica, Acceso a tecnologia, Acceso a oportunidades económicas, Cambio de políticas/Defensa de derechos.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

We have conducted intensive programmes, regular programmes and workshops both professionally and on a volunteer-basis to reach out to the target audiences to develop latent potential and harness innate talent. Through Training of Trainers we are able to reach larger audiences and generally benefit society at large. Those who have benefitted from our capacity building have moved on to assume positions of responsibility in senior positions in Corporations. Others may have utilised the learning as homemakers to impact a large section of youth and families creating a foundation for change in society. Our present efforts are to target trainers and select schools and colleges to study the impact of Management Education by providing for the dire needs of society to build self-esteem, deal with peer pressure, build up inner resilience in a world of fast paced technological change where the stakeholders can assume control over self and situation to deal with the impact of globalization.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Over the next 1 - 3 years we hope to have a student base of professionally qualified MBA postgraduates capable of holding middle and senior management positions; homemakers who are ready to work from home in corporations which provide flexi-work hours and steady incomes to dignify their efforts. If we strategize well along with the governmental efforts, we may be able to tap the entire teaching profession to facilitate their training for including the new work-oriented vocational curricula in the college / university syllabus; and the personality development and skill enhancement programmes in the school syllabus. Our efforts will be to partner the EU and India Skill programme to take skill development to the masses. The Corporate Governance programme will need to tap the marginalised.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Space to conduct training; funding for all projects; time to tap the target groups and generate interest in our programmes; and liaison personnel to approach the government and corporates for their involvement. Staff to provide support systems; and the beneficiaries themselves - who need to participate without whom the show cannot go on.
We plan to use the registered office for training small groups in facilitation programmes. We may have to tap only those who can pay for their training for the present until we can generate more savings over the longer period; word-of-mouth publicity instead of costly advertising; tie-up with other like-minded NGOs to connect up with government and other stakeholders. Develop our own strategy to maintain and preserve records.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Partner with the University providing the MBA Degree

Tarea 2

Get a minimum of 150 students for the first year.

Tarea 3

Form at least 10 Core Teams to take the Programme to the Schools and Colleges

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Reach out to the NGOs and BPOs and Corporates with 10 teams which have now completed the third and fourth levels of PDSE.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Develop a data base of NGOs, BPOs, Corporates to target - immediately start communicating with them.

Tarea 2

Identify their strengths and areas for cooperative work and incorporate these after 6 months once the teams are ready.

Tarea 3

write a white paper for the government machinery to investigate and adopt to proactively implement in education curricula.

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

I was with an NGO at the Board of Control Meeting when I realized that there was tremendous potential in the Organisation. However, the same proposal was raised over and over again but fell on deaf ears. I decided that my 24 years of experience as an entrepreneur and as a student of three streams of Management would stand me in good stead if I tried to venture out into my pet dream to provide an opportunity for education to many who might never dream of achieving such education for lack of funds and opportunity. I knew that time was of the essence and I immediately "planned my work and then worked my plan". I registered my name and accepted the proposal that my colleague offered me for partnering a University abroad through her uncle who had brought in the business. Since all of life is a give and take, I offered her a position based on her offering and the rest is history. I set up the web-site, & immediately offered what services were already present at Millenniumrunner.com to GMI.

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GMI plans to partner a foreign university that has the distance learning MBA programme.
Millenniumrunner.com partners GMI with a personality development and skill enhancement programme designed in 4 levels; Beginners, Pre-Elementary, Elementary, Advanced. This is like a finishing school for Management personnel.
Many NGOs and Corporates who provide appropriate guidance and support at senior levels.
Many contacts who will liase with the Government and may approach the EU in their present projects to include us.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

In areas of Training and Facilitation, there are many who need the same but cannot afford it. Yet they have the basic qualities which will aid their Selection into our teams. Subsidizing them will be our gain. We offer social programmes to alleviate the plight of the less fortunate whether on issues of loneliness, depression, micro-finance, self-help groups, counseling skills for helpers.

Projet d'autonomisation de la femme et la jeune fille

AHED-TOGO, Association à but non lucratif créée le 10 octobre 2010. Numéro du récépissé de déclaration N°1341/MATDCL-SG-DLPAP-DOCA. AHED-TOGO a pour vision un développement humain durable où tous les enfants sont épanouis.Promouvoir droits de l’enfant,Promouvoir l’éducation au développement sur les différentes thématiques pour un ;Amener les communautés à se prendre en charge

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Nombre

Hounlété

Apellido

Atchade

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Action Humanitaire pour les Enfants en Difficulté

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Togo, K, Bafilo

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Togo, K, Bafilo

Edad del/la innovador/a

18-34

Género del/la innovador/a

Masculino

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Menos de un año

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Projet d'autonomisation de la femme et la jeune fille

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Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Sigue en fase conceptual, pero se espera que se lance pronto.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Notre projet tente d'améliorer les conditions de vie de femmes (surtout les veuves, les filles ayant les grocesses précoces et délaissées, les femmes délaissées par leurs maris,les femmes divorcées).Nous tenterons d'aider ces femmes à se prendre en charge afin qu'elles puissent être autonomes sur le plan économique et social. D'une part, les femmes n'ont pas assez accès à un emploi décent et stable, on les trouve dans la débrouillardise selon certaines enquêtes et d'autre part, notre présent sera mis en œuvre dans un milieu musulma. En effet, les veuves musulmanes ne pas sont impliquées dans le partage de l'héritage de leurs maris. Une veuve, selon plusieurs hommes est en second plan suite à plusieurs raisons, pour cela, elles ne trouvent plus de mari.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Notre projet va mettre à la disposition les veuves, les filles grossies et délaissées, des femmes délaissées par leurs maris, des femmes divorcées, des emplois décents et durables. Par conséquent, la possession de ces emplois va permettre l'intégration sociale et économique des femmes.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Notre présent projet va concerner la fabrication et la vente du savon local beaucoupt utilisé appelé "Grève Bourè, en langue locale du milieu" en français c'est le "caillou de la grève". Le savon en question avait fait son entrée sur le marché togolais dès le début de l'année 1990, une année durant laquelle les troubles socio économiques (grèves répétitives) ont vu le jour. Les principales activités du projet sont: Récensement des femmes en difficulté (c'est-à-dire toute genre de femmes citées plus haut),Achat du matériel nécessaire pour la fabrication du savon; fabrication du savon, Vente du savon, Distribution du savon.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Nos premiers collèges sont ceux qui vendent et fabriquent de l'huile rouge, de soda… brèf, tout ceux qui nous livrent les produit et matériel de fabrication du savon. Nos second collègues sont les vendeurs du savon en détail car nous vendons en gros dans une localité donnée pour permettre aux détaillant de pouvoir vendre aussi. Nos concurrent sont des femmes qui viennent vendre chaque jour du marché de notre ville.

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Esta presentación se trata de

Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a las cadenas de abastecimiento/logistica, Acceso a tecnologia, Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

Pas encore

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Les conditions de vie des femmes en difficulté sont améliorées; les conditions de vie des enfants sont améliorées à travers l'autonimisation de leurs mères; les utilisateurs du savon en question, brèf, la communauté bénéficiaire du projet trouve achètent à un bon moment et à bon prix.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

L'ostacle qui risque de bloquer notre projet est le manque de financement. Les ostacles qui risquent de freiner notre projet sont : Insuffisance du financement, présence des concurrents, la mévente du savon, insuffisance du dynamisme des femmes bénéficiaires du projet. Respectivement à ces obstacles, nous debuterons avec les moyens financiers de bord, nous fabriquerons le savon de bonne qualité et nous ferons une publication suffisante de notre produit pour combattre la mévente, nous organiserons des sénaces de formations à l'endroit des femmes bénéficiaires sur plusieurs modules (marketing, les aptitudes de la vie…) qui susciterons le dynamisme et certaines qualités.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Nos objectifs de croissance dans six mois sont: recruter 15 salariers stables; Augmenter notre chiffre d'affaire de 20%; Mo

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

La première tâche principale à accomplir est de créer une entréprise du savon dans un endroit propice.

Tarea 2

La deuxième sera de former les femmes en en fabrication du savon, en marketing, et aptudes personnelles…

Tarea 3

Rechercher les débouchers et lutter combattre nos concurrents

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Recruter 30 femmes salariers stables; Augmenter notre chiffre d'affaire de 30%; créer une entreprise de plus.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Etendre notre marché sur d'autres villes ou créer d'autres entréprises dans ces villes.

Tarea 2

Diversifier ou ajouter d'autres produits à la fabrication du savon dans nos entreprises.

Tarea 3

Vendre nos produits en ligne

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

L'idée de notre projet est née de l'orientation de lapolitique générale de notre association AHED-TOGO qui signifie Action Humanitaire pour les Enfants en Difficlté Basée à bafilo, une ville du Togo en Afrique de l'ouest. En effet, AHED-TOGO a pour but de contribuer à l'amélioration des conditions de vie des enfants à travers lapromotion de leur santé et éducation. Les enfants à qui nous apportons nos aides Donc qui enfant dit une mère alors, il faudrait rechercher les voies et moyens par lesquels une mère pourrait être indépendante et épanouie. Une des solution est de créer des AGR, Activités Génératrices de Révenus. Il ya beaucoup d'AGR mais celle de fabriquer du savon local est plus pressante et nécessaire car le savon est venu des autres villes. Ensuite, c'est un savon moyen que chacun peut acheter selon le pouvoir d'achat. De surccroît, tout le monde l'achète non seulement le prix est abodable, mais aussi on l'utilise pour le linge, la vaisselle, se laver.

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Nos différents partenaires seront les responsables des bar et restaurants,des boutiques

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Nous avons des persoones qualifiées dans différents domaines. A l'aide du marketing, nous sommes en mésure de faire aimer et acheter nos produits; la recherche consiste à rassembler les données ou informations fiables et les analyser pour les utiliser efficacement; la collaboration est un outils ou stratégie qui permet à une structure de réajuster sa polique générale dans le but d'évoluer;

students entrepreneurs supporting sports through technology

Ddevelop an in school manufacturing business to employ work experience student to produce wooden awards medals for the Canadian Freestyle sking Timber series.

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Sobre ti

Nombre

Charles

Apellido

Lay

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Summerland Secondary School

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Canadá, BC, Summerland

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canadá, BC, Summerland

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Thompson Okanagan.

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Menos de un año

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Innovación

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Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Sigue en fase conceptual, pero se espera que se lance pronto.

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Costo.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

Where’s the switch? What can I do to spark their interest to ignite their self-motivation? These are questions I ask myself countless times as a high school teacher looking for ways to foster self-efficacy, enable innovation, empower and increase high school graduation rates. Summerland Secondary School has about 485 students. To graduate they must all complete a work experience placement. The intent of this initiative is to develop an in school student run manufacturing business. Through this business students would be exposed to all aspects of production, marketing, shipping and receiving. The initiative has the ability to provide successive years of students with peer mentoring and a template to explore business ideas and products of their own.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Summerland Secondary School Technology department has been provided with the opportunity to supply the BC freestyle/Provincial freestyle Timberlines freestyle series with wooden award medals for their competitions. At this time our primary goal is finalizing the choice of a CNC router table, secure funding and order the equipment. Once the equipment arrives at the school all aspects of the business will be the responsibility of the selected work experience students supported by the careers councilor and technology instructors. It is the intention of this initiative that all students involved will work and learn all aspects of production. Some of these include:
Assembly of equipment and maintenance
Using computer software to develop logos
Learning the computer operating system for the CNC router table
Working with a production team
Learning material science and finishing techniques
Shipping & receiving
Marketing
Mentoring students new to the production venture

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

All B.C. secondary school students who are enrolled in Grade 10, 11 or 12 must complete Graduation Transitions. In order to meet this goal, students must participate in at least 30 hours of work experience and/or community service and describe what was learned. This type of experiential learning increases the relevance of school by helping students connect what they learn in the classroom with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to be successful in both the workplace and larger community. Our model will provide any grade 10 through 12 student with the opportunity to apply to the in school business. Students will follow standard practices for work experience placement by providing a resume and attending an interview. Once they have successfully become a member of the business team they will embark on learning the business from the ground up. It is the intention of our initiative to provide students with the skills and knowledge that will empower them with the responsibility to run an in school manufacturing business. Students would begin at this time with the assembly of equipment and training in its operation. As we progress and new studnts come on board the existing team will mentor and train the new staff on all aspects of the business. To complete their transition requirement they will complete a report that documents their work, and identifies the employability skills used or developed.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

At this time BC Freestyle has been purchasing their award medals from a private business. As we are just in the initial stages of the project I have no knowledge of other schools that are producing award medal. I am aware of high school programs in our district that partner business with school initiative programs to increase student’s exposure to career training opportunities. These play a vital role in providing students with meaningful opportunities to provide services for their communities. When student get involved with projects in the community they see directly the positive results their efforts are having in the lives of others. Our students can be proud participant in their own achievements and the success of others through the medals they will be producing.

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Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

The AHA! The moment!
I strongly believe that it is the relationships that we develop in life that have the greatest impact on individuals ability to promote positive change in the world. When I was approached by Wade Garrod of BC freestyle with the question of producing wooden award medals at school, the AHA gonged in my head. This is a perfect opportunity to build relationships and community within the school and with business and organizations outside of the school. Win, win!! Bring together a diverse group of students to implement a business plan, develop transferable skills and take pride in supporting Canada’s young Freestyle skiers.

Por favor, describe el objetivo de tu iniciativa: un resumen de lo que están tratando de lograr

This initiative will give us the ability to purchase state of the art CNC technology for our students that otherwise is not being made available to them. By introducing one new piece of production CNC equipment and a business partnership with BC Freestyle the opportunity exist to produce revenue that can be reinvested into our business model. This will impact not only those students who complete a work experience placement but every student who enrolls in our wood technology programs. Subsequently, there is the possibility that momentum from the wooden medals business model will encourage all students to investigate and pursue new innovations of their own creation. This, it is hoped, will help to foster self-efficacy, enable innovation, empower and increase high school graduation rates.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

At this time the impact has not been felt in the student population as we are in the fundraising and program development stage. The greatest impact so far is in the energy and excitement of students and the departments involved in our school. The prospect of being able to provide such a unique and positive learning experience for our students is producing a positive creative energy.

Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 5 años?

To help students seize the many opportunities in B.C.’s vibrant economy, education is changing. By initiating an operational business we have the ability to offer a mixture of: career exploration, pre-employment training, skills enhancement, and work experience placements for credit towards graduation. It is hoped that this partnership will enhance the goal of career development for a wide range of learner needs and help more students in preparation for further education and training in a career area.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

The greatest barrier at this time is procuring the funds to buy the equipment. As this venture was only incubated in July of this year, we have a short time span to get product made before the start of the 2012/13 ski season. The plan is to develop relationships with as many interested parties both within the school district and private business. We have to date introduced the venture to our principal in the hopes of qualifying for innovation funding through the school district. There has been some interest from private parties to help fund the purchase of equipment on a 0% financing loan. In addition, we are approaching local cabinet making businesses who might be interested in developing a similar joint venture for piece manufacturing of some aspects of their production.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

At this point getting the equipment on the floor and operational

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

purchase and assemble CNC router table

Tarea 2

technical training for students to learn computer programs and router operation

Tarea 3

organize with customer type of materials, logos, and shipping dates

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

developing a business plan in conjunction with careers department to run inschool business and expand the partnerships

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Organize in school work experience student work schedules

Tarea 2

develop a business plan with carrers department to have students run the business

Tarea 3

organize student groups to brainstorm and develop additional innovative projects

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The primary partnership is between students producing wooden award medals and the young Canadian freestyle skiers competing to win them. Pride in production, pride in competing. At this time the partnership is the combined efforts of Summerland Secondary School technology and careers departments, our School District and all the individual freestyle clubs across the country associated with provincial freestyle associations.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

At this time our only target group is BC Freestyle and the provincial Timber Freestyle series. It is our intention to try to get on board with other BC sports disciplines in the hopes of producing award medals for their perspective disciplines. In addition, the intention of the solution to foster entrepreneurship and innovation among our students and pursue any possible initiative they may present.

¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?

As a school we are already set up to run programs and are always looking for way to provide more apportunites and experiences for students. We have the facility to set up the equipment and run a production facility.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Capacitación Empresarial para aumentar la Competitividad en las MyPyMES

Aproximadamente 50 palabras restantes (400 caracteres).

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Sobre ti

Nombre

Teresa

Apellido

Rocha

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Giraconsultores

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

México, DIF, México, DF

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

México

Edad del/la innovador/a

Más de 34

Género del/la innovador/a

Femenino

Tu organización es

No registrada

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

1-5 años

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Capacitación Empresarial para aumentar la Competitividad en las MyPyMES

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Sigue en fase conceptual, pero se espera que se lance pronto.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

La mayoría de Micro y pequeñas empresas, en México, carecen de conocimientos especializados en el área empresarial.Se sabe que más del 85% de empresas cierran por problemas Administrativos.
Se pretende a través de una capacitación basada en una Metodología de estudio, dar el conocimiento necesario, (talleres prácticos), de acuerdo a la fase en que se encuentre la empresa.
Existen casi 4 millones de MyPyMES en México, si se pudiera reproducir este concepto se incrementaría considerablemente la calidad de vida de mucha gente.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Se han estado desarrollando talleres prácticos de las cinco áreas importantes de una empresa, para aumentar con el conocimiento técnico del emprendedor, la innovación, competitividad, creatividad y desarrollo de material administrativo y de planeación hecho a la medida de cada MyPyME.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

El Modelo contiene un esquema concreto en donde cada instructor puede capacitarse para duplicar el concepto.
Se trabaja con expertos por área, se capacitarán en el modelo y se les entregarrá su material para impartir sus talleres. Se requiere capacitación constante y estar reclutando gente que domine las áreas y le guste el área de capacitación.
Por tanto, una fase importante del proyecto es crear el grupo de instructores para reproducir el modelo primero en el DF.
Los materiales deberán registrarse con derechos de Autor, etc.
Los talleres básicos serán en dos áreas básicas de conocimiento, avanzando de acuerdo a un programa específico en donde el empresario MyPyME pueda ir implementando soluciones de bajo costo y alto impacto en su empresa.
Se iniciarán, de acuerdo a las necesidades del emprendedor, con dos talleres por área a consolidar o crecer.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Empresas de capacitación que reciben fondos del Gobierno o particulares, capacitación empresarial de fundaciones que captan gente para obtener fondos del gobierno entre otros.
Me diferencío en que los talleres están diseñados para aterrizar el conocimiento directamente en la aplicación dentro de la empresa. Se le debe dar la información al participante de como aplicar las teorías. Se deberá aterrizar la teoría a conceptos y aplicaciones prácticas.
Cuando se empiecen a tener resultados de las aplicaciones se creará la necesidad de talleres cada vez más especializados que lleven a la competitividad de las MyPyMES.

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a las cadenas de abastecimiento/logistica, Acceso a tecnologia, Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

Conforme imparto mis talleres a partir del concepto de aterrizar teorías a casos prácticos dentro de las empresas, me doy cuenta de la necesidad de conocimiento básico y especializado de los emprendedores, que en su mayoría son empíricos en las áreas y cometen errores que podían haber evitado.
Generalmente se genera una necesidad de seguirse capacitando en los temas empresariales para encontrar mejores soluciones a las problemáticas.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Se considera que si se pudiera atender al 0.1% de las empresas en el DF y área conurbada se estarían atendiendo alrededor de 400 empresas por año y se generaría una mejora inmediata en donde se definirían planes de trabajo y creación de estrategias para consolidar o crecer empresas que tomen los talleres incluyendo el desarrollo de su Plan de Trabajo

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Captación de instructores, se debe formar un equipo uniforme en conocimientos y multidisciplinario que se capacite constantemente para desarrollar todo el proceso.
Lograr la captación de recursos para desarrollar la idea que básicamente en un inicio puede arrancar con un proyecto piloto en el DF.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

conformación de grupo de instructores para repetir modelo/Capacitación del grupo.

Tarea 2

Captación de recursos para imprimir y trabajar con los materiales.

Tarea 3

trabajo de captación de empresas con necesidades de capacitación en base a Plan de trabajo.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Sistema que genere la información proporcionada por el Intructor/Asesor al Participante/empresario

Tarea 2

Medición de resultados por empresa intervenida

Tarea 3

Programación de talleres subsecuentes para seguir implementando mejoras/

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

Hace 4 años entré a trabajar en una fundación como asesora en el área de Planeación y Costos y ví la gran necesidad de capacitación de los emprendedores, que mucho hacían tratando de mantener un negocio a flote a pesar de todo.
Hace dos años empecé a desarrollar talleres en donde trabajaba con ejemplos para implementar las teorías a casos prácticos y ví que la respuesta era muy buena.

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Tengo relaciones con varios profesores y profesionales en las diversas áreas de conocimiento, pudiendo conformar un equipo multidisciplinario en donde los mejores estén incluídos. También conozco a la competencia pudiendo plantear manejo de outsourcing en caso de crecer la demanda del servicio. Soy profesora en la UNAM con 24 años de antigüedad y podría generar alianzas con el sector de educación pública.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Desarrollo de proyecto en fase de conceptualización/Creatividad

Procesos de Transformación en la Presentación del Cuy para consumo

Crecemos con la Comunidad
Servir para Crecer
Creer y Crecer

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Nombre

Leonardo Elias

Apellido

Guzman Almeyda

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Juventud Emprendedora

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Perú, IC, Chincha

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Perú, IC, Chincha

Edad del/la innovador/a

18-34

Género del/la innovador/a

Masculino

Tu organización es

No registrada

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

1-5 años

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Procesos de Transformación en la Presentación del Cuy para consumo

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando menos de un año

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Dar un Valor agregado a lo Producido por los Criadores de Cuyes de la Localidad, ya que la falta del mismo hace que los precios de estos productos sean bajos y no convenientes para el proyecto con miras a futuro

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Procesar y enlatar en diversas variedades los cuyes, dándoles valor agregado y poniendo la oportunidad de exportación.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Da la diferencia de poder asegurar mayor preservación del producto y brinda una amplitud de mercado no antes explorada.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

En la Localidad no hay competidores, solo los hay nivel Pais pero en etapa Inicial y sin expectativas de exportacion.

