Strengthen SMEs through cooperative financing and mentoring
This idea seek address a dimension where public/private funds are reserved in a cooperative entrepreneur financing purse which I call the ideas financing House.Every entrepreneur are expected to give in some percentage of either capital or human resources into this ideas financing house. Ideas engineers are set up to managed,mentor and finance entrepreneur through this cooperative finance purse.
About You
About You
First Name
DOMINION
Last Name
BASSEY
Your Organization
The Christ Reflectors International
Country
Nigeria, CR
About Your Organization
Organization Name
The Christ Reflectors International
Organization Website
Organization Phone
+2348064435262
Organization Address
56/74 White house street calabar
Organization Country
Nigeria, CR
Organization Type
Non-profit/NGO/Citizen-sector Organization
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Your solution
Name Your solution
Strengthen SMEs through cooperative financing and mentoring
Describe Your Solution
This idea seek address a dimension where public/private funds are reserved in a cooperative entrepreneur financing purse which I call the ideas financing House.Every entrepreneur are expected to give in some percentage of either capital or human resources into this ideas financing house. Ideas engineers are set up to managed,mentor and finance entrepreneur through this cooperative finance purse.
Country your work focuses on
Nigeria, CR
If multiple countries, please list them here. If your solution targets an entire region, please select it below
Region(s) your solution focuses on:
Africa.
Range of turnover in your target firms, in USD
Less than $1 Million.
Average turnover in USD of your target firm
4000000
Number of employees in your target firms
5-24.
Average number of employees of your target firm
15
Specify the size, average and range of expected loans or investments in each target firm
we target 3600 firms to give a loan of $10000 US dollars each in three years
What stage is your solution in?
Idea phase
Innovation
What makes your innovative solution unique?
over the years, financial institutions, government or private agencies usually fund SMEs through grant, loans,and capitals,in developing economy this method as not been working because some of these grants are most time missed used by entrepreneurs, some time because of the high interest rate on loans over time makes it difficult for entrepreneur to pay back this loans. Other times because of poor technical and managerial capacity of entrepreneur this grants,loans, capital are through to the dash. This innovation is highly unique, because it will offer entrepreneur a platform for capacity sharing mentoring,collateral free business financing. This ideas seeks to bring both the public and private funds into the idea bank.The ideas engineers are professional that will be contracted with the responsibility of developing, training and mentoring innovative idea of entrepreneurs in order to maximized profit and self sustainability.
This is how this innovation will work.
Identified suitable resources and established an Ideas Development house. This is not a financial institution but a platform for idea and data collection center.
1.Identify target SMEs, by a call for gender friendly business proposal, set a basic legal and feasibility standard for SMEs
2.Analyzed the difference proposal so collected and identified different professional which I call idea development engineers in the field that as to do with the business proposal identified.Idea engineers can be hired or partner
3. Idea development engineers identified 3600 SMEs with exceptional profile and ideas,then review their proposal and determined project budget line
4, Advertised for a for sell of public share offer of idea development House.
5. Selected EME Firms will be given capacity training on technical and managerial development of their ideas of projects, after this offer a pay back grants to starts implementing their projects. Host an international exhibition and market promotion trade fare
How does your proposed innovation leverage public intervention in catalyzing private SME finance?
Like the banking industry in the developing country eg Nigeria. This idea will leverage public intervention in catalyzing private SMEs financing due to the fact that this idea will on it own create sustainable financing and forum for close mentoring and monitoring of work in progress of any project by the idea development engineers which report back to the House. Technically it will leverage public intervention because the idea development house and idea development engineers will stand in has the middle men facilitating the accessibility of every businesses proposal financing from entrepreneur such that profit end will be channel to project sustainability.Experts analyzed very proposal from entrepreneurs, facilitate their training,monitoring,mentoring, financing and even marketing promotion at both international and local level.
This innovation give a platform to also promote international trade justice because entrepreneur will be give a level play ground to compete in international market. the idea development bank will also manage and arrange for the trade fair promotion of the product of the small and medium entrepreneur both in local and international market, the idea of allowing SME entrepreneur to struggle from the idea stage of their project to marketing state will be leverage.There by creating level play ground for effective engagement and professionality on project at hand.
What barriers does your proposed solution address?
Asymmetry of information, Informality, Lack of collateral, Lack of financial capacity, Lack of SME access to skills / knowledge / markets, Unavailability of financial products tailored to SME needs, Lack of institutional capacity of financial intermediaries, High transaction costs for financial intermediaries to serve SMEs, Lack of competition / incentives for financial intermediaries to serve SMEs, Underdeveloped local capital markets (term local currency funding, exit options for SME equity), General barriers to SME development related to investment climate, Lack of financing to women entrepreneurs, Specific barriers to fragile and weak states.
