Creating Value for All

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Growing Inclusive Markets

Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) is a new initiative led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with an unprecedented coalition of thinkers and actors in the fields of business, academia and human development. We believe that in the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the greatest untapped resource is the private sector. Growing Inclusive Markets is designed to make a substantial contribution to both business strategies and human development by offering mapping tools and a strategy matrix, distilled from a broad pool of case studies.

 

“The power of poor people to benefit from market activity lies in their ability to participate in markets and take advantage of market opportunities.

Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP

Some interesting tools on the website :

1) Heat Maps

2) Strategy Matrix

3) Case Studies

Human Centered Design

A team at Ideo led by Tatyana Mamout and Jessica Hastings has been working closely with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently to develop this toll Kit that will help NGOs and field activists to apply human centered design methodologies to the work they do with small holder farmers. the toolkit maybe adapted to other such initiatives in other categories but on a larger scale, it will serve as a starting point for many who are working on design problems for the poor and the under served.

See toolkit here

(via Putting People First)

Feasibility vs Viability

fea.si.ble

- adjective

1. capable of being done, effected or accomplished : a feasible plan.

2.probable; likely : a feasible theory.

3.suitable: a road feasible for travel.

usually used in the context of do-ability, possibility

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vi.a.ble

- adjective

1.capable of living

2.practicable; workable: a viable alternative

3.having the ability to grow, expand, develop, etc: a new and viable country.

usually used in a financial or economic context