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a las cadenas de abastecimiento/logistica, Acceso a tecnologia.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

El Impacto hasta la fecha se da en que se esta capacitando a los criadores a fin de que tengan conocimiento mejorado para poder ofrecer productos de alta calidad.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Poder Contar con la capacidad de poder transformar la producción de 400 pequeños productores y tener la capacidad de atender la demanda domestica como la de exportación del producto.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Las Reglas sanitarias podrian ser un impedimento, se planea contar con un fuerte plan de Control de riesgo sanitario a fin de poder lograr las credenciales de exportacion y venta en los principales puntos locales.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Transferencia de Conocimientos -Enseñanza en procesos de Higiene y Manipulación del Producto- transferencia DE tecnología -

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Enseñanza de Manipulacion Higienica del Producto

Tarea 2

Implementacion y Mejora de Areas de Crianza

Tarea 3

Inicio de Produccion a Mediana Escala

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Acreditación Sanitaria del Producto

Tarea 2

Control de Producción y Destino

Tarea 3

Colocación en el Mercado Internacional

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

La idea surge hace 1 año al ver que los pequeños productores sufrían al no poder pagar los costos de producción con los costos de crianza del producto, nace la idea de poder apoyarlos y darles un valor agregado a fin de que no dependan solo de los precios de producción normal, sino tener la vision de crecer con sus pequeñas granjas y pensar en un mejor futuro.

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Conocedores de esto estamos analizando una alianza con la Agencia de Sanidad Agraria de la Localidad a fin de que nos provean los conocimientos tecnicos y sanitarios para la exportacion y produccion a gran escala

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Necesidad de Financiamiento Inicial, Necesidad de Personal Calificado Ad Honorem a fin de reducir los gastos de Inicio

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The rampant need for Person's with Disability to gain access to a decent job is what I am trying to solve.But because of poverty,lack of Government support a lot of talented PWDs could not work.
All over the world we are faced of lots of opportunities waiting to alleviate povert,improve the Human Soul and help satisfy the mind.

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LocalSwitch

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Sobre ti

Nombre

Padraic

Apellido

O Brien

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

LocalSwitch

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Irlanda, TP, Cloughjordan

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Irlanda, XX, Nationally

Edad del/la innovador/a

Más de 34

Género del/la innovador/a

Masculino

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Menos de un año

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Innovación

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

LocalSwitch

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando menos de un año

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Ireland imports energy (fossil fuels)at a cost of 6 billion € a year & this cost is rising.This is a staggering loss of wealth.Our mission is help communities to put this loss into reverse and keep much of this wealth within Ireland,& instead of exporting cash -use it to create new enterprises.We want to switch communities in Ireland one by one,to begin producing their own energy, food & transport enterprises as much as possible from the resources within their own community.As we do this, we aim to help create 50 jobs in each community per 1000 head of population over a 5 year period.This aim can & will be fulfilled if there is sufficient buy-in from the community.Its our function to enable this buy-in,& to provide communities with the means and the opportunity to make this positive change

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Our plan is quite simple, while at the same time needs good effort and time to roll out:- We set up a FESCo.(Food and and energy sovereignty company) This is a company with a strict focus of aiding the beginning of enterprises in its own electoral area, enterprises that are given heavy support locally. The FESCo setups community owned enterprises that are owned locally, supply locally and keep wealth local. These enterprises fall under energy food and transport and isolate communities from rising energy (oil) and food prices. Some of these are completely new business models while others are already working in many countries.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

LocalSwitch engages with a community and identifies the local resources that are available. Energy initiatives can be any of the following but not limited to, Windfarms, solar pv farms, district heating, micro hydro, biomass, biogas, solar thermal,housing retrofits,(energy saving upgrades). Food initiative examples,Community shared agriculture, community farms, allotments, shared orchards, aquaponics, home growing initiatives, community recycling/zero waste initiatives, waste to energy initiatives, fuel crop co-op's.Transport examples electric vehicle car sharing, community owned vehicles, electric /cargo bike sharing.

Specific example: We setup a FESCo in a particular community-we fund raise to pay for the employment of a community cataylst-this person builds a subscriber base/association of local people who wish to make cost savings on their home heating oil bill. The catalyst matches suppliers to the market and sets up a wood fuel supplier,a wood burning stove retrofit supplier and the subscriber base. The subscriber base can pay for the capital cost in a number of ways, Irish Government Energy saving grants, a pay as you save scheme facilitated through local credit union or personal upfront payment. The wood fuel supplier creates a fixed contract with the FESCo to supply to it subscriber base. The subscribers benefit from a lower fixed home heating cost and isolate themselves from rising oil prices.The wood co-op is based on a renewable harvest cycle.Local employment demand is created through wood supply and housing retrofit.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

This is a not new initiative to Ireland, energy co-ops and food co-ops exist worldwide. We are not reinventing the wheel here. We are tweaking some of the business models that exist in other and bringing them all under one umbrella. No one has done this in Ireland. National utilities and foodchains could be looked upon as competition, but these organisations take money out of the country. Local based, locally owned community initiatives will begin to make sense in these poor economic times. The challenge we face if getting this off the ground and initiating our first 5 FESCo's.

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

We have opened our first Hub in Borrisokane Co Tipperary. National green TV personailty Duncan Stewart champions our cause has was at the official opening.Each hub host's local training and community meetings for subscribers. A hub also showcase potential technology of local partners/suppliers. We have recieved local and nation press coverage and are in the process of seeking funding from numerous sources including national and international companies.eg Kingspan, Mitsubishi electric.
Funding is all that is holding us back.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

We aim to Locally Switch 6-12 communities per year, creating between 1800 and 3200 jobs directly and indirectly from the enterprises to be setup.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Funding! Overturn ever stone to make this happen, its the right way and one of the best ways to get the country of Ireland up off its financial knee's. It will create positive atmospheres in each community and have positive health benefits from local organic food production. We look for national grants, philanthropic support and companies to partner with.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Secure funding

Tarea 2

Launch Fesco, including local catylst employment

Tarea 3

Setup community enterprises

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Secure major permanent funding streams

Tarea 2

Setup first 6 FESCo's

Tarea 3

Grow campaign to National level

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

The 3 founders were all living near the eco village of cloughjordan, Aidan O Brien was involved in the building projects, Ross Rabette was involved in the district heating systems and Michael Newham Lived in the area. There were lesson to be learned from the eco-village project and the benefit's were enormous.The 3 men got together and looked at the practicalities and the positives of the setup, some stigma is associated with eco and green and hippy type stereotypes so they all and said , "lets stripe away the green veneer and look at the practical elements of cost saving which can be applied to every community. Combined with concern for rising oil and food prices, a destabilizing economy and carbon pollution, they embarked on the creation of LocalSwitch.

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Part of our fund raising requires the local communities to raise their own funds. We facilitate this through small donations form partner companies who donate product for a renewables themed raffle. The include Irish companies as much as possible.Thermomax solar,Ecograte,Ecopal,Boru Stoves,Danfoss,CosyHome Store,Mitsubishi Solar PV,Saint Gobain/ Gyproc,Dimplex Renewables,Carey Glass Solar,Grow Green Solutions
D-Plant,Quick Crop,Get up and Grow.
These are just some of the companies who have donated product for community raffles.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

We would welcome collaboration on social enterprises business models and impact on local communities.

Nueva Oportunidad

Nueva Oportunidad nace producto de la iniciativa de un grupo de estudiantes universitarios de apoyar a una población desatendida: los privados de libertad.

Es una fundación sin fines de lucro, cuyo objetivo es servir de apoyo a los privados de libertad en su proceso de resocialización y reinserción a la sociedad, como lo indica su eslogan: Re-socialízate, Re- edúcate, Re-insértate. Y a largo plazo, contribuir en la disminución de: la reincidencia penal, hacinamiento carcelario y la inseguridad ciudadana.

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Microbusiness - A Home Grown Brand

Children flourish in school because their moms and big sisters are making 500 sets of school uniforms for the NGOs and schools. We want to reach out to more girls and young women to take home with them a useful skill so they can hold their own. Making 1000 school uniforms is our goal!

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Sobre ti

Nombre

Elaine

Apellido

Woon

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Riverkids Project

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Singapur

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Camboya

Edad del/la innovador/a

Más de 34

Género del/la innovador/a

Femenino

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

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Innovación

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Microbusiness - A Home Grown Brand

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Crecimiento (tu iniciativa piloto ya se está aplicando y se empieza a expandir)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

For families from broken or abusive families, sending a child to school instead of on the streets to work is an impossible dream. The people have very little education, limited employable skills to earn sufficient income to support their families and there is a lack of suitable support from NGOs and the government.

Many women and their children are infected with HIV, tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses. In addition, many underage girls have been cheated and sold into prostitution in night clubs or whorehouses.

As a result of their exorbitant medical bills and the rent that they cannot afford to pay especially when older women sex workers could not get enough clients, they found themselves in a desperate situation to sell their children to traffickers.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Before they face further risk in HIV, losing their children or get into forced sex-labour on the streets, we have to reach out to the young women and girls early.

We train the women in sewing. We sell around 500 sets of school uniforms to NGOs a year and are looking for more NGOs and private schools that will support us. This will mean more income for the women, a better life and sustainable livelihood.

The women graduate will buy their own materials at the Ouressey Market in Phnom Penh and sew them. Riverkids will buy the school uniforms from them and sell them at par to our established NGO contacts.

For our earlier group of women, we want to train them up for more skilled work. We wish to teach them to make and sew silk ornaments. The Singapore office has secured orders of at least 1000 ornaments every year end and this will raise about $10,000 in the last quarter yearly. We aim to make our own brand instead of buying them from other Cambodian NGOs to resell them.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

We surveyed and had long thoughtful conversations with the families in our community to find out what works and what wouldn’t. We learned that for them to be able to keep their children safely in school year after year, have enough food on their table and escape poverty, they need new skills, safe jobs and decent incomes.

We reach out to the young women and girls early. To help these women overcome the social stigma and integrate into our classes more easily, we arrange field trips to the zoo and water park. Volunteers join our social workers to organise ice-breaking games so like-minded women can meet to chat comfortably, provide one another with peer support and engage in mentally-wholesome activities.

Through our social workers encouragement, they are motivated to join our training courses. Then, to enable the women with babies and toddlers to concentrate on learning and complete the year’s training, we help care for their children in our Baby Room in the day. During the training period, we provide foodbox (rice, packet-noodles and canned food) for their families and allowance for these participants. This is our income replacement plan that will ensure that the women graduate successfully instead of dropping out mid-way. At no charge, we loan the women staying further from our centre, donated bicycles so they can travel to work.

Besides training the women in sewing using our own donated sewing machines, we conduct workshops such as Domestic Violence, HIV and trafficking prevention workshop, Business and Financial Management and industrial field trips

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

We sell the school uniforms that the women make to NGOs like Who Will(www.who-will.org, New life (www.cambodianewlife.org), Sunshine Centre (www.sunshinecentrecambodia.org) and Asian Hope (http://www.asianhope.org/).

Currently, we've not come across any NGO sewing school uniforms like us and at our quantity.

What differentiates us from other NGOs is that we choose to work with the most difficult families in the slum - those at high risk of trafficking and abuse. This is because these are the under-served and we have the various units such as Social Work, Health & Nutrition and Education to make our outreach work. We have the critical success factors like foodbox, income replacement strategy, Daycare and bicycles to see them succeed.

Impacto social

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a las cadenas de abastecimiento/logistica, Acceso a oportunidades económicas, Cambio de políticas/Defensa de derechos.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

In March 2011 and 2012, we graduated 21 and 11 women in sewing respectively. They are able to make up to 40 pieces of school uniforms and standard baby clothes and dresses, earning between $100 and $135 a month on regular working hours.

The women have learned to be disciplined, are working in safe, favourable working conditions and are fairly treated. This is because we establish partnerships with potential employers and monitor their progress during apprenticeships.

With a safe job and decent income, a significant minority of our women are able to step out of their previous health hazardous jobs to support their families. With further support from our income generation programs such as small loans and business training, and positive changes from our social work programs, they have been both able and willing to take responsibility for some or all of their children’s education needs. This makes the women very independent and our programs sustainable.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

In the long term, women and children will be free from HIV infection because of the women’s safe jobs. The income sustains the family and their children can make great strides in school and meals. Through our workshops, their awareness of health, family and financial matters make them become better parents. Their children grow up making well informed decisions with education. They escape poverty, abuse and trafficking.

In 3 years’ time, we should have established a select group of highly skilled women in handicraft who can create our own home-grown brand of silk ornaments, increasing the potential funds raised by over $10,000 in the last quarter of the year where part of it can go back to support training and material purchase again.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Death of a family member. This can happen because of a traffic accident or illness, sending the family straight into a financial crisis. We help the family with funeral and enable them to access our microfinance emergency loan that will see them through this temporary crisis. We’ve seen families get back up on their feet quickly after the most difficult period with our counselling and financial assistance.

Some NGOs that we sell our made-to-measure school uniforms closed down. If this happens, we will source for more NGOs and private schools for our sale. In fact, we are constantly looking for more contacts in Cambodia. We also have alternative products such as the silk products that have stable orders solicited from the Singapore marketing office.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Identify at-risk women for skill training and conduct family, health, financial and business planning workshop to empower them.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Survey, interview and recruit girls and young women

Tarea 2

6 months intensive skills training

Tarea 3

Workshops and fields trips for participants, income replacement, food support and counselling.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Women will be able to sew without supervision, have a stable job and generate their own income.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Women can sew without supervision

Tarea 2

Women actively working to fulfill clothes and ornaments orders

Tarea 3

Women able to support their family and send their children to school

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

It all started with a small group of women we were trying to help by generating their own income. We had orders from Australia’s Tractor Home. These are paper products that make earrings and broaches. These and some orders we receive from people in Cambodia are however, adhoc. One of our students in the Bright Girls program (a sheltered co-op workshop of teenage girls) is very talented and began teaching a few of the women how to sew. We learn that school uniforms are easier to sew and we’ve got donated sewing machines that we can make use of. So we started contacting some NGO schools to see if they’d like to support us. They did. We began to receive more sewing machines and they sewed more and more. With good feedback from our school clients and with no other NGOs doing what we are doing, we are determined to leverage on what we have, to provide opportunities to more women and training up our earlier batch to sew more complex products such as the delicate silk ornaments.

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We use the materials purchased to sew the school uniforms, baby clothes and dresses. Then, we sell them to NGOs such as Who Will (www.who-will.org/), Asian Hope (www.asianhope.org/), New life (www.cambodianewlife.org/) and Sunshine Centre (www.sunshinecentrecambodia.org/)

We sell around 500 sets of school uniforms to NGOs a year and are looking for more NGOs and private schools that will support us. This will mean more income for the women, a better life and sustainable livelihood.

The selling prices are at $4.00 for Small, $5.50 for Medium and $7.50 for Large uniforms.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

DUMA: The Future of Hiring in the Developing World

DUMA is an SMS-based job matching service that connects short-term laborers and potential customers in emerging markets.

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Nombre

Christine

Apellido

Blauvelt

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

DUMA

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Estados Unidos, DE, Wilmington, New Castle County

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Kenya, RV, Countrywide, beginning in Nakuru and Eldoret and expanding to Nairobi, Kisumu, Kisiii

Edad del/la innovador/a

18-34

Género del/la innovador/a

Femenino

Tu organización es

Empresa

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Menos de un año

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Since we began working on DUMA at a Startup weekend on the Princeton campus in November, we have gained an incredible amount of momentum. We were accepted into the Princeton eLab accelerator program over the summer, where we completed our software. We are currently running a private beta test in the transportation industry in Nakuru. We have won various awards and grants from entrepreneur competitions, such as mtvU/Ashoka Youth, Princeton Tigerlaunch Competition (2nd place), Princeton Pitch Competition (runner up), Kairos Society Member, Kairos 50, Princeton StartUp Weekend 3rd place and winner of Twilio API prize. We were also semifinalists in the Echoing Green Fellowship. We have received recognition in media in the USA, such as a feature in the Forbes magazine: “Top 5 Most Exciting Kairos Companies,” Genius Country: “Faces of Innovation: eLab - The First Class,” Princeton Alumni Weekly: “Entrepreneurs Develop Ideas at Startup Weekend,” and “Tigerlaunch 2012 Rewards Top Student Entrepreneurs.”

Lastly, throughout the process of building DUMA, we have created many valuable relationships. We have met twice with the Hon. Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, the Kenyan Ambassador to the UN. During our conversation with her, we met the Minister of Labor of Kenya, Hon. John Munyes, who we look forward to speaking with further when we're in Kenya. We have also spoken with Nick Hughes, one of the key players behind MPESA and John Simon, the former Ambassador to the African Union.

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DUMA: The Future of Hiring in the Developing World

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Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando menos de un año

¿Cuál de las siguientes describe mejor la(s) barrera(s)s a la que da respuesta tu innovación? Elige hasta dos.

Acceso, Costo.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

The ability to earn an income is the driving force behind health, happiness, and a better future for the next generation. We believe that in countries where unemployment rates are sky-high, every lost opportunity to earn an income is unacceptable. Which is why we have created DUMA, a text message-based service that uses basic phones to connect short-term workers & customers in emerging markets. The problem we see is a disconnect in the entire ecosystem between service providers & customers, especially in the short-term labor market.. In fact, the only way that people currently find temporary workers is through word of mouth, relying completely on referrals from family and friends, and sometimes even disregarding skill sets of the worker. This is where DUMA comes in.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

DUMA is a text-message based job-matching service that connects short-term laborers with potential consumers in real time, through the click of a button on a basic cell phone. We are the ideal matchmaking system for jobs, in markets where employers value trust above all during the hiring process. Our unique software pairs employers with job seekers that they are socially connected to (a friend of a friend of a friend) in their city who has the skills they are looking for. All this can occur in seconds and on a basic mobile phone.

MOBILE DEVICE, NOT COMPUTER: Our text messaging system makes DUMA the most accessible platform for workers and customers without access to broadband.

REAL-TIME, NO LAG TIME: For short-term jobs, people demand pre-screened matches to begin working immediately.

SKILL MATCHING + SOCIAL MATCHING: Trust is a huge component of hiring in emerging markets. DUMA adds value to a job search engine by incorporating a reference network into its matching system.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Through an online registration accessible through desktop and mobile browsers, a user lists his phone number, geographic location, job experience and skills, and “reference network.” The reference network consists of the people whom an individual would contact if he were looking for a job, looking to hire, or whom he has worked with in the past (a social network of sorts, but for jobs). These contacts receive a verification SMS to confirm that they know this individual and that they would indeed like to be referenced by him.

When a customer has a job opening (perhaps he needs a taxi to take him to town), he sends a text message to DUMA. In this SMS, the customer specifies the type of job he needs completed, the number of workers he needs, and his geographical location. Our software then finds the worker with a matching skill set and geographical location, who is most closely connected in the reference network (2 degrees of separation vs. 3). After the worker confirms his availability via SMS, our software sends an SMS to both the customer and the worker exchanging their respective phone numbers. A post-job rating system serves as a quality control mechanism for workers.

DUMA is a for-profit enterprise with a double bottom line. We generate revenue from annual subscriptions for employers (2 USD) and monthly subscriptions for employees (0.30 USD). If an employee does not receive a job alert that month, his next month will be free. Payments from our users will be received through M-PESA, the mobile payment system that already has over 19 million subscribers in Kenya.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

The only method currently in place to find workers for short-term, small jobs is via word-of-mouth from close contacts. There is a relatively strong network between friends and family who would recommend someone for a task, but this system tends to be slow, inefficient, restricts access to potential employees, and encourages hiring with a disregard for skills. There are websites in Kenya that act as job boards or online recruitment portals - for example Brighter Monday, Kenya Job Link, & Njorku - but these services typically target formal sector, long-term employment. There are also various mobile competitors that have been launched in the past year in Kenya: M-Kazi, Souktel, and Pigiame. These too do not offer targeted matching, and they are not catered to the temporary job market.

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¿Qué solución/es propone tu iniciativa para mejorar la vida de las niñas y mujeres a través del apalancamiento de tecnologia/s? (selecciona todas las que apliquen)

Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

We have just begun putting our business plan into motion. We are in the second week of our private beta in Nakuru, Kenya. We are targeting the transportation sector as our initial market, which includes motorbike and taxi drivers. We have just enrolled 20 people to test out the software from a technical perspective. However, we are working out a partnership with KEMORA (which manages 70,000 drivers across Kenya), and with their help, we hope to have 350 drivers and 1000 customers, averaging 100 job posts per day, by January 2013.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

DUMA builds income, confidence, and stability for the underemployed and unemployed in urban areas of Kenya. Our goal is a 15 USD increase in income/employee/month, which is about half the urban poverty line. In doing so, we hope to alleviate the direct impacts of poverty like unsafe living conditions and food insecurity, while empowering people with a sense of social significance. By helping people get off the street and find temporary jobs, we improve their chances of securing stable and higher-income jobs later on.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Externally, we anticipate obstacles in both entering and operating in the Kenyan business market. Strong community partnerships and the help of an advisory board will guide DUMA through the bureaucracy and nuances of the Kenyan professional sector. Market research will also be crucial for determining how to advertise DUMA to the community. We are currently planning a large-scale survey with members of our target community to ensure that our services match consumer demands. Internally, our main challenge will be identifying reliable and qualified employees for sales, marketing, customer support, and software maintenance. We have already started interviewing candidates for these positions, based on references from our personal contacts in Kenya.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Expand from Nakuru to Nairobi

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Hire 5 full-time employees to form a sales & marketing team

Tarea 2

Form partnerships with at least 20 labor unions and technical schools

Tarea 3

Enroll 5,000 workers and 10,000 customers, bringing in at least $25,000 in monthly revenue

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Expand to Eldoret, Kisumu, and Kisii

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Establish headquarter offices in Nairobi and set up branches in Nakuru, Eldoret, Kisumu, and Kisii

Tarea 2

Form partnerships with the government and telecom companies

Tarea 3

Enroll 25,000 workers, 50,000 customers, bringing in $150,000 in monthly revenue

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

The initial idea was sparked from Christine and Arielle’s summer 2011 experiences in Kenya, where they observed first-hand how a decentralized and inefficient job networking system fosters nepotism, skills-mismatches, and under-productivity. They left Kenya wanting to create an effective and scalable way to help the local people they met find work. What started out as a conversation about unemployment in Kenya turned into a brainstorming session, which turned into a business plan, and then into a developing venture that they are fully committed to seeing through. Soon after coming up with the initial idea for a cell phone-based job matchmaking service, Christine and Arielle met and began working with Eric, a computer science major at Princeton. As a native of Kenya originally from Eldoret, Eric has been crucial in shaping the original concept into its current form. It has been an incredible journey thus far, and we hope to gain your support in continuing our efforts.