If you checked any of these barriers, describe how your solution addresses them
1. Asymmetry information: this innovation address the issue of asymmetry information because professional capacity informational are share between the the idea development engineers and the entrepreneurs for maximum productivity
2.Informality: the issue of informality is reduced because every SME will have sign a memorandum of understanding with the ideas professional and entrepreneur are clearly determined the role of each party in the business and the process of profit sharing
Lack of financial capacity from the entrepreneur will not be the issue in this innovation because each entrepreneur is expected to summit it technical or human proposal to the idea development House in form of proposal so the issue is idea development.
4.lack of SME access to skill/knowledge/market will be entirely address because the idea professional are saddled with responsibility of facilitating mentoring,monitoring,marketing and promotion of trade justice.
5. lack of institutional capacity of financial intermediaries is also address in this idea because because people who will be chosen as idea development engineers will be chosen from competitively tract record of successful entrepreneurship management from different profession.
6. High transaction costs for financial intermediaries to serve SMEs will be reduce because is going to be a share investment
7. Lack of competition / incentives for financial intermediaries to serve SMEs this idea also address this issue because it give room for open market system. share of the investment are open to the public.
8. Underdeveloped local capital markets (term local currency funding, exit options for SME equity: the idea development House will Facilitate promote trade justice for SME.
9. General barriers to SME development related to investment climate the barrier of investment climate will be address by idea development engineers because there will be the one to determine and advice the entrepreneurs of their project.
10. Lack of financing to women entrepreneurs: the idea development House screen proposals and project. the idea if you are a woman or man does not come in here because the idea development engineers what to credibility of your proposal. there is no gender discrimination here.
11. Specific barriers to fragile and weak states is address here because the idea development house will facilitate the activities of this entrepreneur from the idea state to the marketing stage and this as to with both local and international marketing syetem.
Impact
Provide empirical evidence of your proposed solution's success/impact at present. If your project is in the idea phase, please provide evidence that speaks to its potential impact
banking sector in Nigeria was big challenged until the federal government of Nigeria proffer the merging of banks now this banks are the ones lead capital/share market, fastest developing section of the economy in Nigeria. I believe this idea will work for SMEs. some emerging entrepreneurs with like projects can form a cooperative then some level of supervision and mentoring by the idea financing house, the impact will create a multiplier effects on both economy and SMEs entrepreneur.
How many firms do you expect to reach?
this is going to be a pilot project, at a start to reach sixty firm, then this firm will be given the responsibility to mentor sixty others each.
What is the volume of private SME finance you aim to catalyze?
up to ten million US dollars
What time frame will be required to reach these targets?
3 years
Does your solution seek to have an impact on public policy?
No
What would prevent your solution from being a success?
1. unfavorable environmental climate change
2. emergent of unfavorable government policy.
3. lack of start off grants/capital
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Describe the social impact of your innovation. Please include both numbers and stories as evidence of this impact
From this project sixty firm will be empower by way of training,mentoring and project financing, each firm is expected to have at least 15 staff. in this first face of this project 906 person will be employed and empower with professional information . if this sixty firm reach out to another sixty each this will give rise to 3600 firms in three years, such that at the end of three year 21600 will be lifted from poverty empowered to expand in bussiness.
Sustainability
List all the funding sources that are required for the sustainability of this solution
Donor agency funding
Government funding
private funding
Demonstrate how your proposed solution has the capacity to graduate from dependence on public finance. What is the time frame?
after three years of this pilot project the project will be self sustained because profit make from this process will be use to run the next phase of this of project, because this entrepreneur will be expected to make pay back of monies investment on them
Demonstrate how your proposed solution will survive a potential loss of its largest private funding source
if 10 million dollar is share among sixty firm, this firm are expected to pay back this monies between the project years and the profit on it. if it is 10% profit charged. this monies will be use to fund the next phase of SME that will summit their ideas.
Please tell us what kind of partnerships, if any, could be critical to the greater success and sustainability of your innovation
public/private partnership will be need to sustained a greater success of this innovation
Are there non-financial issues that could threaten the sustainability of your proposed solution?
unfavorable environmental climate change
Out break of war
unfavorable Government policy
Please tell us if your proposed solution aims to scale up through a high growth sector, expand immediately to multiple sectors, and/or scale up geographically
This solution is aimed at scaling up through high growth and expands to multiple section because there will be high level of professionalism in project handling which will maximized high profit margin, each each firm after three years will be saddle with the responsibility to mentor upcoming Entrepreneur and that will create a multiplier effect on the idea.
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