[kictanet] Newest Name for AID ? Impact Sourcing ...

Tue Jun 21 16:57:00 EAT 2011

Not quite aid, leans more towards trade (or traid). Players like Samasource
have helped BPOs here get started.

Kind regards,

*Muchiri* Nyaggah

Principal Partner

@muchiri

+254 722 506400

Semacraft.com

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Agosta Liko <agostal at gmail.com> wrote:

> First, they called is Social Entrepreneurship, Then impact Investing
> ....now its Impact Sourcing .......
>
>
>
> http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/press-releases/rockefeller-foundation-foster-impact
>
> Press Releases
>  ShareThis
> Rockefeller Foundation to Foster Impact Sourcing in Africa: Poverty
> Reduction through ICT Jobs
> June 17, 2011 / Press Releases
>
> *New York, NY*—A new report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation estimates
> that the field of Impact Sourcing, employing socioeconomically disadvantaged
> people in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centers, is currently $4.5
> billion and has the potential to reach $20 billion and employ 780,000 by
> 2015. The report, conducted by Monitor Group, suggests a strong business
> case for Impact Sourcing, which can provide high-quality, reliable services
> at prices that are at least competitive with traditional BPO centers and, in
> some cases, almost 40 percent lower than what traditional providers can
> offer.
>
> The findings, contained in the new working paper, *Job Creation through
> Building the Field of Impact Sourcing<http://www.monitor.com/Portals/0/MonitorContent/imported/MonitorUnitedStates/Articles/PDFs/Monitor_Job_Creation_Through_Building_the_Field_of_Impact_Sourcing_6_16_11.pdf>,
> *also finds significant potential for poverty alleviation because Impact
> Sourcing workers can earn incomes up to 100 percent over alternative
> employment options.
>
> The working paper is part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Poverty Reduction
> through Information and Digital Employment (PRIDE) work. Through PRIDE, the
> Rockefeller Foundation plans to support the development and testing of
> Impact Sourcing business models, support research on interventions and
> continue to build the network of key Impact Sourcing stakeholders to advance
> the field.
>
> Impact Sourcing employs individuals with limited opportunity for
> sustainable employment as principal workers in Business Process Outsourcing
> (BPO) centers to provide high-quality, information-based services to
> domestic and international public and private-sector clients.
>
> “Harnessing the global BPO trend, PRIDE exemplifies the Rockefeller
> Foundation’s commitment to promoting growth with equity, in which the poor
> and vulnerable have more access to opportunities, such as ICT employment,”
> said Dr. James Nyoro, Managing Director, Africa.  “The Foundation is proud
> to partner with Monitor on this important research, which drives the idea
> that employing low-income workers will provide them with sustainable income
> which can lead to positive social outcomes, ultimately helping to improve
> livelihoods and build relevant skills for employment in the fast growing ICT
> sector.”
>
> *Job Creation through Building the Field of Impact Sourcing<http://www.monitor.com/Portals/0/MonitorContent/imported/MonitorUnitedStates/Articles/PDFs/Monitor_Job_Creation_Through_Building_the_Field_of_Impact_Sourcing_6_16_11.pdf>
> *features case studies on current Impact Sourcing models in Africa, India
> and other regions, including those of Foundation grantees like Digital
> Divide Data, a social enterprise with the objective of creating jobs for
> poor and disadvantaged youth in Cambodia, Laos and Kenya; and Samasource, an
> intermediary that markets and sells Impact Sourcing services to clients
> based in the United States and United Kingdom.
>
> “Based on more than 120 interviews across 13 countries with Impact Sourcing
> managers, providers of BPO services, outsourcing experts, employees,
> outsourcing clients, government officials, and other individuals linked to
> the Impact Sourcing space, this analysis creates a shared understanding of
> the current situation, the size of the opportunity and action agenda
> necessary to build this field,” said Michael Kubzansky, Global Heald of the
> Monitor Inclusive Markets Initiative.
>
> * *
>
> *The Rockefeller Foundation*
>
> The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission to promote the well-being of people
> throughout the world has remained unchanged since its founding in 1913.
> Today, that mission is applied to an era of rapid globalization.  Our vision
> is that this century will be one in which globalization’s benefits are more
> widely shared and its challenges are more easily weathered.  To realize this
> vision, the Foundation seeks to achieve two fundamental goals in our work.
> First, we seek to build resilience that enhances individual, community and
> institutional capacity to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of acute
> crises and chronic stresses.  Second, we seek to promote growth with equity
> in which the poor and vulnerable have more access to opportunities that
> improve their lives. In order to achieve these goals, the Foundation
> constructs its work into time-bound initiatives that have defined objectives
> and strategies for impact.  These initiatives address challenges that lie
> either within or at the intersections of five issue areas: basic survival
> safeguards, global health, environment and climate change, urbanization, and
> social and economic security.
>
> * *
>
> *About Monitor Group*
>
> Monitor works with the world's leading corporations, governments and social
> sector organizations to drive growth in ways that are most important to
> them. Monitor Group offers a range of services—advisory, capability-building
> and capital services—designed to unlock the challenges of achieving
> sustainable growth. Monitor brings leading-edge ideas, approaches and
> methods to bear on clients' toughest problems and biggest opportunities.
> Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the firm employs more than 1,500
> people in 18 countries worldwide. For more information, visit
> www.monitor.com.
>
> Monitor Inclusive Markets (MIM) catalyzes support for market-based
> solutions to social challenges. MIM does this by understanding and improving
> the business models of enterprises currently engaging people that live at
> the bottom of the economic pyramid, particularly helping these enterprises
> reach scale and commercial viability. For more information, visit
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