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Throughout the process of building DUMA, we have created many valuable relationships. We have met twice with the Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, the Kenyan Ambassador to the UN. During our conversation with her, we met the Minister of Labor of Kenya, who we look forward to speaking with further when we're in Kenya. We have also spoken with Nick Hughes, one of the key players behind MPESA; and John Simon, the former Ambassador to the African Union. We have created partnerships with theater groups in Kenya for marketing purposes, and are solidifying a partnership with KEMORA to enlist workers.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

CRS Tourism SMEs Development Plan

Cross River State Tourism Bureau was established in 2003
to encourage sustainable tourism development for the social
& economic benefit of the State’s population.
CRSTB’s vision is to make Cross River the preferred destination in West Africa in terms of creating memorable experiences through superior service
delivery,quality accommodation, fun-filled activities, while providing value for money

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Akan

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Odu

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Nombre de la organización

Cross River State Tourism Bureau

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Nigeria, CR, Calabar

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Nigeria, CR, Calabar

Edad del/la innovador/a

18-34

Género del/la innovador/a

Masculino

Tu organización es

Entidad del gobierno

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

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CRS Tourism SMEs Development Plan

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Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando menos de un año

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Tourism is a new word in Nigeria. It is perceived to be the responsibility of the Government. The tourism SMEs development plan will address the issue of dependence of communities on the Government for developing the sector and support for SMEs.

However, the Cross River State Tourism Bureau acting as destination manager of the state will help show tourism SME potentials to investor audiences through development of elaborate tourism SME business plans and an investment platform for CRS tourism SMEs.

Further to this, fora will be created to connect Tourism SMEs with investors (business Angels and venture capitalists) who will form partnerships with tourism SMEs in the state for development and expansion of the businesses.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Support innovative product development for emerging SMEs that demonstrate strong market potential
Assist undeserved communities in Cross River investor ready platforms; investor relations, attraction and communication
Support creation and revitalization of tourism attractions, sites and experiences
Enhance the quality of tourism SMEs services and practices through training

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

CRS Tourism SMEs Development Fund is a private equity fund structure that encourages private investment in tourism SMEs based on the realization that the tourism industry's risk owners is the private sector not the government.
The fund is structured as a limited partnership of the investors and tourism SMEs.
The fund allows business angels and private equity companies to invest in tourism startups and expanding tourism SMEs.

Obudu Delight is one of Cross River State's Tourism SMEs.
Obudu Delight is a honey farm, supplying tourists visiting the Obudu Mountain Resort, Cross River State and southern Nigeria as its market reach.
The farm's production level have been increased through private investment by helping the locals with the necessary farm implements to keep bees rather than get into the wilds and forests to hunt bee hives with low productivity as the output.
The scalability of this tourism SME was achieved through private equity funding. However, the investors had a good return on investment for the 6 years Obudu Delight has been in operation and the community is running the farm with little supervision and advice on the management of the farm.
The following are a list of CRS tourism SMEs and markets to be developed:
1. CR Cocoa Processing Factory
2. Palm oil bottling company
3. Dry gun distillery
4. Yam and cassava flour processing company
5. Obudu delight - Obudu honey farm (currently in existence for 5 years)
6. Palm-wine bottling company
7. Art and craft markets for each senatorial district
8. Reconstruction of beach market & beach restaurants

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Akwa Ibom and Plateau states make up Cross River State's tourism competition.
The government of these states are the risk bearers of the tourism industry, constantly providing funding for the sector with little private sector participation and political regimes come with mind set shifts to divers areas of interests.

The CRS Tourism Bureau only serves as a fulcrum to support the industry through marketing to investor audiences to access critical funds for the industry. This private sector mindset has helped the industry grow faster with little government presence.

The challenge this competition poses is that they take a slice of Cross River State's tourist visit pie, but not investible funds from the private sector.

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a tecnologia, Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

The solution has enlightened communities on self sufficiency and tourism idea generation and development. The first face of CRS tourism development plan is the community based tourism: this initiative helped communities to understand the business of tourism, preserving their culture and how to make their tourism product offering Ppealing and available to tourist and destination visitors.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

It projected impact is to have CRS tourism shift from a current 60/40 government/private sector participation to a 30/70 government/private sector participation in the tourism industry.
To achieve this, we should be able to create a system that connects investors to tourism SMEs, train tourism SMEs in areas of marketing and service quality.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Formation of Public/Private Partnerships (PPP)
CRSTB's method of overcoming barrier of creation and sustenance of PPP is through the behavioural change and sensitization campaigns which are done at community level to sensitize communities on risk bearing in tourism industry, and leveraging tourism SMEs through strategic alliances and partnerships. This is ongoing: Cross River State is made of South, Central and Northern senatorial districts, currently we have covered the southern senatorial district.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

To create a working investment vehicle to CRS tourism SMEs

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Development of business plans for CRS tourism SMEs

Tarea 2

Investor lead generation for investment in the SME

Tarea 3

Creation of investment platform

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Provide tourism SMEs with 'A' round of funding (Seed capital) through private partnerships

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

connect private investors and SME and create concrete Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

Tarea 2

Have first round of funding (seed capital)

Tarea 3

Begin to produce/provide tourism SME product and services

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

I began conducting small scale researches on the retail economy of Cross River State Tourism, keeping in mind that tourism SMEs were the key to driving the states economy.
However, the Cross River State Tourism Bureau is not set our to generate profits, it is to ensure that the communities and locals benefit from the tourism market.
This stirred up the CRS tourism private equity fund initiative.
In addition, we do not only look forward to having this initiative work for Cross River State tourism, we look forward to its scalability and application in other tourism states in Nigeria and for them to consult Cross River as the foremost destination managers of Nigeria.

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The Cross River State government as per the Tourism Bureau has partnerships with:
Guinness Nigeria to promote the Calabar Festival, which commences on the 30th of November to 31st of December, driving in 2,000,000 tourist (local and International)annually.

MTN Nigeria is the annual sponsor of our traditional festivals (Leboku).

First Bank Nigeria is sponsor on tourism SME and the proposed fund manager of the tourism SMEs Development funds.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

NEEDS
Provision of funding to build a system of investor/tourism SMEs partnerships.

Help promote a sustainable CRS tourism through marketing the state's tourism effort to global travel trade.

Assist the Cross River State Tourism Bureau with partnerships a& collaborations that will aid product development of CRS SMEs.

OFFERS
Assist other destination managers with similar product offering

HunarOnes

In countries like India with a high percentage of unskilled labor. There is a huge gap between the opportunities and their employment. While some labors are lucky enough to find work regularly, There are many who are not so lucky. Despite being able to work due to the lack of proper assistance and guidance they hardly find work on a regular basis.As a result both the workers/Labors and the employers and Household people face the burn of unemployment and high wage rates. Hunar Ones meaning 'the skilled ones' is a freelancing web based company.

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Taxi Service Reform

Business models for common carriers (taxicabs) establish drivers as independent contractors with no control over costs to participate. In other words, to conform with regulatory requirements as common carriers, private companies organize drivers to serve all consumers (cash payment paradigm). The result is unreliable service (no forced dispatching) and exploited drivers.

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Nidan’s Micro-Finance Programme - Sanchay thrift and financial services to the poor

Ubicación

New Delhi
India

Economic pursuance of people from the poor sections of the society requires amicable support system to develop them as sustainable profitable pursuance. They need financial services. Nidan promotes the saving habit and makes credit accessible through various Financial Institutions, both Government and Non Governmental. Through 4,688 self-help groups, Nidan reaches out to 58,888 members in 25 blocks of six districts of Bihar for different micro finance and micro credit services.

ESTRATEGIAS INNOVADORAS PARA DESARROLLAR EL PODER

Esta innovadora estrategia desarrollará el poder de jóvenes, mujeres, micro y pequeños emprendedores con facilitadores-multiplicadores, formación humanística y capacitación técnica, asegurando el éxito en la productividad y los encadenamientos asociativos para la exportación, siendo auto sostenible y mundialmente replicable, aumentando las fuentes de trabajo para reducción de la pobreza.

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Nombre

Guillermo

Apellido

Bermúdez S.

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Organicemos un Mundo Mejor

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Guatemala, GU, Guatemala

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Guatemala, GU, Guatemala

Edad del/la innovador/a

Más de 34

Género del/la innovador/a

Masculino

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

ESTRATEGIAS INNOVADORAS PARA DESARROLLAR EL PODER

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Crecimiento (tu iniciativa piloto ya se está aplicando y se empieza a expandir)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

La carencia en comunidades marginadas no es solo de capacitación y financiamiento, sino de valores humanos. El alcohol y drogas merma su producción, cayendo en endeudamiento. No siendo sujetos de crédito, reducen su posibilidad de financiamiento.
Quienes ayudaban en producción agrícola, desmotivados por bajos ingresos, con pobre autoestima emigran al norte para volver deportados trayendo narcoactividad y violencia, elevando costos en seguridad quye aumentan la pobreza.
Su mayor necesidad es de motivación, desarrollo interno que llene su vacío existencial con valores, junto a la capacitación técnica, elevando su autoestima y entusiasmo para estar mentalmente aptos y libres de adicciones para ser más responsables y productivos.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Innovaciones fundamentales son la formación en valores humanos paralela a la capacitación técnica y el cambio de sistema en donde ya no se preparan para ser empleados, ni empleadores, sino instructores-multiplicadores que luego serán socios-empresarios empleando metodología constructivista.
Con la filosofía de aprender haciendo, desarrollan aptitudes para trabajar en forma asociativa, como una forma más innovadora de cooperativismo. Su relación será netamente comercial, eliminando conflictos obrero-patronales.
Por ser instructores útiles a la comunidad se eleva su autoestima aumentando su entusiasmo y, con mayor responsabilidad social y conciencia ecológica, cumplen mejor con sus compromisos laborales.
El cambio producido facilita encadenamientos de producción y servicios, aumenta la productividad del equipo favoreciendo el financiamiento a mayor escala, como anticipos por compra y se logran estándares internacionales para exportación.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Aplicando una estrategia innovadora se desarrollan facilitadores-multiplicadores para la empresarialidad y con nuestro material didáctico “El Misterioso Jardín Prohibido” —método constructivista basado en taxonomías de Bloom y Marzano— se motiva al servicio a la comunidad y se aprende haciendo, interactuando con situaciones reales, desarrollando la experiencia.
Aún no se hablaba de empresarialidad cuando se comprobó primero en lo teórico la eficacia de poner en práctica valores y servicio para demostrar que se sube la autoestima y se desarrolla responsabilidad y liderazgo como herramientas que mejoran la productividad, cuando se analizaba el caso de Cristina.
Ella estaba por suicidarse por una mala relación amorosa y un aborto y, al tener conciencia de su valor como facilitadora, despierta su entusiasmo orientando a jóvenes que, saliendo de la drogodependencia, dedican sus vidas como emprendedores mejorando laboral y familiarmente. (Caso del libro).
Luego, en el campo experiencial, se probó con voluntarios comunes que sin ser docentes lograron impartir seminarios de autoestima y valores entre más de 1,500 estudiantes de secundaria, maestros y padres de familia. (Ver videos en Youtube)
Entonces, un equipo inicial de facilitadores formando multiplicadores que empiecen a beneficiarse de su producción, desencadenará una avalancha de emprendedores asociados que tendrán el poder para el desarrollo.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Organizaciones de microcréditos se enfocan en préstamos; otras a capacitar o colocar empleados y muy pocas a formación empresarial. Pero ninguna en valores, lo que es fundamental para evitar la ruina por endeudamiento.
Este innovador proyecto se diferencia por basarse en una formación humanística laica, con énfasis en desarrollar aptitudes empresariales éticas y no para empleados, más bien creando facilitadores-multiplicadores de empresarios que actúen como asociados independientes que, al unirse en encadenamientos, puedan lograr productividad de importancia exportable y financieramente rentable.
Entonces obtendrán facilidad de financiamientos bancarios y podrán asociarse con empresarios capacitados y financiados por otras organizaciones.

Impacto social

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a las cadenas de abastecimiento/logistica, Acceso a oportunidades económicas, Cambio de políticas/Defensa de derechos.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

Se comprobó en lo teórico y en trabajo de campo con voluntarios y se realizó un sondeo por encuestas de opinión en 1,500 alumnos, maestros y padres de familia. La parte empresarial se implementará al obtener financiamiento.
Muestras de la carencia de valores fueron: “Me deprime ser como soy y no saber cómo valorarme y quererme después de que me violaron… (18 años) Nadie se preocupa por ver que no me quieren; nunca seré feliz. (17 años) Me siento sola, mi madre me abandonó y dicen que soy rara. VIVA EL SUICIDIO (14 años) Me siento sola porque no tengo confianza con nadie para contarle mis cosas y mi mamá me dice que no sirvo para nada y nos maltrata con insultos”. (15 años).

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Ser un órgano de consulta de las necesidades de emprendedores para su crecimiento integral y su registro legal, sensibilizando sobre el poder de encadenamientos para lograr establecer vínculos entre el mercado y la financiación, distribuidores, agentes, etc.
La promoción de productos y/o servicios que generen por medio del comercio justo en nichos de mercado, atracción de potenciales compradores nacionales e internacionales por ferias del emprendedor a nivel local, departamental e internacional, impulsando las exportaciones.
La conversión de Guatemala en el punto de confluencia de la producción de micro y pequeños emprendedores de Centroamérica.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Falta de capital, necesidad de contar con material didáctico, poca ayuda de cooperantes y patrocinadores y Efectos del cambio climático: Se resuelve trabajando en los meses de verano y en la ciudad capital (Institutos están cercanos unos de otros y mayor densidad poblacional): Se creará un fondo renovable que se descontará de las ventas que se generen; Se solicitarán patrocinios para editar el material se organizarán ferias y exposiciones para promover las ventas y exportaciones. El capital se obtiene al contar con producción suficiente gracias al plan de encadenamientos. Solamente falta el capital semilla inicial.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Se establecerán relaciones en comunidades indígenas del país para transformación agroindustrial de productos y artesanías buscan

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Iniciar capacitaciones en comunidades marginadas del interior de la república.

Tarea 2

buscar el apoyo de las autoridades indígenas, de gobernadores y alcaldías, inicialmente y cooperantes internacionales después.

Tarea 3

Establecer relaciones internacionales por medio de ONGs de comercio justo.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Buscar apoyo de las Cámaras de Industria y Comercio para los intereses generales de los microemprendedores y sus agremiados.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

ONG se hará cargo de asistir a quienes no tengan capacidad para gestionar ventas por medio de ferias y exposiciones itinerantes.

Tarea 2

Promover exposiciones y negociaciones con Asociación de Exportadores de Guatemala.

Tarea 3

Multiplicación por medio de los facilitadores que se hubieran formado obteniendo expansión nacional e intercambio internacional.

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

Al realizar una investigación sobre alcoholismo y drogodependencias para mi libro ”El Misterioso Jardín Prohibido”, deduje fácilmente que existe una imperiosa necesidad de dar orientación en valores para el desarrollo de las microempresas.
A cada día se cierran cientos de estos negocios en Guatemala, por no poder solventar sus créditos generando más desempleo, evidenciando que los préstamos pequeños no son funcionales, comprendiendo la necesidad de un sistema innovador como una Incubadora para nuevos emprendedores y órgano de consulta de sus necesidades, con formación humanística y capacitación técnica para empresarialidad y facilitadores-multiplicadores, en lugar de capacitar empleados, lo que favorecerá alianzas estratégicas y encadenamientos, desarrollando un poder frente a posibilidades de transformación agropecuaria y artesanal, para el gran financiamiento y el desarrollo económico de comunidades marginadas.

Sostenibilidad

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Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

Se buscará el apoyo de las alcaldías municipales, ministerios y casas de la cultura, así como de la cooperación internacional, pero principalmente se espera contar con la iniciativa privada a cambio de publicidad de marcas o productos porque obtienen ventajas fiscales. Se cuenta con el libro ya mencionado y autorizaciones ministeriales.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Crear estrategia innovadora para desarrollar facilitadores-multiplicadores y granjas-escuelas, para el traslado de empleos precarios, hacia la empresarialidad y comercio justo con formación humanística y capacitación técnica, con enfoque ecológico e inclusión de género, asegurando el éxito en la productividad y los encadenamientos para la exportación auto sostenible, reduciendo la pobreza.

Changeshop

This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Maid in India.

Maid in India

For millions of unskilled maids, MII provides training, employment and a benefits package to holistically improve their standard of living. Benefits consist of health and life insurance, savings schemes, annual bonus, paid and sick leave, vocational training and interest-free loans. MII not only employs maids, but also provides legitimacy and respect to their profession.

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Sobre ti

Nombre

kamal

Apellido

Jethwani

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Decimal Foundation

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

India, MM, mum

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

India, MM, mumbai

Edad del/la innovador/a

18-34

Género del/la innovador/a

Masculino

Tu organización es

Híbrido

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

1-5 años

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Innovación

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

Maid in India

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

India has a population of 1.24Bn with 407 million earning less than 28INR/day. 1/3 to 1/2 the population in cities lives in slums. In some cities this results in informal work force, upto 60% in the service segment. 95% of the workfoce earns between 500-4000INR a month, while women earn INR 1000 less than men for the same job. 64% women have no direct toilet access, while only 2% of slums have direct water supply, affecting both productivity and health. 30% women working as maids are widowed and 35% have atleast one chronic disease like TB, cancer, leprosy, asthma. Thus, opportunities is not the only barrier to a better standard of living. Potential solutions should address all their social, psychological, health and living condition issues.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

For millions of unskilled maids (house-helps) in India who have no recognition as a labor-force, Maid in India organizes, trains and provides them employment, which enables them to access employment benefits, including comprehensive healthcare, health and life insurance, financial saving schemes, gratuity and pension, and daycare for children. This has helped us provide legitimacy to their vocation, create a healthier, more effective and more prosperous labor force. Most importantly, our program allows them the rights of other labor sectors in India, by giving them access to many government and NGO schemes reserved for conventional laborers. It also induces social consciousness in employers, who pay a small fee per maid per month to enable us to provide these benefits.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Samiksha, a 29 year old teacher earning USD 100/month, working 6 hours a day might not sound like someone interested in being a domestic worker. She joined Maid in India and has grown to be one of our brightest, most hardworking and most liked maid so far. She now earns more than USD 250/month, working 6 hours/day. She has been able to send 2 kids to school this year, and will send the other 2 next year, with upto USD 50 saved each month with MII saving schemes. She said “maid in India earned me the respect in my neighborhood that teaching could not for years. I earn anyone else in my slum and save the most for my kids. I have a LIC policy and a lot of money saved every month. Maid in India is an organization that treats us like employees and not maids and the same reflects in the attitude of our owners. When I fall sick, I now know where to go and seek help immediately, since I'm not charged exorbitantly like before. MII even gives me short-term interest free loans, keeping my good work in mind."

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

With growing urban needs for domestic help and lower availability of maids, they are becoming a valued commodity. Knowing this, 80% maids find jobs on their own via word of mouth, and negotiate their own salaries. The other competitors are maid agencies that promise higher wages. These are certainly competitors in terms of creating the image of middle men in the service and their vested interests have been a challenge for us. They do not, however, provide maids with training or benefits, or even accountable service to employers, despite exorbitant charges.

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Esta presentación se trata de

Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a las cadenas de abastecimiento/logistica, Acceso a oportunidades económicas, Cambio de políticas/Defensa de derechos.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

In the past years, we have given employment to 150 maids in 500 households. 25% of these maids were previously unemployed. Each maid saw an average rise in monthly income of 150% and now earn at least 220% of minimum wage income. Each maid is able to work at an average of 3 households, resulting from efficient time-management strategies employed by Maid in India. About 20% of maids are widows thus primary earners. In addition to higher income, maids get 2 days paid leave each month, and a benefits packages.
Employers find our rates 10% lower than neighborhood.
They also get maid replacement service on days that their maids are on leave (planned or unplanned).
Now we provide difficult to find skills as trained maids (childcare, elderly care, cooks)
60% maids have opened their first bank account with 50,000 accident cover
100% health screening of maids every quarter.
Due to effective time management maids earn 150% more than before.
40% maids have their first insurance

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Provide formal vocational training to 600 maids in Mumbai over 3 years (~20/month).
Expanding to new neighborhoods, to reach service provision to 1000 households in 3 years, to be able to employ over 500 new maids.
Collaborating with other non-profits to provide training to and enroll women in their target areas (victims of abuse, rescued prostitutes etc)
Expand our benefits package to include pension and gratuity for all maids.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Funding is a barrier to expansion of the project. Since we're fully client funded at this point, our net profits are too low to enable swift growth. Infusion with some capital investments can accelerate the growth drastically, and we plan on raising money through social ventures or grants to enable this expansion and increase our pool of beneficiaries.
Our reliance on external partners to provide benefits has worked so far, but is a rate limiting process in how swiftly we can provide these benefits. We'd like to build some of these capabilities in-house.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Expand to one new neighborhood and provide employment to 35 new maids.

