Eradicating Poverty through Enterprise

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Eradicating Poverty through Enterprise

• Shula Ferdman Microenterprise Development
• The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International
  Training Center
  (MCTC),
  Haifa, ISRAEL

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MASHAV
MCTC
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Gender equality and womens empowerment

• 1961 - 2006
• 12,500 participants (mainly women) from 147
  countries trained at MCTC
• 20,000 in situ

MCTC 2006
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Entrepreneurship Increased Income

• Other dimensions of poverty

Education
Health
Social Services
Gender Equality
Social Exclusion
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Involving all Sectors
Private Sector
Financial Institutions
Intl Agencies
MSME Development
Civil Society
Training
Counseling
Government
Educational Institutions
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Women Among the poorest of the poor

• Supportive Environment (organizational,legal,econ
  omic and social incentives)
• Self empowerment
• Contribution to the family and the community

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A Holistic Approach
Training
Entrepreneurial Support
Counseling
Training
Counseling
Microcredit
Follow up
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Entrepreneurial Capacity Building

• Practical approach of bottom up development

Offer Tools
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Entrepreneurial Capacity Building

• Business and managerial concepts translated
  into a language understood by the target
  population and adapted to the social environment
• Rely on local available resources

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ICTs and Small Businesses

• More access to potential clients and suppliers
• More information
• Joining other entrepreneurs to ensure larger
  orders
• Cutting administration costs

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Global
PartnershipsThe YABT (Young Americas Business
Trust-OAS) Business Labs

• 17 000 trainers and young entrepreneurs
• 29 countries of the Americas
• expanding now to Mongolia and Africa

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Business Laboratories

• learning by doing
• hands-on
• experience

Honduras 2006
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Business Laboratories

• I D E A
• Feasibility study
• Marketing
• Production
• Finance
• Business plan
  PROFIT

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Implementation in Different Sectors

• In every High School in Panama
• With high risk youth in Brazil (USAID)
• With Rural Indigenous communities in Ecuador (The
  Ecuadorian Amazonian Eco-Development Agency)
• and in Bolivia and Guatemala
• The private sector (Colombia)
• Indigenous groups (Guatemala)

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Business Support Centers

• one stop shop
• Screening ideas
• Training
• Counseling
• Guidance
• Follow up

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India

• Rural Development Agency

INDIA 1998
120 villages
700 self help womens groups

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TECPAN-GUATEMALA 2006
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TECPAN-GUATEMALA 2007
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The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International
Training Center (MCTC) and MDGs

• Creating decent and productive employment is the
  most effective and sustainable pathway to
  reducing poverty (1)
• Promoting gender equality and womens
  empowerment.
• Developing a global partnership for development
• (1)UN Secretary General Report ,17 August 2007

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Thank you!
Haifa 2006
Haifa 2002

• The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International
  Training Center (MCTC)
• mctc_at_mctc.co.il
• shula_at_mctc.co.il