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client: Face to Face International
assignment: Create small businesses suitable for ownership and operation by women in developing countries with little capital, education and business experience.
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Two conditions that have contributed greatly to the economic success of developed nations are noticeably absent in the developing world: 1) an abundance of small- and medium-sized enterprises or SMEs (collectively the largest employers of people the West); and 2) equal equity and employment opportunities for women in the formal job/business sector.
Developing countries are home to five billion of the world’s six billion people. Two and one half billion of these people earn less than $2 per day. 70% of these people are women. Many of them are hard-working street vendors who would welcome safer income-generating opportunities with greater growth potential.
Faced by a severe lack of formal jobs, poor women are forced into micro-enterprises; normally low productivity, copycat businesses with little chance of growth or creating any local economic multiplier effect.
Walter Coddington and his associates at GSDConsultants developed the Options for Life community economic development program, including the Options Mini-plant business model for client Face to Face International.
For more information about the Options Mini-plant business model, visit: www.optionsforlife.net
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