Tarea 2

Create a employer-friendly website to showcase maids and our services, enable online booking and create a brand they can trust.

Tarea 3

Establish a partnership to create a formal training program for maids that is able to provide training every month.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Expand to 3 neighborhoods and employ 100 new maids

Tarea 2

Position and optimize website enough to obtain at least 20% leads through the website

Tarea 3

Run at least 6 training sessions, and train 120 maids.

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

The founders were impressed by the ingenuinity of MERU cabs, a simple organized taxi service in mumbai, and naukri.com, a convenient portal serving both, job hunters and employers in finding the right fit. Both are an example of resource management, and fulfill core needs of their target audience with a simple business plan. Having mulled over the problem faced by the unorganized labor force in Mumbai, especially women, we thought an idea that is based on these principles of addressing core needs of both beneficiaries and clients, and a simple business plan would be extremely appropriate. Thus began the journey of planning how we would reach both population groups, package the service, and assemble a benefits package that was affordable, and yet addressed all the problems faced by maids in a holistic fashion.

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Rotract club of the Cadeuceus (Mumbai) has supported us with funding and volunteers for our quarterly health camp.
Doctor's 4 you provides us with doctors and medical residents students for the health camps
Axis bank has given us zero balance accounts and debit cards for all maids.
Pearsons foundation has given us training and funding for 5000$ to kick start our project.
Yuva Youth Initiative and Nimaya foundation helped raise 100,000 INR to fund our pilot training program for 40 maids

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Needs: Web development, SEO management and viral marketing to grow our consumer base online.
Offers: We can help other organizations with research on this market segment, to help position and promote their services/products.
We can also offer employment to female beneficiaries of other organizations who help these women in other ways (human trafficking, prostitution, health workers etc)

Entrepreneurship As A Collaleral To Access To Microfinance Among The POOREST and DISABLED In Kenya

The innovation leverages the power of entrepreneurship education,access to microfinance & mentorship to transform the lives of the poorest and disabled in Kenya

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Sobre ti

Nombre

jacob

Apellido

mwaniki

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

The People To People Foundation

Sitio web de la organización

coming soon

País de la organización

Kenya, EA, Embu

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Kenya, EA, EMBu

Tu organización es

No registrada

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

1-5 años

¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.

PHILIP LIVABLE CITIES AWARD
DELL SOCIAL INNOVATION

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Innovación

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Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Sigue en fase conceptual, pero se espera que se lance pronto.

¿Cuál de las siguientes describe mejor la(s) barrera(s)s a la que da respuesta tu innovación? Elige hasta dos.

Acceso.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

The problem the innovation is trying to address is a lack of access to financial service from banks and micro finance institutes specifically among the POOREST and DISABLED in Kenya. It's been widely noticed banks and micro finance institutes do not lend to persons who have not yet started an economic activity. This is one of the major bottlenecks to get access to loans among the poorest and disabled who dream to start businesses. The majority of them have no prior business experience which therefore make them ineligible to access to micro fiance from banks and micro-finance institutes. When this happens, the poorest and the disabled remain with no source/means of income as a result it activates cycle of poverty in the community.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

The innovation fills this preparation and sustainability gap in current services by collaborating with its partners such as school of business, banks and micro finance institutes to train the poorest and disabled in economic activity/entrepreneurship, provide them with financial support, and mentor them-either individually or in groups to develop themselves in self-employment activities and support them to be sustainably "self-provisioning and "self-reliant."

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Activity 1
-Prepare training curricular with School of business
-Selection of 400 people by conducting a random selection through a lottery to promote fairness and transparency to participate in program.
-Walk the selected trainees through the established preconditions: 1. to attend the training to completion and come up with a business idea either individually or in group capable of offering a service or a product to the market and as well as develop a comprehensive business plan/framework with a mentor in order to be eligible for financial support from the project/our partners, 2. To set up a business at the end of the training(and if they do not set up the business, they have to refund grant for the course).

Activity 2:
-With our partners, train the selected participants in financial literacy, business plans, management, marketing, product and service development, customer service and social networking.
-Leverage the expertise of successful entrepreneurs to share skills, administrative services,web development, and other operational costs with the trainees.

Activity3:
-Support graduates in developing business plans/framework, enter an agreement to offer subsidize business loan to capitalize business( in order to give them time to develop their business) and offer them with lower interest rate and longer grace period and assign with expert mentors to help them grow their business over time. At the end of the project each person will undergo a self-assessment of his/her confidence and capability to remain in employment.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Our main peers and competitors are Barclays Banks, business entities,Youth Development Fund Department, Handicap International, National Council for people with disabilities. The innovation however stands out in the way this seeks to use evidence-based solution to have a long-term impact to the underserved community by leverages new ideas and practices such as emphasis of compulsory entrepreneurship training for the clients, hiring successful entrepreneurs to sharing their skills with the trainees, assigning trainees with expertise mentors to help them develop comprehensive business plans/framework, in partnership with lending institutes giving them direct access to micro-loans to capitalize their chosen business individually or in groups with long term repayment grace period.

Impacto social

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Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

One day, I walked into a bank to deposit some savings for a rainy day and I happened to see a group of 8 individuals inside the bank looking very frustrating. They're disabled and poor.Out of empathy, I approached them and asked them nicely" Why do you guys look so frustrating today?" Together, they responded the bank denied them a micro-loan they simply wanted to start a Cyber Cafe business in town center as a group. I visited the bank manager,he said he's afraid he's not in a position to offer them loans for they lacked collaleral and prior experience in business. Therefore the banks doubted people like them would repay the loans. This was from that moment,I was inspired to explore further on this specific groups to have a solid understanding of their challenges accessing financial service.I found out 90% of them have similar experiences accessing micro-loans. For that, my innovation seeks to address the problem to help transform their overall livelihoods through economic activities.

Por favor, describe el objetivo de tu iniciativa: un resumen de lo que están tratando de lograr

To improve access to support service such as basic business skills training, business development and financial service among the poorest and disabled-to enable the them to efficiently initiate or expand entrepreneurial activities toward social and economical empowerment which in turn will deactivate poverty in such community-

¿A qué barrera(s) a la inclusión financiera tu solución busca dirigirse? (selecciona todas las pertinenetes)

Físicas y otros obstáculos de accesibilidad que impiden que los servicios financieros lleguen a las comunidades, Falta de productos financieros asequibles adaptados a las necesidades de las comunidades marginadas y excluidas, Poderosos incentivos para que los proveedores de servicios financieros asciendan en el mercado.

Si ha seleccionado "otro", por favor especificar qué otras barreras a la inclusión financiera tu solución busca dirigirse

¿Para qué comunidades marginadas o excluidas tu solución creará un acceso a servicios financieros valiosos, asequibles, seguros e integrales?

The POOREST and the DISABLED persons.

¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?

While the innovation begins by serving its target audience(poorest and disabled) residing in Eastern region of Kenya, the innovation has the potential of scaling up and transforming the lives of a widespread of the poorest and the disabled people in other geographies or regions like Central, Rift Valley, and Western of Kenya-

Si tu solución tuviera un éxito espectacular, ¿cómo serían las cosas diferentes en 10 años?

The poorest and disabled people:
- earn income through their own chosen economic activities as individuals or in groups that decrease the risk of HIV/Aids, unwanted pregnancies and crimes
-have access to support service-basic business skills training, business development and financial services to initiate or expand entrepreneurial activities
-Are recognized as successful entrepreneurs, and productive, contributing members of the community
-Are able to contribute to the development of inclusive communities through promotion of economic activities and the influence of positive role-models
- Women have control over the money they earn, income, property, savings, and financial capital to work productively and foster well-being.
-Mainstream government and nongovernmental, small-enterprise development programmes, banks and micro-fiance institutes change their policies and practices to include people with disabilities and the poorest in the training and financial service assistance.

¿Qué tendría que haber cambiado para que esto sucediera?

-Continued support of obligatory training for the poorest and disabled rather than optional training in entrepreneurship for those with no prior experience in economic activities/entrepreneurship.
-A more efficient and continuous provision of direct microfinance to the poorest and the disabled on a non-discriminatory basis who have graduated from the training by partnership with lending institutes such as banks and micro-fiance institutes to help them start business-and assign them with expertise mentors to help them grow their business over time.
-Mainstream government and nongovernmental, small-enterprise development programmes,banks and micro-fiance institutes to change their policies and practices to include people with disabilities and the poorest in the training and financial service assistance.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

By mean of entrepreneurship training, financial and mentoring support, innovation with its partners will enable the poorest and poorest people to have opportunities to earn livelihood through (self)-employment activities, improve their standard of living and contribute to the well-being of their families, and communities.

Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 5 años?

Improved (self)-employment activities among 10,000+ poorest and the disabled persons that provide an alternative to a competitive and discriminatory labor market and help them understand their entrepreneurship aspirations, develop mentoring support system, develop business feasibility and business plans, acquire financing, and grow and sustain their businesses-either individually or in groups toward economic empowerment

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

-Failure by clients to repay the loans: clients may fail to make a payment to us/our lending partners. To overcome this, the innovation will assures business training, monitoring and self-confidences buildings etc. to equip the clients/graduates to undertake self-employment economic activities successfully.
-Failure by selected clients to attend training to completion-we will ensure they sign an agreement to attend otherwise they won't be eligible to apply for loans.
-High interest on loans by lending institutes; the organization will enter a partnership/an agreement with Equity Bank and Family Bank to work together to offer the trainees with low and affordable rates on micro-loans borrowed and as well as long payment grace period.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Since it's a one year project, it will merge its tasks into a 12-month plan of action in order to reach impact milestone

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Preparation of entrepreneurship training curricular and materials in collaboration with our stakeholders-(2 month)

Tarea 2

Selection of trainees who were part of our focus groups , survery and inteviews study through a random approach-(2 month)

Tarea 3

2-month entrepreneurship training, successful entrepreneurs' skills sharing, and networking and mentoring assignment-(2 month)

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Brainstorming of business ideas, preparation of comprehensive busines plans/framework with mentors' support/guidance

Tarea 2

Graduates' application of direct financial support/small loans to capitalize business-individuallly or in groups

Tarea 3

monitoring and evaluation, and follow-up through self-assessment, marketing success measured through clients' leads.

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KIVA connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. It only lends money to individuals through an existing organization (field partner). Partnering with KIVA will enable our graduates to apply for microloans for their business through our organization (field partner of KIVA).
-Equity Bank-our lending partners so that our graduates can access loans to capitalize business at very low interest rates. Equity bank will send staff to train our trainees
-School of Business-To develop an entrepreneurial training curriculum for our target groups. Staff will be part of training and mentoring

¿Actualmente te estás dirigiendo a otras poblaciones, lugares o los mercados para tu innovación? Si es así, ¿dónde y por qué?

We also target customers in the market at local, national and global levels because at the end of the training, our clients will develop their own chosen economic activities capable of offering a product or a service(like Poultry, Cyber Cafe, Hairdressing) to the market. Therefore customers from all across the nation and international community must be able to satisfactorily buy/use a product or a service that generate revenues for our clients. The innovation will closely monitor such income-generating initiatives to help them prosper. Our markerting success will be measured via clients leads.

¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?

The TEAM: The organization contains a multidisciplinary team of radiant, dynamic and highly talented people. Displaying diversity in interest and skill, the team boasts an array of professionals from Project manager, Entrepreneurs, Educators, Financial Officer, Accounts, IT and development specialists who all have rolled up their sleeves to make this innovation a success.

RESEARCH and STAKEHOLDERS: Having first hand of those impacted the most through research, and the support of our stakeholders and understanding of the impact the innovation is striving to deliver, we know we can achieve success with the very people we are serving supporting us as we develop the solution.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

monitoring-Since the innovation will create other income-generating initiatives, it will closely monitor such initiatives to ensure they grow and thrive.

Mentorship: The project assigns the clients with a more experience person/more knowledgeable person to help guide/mentor them in design, establishment and development of their businesses. This is what initiatives need in order to be success.

Reviviendo costumbres a través de la Industria

Aproximadamente 50 palabras restantes (400 caracteres).

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País de la organización

Ecuador

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Estados Unidos

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Género del/la innovador/a

Tu organización es

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Idea (estás listo para lanzarla)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Sigue en fase conceptual, pero se espera que se lance pronto.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Debido a que la Parroquia Pasa, en la Provincia de Tungurahua, se encuentra entre una de las zonas marginadas y pobres de mi país y mi provincia, se ha perdido la costumbre de la elaboración de camisas, las mismas que se elaboraban manualmente, y eran reconocidas en el país, por ser de muy buena calidad.
Las personas que han heredado estos conocimientos acerca de la confección de las mismas, han dejado de hacerlas, debido a los pocos recursos con los que cuentan para poder obtener materia prima para realizar estos trabajos, haciendo que esta industria desaparezca, y deje de crear recursos económicos para las personas que viven en esta comunidad.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

Mi solución es crear una micro empresa de confección de camisas, reuniendo a todas las personas que se dedicaban a la elaboración manual de las mismas, aportando con soluciones eficientes y tecnología adecuada que ayude a su masiva producción y de esta manera lanzar al mercado sus productos que son de muy buena calidad, creando así fuentes de ingresos económicos para las familias que viven en esta zona de mi país.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Se reúnen a todas las familias de la parroquia Pasa que se dedican a la elaboración de camisas, de esta manera se crea una micro empresa en donde se producen de manera masiva camisas, y se puedan distribuir en el país, creando ingresos para esta comunidad y mejorando la calidad de vida.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

No existen competidores, debido a que la zona en la cual se encuentra esta parroquia es desconocida y muy marginada de mi país.
la mayoría de personas no la conocen, y por ende creen que la elaboración de camisas ya no existe.

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Qué tipo de solución/es brinda tu iniciativa para ayudar a emprendedores emergentes y pequeñas empresas a crecer y prosperar en comunidades marginadas? (seleccionar las opciones aplicables.)

Acceso a financiamiento, Acceso a recursos humanos/ consultoría, Acceso a tecnologia, Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

las personas de esta comunidad se encontrarán satisfechas con esta propuesta, ya que es una fuente de ingreso mas para sus familias, y de la misma manera podrán dar a conocer su parroquia a nivel nacional, debido a la elaboración de camisas

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

De uno a tres años, el proyecto habrá dado sus frutos y la gente reconocerá a este lugar de mi provincia debido a la confección y producción de camisas.
La industria de estas se habrá mejorado y actualizado, aportando cada vez mas a la masiva producción de estas.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Una de las mayores dificultades para el éxito de este proyecto es la desmotivación y la falta de educación de las personas que viven en este sector.
para poder superar esta barrera, se pueden realizar cursos de capacitación y motivación para estas personas.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Plan de seguimineto de resultados

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Estudio de Mercado

Tarea 2

Plan de Producción acorde a los resultados del estudio de Mercado

Tarea 3

Innovación de Productos y verificación de resultados

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Mejoras en materia prima y tecnologias

Tarea 2

Actualización de tendencias

Tarea 3

alianzas estratégicas

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

La Parroquia Pasa, es una de las mas antiguas de la Provincia de Tungurahua, se remonta a la época Hispánica, conocida, por la famosa represa de Mula Corral, y por la elaboración de camisas.
haciendo un estudio de la parroquia y reuniendo historias y vivencias de las personas que han vivido ahí, entre ellas mis padres y abuelos, he podido darme cuenta que la industria de las camisas se ha perdido, y cada vez mas van desapareciendo las personas que antiguamente se dedicaban a esta labor, debido a que salen de su comunidad a otras ciudades en busca de mejores y mayores ingresos.
esta fue la manera en como decidí aportar esta idea para la solución de este problema

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actualmente, no tenemos alianzas, pero acorde a como se va desarrollando el proyecto se pueden realizar alianzas estratégicas, las cuales nos serviran de apoyo para seguir desarrollando la industria

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Making formal financial systems work for the poor- Leveraging existing bank branches to service the needs of migrant workers

An innovation that leverages existing banking infrastructure to offer a formal,reliable and affordable remittance service to 2 mn migrant workers across India.

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FINO

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Nombre de la organización

FINO PayTech Limited

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

India, MM, Mumbai

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

India, HR, Rewari

Tu organización es

Empresa

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.

2011

Young Global Leader Award by World Economic Forum

Mr. Manish Khera, CEO of FINO, has received the Young Global Leader (YGL) Award from the World Economic Forum.

CFO 100 Roll of Honor By CFO India magazine

Mr. Rishi Gupta - CFO, FINO has been awarded "CFO 100 Roll of Honor" - an effort to recognize the top 100 senior finance professionals in India, who have made a difference with their acumen, attitude and energy.

Skoch Financial Inclusion Award

FINO has recently been awarded, by Skoch Foundation, for it’s contribution in the financial inclusion space.

Sankalp Awards

FINO has been awarded by Sankalp – Intellecap Forum in the “Growth Enterprise” Category for its technical innovation in implementation of RSBY programme, one of the largest micro-insurance program in the world touching 30+ million customers.

2010

Manthan South Asia 2010 Award

FINO's technology solution was awarded as the Best Project in the category "e-Inclusion: Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid through use of Technology".

Asia Insurance Review Awards

FINO was awarded "Technology Initiative of the Year" for transforming the delivery of micro-insurance services.

Financial Times Sustainable Banking international award

FINO won Financial Times Sustainable Banking international award for 'Achievement in Banking at Base of the Pyramid' in recognition of the impact made by the company in the field of Financial Inclusion. FINO was the only nominee to be selected from India.

2009

EDGE Award

FINO was honored by EDGE (Enterprise Driving Growth & Excellence) Network in June 2009 for using Information Technology in maximizing business impact.

'Excellence in Innovation' -2nd Indira International Innovation Summit.

FINO was presented 'Excellence in Innovation' Award during the 2nd Indira International Innovation Summit.

2008

Frost & Sullivan South Asia Product Line Strategy Award

FINO was presented the Frost & Sullivan South Asia Product Line Strategy Award in 2008, in the 'Integrated Smart Cards and Biometrics Market' category.

2007

'Breakthrough Award' -17th Annual Card Tech Secure Tech 2007 conference held at San Francisco, USA.

FINO won the 'Breakthrough Award' in the New Markets Category at the 17th Annual Card Tech Secure Tech 2007 conference held at San Francisco, USA.

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Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

¿Cuál de las siguientes describe mejor la(s) barrera(s)s a la que da respuesta tu innovación? Elige hasta dos.

Acceso, Costo.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

In India, over 100 million migrant workers confront a significant challenge every month- how to remit their earnings to their families, back home, in a safe, timely and affordable manner. Majority of these workers do not have access to formal financial services- per an estimate, 70% of the domestic remittances, in India, flow through informal channels (cash couriers, hawala, etc.) that are unsafe, expensive and time-consuming. Workers, in several cases, end up losing their hard-earned income to unscrupulous middlemen.

FINO PayTech, through it’s innovative business model, strategic relationships, cutting-edge technology and a vast customer service network offers a safe, reliable and affordable option, for transferring funds, to migrant workers.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

FINO PayTech’s service addresses the need of migrant workers by establishing and operating a customer-friendly “frontend” of 30,000+ customer service points and utilizing innovative technology, like biometric solutions, to meet mandatory KYC norms. FINO PayTech’s remittance service leverages existing investments in backend infrastructure (technology, processes, etc.) of banks and makes it possible for migrant workers to use a formal channel which was, in the past, either difficult or not possible for them to use.

The key elements of FINO PayTech’s remittance service (strategic relationships with formal financial services providers like banks, pan-India network of 30,000+ service agents and robust & scalable technology) circumvent the barriers, faced by migrant workers, to access and avail remittance services from banks. This service allows migrant workers to safely remit funds, from an accessible customer service point and at an affordable cost.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

FINO PayTech’s solution consists of the following key activities/processes-

Strategic relationship with formal financial services providers (banks) - FINO PayTech leverages the services delivery infrastructure of banks to serve a hitherto under-served customer segment- migrant workers. This existing infrastructure plays a dominant role in influencing the end customer experience and is thus, key to the successful delivery of the core service.

Simplified processes - Reduced KYC norms allow FINO PayTech to enroll and service migrant workers, on behalf of banks, who may not meet standard KYC requirements for opening and operating a bank account.

Establishment and maintenance of customer service points- The customer service points, strategically located and with convenient “office hours”, offer easy access and obviate the need for migrant workers to visit the bank branches and potentially, lose half a day’s work.

Innovative technology- FINO PayTech’s smart card solution, coupled with biometrics, allows migrant workers to remit money without the need to complete cumbersome documentation every time and averting the risk of submitting incorrect recipient information by mistake.

All of the above come together to make it possible,for a migrant worker, to walk into one of FINO PayTech’s customer service points, at a time and day convenient to him/her and securely transfer funds to his/her family back home.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

The domestic remittance market, in India, is estimated to be $ 10 billion annually. Given that only about 30% of the domestic remittances are channeled through the formal sector, the primary competitor for FINO PayTech and other formal players remains the informal medium- cash couriers, hawala, etc. The market is at a very early stage of it’s development and all market expansion efforts, by formal players, especially in the area of customer awareness, would benefit the end customer and the industry as a whole.

Compared to other players,FINO PayTech’s service is differentiated in the following aspects- largest customer service network (30,000 service points), ability to transfer funds between 2 different banks as against within a single bank’s network and favorable pricing.

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Dharavi, in Mumbai (India) is one of the largest slums in the world. Spread over 500 acres, Dharavi’s population is estimated to be between 600,000 and a million. Dharavi residents include migrants from all over the country- in a city where house rents are among the highest in the world, Dharavi provides a cheap and affordable option to those who move to Mumbai to earn their living.

