Moving from AID to TRADE

PPCP’s Private, Public and Community Partnerships

Africa GatheringAlasdair Munn, Board Member

Give a man a fish you feed him todayTeach a man to fish and you feed him until the fish run out.Teach a man to breed fish, you build a business, sustain a community for life and ensure the survival of a species.

Who is Environment Africa

• 100% African owned and African managed NGO• Offices in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and

Malawi• 20 years development and sustainability experience• We promote action, empowerment and ownership• Work with the Champions• Holistic approach = 4 pillars of sustainable

development• Received support from Nelson Mandela, Wagari

Mathi amongst others

Sustainable development is about empowering local communities and building social and financial capital

What have we learned from 20 years working in Southern Africa?

• Start with truly working with communities• Formulate working relationships with governments,

local authorities and all stakeholders• Be very clear on objectives and the best route to

reaching those objectives• Match the tools to the objectives and available

resources• Empower• AID model is not working• African solutions for Africa

1Subsistence

Three Levels of Community Development

2Community Upliftment

3PPCP’s

Subsistence

In impoverished communities there is almost always an immediate need for subsistence intervention

Community Upliftment

• Community immersion • Resource audit• Skills and knowledge transfers• Income generation projects

Yet still phase 2 is not enough

• CampFire – Gives %age to the community – Controlled by Local council. Failing to reach potential as there is no direct community shareholding

• Hwedza community honey processing – Producing quality processed honey but struggling to find viable markets

Moving To The Next Level

Moving From Aid To Trade

“My biggest lesson, after doing this for 20 years, is we approach development the wrong way around.”

Charlene Hewat – CEO Environment Africa July 2010

Instead of saying “Poor people, they have nothing”

We look at the area and say • What are the possibilities? • What do they have?• How can we develop this further? • Is there an opportunity of a business

model? • How can we build partnerships

between the community, private enterprise and the public sector?

“Start as you would with any business. First establish if there is a market, then build your business sustainably ”

“If we can establish business, we can lift the communities out of poverty”

1. Build sustainable business infrastructures

within local community.2. Conserve natural resources & biodiversity.3. Formulate a good PPCP model for

replication

PPCPPublic – Private – Community Partnership

Goals

PPCP is NOT about an NGO, Private sector, Public sector coalition, or a once off partnership.

It IS about corporate social responsibility and sustainable development practice.

Public Sector

Deliver services to the community at large

• Inefficient • Underfunded• Politics can get in the way

Private Sector

Deliver services within a business model• Brings efficiencies

However • Internalize benefits and externalize costs• Can spell environmental and social disasters• Ownership is exclusive

Community Sector

• Service users

However

• Under represented• Little voice• Disempowered

Community Sector

• Combine Public Sector objectives with private sector strategies

• Community to hold at least 26% - Legal implications & Ownership

• Business models spur continued development of local support industries

Songo Project

How do the three come together?

Songo Community

• Isolated area in Binga District on South Eastern shore of Lake Kariba

• Population of around 118,824• Poverty levels highest in Zimbabwe with 91%

classified as poor• 80% unemployment• Strong oral tradition but low levels of literacy

Songo Project

From Aid To Trade

• 110,000 Hectares of game management area • On lease to a private game company• Company already operating• Company understands survival of ecosystem

linked directly to the community• Environment Africa, private game company &

the community formed a new company• Community aim to own 26% of the new

company• Environment Africa own a management and

organizational stake to support community development

Songo Company

Lake Kariba

SongoChete Safari Area

Chizarira National Park

Omay Communal Land

110,000 Ha Game Conservation & --Hunting

110,000 Ha of Game Conservation & Hunting

Forestry

Forestry

Jatropha Fencing

Jatropha Fencing

SEZSpecial Economic

Zone

Community Based

Projects

From Aid To Trade

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Specialists

Tourism Area

Public/Government• Government own the land• Environment Africa have built a working

relationship with the Government of Zimbabwe over the last 20 years

• EA consult the Government on issues dealing with rural communities, environment, sustainability and even nutrition within the prisons

• Environment Africa has worked with Government to incorporate the PPCP model into the Governments medium term plans & Zambezi Transfrontier National Parks document

• Government support the PPCP through policy and legislation

Three Year Plan

Year 1.• Hunting• Photographic & fishing

Safari’s• Wildlife breading

Year 2.• Agriculture• Fish farm• Service Station• General Dealer

Year 3. Onwards• Tannery• Timber• Furniture• Orchards• Plantations• Livestock • Poultry• Bee keeping• Vegetable oil extraction• Essential oils

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Support Industries

• The Songo Company requires creation of new local support industries

• Depending on the scale these either follow the PPCP, or are fully operated by local business men and women

Domino Effect

Technology

We have nothing flashy to show you here. All geeks feel free to look away now

Just Kidding

• We take an objective and solution based approach to technology based upon availability of resources

• We understand that technology is people too• We know there are many African technologists

building solutions for Africa• We welcome ideas, collaboration and fully

support the open source philosophy

Some of our Technology Initiatives

• Talking to Mobile network EcoNet to set up “Green Bank”

• Develop as a community business, provision of alternative energy to unconnected households

• Enable manufacture and processing through simple, relevant technology and machinery.

• Investors. We don’t want your money, we want your business.

• Vision where organizations turn their corporate responsibility budget into a social entrepreneur investment portfolio

• Collaborate with like minded Africans and people globally to integrate relevant technologies

• Show the world that trade, not AID is the only feasible development strategy

What are we looking for?

UK Charity No. 128161

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