1. Using business to bring
transformation to the
world’s poor

2. The TBN Mission
The mission of TBN is to combat poverty and bring
social transformation by promoting the growth of
Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME’s)
We believe that building SME’s creates improvements
in living standards, in health, education, innovation -
and restores human dignity
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3. Life as it really is…….
• 805 million people live on <US$1 a day
• Every 3 seconds, a child dies as a result of
extreme poverty
• 47% of the world population live on less that
US$2 a day – a staggering 2.4 billion people
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4. The bottom billion
•1 billion people
live in extreme
poverty
•1.2 billion people
don’t have access to
clean water
•50,000 people die
every day from
extreme poverty
•100 million children
can’t go to school
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5. The Problem...
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6. Is it a food production issue...?
• World agriculture produces now 17%+
calories per person than 30 years ago..!!!
2700 kcal pp...
Problem is:
• People do not have enough income to
purchase food
• Insufficient land to grow enough food
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7. The Problem...
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8. 7 million children p.a -
DIE
ALL PREVENTABLE...
50% HUNGER RELATED...
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9. Obscene Inequality
“One-fifth of humanity live in countries where
many people think nothing of spending $2 a day
on a cappuccino.
Another fifth of humanity survive on less than
$1 a day and live in countries where children
die for want of a simple anti-mosquito bed
net”
Source: UN Human Development Report 2005
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10. A time of hope in interesting times!!!
" Economic growth is the driver of progress…
When market signals, formal institutions & income growth
come together...quick improvements…”
World Bank, 2011
“A promising time for fighting poverty”…Jeff Sachs,
NY times 2012
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12. Good News
Strong growth & transformation:
Brazil, China & India
China: 700m out of poverty, 1981-2008
Extreme poverty 84% to 13%
GDP +9% every year, even in 2009!!!
Fuelled by:
•High commodity prices
•Stagnating growth in developed nations
•Investors ploughing money into emerging markets...
•Developing countries are not economically following US
& Europe
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16. Bad News…
Sub Saharan Africa
Number of people in extreme poverty
increased…
1990: 289.5m
2008: 415.6m
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18. The scale of the issue…
502m 313m
Insert US & EU pic
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19. Unfair Trade & Subsidies
• $1billion a YEAR on aid for agriculture
in poor countries
• $1 billion a DAY on subsidies of
agricultural overproduction at home
• EU diary subsidy is $2.50/cow/day
whilst 2.8b people live on <$2/day
Source: UN Human Development Report 2005
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20. The problem – The ordinary operation of
economic & political systems
Unfair trade rules deny poor countries £0.7
billion a day, 14 times what the receive in aid
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa spend £8 billion a
year on debt repayments
3 days’ global military spending (£3 billion)
could send every child to school.
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21. What is our response
to this
Scandal of Global
Poverty?
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22. “More than aid, trade has the potential to
increase the share of the world’s poorest
countries and people in global prosperity”
Source: UN Human Development Report 2005
The poor need jobs, not aid
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23. What is TBN?
An international network of business people and investors
using enterprise to tackle global poverty.
An international network that:
– Provides SME entrepreneurs and intermediaries with:
• investment,
• management support,
• Specialist business development & market assistance,
• training & mentoring.
– Shares ‘know how’ of locally relevant investment and business
models;
– Connects trusted partners, both local and international;
– Builds the ‘enterprise ecosystem’ in emerging economies.
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24. Eradicating poverty through Business Growth
a proven way to combat poverty
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25. Coordinated Innovation:
Financial International
Resources Network
X People
Fuel=
Funds
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26. Use YOUR skills and talents
You can:
–Provide training, all
International business areas!
Network • Help businesses grow &
develop
–Specific mentoring &
You, coaching
US, • Small business advice for
your company SME’s
–Help create self
sustainable jobs
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27. Initiate projects:
TeamStart helps Palestinian
entrepreneurs develop high
potential businesses with
links to Israeli technology
Touch Nature creates jobs companies
for single mothers in Nepal
through the manufacturing of
handmade natural skin and
body care products, allowing
them to take care of and
educate their children.
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28. Establish businesses:
ToughStuff is a business established by a TBN Partner
that provides low cost solar powered light, radio
batteries and mobile charging, distributed via
thousands of village entrepreneurs
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29. Train:
TBN Partners
developed a
practical 4 day
course on setting
up a business that
has created
hundreds of
businesses in Africa
and Asia, and
trainees are
delivering the
course to others
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30. Support and mentor businesses:
Partners have
helped Hagar as it
provides hope and a
sustainable future
for ex-trafficked
women and children
in Cambodia
through vocational
training and
employment in its
catering and
contract cleaning
companies
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31. Find Markets:
Trade as One
was established
by a TBN
Partner to
market goods
from developing
countries in the
USA
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32. Impact Finance…
Revolving Loan Funds
Private Equity/VC
Financial International
Resources Network
MicroFinance
Fuel= People
Funds Investment Companies
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33. Invest:
TBN members investing
in Nairobi-based Fusion
have enabled 262 SME
businesses, unable to get
bank loans because of a
lack of collateral, to obtain
funding to grow their
businesses and provide
vital employment
Margaret has been able to
expand her wig making and
beauty products business thanks
to a Fusion loan and now has 10
employees
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34. Opportunities to invest & support
micro - small enterprises – 1-20
jobs
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35. Business Growth
– THE Powerful Catalyst
Invest & support an SME – 50-100 jobs
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36. Helping the poor
•Creating jobs
•Building capital
•Giving hope
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37. We have the responsibility…
Together we can make a difference!!
1. Join the movement and
become a
member
2. -Corporate or individual
3. Join an Exposure trip
4. Give and invest your skills,
time & resources
5. Register for information
TBN eNews
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38. What help do TBN Partners get?
• Help to get involved
– ‘Expo’ visits to developing
countries
– Local groups (TBGs)
– Personal contact
• Practical support
– Access to skills and resources
(eNews, portal,
members day)
– Mentoring
– Loan fund
– NGO status / business cards
– Encouragement
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39. “We are the first generation that can look
extreme and stupid poverty in the eye …
we have the cash,
we have the drugs,
we have the science -- but
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
Some say we can't afford to.
I say we can't afford not to.”
Bono, 2004
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40. Forward momentum
“The test of our progress is not whether
we add more to the abundance of those
who have much; it is whether we provide
enough for those who have too little”
US President Franklin D Roosevelt
(2nd Inaugural Address, 1937
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41. YOU do make the difference!
Lets ‘Just Do It’ Together…
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43. The State of the nations...
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44. The State of the nations...
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45. The State of the nations...
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46. World Bank Stats People $
2008 1.2bn 1.25
2008 801m 1.00
1981 1.94bn 1.25
1981 1.54bn 1.00
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47. Scandal of World Poverty
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48. Scandal of World Poverty
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49. Scandal of World Poverty
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