FINO PayTech, founded in 2006, is headquartered in Mumbai, India. In the initial years, FINO PayTech was exposed to the challenges, faced by migrant workers, in availing formal financial services, while establishing customer service points and offering banking services in Dharavi. These valuable experiences lead the organization to explore the possibility of offering reliable and affordable remittance services, in partnership with banks, to migrant workers across the country.

Por favor, describe el objetivo de tu iniciativa: un resumen de lo que están tratando de lograr

FINO PayTech’s goal is to offer an affordable and a reliable remittance service to over 100 million domestic migrants in India. Our objective is bring an end to the dependency that migrant workers have on informal solutions by removing the key barriers that prevent migrant workers from utilizing formal channels for meeting their remittance needs.

Given that an estimated 30% of the household consumption expenditure, in remittance receiving households, is financed by remittances, FINO PayTech appreciates the value that this service has for millions of people in India. It is this realization that continues to motivate the team to deliver a reliable service every time a customer steps into the customer service point.

¿A qué barrera(s) a la inclusión financiera tu solución busca dirigirse? (selecciona todas las pertinenetes)

Físicas y otros obstáculos de accesibilidad que impiden que los servicios financieros lleguen a las comunidades, Falta de productos financieros asequibles adaptados a las necesidades de las comunidades marginadas y excluidas.

Si ha seleccionado "otro", por favor especificar qué otras barreras a la inclusión financiera tu solución busca dirigirse

¿Para qué comunidades marginadas o excluidas tu solución creará un acceso a servicios financieros valiosos, asequibles, seguros e integrales?

FINO PayTech’s remittance service is targeted at solving the challenges faced by domestic migrant workers in India. Majority of the workers who migrate to larger cities, for earning their livelihood, are less educated and belong to socially disadvantaged groups. These workers typically work in brick-kilns, unskilled construction, loading and unloading of commercial goods transport vehicles, etc. where living and working conditions leave much to be desired. A slightly well-off category of migrant workers would be working as security guards, in the hospitality industry, as domestic help and/or as plumbers and carpenters.

Since dependency on informal channels, for sending remittances, also poses a problem for the families, dependent on remittance incomes, which run the risk of not receiving the much-needed funds in time, FINO PayTech’s service has an impact on the migrant’s family members as well. Remittances enable higher spending on education, health and investments.

¿Tu solución podría operar en otros conextos o regiones? Si así fuera, ¿en dónde?

FINO PayTech’s solution leverages existing banking infrastructure coupled with innovative technology and a large, customer-facing service network to serve migrant workers.

The solution has the potential of working in other geographies and regions where there has been rapid industrialization/urbanization, in recent years, leading to a large concentration of migrant workers in select cities/towns who face challenges in accessing formal financial services channels.

Our understanding is that industry players in the following countries/regions could draw learnings from our work and benefit from our experiences while addressing the unique requirements of their local markets - China, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Si tu solución tuviera un éxito espectacular, ¿cómo serían las cosas diferentes en 10 años?

With rapid urbanization being experienced in developing countries across the world, the challenges faced by migrant workers is only beginning to be realized. To ensure long-term, sustainable economic development and to avoid social unrest, it is extremely essential, for all stakeholders, to identify and meet the needs of fellow citizens who leave their families behind for earning a living in the cities.FINO PayTech’s solution is a step in this direction.

Our solution has also demonstrated the critical value of partnerships and the active participation of various stakeholders as being absolutely essential for serving low-income customers, profitably.

In the next 10 years, the success of our solution would position us to meet the needs of the target customer and also create the blueprint, for similar efforts, not only in the area of financial services, but in other domains of social importance as well.

¿Qué tendría que haber cambiado para que esto sucediera?

FINO PayTech would continue to innovate in order to achieve the following- increase the footprint of it’s service network, improve the quality of it’s processes & services and offer comprehensive financial services to migrant workers through it’s existing infrastructure.

FINO PayTech would like all stakeholders to work, in a collaborative fashion, with the objective of meeting the financial as well as non-financial needs of the under-served segments. We would also encourage industry players to explore the potential of leveraging existing infrastructure (banks in our case) to serve low-income customers as against efforts to develop a parallel solution from scratch.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

FINO PayTech's solution has, so far, made it possible for over 2 million migrant workers, across 6 states in India, to remit money to any of the 80,000+ bank branches across the country, at any point of time during the year, reliably.

Our service has lead to an estimated annual savings of USD 4 million for our customers, who were previously dependent on informal means for sending remittances to their families.

Indirectly, our service has positively impacted the lives of 8 million family members by ensuring timely receipt of funds on a regular basis. This, in the long run, is expected to lead to better outcomes in the area of education, health and overall financial well-being.

Given that remittance destinations are usually in low-income states and in under-developed regions, our service is creating stronger local economies by ensuring smooth flow of funds, throughout the year, in 5 of the least developed states in India.

Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 5 años?

Over the next 5 years,FINO PayTech, would like to increase the footprint of it's network and quality of it's services to serve more than 5 million migrant workers and an estimated 20 million family members across India.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

The industry is still at a very early stage of it’s evolution. Lack of awareness, among migrant workers, about affordable and formal remittance solutions leading to the dominance of informal players is the biggest challenge facing the industry. FINO PayTech faces the same challenge.

As an industry player, FINO PayTech focuses it’s efforts on increasing customer awareness by running financial literacy campaigns, in target locations, with high concentration of migrant workers. This has resulted in an increased uptake of our services. FINO PayTech also reaches out to family members, at the remittance destinations, by making them aware of the risks of using informal channels for receiving funds.

An industry-wide initiative, with a similar objective, would benefit all stakeholders.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Improve quality of service

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Financial literacy campaigns targeted at increasing awareness and establishing the right expectations among potential customers.

Tarea 2

Productivity and customer service training for channel partners managing customer service points.

Tarea 3

Improvements in technology platform.

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Increase volume of transactions

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

New product innovation

Tarea 2

Identification of new target locations (remittance origination points as well as destinations)

Tarea 3

Strategic partnerships

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FINO PayTech delivers it's remittance service in collaboration with banks.

FINO PayTech acquires and services the customer per the regulatory guidelines and business processes established in consultation with the partner bank. FINO PayTech utilizes it's 30,000+ customer service points to acquire and service customers while leveraging the bank's backend infrastructure to transfer funds to over 80,000 bank branches across the country.

¿Actualmente te estás dirigiendo a otras poblaciones, lugares o los mercados para tu innovación? Si es así, ¿dónde y por qué?

FINO PayTech first launched it’s services in major migration hubs of India- Delhi and Mumbai. The company, gradually, expanded it’s presence, in regional hubs, of both North as well as South India.

Given the concentration of economic activity and industries, in select cities, across the country, big as well as small, there is a need to explore new locations for establishing customer service points. The following cities and states are the major markets for domestic remittance services in India- Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

¿Qué tipo de sistema operativo y factores internos de la organización hacen que tu innovación sea un éxito?

FINO PayTech's innovative remittance service has been made possible because of a supportive regulatory environment, in India, which allows and encourages banks to partner with other organizations for increasing their reach beyond the traditional, brick & mortar branches.

As an organization, FINO PayTech, has built it's business around meeting the financial needs of under-served customers, both rural as well as urban, in India. It is this focus that encourages the organization to continuously innovate on new products and improved services delivery mechanisms while trying to unearth newer sub-segments within the larger target market.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

FINO PayTech would welcome interested researchers to collaborate with it's product teams for developing and executing research projects, in specific geographies, in India, focused on assessing existing customer service levels and potential areas of innovation.FINO PayTech would also be interested in collaborating with international stakeholders in highlighting the challenges faced by migrants.

SOS SMS Helpline

Ubicación

Filipinas

The SOS SMS System for distressed Overseas Female Workers (OFW) is initiated and developed by CMA OFW partners in Saudi. It runs 24 hours, 7 days a week to respond reports from OFW. The SMS system is also used to ensure voting right for overseas workers.

Maid in India

Domestic helps, also known as maids form an ubiquitous part of our lives in India. We grew up with them being an integral part of our household. Given how important their role was, it was always surprising that very little was done to ensure an improvement in their standard of living.

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Rumah Internet untuk TKI (Mahnettik) 

Ubicación

Indonesia

a place for information exchange, discussion, knowledge gathering for migrant workers, family, migrant worker groups/ NGO, and related government institution. 

Changeshop

This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Qeyno Labs.

STEM4Girls by Qeyno Labs

Qeyno Labs works with local partners and schools to bring technology-enabled career discovery into under-served classrooms using game-like rewards and mentorship from real-life professionals.

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Nombre

Kalimah

Apellido

Priforce

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Qeyno Labs

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Estados Unidos, CA, Berkeley, Alameda County

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Estados Unidos, CA, Berkeley, Alameda County

Edad del/la innovador/a

18-34

Género del/la innovador/a

Masculino

Tu organización es

Empresa

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

1-5 años

¿Tu organización ha recibido premios y/u honores? Cuéntanos sobre ellos.

2010 Kauffman Labs finalists
2011 Echoing Green Semi-Finalists
2011 Ashoka Changemakers (Partners for STEM) - Early Entry Prize Winners
2012 Unreasonable Institute Semi-Finalists
2012 Echoing Green Semi-Finalists

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Nombre de tu iniciativa

STEM4Girls by Qeyno Labs

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Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

¿Cuál de las siguientes describe mejor la(s) barrera(s)s a la que da respuesta tu innovación? Elige hasta dos.

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

In 2010, 26% of US high school seniors paid private college and career consultants (Flew College Prep, Think Tank Learning, Oxford Advisors, and others) $8K to $40K. What happens to the 74%?

Counseling at the Crossroads (2011) reported that school guidance counselors, especially in urban and rural school settings lack the tools to provide college access and career readiness for all students, in part due to high caseloads and tasks that take up too much of their time.

Kids, especially under-served girls don't know what careers are possible and how to achieve them. Kids failing to connect scholastic achievement with lucrative yet challenging opportunities have zero motivation to work their butts off in higher demanding school work and short to long-term goal-setting.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

We solve this problem with a web and mobile software application called Qeyno where high school age kids can more readily discover what motivates and interests them which they can chart and share. We break down career pathways into incremental steps with guidance from mentors.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Qeyno is a classroom product that uses game-like rewards to introduce young millennials to career possibilities with the help of professionals as subject-related mentors (micro-mentorship), a mission/badge achievement system, and a challenge-board where they can compete and win prizes, internships, and scholarships.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Our direct competitors are Alleyoop (http://alleyoop.com) a Pearson Education incubated startup, and Rocket21 (http://rocket21.com), a VC-funded stealth "social learning site” focused on tweens (and subject to data collection restrictions).

ConnectEDU (http://connectedu.com) is the current market leader for web-based college and career planning has grown to include 5 million high school and college-aged students, 2,500 high schools, 450 colleges. They recently closed a $7M equity offering led by Allen & Co.

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¿Qué solución/es propone tu iniciativa para mejorar la vida de las niñas y mujeres a través del apalancamiento de tecnologia/s? (selecciona todas las que apliquen)

Acceso a educación/capacitación, Acceso a oportunidades económicas.

¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

For our bootstrapped alpha build, we've curated over 300 playable content (videos & games) across 17 media partners including Google, NASA, EA, and the Girl Scouts of America.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

We expect to release a product beta that will go out to local schools in the San Francisco Bay Area by fall 2012. Our test run will include 15 schools with 10K-15K number of students with access to Qeyno, majority of which will be girls.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Our biggest barrier has been pre-seed funding to advance our application's development.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Qeyno - Private Beta Launch

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Raise 50,000 in Pre-Seed Funding

Tarea 2

Curate 500 playable content for 10K-15K students in 15 schools

Tarea 3

Launch the STEM Bound Channel (STEM for Black and Latino male youth)

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Qeyno - Public Beta Launch

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Raise 300,000 in Seed Funding

Tarea 2

Launch at a major technology and/or social enterprise conference

Tarea 3

1500 mentors signed up for 30,000 students in 20-25 schools

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

The day my eighteen year old brother was shot and killed behind our old elementary school in Brooklyn New York, I had an argument with him. Frustrated with his lack of ambition to complete and pursue his post-high school plans, I asked him, "What do you want to do with your life? What are your dreams?"
He admitted to me that he didn't know and that it was too late for him to do anything about it. I'm essentially building the product that could have saved my brother's life.

It is why I focus specifically on 13-17 year olds because it is a critical time in a young person's life and the difference between why one brother makes it and how another doesn't has less to do with test scores and more to do with whom and what they are exposed to.

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We have garnered our content from various partners that include Google, EA, NASA, Girl Scouts of America, and others.

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"VAJRA"(VESSEL DESK)-dignity to labors

The innovation has been focused to rich people since many years but nothing has been done to reduce the drudgery of working class people. through this design i have tried a little to think and work for them, so the effort had worked.
The device has got NATIONAL AWARD FROM "NATIONAL INNOVATION COUNCIL OF INDIA".
we are looking to get funding to scale and promote it to production level.
"OUR DREAM IS TO REDUCE THE DRUDGERY OF WORKERS".

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Ethnic Threads

Ethnic Threads is a new charity project, set-up with the aim of selling clothing made from traditional East African material (Kitenge),

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Background Information

Nombre

john

Apellido

frewen

The competition is only open to people between 18-34 years-old and resident in UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands. Does this apply to you

Sí.

Country of residence of entrepreneur

Ireland

Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?

I visited Uganda last year and the most rewarding aspect was seeing the dedication and compassion Ugandan workers show, both those working in hospitals,and those working in orphanages for disabled infants who have been abandoned. Their positivity, attitude and gratitude toward life is admirable.

The most challenging aspect was having to accept the limited impact we could make during our medical elective, as we were at an early stage in med school and had little knowledge of communicable diseases. That was part of my inspiration to make a sustainable contribution to the Ugandan people. I have recruited a team, each with different educational back rounds to bring as much skill to this business venture as possible.

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Nombre de la organización

Ethinic Threads

Sitio web de la organización

under construction

País de la organización

Irlanda, DB, dublin

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Uganda

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

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La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

We are constantly exposed to horrific humanitarian conditions in third world countries yet dont do much more than occasionally drop a few euro in a charity box. These contributions have gotten smaller in these recessionary times so we think offering people a product that they want combined with the feel good factor of giving to charity will create a substantial and steady revenue supply.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

We want to actively create revenue through what we believe to be a sustainable and potentially very profitable business. ( all profits will of course be traveling back to Uganda! ) We will be using a reputable charity as an intermediatry as we lack the experience and connections for this business to be fully effective.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

There is a huge demand for our product from the small amount of market research that we have done. As a start up we are still only in the foundation stages of setting up this company we cannot give exact examples but we plan on creating fair trade jobs in Uganda as well as supporting local products and raising awareness by association with the jackets here in Ireland

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

At the moment we have no direct competitors, of course there are countless numbers of jacket styles on sale but none of them have our unique selling point. In terms of peers, when the company grows we would consider partnerships with different brands as part of their corporate social responsibility. for example an African style addidas jacket for the olympics 2016 (wishful thinking I know!) Our main threat would be a well known brand bringing in a line that looks like ours.

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Impacto social

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What is the social impact you have had to date and how you measure it?

We are still in talks with producers but we will fill this space soon!

What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?

our main barrier at the moment is accessing information but we are connecting with Lifeworks charity that operated a production business alike ours.

Sostenibilidad

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How does your model address financial, social, and environmental sustainability?

By creating jobs both in the production, raw materials and logistics areas we will be helping financial stability in Uganda and by pumping our profits back (after the company is established of course) we will be creating social improvement, with the help of our nominated charity. As of yet we haven't chosen a producer or distributor so dont know their environmental abilities, but we intend on making the process as green as possible.

Awareness & learning

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How do you see social entrepreneurship contributing to the improvement of developing countries?

I think it takes more than simply rattling a box in somebodies face to raise money. Although that may help charities survive in developing countries it is not enough to improve them. Innovative ideas with a real selling point is vital to a dependable cash flow. I want to improve these peoples living standards and not settle for the bare minimum.

What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?

"Our Iinitial aim is to donate proceeds for a pilot programme of €30 jackets to Makondo Health Centre, Uganda, run by the Medical Missionaries of Mary. " This is a quote taken directly from our facebook page. I would like to be at the other end of this, its easy to just throw money at a problem but actually bring part of that problem would be an incredible experience. Although it is not the same industry as our product it is important to understand the local customs and issues of the place you are supporting.

Bridge the Gap : Project Galaxy Bazaar - A SocioEntrepreneurship Venture of Grade 11-12 Students

Galaxy Bazaar is a social entrepreneurship venture by students of Grade 11-12 of The Galaxy Education System based at Rajkot, Gujarat, India.

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Nombre

Bijal

Apellido

Damani

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

The Galaxy Education System

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

India, GJ, Rajkot

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

India, GJ, Rajkot

Tu organización es

Sin fines de lucro

Tu rol en la Educación

Maestro.

Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:

Privada (con pago de matrícula)

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

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Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)

¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?

Operando más de 5 años

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Like every city, even my city – Rajkot has two extreme classes of people residing. I teach in a Private school where students are dropped in chauffer drive Audi car and in the same vicinity, there are children who drop out of formal school system and work as child labour trying to earn the living for the family. So there are two goals – to teach my students the business techniques so that they become creative capitalists in future and to bridge the gap in opportunity by providing education opportunity to children working as labour.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

The Solution comes in form of Project Galaxy Bazaar. A bazaar which is set by students before Diwali and money is raised based on pure business principles. Students contribute the capital, get the goods from wholesaler or retailers, rent out the venue, and market the event. A lot of hard work is put in and students face the risk of running a real business. Sponsorship is sought from various industries in the area. The net profits are donated to provide education to children who have dropped out of formal education system. The project has been carried out for the last six years taking sponsoring education of more than 450 underprivileged students
The project bridges the gap between different classes of people in the community. It also provides the privileged students a chance to help their lesser privileged counter parts.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Project Galaxy Bazaar involves not only students but many members of the community in its working. It’s a Win Win Projects where various stakeholders of the society are involved – directly or indirectly. The primary activity of the students is to hone their business skills, target profit earning but keeping in mind the business ethics. This exercise plants the seeds of ethical business dealings at the impressionable age. (I am dealing with 16-18 years old.) Goods are sought from the Manufacturer or Wholesaler on ‘Sale or Return’ basis. Many new products and producers are encouraged and provided the ready platform. The Bazaar is set up before Diwali keeping in mind Diwali shopping requirements. All the goods are made available under one platform. Variety of promotional activities takes place during Bazaar days. Students run the Bazaar and after accounting for every expense, come to Net Profits. These profits are donated for education of the underprivileged children.
Galaxy Bazaar is a much awaited project in the community. The project has started in the year 2005 and six Galaxy Bazaars have already taken place with INR 8000 (Sponsoring education of 4 students) as the profit in first year to INR 700000 in the fifth and sixth year ( sponsoring education of more than 500 students) Something that was started as a simple Classroom project, Galaxy Bazaar has come a long way.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

My peers in this project are my students of Grade 11 and 12. ( Different set of students every year as batches change) There are many NGOs working in this area but I do not consider them as my competitors as this is the Project carried out by the students. Instead of competition, we join hands and collaborate with people or organizations who are working in the same area. For example, for two years, we teamed up with Rotary District 3060, one year with NGO Pratham etc. So I do not consider them as my competitors – I consider them as potential collaborators.

Ahora que has pensado en tu innovación, ayúdanos a presentarla.

Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]

Galaxy Bazaar: Commerce in Education and Education in Commerce. A Social Venture - for the students, of the students, by the students.

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A Project which attempts to bridge the opportunity gap between privileged and lesser privileged students. It’s more than business.

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¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

The impact of Galaxy Bazaar has been two fold. The first impact is on the underprivileged children who have been working as child labour. They got a chance to get the education out of the funds raised by my students. We have managed to touch lives of more than 450 children.

The second impact is on my own students. These students are future entrepreneurs. And I am glad that this project provides them with the most important lessons in business ethics and corporate social responsibility at an early age. Many Ex-students can vouch for it that GB has made them better human being and better entrepreneurs.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

We are planning to get more involved in this project. Students will be introducing basic ICT skills to these children. We have already received a technology grant from HP which will be used to bridge the digital divide as well.
Inquiries have been received by other schools and colleges wanting to be part of this project, we can think of expanding the horizon of the market. Moreover, we introduce something new every year. Plan for the next two years is as follows :
1] Introduce Flea market where we can bridge the divide of the resources between various classes of society
2] To introduce the Online market to reach out to that segment of the society which does not manage to come physically to bazaar.

We wish to introduce underprivileged students to basic Technology skills.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

We need to introduce some changes in Bazaar to retain the interest of the customers. Students are working on revamping the model to make it more interesting.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

Introducing underprivileged students to technology skills

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Design Basic ICT related curriculum for underprivileged children

Tarea 2

Arrange for buying Akash tablets for these children

Tarea 3

Prepare my students to deliver ICT training to these children

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

ICT Module in its place

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Tarea 1

Will manage to get at least 20 Akash Tablets which will be used among underprivileged children

Tarea 2

Game Based learning for Underprivileged children

Tarea 3

May be able to train and help the teacher as well

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

As I would come to my school in school bus everyday, I would witness two different worlds at the same time - Neo rich kids getting down the chauffeur driven expensive cars to come to school and children working as labour in the same vicinity - working at a tea stall or selling flowers or newspapers or working as labour in construction sites.
The divide in the community is astonishing and at that time the idea of Project Galaxy Bazaar sprouted in my head. I realized it is important that privileged students not only empathize but come up with a solution to this problem. What my student blows up in one day can buy a year's education for these kids and its important for privileged kids to know it. I am sure the students who have been part of Galaxy Bazaar will always think of generating employment for lesser privileged people in the society when they will grow up to be big entrepreneurs. I wanted to mold 'CREATIVE CAPITALIST' who thinks beyond their own profits.

