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Igniting Youth Entrepreneurship for Peace buildingSPARK
SPARK VIDEO
SPARK: OUR MISSION
SPARK develops higher education and entrepreneurship so that young ambitious people are empowered to lead their post-conflict societies into prosperity
SPARK: OUR APPROACH
3 strategic objectives towards job creation
• Built capacity of local partners• Direct entrepreneurship activities• Create enabling business environment
• Strengthen abilities of interest groups• Advocacy activities
BURUNDI: A STORY
Jacques Niyonkuru in BurundiCarpentry Bizoza
• From refugee camps in Tanzania• Support of reintegration programme UNDP / SPARK• Training & coaching• Now 6 employees• Plans for a showroom• Towards competing with other towns
• From refugee camps in Tanzania• Support of reintegration programme UNDP / SPARK• Training & coaching• Now 6 employees• Plans for a showroom• Towards competing with other towns
‘I have the goal of producing just affordable furniture to overtake
the majority of the Mabanda furniture market and to provide other young, unemployed youth
with work’
KOSOVO: A STORY
Rrul Pack in KosovoCardboard packing & Paper bags
• Business plan competition by BSC Kosovo (first)• Winner: loan• Obstacle: inefficient, premature legal system• 4 full-time workers: variety of backgrounds• Collecting used paper: income for 20 more people• Towards: working more regional and collaborations
• Business plan competition by BSC Kosovo (first)• Winner: loan• Obstacle: inefficient, premature legal system• 4 full-time workers: variety of backgrounds• Collecting used paper: income for 20 more people• Towards: working more regional and collaborations
‘From fruit boxes and pizza boxes to fancy mobile phone packing: Rrul Pack can make it all!’
SPARK: CHALLENGES (1)
Dilemma
How to generate rapid job creation on the one hand and sustainable businesses and a favorable business climate on the other?• Without quick results the situation will deteriorate • Delivering bad results will backfire and be unsustainable
SPARK: CHALLENGES (2)
Dilemma
How to find the balance between inclusiveness and still acceptable job creation and success rate. Is it about direct employment of the poorest, or middle class development, that will employ the poorest?• Too strong a social agenda will lead to poor results • No social agenda will lead to further enriching the rich
SPARK: CHALLENGES (3)
Double Client Relationship
Demand: Priorities & Needs of Local Partners
Funding Opportunities/ Donor Policies
SPARK Mission,
Capacity & Expertise
SPARK: CHALLENGES (4)
Double Risk in Access to Finance
How to create sustainable a2f instruments for Small Growing Business at the bottom of the “missing middle”.• Starting and small business represent higher risks• Fragile environments represent higher risk• Financial return on investment vs. social impact.
SPARK: CONCRETE ACTIVITIES
• Business skills training and coaching• Soft loans• Training of coaches, business skills trainers• Training of staff on management and organization
Setting up & developing Business Support Centers
Curriculum development at TVET and HE institutions
Removing business barriers
Mediation in the education and economic sector
SPARK: Business centers
• Integrated (comprehensive) SME development services• Differentiate between entrepreneurship vs. business development• Relate advocacy to SPARK expertise (education, access to finance)• Involve commercial business service providers• Focus on businesses with growth and job creation potential• Scaling MSMEs to become growing SMEs• Access to finance the missing gap• Sustainability planning from day 1
Extensive study on South East Europe
SPARK: RESULTS
In focus: since 2005 in terms of Business Centres
• 24 Business Start-up Centers (BSC)• 14,000 participants in business skills• 27,000 hours of consultancy/coaching provided• 171 loans awarded (2 million euro; 90+% repayment)• 350 business start-ups created (2010: 96% survival rate)• 250 existing businesses supported• Helped create 2400 direct jobs• Helped create ….. Indirect jobs
SPARK: OUR ORGANIZATION
• Transparent and learning• IATI+ / Brilliant Mistakes• Quality: ISO 4 Development• New website to link input-output-outcome-impact
• 75+ employees• 15 staff in HQ Amsterdam• 15 ml USD, 2013 budget:o 6 EU governments + ECo WB + UNDPo Chevrono Rwanda, Libya, Kosovo
Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Liberia, Libya, Yemen, OPT, Syria, Kosovo, SerbiaBurundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Liberia,
Libya, Yemen, OPT, Syria, Kosovo, Serbia