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Practical Triple Bottom Line Development
Part 1
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In order to empower sustainable development in rural communities
in Africa, building a profitable prime mover industry alone is not enough.
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Generally, investments in the developing world focus on export
oriented businesses and neglect local development.
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Such business operations often cause terrible damage to the local
environment.
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…and only bring in low paying unskilled labor jobs to the local community.
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Instead of resulting in a positive impact, such projects impoverish local
communities.
Whatever capital comes into the community quickly leaves…
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True triple bottom line development must bring strong sustained profitability, but must at the same time:
1. result in full employment2. focus on satisfying local requirements3. galvanize all local stakeholders
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This is the GSR difference. GSR partners with rural communities to build vibrant
economies that get people working, clean up the environment and improve the
quality of life.
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GSR has developed the perfect formula to transform
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impoverishment…
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into thriving self reliant economies worth millions of dollars
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But … how much does it cost?
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Is it like throwing good money to the wind?
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Or dropping billions of dollars down a black hole?
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The best thing about GSR projects is that they not only work on a small budget – they actually
make a large profit while they help rural economies to grow!
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Here is the GSR formula •Partnerships, no NGO dictated projects
•Full employment
•Recycling profits to empower local economy
•Focus on meeting local needs
•Microfinance + OTJ training to promote entrepreneurs
•Local distribution network
•Appropriate technology
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In Part II of this presentation, we will look at how GSR puts this
formula into practice
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