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Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

In this venture, students enter into two types of partnerships.
1] Partnership among 120 students - a Win Win is drafted as Partnership Deed
2] Partnership between students and suppliers
Moreover, we work in partnership with NGOs like Rotary, Pratham etc. to better utilization of our hard earned money.

¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?

As mentioned earlier, the team working for this project consist of Project Co-ordinator (i.e. me) and my team of 120 students. Together we are responsible for achieving the above mentioned goals. Many times, ex-students too provide their services for better functioning of the event.

We have Rotary members helping us to reach out to these children and fulfilling our goals.

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Need :
1] We need to expand and if any other school is interested in the Project, we can set up the Bazaar in other town, city, state or country to raise the money for educating underprivileged children in our vicinity.
2] Generous and consistent sponsorship from any corporate body would help us grow.My students can work for these corporates to compensate for their help.

VerdraaidGoed!

VerdraaidGoed! creates playful sustainable products out of (industrial) waste materials, produced by people with work disabilities.

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Background Information

Nombre

Lisanne

Apellido

Addink

The competition is only open to people between 18-34 years-old and resident in UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands. Does this apply to you

Sí.

Country of residence of entrepreneur

The Netherlands

Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?

Sustainability
Mankind gets more and more out of touch with nature. We created industrial systems that pollute the planet we live on, we create products that result into unusable waste and we see animals and nature as just another industry.
As tomorrow’s designer I do not want to play a role in this. I want to be part of the movement that reverses this trend; I want a more sustainable society. Sustainability in itself, however, is nothing. Sustainability should be a ‘verb’, it’s a way of living, a way of choosing. And I am the one who can choose. I can choose not to create rubish, but create eco-friendly products and avoid wastage. Sustainability is part of everything and I want it to play a dominant role in my life. I want to live a conscientious life myself and I would like to inspire others as well to choose for a more sustainable way of behaving and living.

Contribution
Already during my studies I actively tried doing this, by founding the Delft Technical University(TU) "Sustainability Committee" for example. This committee – full of students I had motivated – looked for ‘unsustainabilities’ within the TU itself and helped the TU to overcome those. With this initiative I won the WNF sustainability Award, which included an entry ticket to the most untouched place on earth: Antarctica!
Furthermore, I also decided to start publishing Osiris Magazine, a magazine about all kinds of sustainability initiatives on and around the Delft TU. I was a board member of the Sustainability Platform of the Delft TU.
I was also assistant on the TiDo - Techniek in Duurzame ontwikkeling (Engeneering in Sustainable Development) annotation and co-organizer of the TiDo bootweek. I was the initiator and organizer of the 1st edition of the Delft Sustainability Event and I was the vice chairperson of the TU Delft Energy Club.

Development Aid
In the past I also gainded experience in the field of developing aid. It feels good to help others who are less fortunate and under educated, but I also see that it’s really difficult to decide what ‘helping’ really is.In my opinion spreading knowledge is the best thing you can do. Important however is to know the country and to understand the way people think and live, before you can trully contribute. My main conclusion is that good development aid is often very difficult because of the social difference between countries. The problems are too complex to address from behind your desk in The Netherlands, so I believe one should have lived in the country for a considerable number of yearperiod of time before being fully able to make meanigful contributions and add true value.

As a matter of fact, I live in the Netherlands for 26 years now and I think our country can use some ‘development aid’ as well. Especially in the field of showing respect and love to nature, animals and each other, improvements can be made. Therefore I would like to work on ‘development aid’ in my own country. I do this by means of VerdraaidGoed!, the company I founded.

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Nombre de la organización

VerdraaidGoed!

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Holanda, UT, Zeist

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Holanda, XX, The whole country

Tu organización es

Empresa

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La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Each year - within the European Union - three billion tons of waste is being produced.... In the Netherlands alone this is 60 million tons each year. Greenhouse gas emissions and air-, water- and soil pollution are the result of this large amount of waste and its processing. This is detrimental to the environment and human health. Even the more responsible ways of processing waste, like recycling, still have a negative impact on the environmen as energy is needed for processing waste, and parts of waste will ultimatedly end up in the environment. Moreover, part of our waste is even exported to developing countries for processing, often under very polluting and unhealty conditions. Therefore VerdraaidGoed! takes on the battle against waste by reusing it through upcycling on a large scale!

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

“It's not waste until you waste it!” VerdraaidGoed! likes to keep things simple and positive. Industrial waste is reused directly as raw material to make good products. The direct reuse of waste not only saves material, it also saves energy by avoiding recycling.
The products are based on available waste streams and the characteristics of these materials. So when designing a product, we let us get inspired by the shape and features of
the waste materials and make no or very limited adjustment. As a result, the energy needed for making the products is kept to a bare minimum. All products are manufactured at sheltered/social workshops in the Netherlands, where people with work disabilities get a chance to work and participate in society. Therefore, VerdraaidGoed! not only reduces waste, it also avoids the harmful effects of long distance transportation, provides work for a disadvantaged group within our community, and ensures all products are made under good working conditions.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

We always start with the question: “Which waste materials are available?” And then, “What can we create with it?” For the Tof-hee, a fun 5-in1 game set, we got inspired by different waste materials. Small aluminium arts with the size and shape of a coin, direct by-products of the manufacturing of truck components, would be great as checkers. Residual pieces of fabric from the furniture industry is used to make rollable game boards. And with laces from a warehouse, which were no longer used, we could button up the game board with the checkers in it so it looks like a toffee. A prototype is made and the Tof-hee's are manufactured by people at a Sheltered workshop. Instead of all these materials ending up in waste processing, we make these useful again by creating a product which people still can enjoy for many years! And moreover, stimulated greater Social Responsibility awarenss of those using our product!

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

VerdraaidGoed! as Social Entrepreneur is a "niche" player in the Netherlands in the area upcycling and the re-use of industrial material and resources, where creativity and exclusively working with social work places take centre stage. The "social" component and the "sustainability" element play a critical role throughout the value-chain, from acquiring the waste material, production, storage, logistics, sales & marketing to delivery

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What is the social impact you have had to date and how you measure it?

Realistically speaking, it is early days to make claims on impact considering the fact that we only launched late 2011. However, initial evidence based on feedback from the many parties we have initiated things with and have worked with, looks very promising, underpinning the potential in terms of generating the aspired large scale social impact.

Also in terms of media attention, invitations for participation in various competions for young social entrepreneurs and in various seminars and conferences have also offered a useful early opportunity for a "reality"-check! Feedback and attention has been very positive and motivating, and have also give very valuable input in to working towards furture success...

What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?

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Economics crisis: in an effort of the government to reduce public spent, production capability/capacity of social workplaces is under presure, with potential shutdown of some of the social work places. One way to address this, is for us to set up lean & mean social workplace ourselves of with one of our partners, where we could offer those social workplaces - that are under threat - work for the same people on secondment-basis.

Sostenibilidad

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How does your model address financial, social, and environmental sustainability?

This long-term plan is still under development. The experience gained at the early stages of start-up is providing direct input into this plan. This was a trade off.... We took a consious decision to use the window of opportunity to make a timely launch against the backdrop of the worsening economic climate and call for practical and pragmatic sustainable action in a truly social fashion, rather than delaying this for the sake of completing our long-term plan.
In the meantinme it has also become clear that we need the short to medium term success to sustain long term finacial security.

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How do you see social entrepreneurship contributing to the improvement of developing countries?

I think that 2-way learning is the most important thing. We should not think that the developing countries have the problems and the western countries have the answers. We all live on the same planet and we both face problems that we should solve by cooperating and learning from each other. We should share our knowledge and continuously look for ways to reinforce each other.

What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?

What I think is really interesting for me, is to see what kind of creative reuse ideas people in Uganda came up with. In developing countries reuse is much more common and you can find very inspiring examples there! I think I can learn a lot from them. I think I will bring inspiration and knowledge back home, that will stimulate the design of new VerdraaidGoed! products. On the other hand I hope to inspire the people over there that are still dumping there waste. You still see, that in developing countries a lot of waste ends up on the streets because there are no good waste treatment facilities. If I can show them the value of waste, they will hopefully be motivated to turn trash into treasure more and more.

Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia

Ubicación

Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan

Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities.Improving the Quality of Higher Education,Labor Migration Program,Media Development,Cross-Border Youth Cooperation,Youth Rights, Inclusion and Political Engagement

Cultivando Oportunidades: El Invernadero en la Escuela

Emprendimiento productivo y autosustentable liderado por jóvenes discapacitados.

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Nombre

Romina A. González

Apellido

Paula A. Valeri

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Identidad Consultora

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Argentina, Q, Neuquén

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Argentina, Q, San Patricio del Chañar

Tu organización es

Empresa

Tu rol en la Educación

Otro.

Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:

Pública (gratuita)

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

1-5 años

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Innovación

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Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)

¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?

Operando entre 1-5 años

La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

Los alumnos con discapacidades mentales mayores de 20 años no cuentan, en la escuela, con actividades que los prepare para desarrollarse como personas autónomas capaces de insertarse activamente en la sociedad. Estos alumnos provienen de familias socialmente vulnerables, con empleos precarios en zonas rurales y que carecen de medios propios para ofrecerles alternativas de inclusión socioeconómicas. Asimismo, la comuna no provee instituciones públicas ni programas sociales que brinden protección a estos jóvenes una vez que culminan su paso por la escuela. En este sentido, la necesidad de los alumnos es contar con una herramienta que les permita sustentarse económica y emocionalmente e insertarse en la vida comunitaria de manera autónoma.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

El proyecto pretende desarrollar, desde la escuela, un taller teórico-práctico para fortalecer las habilidades y conocimientos de los alumnos conformando un perfil productivo que facilite su inserción sociolaboral futura. El objetivo es poner en funcionamiento un invernadero para el cultivo de hortalizas y plantas aromáticas. Se pretende con el mismo capacitar a los alumnos en el cultivo orgánico, ofrecer una alternativa de inserción laboral orientada a la producción agrícola y lograr el autosostenimiento del emprendimiento mediante la venta de la producción tanto procesada como no. A través del trabajo en el invernadero los alumnos logran desarrollar un perfil productivo que les permita autosustentarse económicamente y formular un proyecto de vida.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

El desarrollo del proyecto involucra etapas que encierran ideas innovadoras tanto en el impacto que tienen para la vida de los alumnos, en los actores que intervienen y sus vínculos, como en los conceptos que le dan sustento.
Primera etapa: construcción del invernadero. Es aquí donde comienzan a entablarse las relaciones de la escuela con instituciones públicas y privadas a fin de conseguir los recursos humanos, financieros y materiales necesarios. Esta etapa logra hacer visible la problemática de la escuela en la comunidad. Se gestan las relaciones público-privada donde, a través de políticas de responsabilidad social empresaria, se gestiona la construcción del invernadero.
Segunda etapa: capacitación de docentes y alumnos. Aquí se establece el vínculo con Universidad-escuela a través del asesoramiento de alumnos avanzados y profesores. Al mismo tiempo, es acá donde se revaloriza y rescata el conocimiento tradicional sobre cultivos orgánicos y trabajo de la tierra, al hacer partícipe a las familias que, en su mayoría, desarrollan actividades agrícolas.
Tercera etapa: cultivo y cuidado de plantas aromáticas. Aquí es cuando los alumnos ven los resultados de su tarea afectando positivamente su desarrollo emocional. Se refuerza la cohesión familiar, permitiendo el redescubrimiento de sus integrantes a través de una actividad desarrollada en conjunto que, a la vez, favorece la sustentabilidad social del proyecto.
Última etapa: comercialización. Se busca aquí que la actividad sea económicamente sustentable a través de la venta de productos en la región.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Actualmente no existen en la comunidad abordada otros tipos de contención para alumnos discapacitados adultos generadas por instituciones/organismos/empresas más allá de la que la escuela realiza. En este sentido, nuestra propuesta no cuenta con pares ni competidores.

Ahora que has pensado en tu innovación, ayúdanos a presentarla.

Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]

Emprendimiento productivo y autosustentable liderado por jóvenes discapacitados.

Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]

Conseguir el autosostenimiento de un emprendimiento liderado por jóvenes discapacitados mediante el compromiso interinstitucional.

Impacto social

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¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?

Hasta el momento, el proyecto ha despertado el interés de empresas de la región en comprometerse con el desarrollo de oportunidades para poblaciones vulnerables.

¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?

Se prevee:
- Generar lazos estrechos y sostenibles a largo plazo entre la escuela, empresas e instituciones,que puedan dar lugar al abordaje conjunto de otras problemáticas.
- Reforzar la cohesión dentro de las familias de los alumnos.
- Enaltecer la figura de los jóvenes frente a sus familias, la escuela y su comunidad al hacerse protagonistas del propio desarrollo social y emocional.
- Formar un perfil productivo en los alumnos, teniendo en cuenta las características del entorno en que viven y rescatando sus habilidades.
- Acrecentar la confianza en sí mismos, la autoestima, la motivación y la responsabilidad por el trabajo.
En este primer periodo, entre destinatarios directos e indirectos, se estima que el impacto alcanzará a aproximadamente 80 personas.

¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto? ¿Cómo planean superarlas?

Problemas y posibles soluciones:
- Falta de interés del resto de la comunidad educativa (docentes, alumnos y padres)por sostener el proyecto en el largo plazo. Frente a lo cual, se prevee integrar el proyecto dentro de las actividades obligatorios de la currícula escolar, compartir parte de lo cultivado con el comedor escolar, hacer visible los avances del proyecto frente a la comunidad a través de la participación en ferias regionales.
- Dificultades para comercializar los productos. Para ello, se prevee integrar al emprendimiento en alguna cadena de proveedores de establecimientos gastronómicos regionales, vender la producción en mercados regionales.

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto

El invernadero preparado para iniciar la producción

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.

Tarea 1

Construir el invernadero

Tarea 2

Capacitar a docentes y alumnos

Tarea 3

Proveer a los alumnos de la materia prima (plantines, tierra, abono, herramientas, etc.)

¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.

Producción comercializada

Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Cultivar las plantas aromáticas

Tarea 2

Buscar y establecer contactos con potenciales clientes

Tarea 3

Preparar la producción (embalaje, presentación, etc.) para la venta

Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.

Nos dimos cuenta del potencial de esta solución cuando observamos las aptitudes de los jóvenes discapacitados y el gran potencial que éstos tenían para insertarse social y económicamente en la sociedad. La agricultura, aunque en diferente escala a la propuesta, es ya una actividad con la que están familiarizados. En este contexto, el desarrollo de un emprendimiento relacionado al cultivo encaja también en la matriz productiva local e incluso regional. Esto facilita el acceso a recursos técnicos, a canales de comercialización y la determinación de las empresas a apadrinar este proyecto.

Sostenibilidad

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Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

Consideramos que la construcción de redes comunitarias son fundamentales para garantizar la sustentabilidad socioeconómica del proyecto. En este sentido, hemos establecido alianzas con empresas interesadas en implementar políticas de responsabilidad social empresaria, con organismos del Estado en sus diferentes niveles y con la Universidad regional.

¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?

Contamos con dos equipos que comprometen su trabajo voluntariamente:
De apoyo técnico-financiero: conformado por empresas madrinas, alumnos avanzados y profesores de la Universidad y profesionales de las ciencias sociales.
De la comunidad educativa: conformado por docentes de la escuela y familiares de los alumnos participantes.

Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista

Para proyectos sobre desarrollo socioeconómico, ofrecemos a la comunidad de Changemakers nuestra metodología cualitativa de trabajo que permite poner el acento en las particularidades y visiones propias de las comunidades y tomar en cuenta sus complejidades socioculturales.

People's Corp - Screw Profit

Publicly owned, not-for-profit retail stores with food and everyday products.

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Background Information

Nombre

Peter

Apellido

Petrovcic

The competition is only open to people between 18-34 years-old and resident in UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands. Does this apply to you

Country of residence of entrepreneur

UK

Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?

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Nombre de la organización

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Estados Unidos

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Eslovenia, Kranj

Tu organización es

Seleccione

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Innovación

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La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?

I want that people themslefs are getting involved intp changing the way profit is shared.
Whith my concept we can help those close and below powerty with more accesible (chepaer) everyday products and we can also help to our local community producers to keep them running and employing.

La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.

My idea is that we have to create totally new and our own (peoples) economy, such an economy that will be independent from existing corporations that are profit driven. It is even not so difficult. We just have to do it.. Every local community should establish new not-for-profit company with as much people possible as founders with small shares. Imagine, in Slovenia we have only 2 mio population, if 500.000 of them would participate 50 EUR a company with 25 mio EUR capital is born.
This new Peoples Corp. should has priorities. First to help those living under or close to the line of poverty. A small, simple retail shops can be established easily where product would be sold with no or very little margin. Second priority is that majority of the products should be purchased only from local community producers - this will help keeping them alive and create more jobs.

El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias

Invite all people to participate in collecting funds to found a company. Everybody becomes shareholder.
Company establish very simple/basic retail stores for every-day products that every family need. First company source the product from local producer and opreate with MINIMUM gross margin. Later company can start also with production of certain products and also create jobs.
Because gross margin will be at minunum level, such retaile stores will offer bread, pasta and similar every day products/food for much affordable price then current retailers. This will help to the poor people.

El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?

Market are all people with under average family incomes. No competitors yet at this level.

Select the stage that best applies to your business

Operando menos de un año

Impacto social

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What is the social impact you have had to date and how you measure it?

Project is not yet active. It can heve huge impact on the way how we see economy.

What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?

Those with capital and profit interest can undermine the project and fight with it not to happen. Strong community can overcome this.
Lack of startup capital to present the project to public in a way that it will offer a trustfull model. We are searching for a startup investor to prepare all the marketing materials in a proper way.

Sostenibilidad

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How does your model address financial, social, and environmental sustainability?

We will not be a profit driven organisation. Gross margin on a products level will only cover the organisational costs.

Awareness & learning

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How do you see social entrepreneurship contributing to the improvement of developing countries?

It is the only type of business htat can help to solve all those issues.

What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?

I can't wait to hear all those great ideas that will be spoken there.

Indigenous Health & Safety for YOUth

Many young Indigenous people in the province of Manitoba injure themselves each year. SAFE Workers of Tomorrow (SWOT) knows this thanks to the stories and experiences that are shared with us throughout the presentations we deliver. For that reason, we feel it is important to develop and deliver programming to the Indigenous youth of the province, to provide them with enough tools to become active players in changing the perspectives of Indigenous youth, and indeed the entire Indigenous community around the importance of occupational health and safety.

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Nombre

Michael

Apellido

Redhead Champagne

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northendmc

About You, Your Group, or Your Organization

Name

SAFE Workers of Tomorrow

Country

Canadá, MB

Please confirm that this project could benefit First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples

URL en Twitter

Youtube URL

What categories best describe who your group or organization serves (check all that apply)

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people, Otro.

What best describes your group or organization

Non-profit organization.

How long have you, your group, or your organization been operating?

Más de 5 años

Innovación

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Nombre de tu proyecto

Indigenous Health & Safety for YOUth

Tell us the story of your idea or project

Many young Indigenous people in the province of Manitoba injure themselves each year. SAFE Workers of Tomorrow (SWOT) knows this thanks to the stories and experiences that are shared with us throughout the presentations we deliver. For that reason, we feel it is important to develop and deliver programming to the Indigenous youth of the province, to provide them with enough tools to become active players in changing the perspectives of Indigenous youth, and indeed the entire Indigenous community around the importance of occupational health and safety.

The developer of this initiative (Cree from Shamattawa, Manitoba) is the Indigenous Liaison at SWOT and the idea came to him as a result of being exposed to other forms of cultural integration, and noting how much more effective those presentation styles were when presenting to Aboriginal learners. In personal experiences as a youth, he was not exposed to culture, and was not proud of his own heritage. As an adult, learning about the strengths that are inherent within his Indigenous culture have enabled him to do great things. Once this was realized and other, smaller community initiatives became successful, this application and integration of cultural teachings in all aspects of health and safety seemed natural.

Upone experiencing the delivery of Health and Safety presentations to ABoriginal learners, it was apparent that adapting the presentation slightly to include cultural elements increased the level of engagement during presentations. This small observation was looked into more, partners were approached and the initial experiment of developing an Indigenous Health & Safety presentation for youth was initiated.

We know that this approach is effective because of the feedback that we have received from the groups who have received such a presentation. The youth feel proud of their ancestry, and can now articulate and share those helpful cultural elements to their peers, even if they work in a non-Aboriginal environment. Thus far, the stories have encouraged us to try and develop this resource more fully.

Define your idea / project in 1-2 short sentences

Equip and inspire Indigenous youth to take an active role in sharing elements of our culture to improve the health and safety of current & future generations.

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Start-Up (a project that is just getting started)

Impacto social

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Please tell us about the social impact of your idea or proect

Your Future Goal(s): Tell us what you hope to achieve with your idea or project in the next year

Develop this into a permanent initiative that is established, yet flexible enogh, to meet the needs of MB Aboriginal youth.

In 5 years, what will be different as a result of your idea/project?

There will be a reduction in the number of youth that are injured in the workplace. There will also be a dramatic decline in the number of workplace fatalities. Also, we want young Aboriginal workers to feel confident in their culture, and are able to share elements of it for the betterment of their entire workplaces and communities. We hope that the young leaders that are engaged in this early stage of the project can remain connected to us, and share their successes and challenges.

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Tell us about the people/ partnerships that are already involved and why they are important to your idea or project.

MB Federation of Labour - Occupational Health Centre: We are working with their coordinator, previously of Ningwanuk Mesquajese (Wings of Change) a similair, more in depth program for adults. They are sharing their past successes and challenges to help guide this initiative.
Children of the Earth High School: Have agreed to welcome us as the project develops. They hosted the very first experimental Indigenous presentation
RB Russell High School: students from the Graphic Arts vocational class designed the images and concept for Hand out material for the Indigenous presentations
Individuals: Several community elders and Aboriginal workers have offered their experiences and expertise in ensuring the content is relevant, and respectful of community protocol.

