Practical Triple Bottom Line Development

Part 1

In order to empower sustainable development in rural communities

in Africa, building a profitable prime mover industry alone is not enough.

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Generally, investments in the developing world focus on export

oriented businesses and neglect local development.

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Such business operations often cause terrible damage to the local

environment.

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…and only bring in low paying unskilled labor jobs to the local community.

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Instead of resulting in a positive impact, such projects impoverish local

communities.

Whatever capital comes into the community quickly leaves…

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True triple bottom line development must bring strong sustained profitability, but must at the same time:

1. result in full employment2. focus on satisfying local requirements3. galvanize all local stakeholders

This is the GSR difference. GSR partners with rural communities to build vibrant

economies that get people working, clean up the environment and improve the

quality of life.

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GSR has developed the perfect formula to transform

impoverishment…

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into thriving self reliant economies worth millions of dollars

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But … how much does it cost?

Is it like throwing good money to the wind?

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Or dropping billions of dollars down a black hole?

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The best thing about GSR projects is that they not only work on a small budget – they actually

make a large profit while they help rural economies to grow!

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Here is the GSR formula •Partnerships, no NGO dictated projects

•Full employment

•Recycling profits to empower local economy

•Focus on meeting local needs

•Microfinance + OTJ training to promote entrepreneurs

•Local distribution network

•Appropriate technology

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In Part II of this presentation, we will look at how GSR puts this

formula into practice

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