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Contributing to Global Prosperity

•  Roy Steiner
© 2009 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |

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Overview

Core Belief of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation: All Lives Have
Equal Value

© 2009 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 3

How We Got Started

1997 2000 2006

Bill and Melinda They officially Warren Buffett
read an article create the decides to give
about rotavirus. foundation. Berkshire Hathaway
stock.


Our Grantmaking Areas

50%
Global Health
Column1
25%
Global Development
Program Program

Discover, develop, Increasing opportunities
and deliver lifesaving for people in developing
health solutions to countries to lift themselves
out of hunger and poverty
the people who need
them most.

25%
United States
Program

Greater opportunity for all
Americans through the
attainment of secondary and
$2.8 billion in grants in 2008; ~$20 billion since inception postsecondary education


Wealth is praiseworthy in the highest
degree, if it is acquired by an
individual's own efforts and the grace
of God, in commerce, agriculture, art
and industry, and if it be expended for
philanthropic purposes. Above all, if a
judicious and resourceful individual
should initiate measures which would
universally enrich the masses of the
people, there could be no undertaking
greater than this, and it would rank in
the sight of God as the supreme
achievement, for such a benefactor
would supply the needs and insure
the comfort and well-being of a great
multitude.
(Abdu'l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 24)


Giving Pledge


Importance of Agriculture

“Special regard must be paid to
agriculture. Although it hath
been mentioned in the fifth
place, unquestionably it
precedeth the others”
1) The lesser peace,
2) Education of children,
3) Common language,
4) Promotion of fellowship

(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 90)


The Transformative Power
of Agriculture
For the poor, agriculture has special
poverty-reducing benefits.
•  Agriculture growth is 2–4 8
Expenditure gains induced by 1% GDP growth, %
times more effective for the 6
poor than non-agricultural
4 Agriculture
growth.
•  Reducing hunger and 2

Non-agriculture
poverty on a large scale 0
starts with improving
-2
agricultural development. Lowest 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Highest
Expenditure
deciles


Agriculture’s Impact Ignored

Despite its importance, agriculture has been neglected
over the last several decades by both developing and
donor countries—especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sub-Saharan African Gov’ts Donors Average yield for a farmer in:
35% 35%

30% 30% Sub-Saharan Africa
25% 25%

20% 20% India

15% 15%
China
10% 10%

5% 5%
United States
0% 0%
Agriculture as Agricultural 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
% of GDP spending as % 1985 2006 Tons of cereal per acre
of gov’t budget


Food System under stress, out of
balance
•  Environmental sustainability – water, soil, bio-diversity
•  Climate change
•  Population growth / rising food demand
•  800 million undernourished and 800m obese


System Approach to Small holder
Farmers’ Needs
We take a comprehensive approach, from seed to plate.
1. Science and Technology 2. Farmer Productivity 3. Market Access

•  Crop improvement •  Seeds •  Soil health •  Access to information
•  Crop management •  Water management •  Extension •  Access to new and
•  Discovery science •  Education and training existing markets
•  •  Structured demand

4. Policy and Statistics
• Data and statistics • Research and analysis • Advocacy and policy change • Learning and improvement


People are at the center of Change

Causal Maps – Theory of Change

Sustainable
Agro-
ecology
Child Nutrition
Social
Incentives
Food / nutrient Immediate
Short
Health routes
intake causes
Adapted
Improved
Inputs
Sustainable Maternal Water /
Distribution Productivity Access and sanitation Underlying
R&D
Adoption (TSFP) to food childcare health Agcauses
practices services Income
Knowledge
Information Long
Ag Institutions
routes
Household
Income
Market Political and ideological framework Resilience
Basic
Incentives (FSP
causes
Economic structure

Access to Resources environment, technology, people
Financial
Services


Consultation and community
dialogue

“No welfare and no well-being
can be attained except through
consultation."

Baha’u’llah


AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

Learning, Listening, Testing and Evolving

Pradan


“…answers to problems lie within the community,
grantees and community stakeholders are suited to
play a role in setting the agenda for leading
change….” Do Nothing About Me Without Me

Iterate between phases based on customer feedback

• Build trust, understand • Designs appropriate for • Mobilize resources • Full scale
dreams, build hope intended customers • Coordinate & scale up implementation
• Develop cultural • Learn from early via “best” partnerships • Phase transfer of costs,
sensitivity successes & failures • Collaborate between skills, & responsibilities
• Seek user insights • Identify partners early private, public, and civil • Ensure resources
• Identify early • Prove the concept sectors endure the test of time
advocates/adopters • Engage advocates • Mobilize early adopter
• Solidify partnerships populations

“if a person be versed in the arts
and every branch of knowledge, …
not be directed by a pure intent,
and be engrossed in the life of the
flesh—then he is harm
personified, and nothing will come
of all his learning and intellectual
accomplishments but scandal and
torment.”
22

Social Integration and Justice

"No man can attain his true
station except through his
justice. No power can exist
except through unity. No
welfare and no well-being
can be attained except
through consultation."


Impact of women’s
status on infant
underweight
(data from household surveys)

Source:
Smith
et.
al.
2003,
IFPRI
Research
Report
131


Contributions to infant under-nutrition reductions
1970-95, 63 developing countries

Smith and Haddad 2000


Girl Effect


Change needed -Encouraging
Trends

  Increased Resources
  System perspectives
  Build local capacity
  Be in it for the long term
  Ensure feedback and
accountability
  Apply spiritual principles


APPLAB
UGANDA
&

THE
COMMUNITY

KNOWLEDGE
WORKER

INITIATIVE

Sean
Paavo
Krepp

Uganda
Country
DBill & Melinda Gates Foundationroject
Lead

© 2009 irector
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  The importance of agriculture
  Everyone can apply spiritual
principles to the development
of their communities

Photo: Frédéric Courbet © 2009 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |

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