If there are other people/partners that you will reach out to tell us who they are and why they will be important to your idea or project.

We will be reaching out into the future to School Divisions and Aboriginal workers and young people to further develop the project. The school divisions will be important because their advocacy will enable us to deliver the presentations in a uniform way across a specific geographic region in Manitoba. The individual Aboriginal workers will be important as their experiences and expertise will guide the details of what the content of the presentation will be. The young Aboriginals will be integral to inform us on HOW to deliver the presentations. Also, volunteer speakers from the specific community will be helpful to increase relevance on a case by case basis.

Describe the kinds of support you receive (other than money) or will need to support your idea or project (e.g.: donated, space, equipment and volunteers)

We will need each group receiving a presentation to host, organize attendees and advertise the events in their own way. We will also be establishing 2 groups to guide the initiative, one that provides expertise from Aboriginal workers, and a second that receives recommendations from the Aboriginal Youth interested in helping design ad guide the initiative. We will also be recruiting individuals that have fluency in Aboriginal languages (Ojibwe, Cree & others) to further increase how messages can be delivered to groups that are not fluent in English. We will also rely heavily on these organizations and groups to refer our presentation to their networks, in a relationship based and personalized manner.

Do you currently have funding for your idea or project?

No (skip next two questions)

Mobile Voices: A Mobile, Open Source, Popular Communication Platform for First-Generation Immigrants in Los Angeles

Mobile Voices appropriates technology to create power in marginalized communities and participate in the digital public sphere.

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Nombre

Pedro Joel

Apellido

Espinosa

URL en Facebook

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Estados Unidos, CA

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Estados Unidos

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

La información que brindes aquí será usada para llenar las partes de tu perfil que hayan sido dejadas en blanco, como intereses, organización, y sitio web. Ninguna información de contacto será hecha pública. Por favor desmarca esta casilla si no deseas que esto suceda..

Innovación

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Título del Formulario de Inscripción

Mobile Voices: A Mobile, Open Source, Popular Communication Platform for First-Generation Immigrants in Los Angeles

Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento

Consolidación (disfrutas de un éxito demostrado)

¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

LA NECESIDAD: describe la necesidad de implementar tu solución y el tamaño y el dinamismo de la comunidad o las comunidades con las que vayas a colaborar

"Digital media and learning" invokes "digital natives" who have grown up with computers, broadband internet, and high-end mobile phones. Mobile Voices speaks to a different group: marginalized communities who lack access to digital technology but would like to transform their own realities and participate meaningfully in the digital realm. Low-wage immigrant workers and community members are left voiceless in many of the most important debates of our times: immigration reform, health care, poverty, housing rights, juvenile justice system, the economic crisis, among other topics. These communities are among those most affected by policy decisions, but are too often completely excluded from the debate. Furthermore, day laborers in Los Angeles (and elsewhere) are frequently represented in the media, often negatively, they are almost never the architects of their own stories. A key aspect of the Mobile Voices project is empowering workers to voice their own narratives about themselves and their community.

LA SOLUCION: explica qué ofrece tu solución y por qué es innovadora. ¿Cómo se pondrá la solución a disposición de usuarios o beneficiarios? Se valorará la exactitud de la respuesta.

Mobile Voices is a popular communication platform that helps low-wage immigrants in Los Angeles gain increased media and technology skills for community building and public participation by using mobile phones to create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. As participants use cell phones to depict their lives, share ideas and information, and comment on each other's work, they learn to be citizen journalists creating community media. This digital media is also a source for a printed community newspaper, thereby fostering further opportunities for self-representation and reflection. Through participating in Mobile Voices, immigrant families learn to choose an appropriate phone and plan for their budget and needs; to navigate the various features of the phone, including SMS, MMS, and camera; and to use an online platform that heightens and creates community as members post, share, and comment on their digital content. They are drawn to learning computer use, as they want to edit the stories they sent from their phone. Participatory learning is achieved as workers join together in both formal and informal sessions that involve hands-on learning of phone functionalities, computer keyboards, basic Internet skills, and social software. An open source platform is a crucial element of Mobile Voices because participants in the project have direct input into software development and user interface design, and because the software we develop becomes available to others who might wish to use it.

EL MODELO: explica con un ejemplo específico la forma en que la solución marca una diferencia mediante la utilización de medios y tecnología de la información.

IDEPSCA's Popular Education methodology coupled with Mobile Voices' complementary popular communication approach is helping to build a process of reflection, dialogue, and action within immigrant worker communities and to develop alternative, community-based media outlets in Los Angeles County. IDEPSCA incorporates Mobile Voices as a popular communication vehicle to bridge the technological gap that continues to marginalize the immigrant community. It creates a space for immigrant workers to share their stories, learn about their rights, counteract negative stories that are written about them, document human rights abuses as well as to highlight their own humanity. For example, IDEPSCA's families participate in various conferences, marches, and actions to raise awareness about discriminatory anti-immigration policies and rhetoric. Through the Mobile Voices platform, supporters have used their cell phones to take photos, audio, and video recordings at these different events, upload them to the Mobile Voices website, and then spread the word about the mobilization to their friends, family, and communities.

EL MERCADO: ¿quiénes son tus colaboradores o competidores? ¿Qué retos podrían presentar estos competidores para el éxito o desarrollo de tu iniciativa?

Mobile Voices promotes peer-to-peer learning. The Mobile Voices model is designed from top to bottom to be easily replicable, and to be shared, modified, and used by others. Our workshop curriculum and training materials will be made freely available under a creative commons license; our content management system and other software we develop are all licensed under the GPL as Free and Open Source Software, and our code is available for download at code.vozmob.net; the stories published on the Mobile Voices site are all licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-Noncommercial. In addition, the Mobile Voices project has already begun to offer hands-on training, workshops, and software customization support to other community based organizations interested in replicating our model.

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HISTORIA DE FONDO: queremos conocer tu momento de inspiración. Comparte con nosotros la historia del lugar y el momento en que el fundador o los fundadores llegaron a la conclusión de que su solución podría cambiar el mundo.

Co-founding members Amanda Garcés and Sasha Constanza-Schock both come from a popular communication background and Mobile Voices was created out of an ongoing, two-year effort to use Communication for Social Change methodology to analyze the political, technical, and organizing needs of innovative multiethnic media projects controlled by low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles. This participatory communication project has been focused on, first, strengthening internal, intragroup, and external communication channels among Los Angeles' low-wage immigrant populations, second, developing specific and appropriate technology solutions in this context, and third, carefully documenting the research process and the tools developed in order to make them available to others for adaptation and local re-use. Our project team's initial research, supported by the SSRC's Small Collaborative Grants program in 2007, mapped the communication ecology of low-wage immigrant worker organizations in LA and, through interviews, surveys, and a participatory production workshop, identified audio (radio and
CD) and mobile phones as the two most important communication tools for the community partners.

Especifica tanto el alcance como la escala del impacto social de tu solución hasta la fecha.

IDEPSCA's Popular Education methodology coupled with Mobile Voices' complementary popular communication approach is helping to build a process of reflection, dialogue, and action within immigrant worker communities and to develop alternative, community-based media outlets in Los Angeles County and across the United States. To create community change, IDEPSCA has partnered with several organizations to document and circulate the crucial education, organizing, and advocacy work happening in Southern California. Our partner organizations already include the Los Angeles Community Action Network, the Southern California Library, Youth Justice Coalition, and we are in the process of creating partnerships with the Vermont Workers Solidarity Project, Conexion Comunitaria, Media Lieteracy Project, Unidad Latina en Accion, Media Mobilizing Project and East Los Angeles Community Corporation.

¿Qué impacto esperas que tenga tu iniciativa en los próximos 1-5 años? ¿Es una idea aplicable a otros ámbitos? En caso afirmativo, ¿cómo se podría aplicar?

The Mobile Voices model is designed from top to bottom to be easily replicable, and to be shared, modified, and used by others. Our workshop curriculum and training materials will be made freely available under a creative commons license; our content management system and other software we develop are all licensed under the GPL as Free and Open Source Software, and our code is available for download at code.vozmob.net; the stories published on the Mobile Voices site are all licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-Noncommercial. In addition, the Mobile Voices project has already begun to offer hands-on training, workshops, and software customization support to other community based organizations interested in replicating our model.

Las mejores iniciativas presentan un plan sólido para su crecimiento. Identifica tu indicador a seis meses para incrementar tu impacto.

Participating workers will help Mobile Voices grow and also expand to other organizations across the Los Angeles region.

Tareas a 6 meses

Tarea 1

Technology: upgrade our codebase to Drupal 7; develop an install profile to facilitate adoption of our code by other organizatio

Tarea 2

Organizing: extend the funding for our community organizer beyond 2011, in order to continue project growth and integration with

Tarea 3

Training: complete our popular communication curriculum, provide hands-on workshops both internally and for other community base

Ahora piensa en los objetivos a más largo plazo. Identifica tu objetivo de impacto a doce meses.

Participating workers will help Mobile Voices grow and also expand to other organizations across the United States.

Tareas a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Upgrade our codebase to Drupal 8; develop an install profile to facilitate adoption of our code by other organizations; improve

Tarea 2

Organizing: extend the funding for our community organizer beyond 2012, in order to continue project growth and integration with

Tarea 3

Training: our popular communication curriculum will be used to provide hands-on workshops both internally and for other communit

¿Cuántas personas han sido afectadas por el proyecto?

1,001 - 10,000

¿Cuántas personas podrían verse afectadas por el proyecto en los próximos tres años?

Más de 10,000

Sostenibilidad

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Explica la estructuración de tu empresa, programa, producto o servicio

Entidad sin ánimo de lucro

¿Qué obstáculos han dificultado el éxito de tu proyecto hasta la fecha? ¿Cómo tienes pensado superar estos y otros obstáculos al ir desarrollando tu solución?

One major setback to the project could be a lack of participation; if this occurs we need to develop strategies for recruiting new members as we evaluate obstacles to participation. We would have to ascertain whether waning participation is due to lack of interest, time, or understanding. Another potential obstacle is resistance to technological appropriation and innovation. A main focus of this collaborative effort is to open avenues of digital participation for individuals who might have low levels of technological literacy. In order to keep the project truly participatory, we must ensure that all tools are intuitive, user-friendly, accessible, and affordable.

¿Cómo valoras el cambio en los sectores de medios de comunicación y tecnología de la información en la próxima década? ¿Cómo se adaptará tu solución a este entorno cambiante? ¿Cómo podría impulsar tu solución esos cambios?

The fastest-growing means for accessing news and information is the mobile device. Fifty-six percent of all mobile device users, and 47 percent of the population, now use them to get local news via an Internet connection. Over the next decade mobile media will be the primary means of accesing information and the Mobile Voices platform promotes the appropiration of technology by marginalized communities to consume less and instead start creating their own media.

El fracaso no es siempre una opción. Si tu solución no funciona en los dos próximos años, ¿qué otras aplicaciones de la idea podrías investigar?

We are living within one of the most difficult economic and fundraising climates so it is difficult to advance our work if we solely depend on foundation grants. That is why we expect that our innovative model will continue to attract interest from private foundations, public media initiatives, and some private sector firms, as it has in the past. At the same time, we will be moving to implement earned income strategies, for example through training and software installation and customization, as well as grassroots fundraising activities, in order to reduce our dependence on grants.

Desarrolla la información proporcionada explicando la forma de mantenimiento de la financiación

Mobile Voices will be moving to implement earned income strategies, for example through training and software installation and customization, as well as grassroots fundraising activities, in order to reduce our dependence on grants.

Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

We have shared the VozMob tools and platform with the Los Angeles Community Action Network. Through workshops based in IDEPSCA's popular education approach workshops have been co-lead by all Mobile Voices members where we also share multi-cultural experiences. Thanks to our affiliations and partnerships VozMob now hosts a wide selection of stories ranging from stories about work and labor created from IDEPSCA’s Job Centers to stories about demanding justice and equality for youth of color.

¿Con qué clase de equipo (ej., personal laboral, voluntarios, etc.) tienes pensado alcanzar los objetivos de crecimiento identificados en la sección Impacto social?

The Popular Communication Team (PCT), a group of volunteer day laborers and household workers devoted to using popular communication for social change, has been involved in conceptualizing and piloting the platform, and now produces a continuous stream of multimedia content. Recently, the team has started teaching others in and outside of their communities how to use it, building the local storytelling and information-sharing network.

Changemakers es un espacio de colaboración y apoyo. Especifica los recursos de la comunidad que necesitarías para el mantenimiento y desarrollo de tu iniciativa. [Selecciona todas las opciones aplicables.]

Inversión, Talento y Recursos Humanos, Investigación e información, Colaboración y redes, Innovación e ideas, Asesoramiento.

Especifica los recursos que podrías ofrecer para colaborar al desarrollo de otras iniciativas. [Selecciona todas las opciones aplicables.]

Talento y Recursos Humanos, Investigación e información, Colaboración y redes, Innovación e ideas, Asesoramiento.

Explica con más detalle las necesidades u ofertas que has mencionado anteriormente o sugiere categorías de apoyo no especificadas en la lista

Mobile Voices embraces a notion of participatory learning shaped by Paolo Freire's concept of education as a transformative endeavor, where reflection, action, and dialogue produce shared understanding as well as individual and collective transformation. Mobile Voices brings together day laborers, popular communication practitioners, university researchers, and open source software developers in the design and deployment of a low-cost, mobile, multimedia platform that promotes everyday sharing and dialogue. Mobile Voices facilitates participatory learning from across different collaborators and supportive spaces.

Resumen

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Define tu empresa, programa, producto o servicio con una o dos frases breves

Mobile Voices is a platform for marginalized communities in Los Angeles to create stories about their lives using cell phones.

Identifica la innovación que aporta tu solución mediante una o dos frases breves

Mobile Voices appropriates technology to create power in marginalized communities and participate in the digital public sphere.

ESCUELAS PARA MAYORES: como vivir la madurez con valores

El proyecto ha sido diseñado para que las personas que transitan por la madurez puedan adquirir las herramientas y recursos que les permitan resolver los desafíos que esta etapa implica, poniendo especial énfasis en las nuevas relaciones y en las competencias requeridas para mejorar su calidad de vida. Se trata de promover un envejecimiento centrado en valores, en donde las personas puedan armar un proyecto de vida.

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Sobre ti

Nombre

María de la Paz

Apellido

Grebe

URL de Twitter

URL de Facebook

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Universidad Austral, Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia

Teléfono de la organización

54-11-59218000

Dirección de la organización

Av. Juan de Garay 125

País de la organización

Argentina, C

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Argentina, C

Tu organización es

No registrada

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

Más de 5 años

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ESCUELAS PARA MAYORES: como vivir la madurez con valores

¿Qué cambios quieres traer al mundo?

El proyecto ha sido diseñado para que las personas que transitan por la madurez puedan adquirir las herramientas y recursos que les permitan resolver los desafíos que esta etapa implica, poniendo especial énfasis en las nuevas relaciones y en las competencias requeridas para mejorar su calidad de vida. Se trata de promover un envejecimiento centrado en valores, en donde las personas puedan armar un proyecto de vida. El foco está en ayudarlos a descubrir el sentido de la vida y de este modo puedan prepararse para un envejecimiento con valores.Así como para apoyar a en la tarea de ser padres surgieron las “Escuelas para Padres”, para vivir cada vez más no estamos preparados, esta iniciativa se centra en promover desde la Universidad,la creación de “Escuela para mayores”.

¿Cuáles son las actividades principales de tu proyecto?

Objetivos de las “Escuelas para Mayores”:

1. Proporcionar una visión integradora de los cambios, desafíos y tareas que enfrentan los adultos maduros considerando las relaciones que establecen con su entorno familiar y laboral.
2. Ayudar al desarrollo de estrategias de abordaje y herramientas prácticas que permitan al adulto la resolución competente de los dilemas y desafíos que enfrenta a partir de la madurez.

Diseño del Programa: contempla 12 encuentros considerando los siguientes ejes temáticos:

I Unidad: Tareas y desafíos de la madurez.
- La persona y el paso del tiempo.
- Cambios físicos de la madurez.
- Cambios cognitivos de la madurez.
- Cambios psicológicos y espirituales.
- Cambios en la afectividad y sexualidad.

II Unidad: Cuidando a los que nos cuidaron.
- El ciclo de vida de la familia.
- La relación hombre y mujer en el nido vacío.
- Cuando los hijos no se van. ¿Cómo, por qué y cuándo?
- La abuelidad.

- Situaciones especiales: enfermedad, viudez.
- Nuevos roles del adulto en la familia. La convivencia intergeneracional.

III Unidad: Cómo jubilarse del trabajo sin jubilarse de la vida.
- Empleabilidad, el sentido del trabajo.
- Escenarios y roles: el directivo/a, tutor/a, consultor/a, asesor/a, voluntario/a, mentor/a.
- Empresas para el adulto maduro? Cómo construirlas…
- La preparación del retiro desde la perspectiva de la empresa y de la persona, aspectos claves para prepararse a la jubilación. El sistema previsional.
- Como jubilarse del trabajo sin jubilarse de la vida.
- Políticas públicas, leyes de protección social, servicios y programas para el adulto maduro.
- Aprendiendo a emprender.

IV Unidad: Estrategias para descubrir el sentido de la propia vida.
- Principales dilemas y desafíos de la vida personal, familiar y laboral.
- Salud, bienestar y calidad de vida.
- Competencias necesarias para un envejecimiento con valores.
- Armando un proyecto de vida para esta etapa.

¿Qué es innovador acerca de tu iniciativa? ¿Cómo es que es un nuevo aporte al campo?

Escuelas para mayores es un desafío sobre la temática del “envejecimiento”. Mientras la vejez es una situación individual y privada, el envejecimiento es un fenómeno colectivo y social. Por esto, las personas mayores y la llamada tercera/cuarta edad incluye una dimensión individual y social. La OMS ha definido el envejecimiento activo que se basa en tres pilares: participación social, seguridad económica y salud. Esta iniciativa intenta incluir en este concepto una nueva dimensión referida a la capacidad de todas las personas de descubrir el sentido de la vida y de esta forma vivir el envejecimiento con valores. Si bien en esta edad se observa que las diferencias individuales son particularmente importantes, el enfoque es abordar esta etapa desde la persona y las tareas que debe resolver; que pueden resumirse en: su futuro, su trascendencia y su muerte. Diversos estudios muestran que las preocupaciones de los adultos mayores se centran en temáticas como la salud, la pobreza y la soledad. Por otra parte, se han identificado indicadores de bienestar y satisfacción en esta etapa de la vida, todos los cuales hacen referencia a valores o virtudes entendidas como conductas proactivas positivas:
1. Entusiasmo /compromiso.
2. Resolución y fortaleza.
3. Congruencia entre objetivos alcanzados y deseados.
4. Autoconcepto positivo.
5. Tono emocional.
Los desafíos actuales del envejecimiento son nuevos en la historia de la humanidad y requieren soluciones innovadoras, no sirven los esquemas asistenciales del pasado.

¿En qué fase está el proyecto?

Operando menos de un año

Háblanos de la comunidad con la que estás trabajando, por ejemplo, sus condiciones económicas, las estructuras políticas, normas y valores, las tendencias demográficas, la historia y la experiencia con los esfuerzos de compromiso.

El proyecto “Escuelas para mayores” está dirigido a toda la comunidad y se plantea desde el área de extensión del Instituto de Ciencias de la Familia, el público al que inicialmente se invita a participar de las actividades corresponden a:
 Personas que se encuentran cerca de los 50 o más y están interesadas en su bienestar y en envejecer con valor.
 Personas que se desempeñan en instituciones del ámbito de la salud u otros que atienden adultos maduros.
 Personas que trabajan en empresas de seguros de vida, obras sociales, sistema previsionales y afines.
 Personas que trabajan en organizaciones y se ocupan de los programas de formación y apoyo a los adultos maduros.
 Personas que trabajan en consultoras que se dedican a ofrecer servicios de outsourcing.
 Personas que trabajan en ONGs que realizan programas para la tercera edad.

Compartir la historia del fundador y lo que inspiró al fundador para iniciar este proyecto

Este proyecto surge desde todo el equipo que integra el Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia de la Universidad Austral que en su tarea de formar orientadores familiares se ve enfrentado a las problemáticas que desde la atención y prevención de las familias van presentando las personas mayores.

Impacto social

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Describa cómo tu proyecto ha tenido éxito y la forma en que éste mide.

Este proyecto se inició como prueba piloto en el 2010 con un grupo de 15 participantes que asistieron a la Escuela.
 Las conclusiones de la evaluación de la actividad 2010 fueron:
Desde el punto de vista del equipo de docentes a cargo del curso así como desde la coordinación del programa, se puede afirmar que el programa se cumplió en la totalidad tal como fue diseñado para esta primera edición del curso. En este sentido, el % de cumplimiento del programa fue de un 100%.
El desarrollo de un programa de esta naturaleza ha constituido una experiencia enriquecedora para todos los que de algún modo participaron del curso. Docentes y alumnos han concordado en agradecer la oportunidad ofrecida.
La contribución que el Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia se propone hacer a la comunidad al ofrecer un programa de esta naturaleza pone de manifiesto la necesidad de anticipar desde el ámbito académico ofertas de formación a problemáticas que serán cada vez más críticas en los próximos años.
- El curso contó con 15 alumnos, de los cuales 14 completaron el programa. Una alumna por motivos de salud debió dejar pendiente la finalización del curso para el año 2011.
- El promedio de asistencia a las clases fue de un 90 %.
- Todas las actividades se acompañaron de clases expositivas, entrega de bibliografía y un trabajo de elaboración personal orientado al aprendizaje de una herramienta para el armando de un proyecto de vida.
 Comentarios y sugerencias de mejora de los participantes:
1. Generar mayor sinergia en el grupo de asistentes al programa.
2. No se justifica dar sugerencias, excelente el nivel del programa.
3. Inmejorable, excelente cursada.
4. Me hubiera gustado poder presentar algún trabajo evaluativo de la cursada, con un poco más de exigencia en el contenido.
5. Tal vez incorporaría un sacerdote, como el P. Fernando Miguens que conoce mucho el tema.
6. Fue sumamente didáctico y sirvió para no solo aplicarlo a terceros sino en mi vida personal.
7. El dictado del curso no solo fue un aprendizaje y actualización de contenidos sino una mirada distinta, noble, creativa de reaprender y valorar la madurez.
8. Quizás haría falta un mayor intercambio entre experiencias de los asistentes para enriquecer contenidos.
9. Gracias por esta oportunidad, que me brindaron. Me enseñaron a valorar más mi vida y mi trabajo. Que Dios los bendiga.
10. Creo que sería mejor realizar más trabajos a lo largo de la cursada.
11. Gracias por el esfuerzo.

