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MARTHA HIRPA &

HILARY HADDIGAN

HEIFER INTERNATIONAL

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT

June 4 2018

BUSINESS MODELS

FOR

SMALLHOLDER FARMERS

MISSION

Work with

communities

to end hunger

and poverty

while caring for

the Earth

WHERE WE WORK

ECUADOR

GUATEMALA

HAITI

HONDURAS

MEXICO

NICARAGUA

UNITED STATES

GHANA

KENYA

MALAWI

RWANDA

SENEGAL

TANZANIA

UGANDA

ZAMBIA

ZIMBABWE

BANGLADESH

CAMBODIA

CHINA

INDIA

NEPAL

VIETNAM

AMERICAS

AFRICA

ASIA

GAPTHE

GAP

LIVING INCOME

EXTREME POVERTY

CURRENT INCOME

HEIFER’S GOAL

SDG ALIGNEMENT

ACCELERATETHE PATH TO LIVING INCOMES

VALUES-BASED

HOLISTIC

COMMUNITY

DEVELOPMENT

MARKET

DEVELOPMENTCORRDINATING

MECHANISMS

VALUES-BASED

HOLISTIC

COMMUNITY

DEVELOPMENT

MARKET

DEVELOPMENT

Coordinating

Mechanisms

Organize

Groups

Transform

& Empower

Build

Capacity

Optimize

ResourcesDevelop

Community

VALUES-BASEDHolistic Community Development

SOCIAL CAPITAL: A FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Self-help Groups

(SHG)

Structure/Group

formation

Cooperatives

(20 – 25 SHG)

Apex Organizations

(Federation of

Cooperatives)

Capacity/capability

Development

• Values and principles-

Heifer’s 12 Cornerstones

training

• Leadership development

• Financial literacy training

• Informal savings and loan

• Asset building

• Provision of productive

services

• Participatory self review &

planning (Group learning)

MALAWI

POWER OFSOCIAL CAPITAL

Heifer-supported households developed relationships

among an average of 5 spillover households.

For every 1% change in a Heifer-supported household income, a spillover household in the same community

saw a .78% change in income.

COMMUNITIES

HUB

TECHNOLOGY &

INNOVATION

YOUTH

ENGAGEMENT

HEALTH &

NUTRITION

FINANCIAL

INCLUSION ELECTRICITY

MICRO-GRIDSENTREPRENEUR

SUPPORT

PLATFORM FOR DEVELOPMENT

DAIRY HUB MODEL – ONE STOP SHOP East Africa Dairy Development, partnership with BMGF

CHILLING HUB

TRANSPORTERSTESTING

FARMERS

FEED SUPPLYAI & EXTENSION

VILLAGE BANKS

OTHER RELATED MEs

Linking markets, processors, financial and input suppliers

179,000Farming Families

$131MFarmer-Earned

Annual Milk Sales

356MLiters of

Milk Sold

$42.8MProject Fund

EAST AFRICADAIRY DEVELOPMENTPHASE I

USING THE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

in Kenya to share

agricultural information

with their mobile phones.

Help

2,000 FARMERS

find jobs or start businesses

in Tanzania and Uganda.

Help

25,000 YOUNG WOMEN

AND MEN

MALAWI

BANGLADESHVBHCD + MICROFINANCE

+ $26.54Heifer Group

+ $7.93Reference Group

AVERAGE MONTHLY

INCOME RATE INCREASE:

Trained

& Equipped

150,000 Women’s

Self-Help Groups

Cooperatives

Empowered

Set Goat Prices,

Earned More Profit

USING THE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

“I never imagined I would have

MY OWN INCOME.

[My husband] tells me,

‘That’s yours. You worked for it.’”Heifer MexicoWomen Entrepreneurs: Connecting Field and Table