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November 2,2007 United Nations
Eradicating Poverty through Enterprise
Shula Ferdman –Microenterprise Development
The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center
(MCTC), Haifa, ISRAEL
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Gender equality and women’s empowerment
1961 - 2006 12,500 participants
(mainly women) from 147 countries trained at MCTC
20,000 in situ
MCTC MCTC 20062006
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Entrepreneurship Increased Income
Other dimensions of poverty
HealthSocial Services
Education
Gender Equality
Social Exclusion
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Involving all Sectors
Counseling
Training MSME
Development
Educational Institutions
Private Sector
Government
Civil Society
Int’l
Agencies
Financial Institutions
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Women – Among the poorest of the poor
Supportive Environment (organizational,legal,economic and social incentives)
Self empowerment
Contribution to the family and the community
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A Holistic Approach
Counseling
Training Entrepreneurial
Support
Follow up
Training
Microcredit
Counseling
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Practical approach of “bottom up development”
Offer Tools
Entrepreneurial Capacity Building
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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 Partnerships:
The 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
700 self help women’s groups
INDIA 1998
120 villages
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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 women’s empowerment.
• Developing a global partnership for development (1)UN Secretary General Report ,17 August 2007
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Thank you!
The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International
Training Center (MCTC)
Haifa 2006Haifa 2002Haifa 2002