¿Cuántas personas han sido afectadas por el proyecto?

Menos de 100

¿Cuántas personas podrían verse afectadas por el proyecto en los próximos tres años?

Menos de 100

Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan sólido sobre cómo lograrán el crecimiento. Identifica tus objetivos a seis meses para hacer crecer tu impacto.

Objetivo 1 conseguir un número de participantes mínimo
Objetivo 2 ajustar los contenidos a los intereses de los participantes
Objetivo 3 instalar el programa en la Comunidad

Tarea 1

difundir el programa a través de los diversos canales disponibles
relevar las expectativas de los participantes al inicio del programa.
realizar acciones de difusión permanente

Tarea 2

construir una base de datos del público al que se dirige el programa
evaluar la adecuación de los contenidos a las expectativas de los participantes.
relevar nuevas necesidades del público.

Tarea 3

contactar a los interesados y conseguir su participación.
evaluar con los participantes el grado de satisfacción de sus expectativas.
hacer un seguimiento de los participantes del programa

Identifica tus objetivos a doce meses.

establecer alianzas con instituciones interesados en promover el envejecimiento con valores.
construir las bases para el estudio interdisciplinario.
ampliar a las comunidades del interior.

Tarea 1

Identificar potenciales promotores del programa
convocar a un equipo de profesionales interesados.
adecuar las características del programa a públicos del interior del país

Tarea 2

Contactar a los interesados en promover el desarrollo del programa
armar un equipo de trabajo interdisciplinario.
definir los canales de comunicación y convocatoria de los participantes.

Tarea 3

conseguir sponsors del programa.
establecer el proyecto de investigación a realizar.
realizar la primera Escuela para mayores en alguna localidad del interior.

¿Cómo va a evolucionar tu proyecto durante los próximos tres años?

El proyecto va a evolucionar en alcance a otras comunidades y en profundidad de los contenidos al incluir nuevos intereses en la medida que los adultos que participen planteen sus expectativas y necesidades. El ajuste surgirá en cuanto a detectar otras oportunidades de formación a partir de la experiencia de cada nueva versión de las Escuelas. Se plantea un aprendizaje por la experiencia, dado que es particularmente significativo en esta etapa de la vida.

Sostenibilidad

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¿Qué barreras pueden dificultar el éxito de tu proyecto y cómo piensa resolverlas?

Las principales barreras identificadas en esta etapa de desarrollo del proyecto son:
1- Falta de disponibilidad de recursos económicos para el desarrollo del programa, dado que hasta ahora solo se ha realizado una experiencia piloto en el 2010.
2- Falta de apoyo de instituciones vinculadas a la temática y que podrían promover el interés en el programa en sus comienzos.
3- Falta de evidencias significativas del impacto del programa en la vida de las personas que asisten a la Escuela para Mayores de 50, dada la escasez de investigación empírica al respecto.
Las acciones de mitigación identificadas son:
1- Realizar la Escuela en su versión 2011 atendiendo a cubrir solo el costo mínimo del programa (honorarios docentes, aulas, materiales de apoyo).
2- Trabajar en la búsqueda de fondos con instituciones vinculadas a la temática.
3- Realizar permanentemente acciones de difusión del programa a través de los medios de que dispone la Universidad.
4- Hacer un seguimiento a los participantes del programa piloto 2010 para identificar sus intereses y necesidades al respecto.
5- Ampliar la base de datos a la que se dirige la convocatoria del programa.
6- Establecer redes con instituciones vinculadas a la Universidad e interesadas en la temática.
7- Iniciar en el 2012 una investigación sobre la problemática.

Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

Actualmente los principales aliados son los docentes que han trabajado en el diseño del programa, cada uno ha sido un verdadero sponsor de la temática.

Actual presupuesto anual en dólares americanos.

Menos de $1,000

Explica tu selección.

El financiamiento del programa surge del presupuesto 2011 del Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia de la Universidad Austral.

¿Cómo se va a fortalecer tu proyecto durante los próximos tres años?

A partir de la formación de redes entre los participantes y con el apoyo de las redes sociales como canal potente de comunicación a la comunidad.

Desafíos

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¿Qué barreras a la salud y el bienestar aborda la innovación?
Por favor, seleccione un máximo de tres por orden de relevancia para el proyecto (de mayor relevancia se recibe un "1" y menor, un "3").

PRIMARIO

Acceso limitado a herramientas o recursos de prevención

SECUNDARIA

Incentivos para una vida saludable

TERCIARIA

La falta de acceso a la información específica de la salud y la educación

Por favor, describe cómo la innovación específicamente aborda las barreras mencionadas anteriormente.

1.Construcción de un modelo conceptual del envejecimiento con valores que está centrado en la persona.rResignificar la vejez y sus posibilidades educativas;descubrir el propio quehacer o tarea que como etapa vital presenta; y superar mitos y prejuicios arraigados en una concepción funcionalista de la vejez.2.Establecer como ejes del desarrollo del programa:¿Es posible generar pautas educativas que acompañen el envejecimiento humano desde un enfoque de los valores?¿Es posible una Pedagogía que reflexione y dé respuesta ante la vejez como etapa de vida con un sentido propio para la cual hay que prepararse?¿qué consecuencias/impacto para la persona, familia y sociedad en su conjunto se derivan con respecto a una educación para la vejez?3.

¿Cómo estás haciendo crecer el impacto de tu organización o iniciativa?
Por favor, selecciona un máximo de tres posibilidades en orden de relevancia para ti (la más alta relevancia recibiría un "1" y la más baja, un "3").

PRIMARIO

Hacer crecer el alcance geográfico: Dentro de los países de acogida

SECUNDARIA

Mejorar el impacto actual a través de la adición de servicios complementarios

TERCIARIA

Influencia de otras organizaciones e instituciones a través de la difusión de mejores prácticas

Por favor, describe cuál de las actividades para crecer están en curso o previstas para el futuro inmediato.

Debido a que la Universidad cuenta con una plataforma educativa a distancia estamos trabajando en el diseño de actividades de la Escuela para mayores para desarrollarla como modalidad e-learning y de este modo favorecer el acceso a la Escuela para una mayor cantidad de personas que no pueden acceder al programa en forma presencial.

Colaboras con algunos de los siguientes organismos: (Indica todos los que corrrespondan)

ONGs/organizaciones sin fines de lucro, Empresas, Academia/Universidades.

De ser así, ¿estas colaboraciones han ayudado a que tu innovación tenga éxito?

La Universidad Austral a la que pertenece el Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia es el lugar de inicio del programa.

Changeshop

This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Freedom Registry: Accessible space to collaborate, share best practice & recognize gaps in the movement to end human trafficking.

Freedom Registry: Accessible space to collaborate, share best practice & recognize gaps in the movement to end human trafficking

Freedom Registry provides data about nationwide anti-trafficking stakeholders, highlighting efforts committed to best practice

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Sobre ti

Nombre

Tania

Apellido

Docarmo

Sobre tu organización

Nombre de la organización

Chab Dai USA

Sitio web de la organización

País de la organización

Estados Unidos, CA, Sacramento County

Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social

Estados Unidos

Tu organización es

OSC/ONG

¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?

1-5 años

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Freedom Registry: Accessible space to collaborate, share best practice & recognize gaps in the movement to end human trafficking

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¿Cuánto tiempo se lleva poniendo en práctica tu iniciativa?

Operando entre 1-5 años

LA NECESIDAD: describe la necesidad de implementar tu solución y el tamaño y el dinamismo de la comunidad o las comunidades con las que vayas a colaborar

Human trafficking (HT) is a growing global phenomenon. Efforts to end HT have increased in recent years, but several challenges remain if HT is to be brought to an end. One such challenge is collaboration and best-practice sharing among anti-HT stakeholders is insufficient. Concrete and sustainable referral systems between agencies are not in place, knowledge sharing is neglected, and stakeholders often "reinvent the wheel" due to lack of understanding of what's already being done.
Internet accessibility and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have undoubtedly assisted in the increase of public participation and concern regarding various social issues, including HT. While this increases volunteerism and raises the community's social conscience, it has also led to an overwhelming increase in new (often inexperienced) efforts; not to mention competition; regurgitation of inaccurate sensationalized information; and wasted resources. This leaves stakeholders and community advocates unsure and confused about who is doing what, and who is doing good work. To truly capture how stakeholders can end HT, we must coordinate our efforts and understand one another.

LA SOLUCION: explica qué ofrece tu solución y por qué es innovadora. ¿Cómo se pondrá la solución a disposición de usuarios o beneficiarios? Se valorará la exactitud de la respuesta.

The Freedom Registry is an online database of anti-HT stakeholders across the U.S. The project's aim is to increase collaboration, reflect best practice standards, and recognize gap areas within the anti-HT movement. Freedom Registry is unique and innovative in several ways:
First, Freedom Registry is a collaborative effort. The project was designed and is monitored by a steering committee of 7 well-respected national stakeholders including representatives from law enforcement, academia, policy-level advocates and direct practitioners.
Second, Freedom Registry is specifically aimed at being comprehensive. Currently, there is no place to find comprehensive information on the national (or int'l) response to HT. Freedom Registry seeks to include all anti-HT efforts in various sectors, whether it's social service providers, law enforcement, research firms, academic institutions, grassroots organizations, labor activists, businesses, or student-led initiatives.
Third, the Freedom Registry not only depicts what stakeholders do (objectives, activities, etc.); gathered data also reflects best practice standards adhered to by each participating organization - allowing concerned citizens, donors, government agencies, students, and other users to get a glimpse into the exact training, knowledge and standards that are informing each stakeholder's work.
Finally, Freedom Registry is not a static effort. Project design includes strategic phases of using collected data to understand gap areas within research and across the movement, and make recommendations for change.

EL MODELO: explica con un ejemplo específico la forma en que la solución marca una diferencia mediante la utilización de medios y tecnología de la información.

CASE STUDY #1: Janice, Project Manager for a domestic violence (DV) shelter, realizes she has several new cases of young women involved in prostitution and wants to incorporate a HT recovery element into their program. She does not have a lot of experience in HT and has difficulty finding someone to help her. Using Freedom Registry, she searches for likeminded efforts, even DV shelters who have expanded into HT. She can see which stakeholders have set specific standards, such as an implemented training policy. She gathers relevant contact information, is better informed on what needs to be done before she expands their program, and has an understanding of where to refer clients to if need be.
CASE STUDY #2: Erik, a (student, businessman, teacher, etc.) sees a HT special on TV. He is horrified and wants to get involved. He does numerous Google searches, Facebook inquiries, etc. finding information on many organizations, but it's difficult to understand what their activities are, and many of them only talk about fundraising or "trafficking overseas". Many also claim to be the "only" program of their kind. He's not sure how to navigate this information, or where he fits in. He wonders whether he should just start his own organization. He even wonders if he needs to move overseas to help. When he discovers Freedom Registry he is able to search for stakeholders in his own surrounding community and gain a clear picture of existing efforts. With the information provided he can see which organizations adhere to various best practices and is better informed on how to take action.

EL MERCADO: ¿quiénes son tus colaboradores o competidores? ¿Qué retos podrían presentar estos competidores para el éxito o desarrollo de tu iniciativa?

Freedom Registry seeks to be a collaborative effort. As mentioned above, our project team has worked hard to incorporate the voices of various stakeholders into our project design, especially through the creation and involvement of our steering committee, representing 7 well-respected anti-HT stakeholders. During the first phase of this project we met with over 20 major stakeholders across the United States (outside of the steering committee) to gather insight from them about our vision. Many of these organizations kept in touch with us throughout the process to provide advice and input. We have also presented the model at various conferences and events to explore the needs and wants of the anti-HT community.
While there are certainly some websites and networks of anti-HT organizations already in existence (i.e. End Slavery Now, Freedom Network, Nt'l Human Trafficking Resource Center, HHS Rescue & Restore Coalitions, DOJ Task Forces, etc.) these efforts do not aim to be comprehensive, nor do they have the intention of reflecting best practice standards. In fact, many of these groups support the aims of Freedom Registry and have expressed an interest in getting involved.

Impacto social

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HISTORIA DE FONDO: queremos conocer tu momento de inspiración. Comparte con nosotros la historia del lugar y el momento en que el fundador o los fundadores llegaron a la conclusión de que su solución podría cambiar el mundo.

The vision behind Chab Dai (CD) was founded in Cambodia in 2005. Helen Sworn (UK), Int'l Director of CD, had been working on issues of HT for several years and recognized a gap in collaboration between stakeholders. Today, CD in Cambodia has expanded to more than 50 member organizations, and over 30 partners, including UN and gov't agencies. In addition, core organization leadership has been handed over to a team of 4 Cambodian nationals. The impact of increasing collaboration and raising the standard of care in Cambodia has made significant change in the nation's response to HT.
In 2008, Tania DoCarmo (US), after working with CD in Cambodia for 2 years, established CD USA based on the same values and principles of CD in Cambodia. After conducting baseline research among U.S. based stakeholders for over a year, and speaking at conferences where she was constantly "connecting" stakeholders with one another, she realized that while the U.S. anti-HT movement was growing rapidly it was uncoordinated, and many stakeholders (especially new ones) were not well-informed regarding the big picture. Thus, the idea behind Freedom Registry was born.

Especifica tanto el alcance como la escala del impacto social de tu solución hasta la fecha.

The potential social impact of Freedom Registry is tremendous. Based on Chab Dai USA's baseline study, there are well over 1,000 anti-HT organizations claiming to be involved in anti-HT activities across the United States. Freedom Registry will benefit all national stakeholders by increasing collaboration and knowledge of other efforts, and increasing pressures to adhere to best practice standards.
The program will also serve HT survivors (estimated 17,000 foreign-born survivors each year, not including U.S. citizen survivors) who will directly benefit from increased collaboration between their agencies (more access to individualized services, add'l options for service, holistic approach to rehabilitation, etc.) One organization cannot do it all. In collaboration organizations can focus on their core competencies.
Finally, Freedom Registry will have a direct impact on the anti-HT movement by engaging and informing the tens of thousands of Americans currently following and/or engaging in the HT issue. Mass media representatives, students, academics, donors, health care professionals, and members of the faith community will all benefit from access to this information.

¿Qué impacto esperas que tenga tu iniciativa en los próximos 1-5 años? ¿Es una idea aplicable a otros ámbitos? En caso afirmativo, ¿cómo se podría aplicar?

Currently we are in Phase 3 of the project. During Phases 1 and 2 we spent considerable time learning from stakeholders and designing the database. During Phase 3 (12 months) we will start data collection and develop a solid base of stakeholder participants. For Phases 4 (6 months) and 5 (ongoing), the committee will analyze data received thus far to recognize gap areas within the movement and make recommendations as to how gaps can be filled. We are in dialogue with a partner organization interested in also using this data for additional research. Post Phase 4, Freedom Registry will remain as a sustainable network. Already, a Canada organization is replicating the model for the Canadian context, and we are in conversation with others in Nepal and Australia interested in doing the same.

Las mejores iniciativas presentan un plan sólido para su crecimiento. Identifica tu indicador a seis meses para incrementar tu impacto.

In 6 months we plan to have at least 300 organizations registered in the Freedom Registry database

Tareas a 6 meses

Tarea 1

Contact all stakeholders on our baseline list of 1,000+ orgs (via email and phone) to seek their involvement

Tarea 2

Partner with at least 2 government entities to assist with widespread implementation

Tarea 3

Verify data provided by stakeholder organizations and publish to website

Ahora piensa en los objetivos a más largo plazo. Identifica tu objetivo de impacto a doce meses.

We will be at the close of Phase 3 and preparing for analysis, and plan to have at least 500 orgs registered in the database

Tareas a 12 meses

Tarea 1

Contact non-responsive stakeholders on our baseline list (via phone and post) to seek their involvement

Tarea 2

Partner with at least 1 additional government entity to assist with widespread implementation

Tarea 3

Verify data provided by stakeholder organizations and publish to website

¿Cuántas personas han sido afectadas por el proyecto?

101 - 1,000

¿Cuántas personas podrían verse afectadas por el proyecto en los próximos tres años?

Más de 10,000

Sostenibilidad

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Explica la estructuración de tu empresa, programa, producto o servicio

Entidad sin ánimo de lucro

¿Qué obstáculos han dificultado el éxito de tu proyecto hasta la fecha? ¿Cómo tienes pensado superar estos y otros obstáculos al ir desarrollando tu solución?

Thus far, we have faced two primary challenges. First, a tremendous challenge has been finding funding. While this project will undoubtedly benefit the human trafficking movement as a whole, many donors within anti-HT are more interested in funding rehabilitation efforts and/or direct services to survivors and it is difficult to demonstrate the potential of increased collaboration. Second, is marketing and promotion. We certainly have contacts and widespread supporters, but need additional assistance to promote the project to additional audiences (in diverse sectors) on a grander scale. While we are confident that many stakeholders are enthusiastic about this project and will participate, the project will only be successful with widespread buy-in.

¿Cómo valoras el cambio en los sectores de medios de comunicación y tecnología de la información en la próxima década? ¿Cómo se adaptará tu solución a este entorno cambiante? ¿Cómo podría impulsar tu solución esos cambios?

Information-technology will continue to shift and change the way we interact with the world, including the way we develop and implement resources for social change. With the invention of the internet, 3G and now rapid information sharing through networks like Facebook and Twitter, we can reach people like never before. With consistent monitoring and evaluation based on the needs of stakeholders and community activists, we are confident in our ability to staying relevant to our users, while also exploring possibilities with new technologies.

El fracaso no es siempre una opción. Si tu solución no funciona en los dos próximos años, ¿qué otras aplicaciones de la idea podrías investigar?

We are committed to monitoring and evaluation regardless of the outcome. If our current vision does not play out the way we imagined, or stakeholders demonstrate a need for additional database modules, etc. we are committed to ensuring the project is relevant to our audience. Whether Freedom Registry gains nationwide traction in the next two years or not, it will continue to be a valuable tool for the global anti-HT community. If the project is unable to gather enough information about anti-HT in all U.S. states for example, the database model can still be utilized at a state- or county-level. We are already discussing replication opportunities in other countries as well, where the model can be used by other stakeholder groups.

Desarrolla la información proporcionada explicando la forma de mantenimiento de la financiación

It is often difficult to secure early adopters for innovative projects such as this one. Therefore, most of our funding thus far has depended on foundations (and some individuals). With the project launch just around the corner, we will have more opportunity to pitch the project to a more diverse funding base. Once stakeholders and other community members recognize the value of this project and see its success on the ground, we plan to present funding challenges to businesses, regional government and national government in addition to foundations.

Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.

The Freedom Registry steering committee is made up of representatives from eight organizations, including: Chab Dai USA (chair), Vanguard University Center for Gender & Justice, San Jose HT Task Force, The Salvation Army, FAAST, Love146, University of Washington, and Global Centurion. In addition to these partnerships, we are working with 20 pilot organizations who agreed to provide feedback on the database survey; and various other organizations who have provided insight and advice along the way.

¿Con qué clase de equipo (ej., personal laboral, voluntarios, etc.) tienes pensado alcanzar los objetivos de crecimiento identificados en la sección Impacto social?

Chab Dai USA is governed by a Board of Directors of five individuals with varying experience in human rights, law, and community engagement. Our Cambodia and USA Founders serve as Advisors for direct program staff. Currently, Freedom Registry represents 80% of our program activities. The Program Manger oversees day-to-day operations and manages a Program Assistant, Community Liaison and interns. Because data verification will be a major task, we have partnered with a research team at Vanguard University Center for Gender and Justice to assist.

Changemakers es un espacio de colaboración y apoyo. Especifica los recursos de la comunidad que necesitarías para el mantenimiento y desarrollo de tu iniciativa. [Selecciona todas las opciones aplicables.]

Inversión, Marketing y medios, Colaboración y redes.

Especifica los recursos que podrías ofrecer para colaborar al desarrollo de otras iniciativas. [Selecciona todas las opciones aplicables.]

Investigación e información, Colaboración y redes, Innovación e ideas.

Explica con más detalle las necesidades u ofertas que has mencionado anteriormente o sugiere categorías de apoyo no especificadas en la lista

NEEDS: Our greatest needs are financial investment and assistance with promotion, especially as the success of this project depends on buy-in from various sectors. We strongly believe in the benefits of collaboration, so additional support in this areas is always helpful.
OFFERS: Chab Dai has a proven track record for coalition-building, especially based on our work in Cambodia, so we are happy to assist other organizations in their collaboration or coalition-building efforts. Chab Dai is also heavily engaged in research initiatives in the area of human trafficking, and can assist in this area. Because we have access to many avenues of anti-HT and a good understanding of the HT "big picture" we can assist stakeholders consider innovative solutions to cover gap areas.

Resumen

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Define tu empresa, programa, producto o servicio con una o dos frases breves

Freedom Registry is an interactive database of national stakeholders combating trafficking across the U.S.

Identifica la innovación que aporta tu solución mediante una o dos frases breves

Freedom Registry provides data about nationwide anti-trafficking stakeholders, highlighting efforts committed to best practice

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