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Flavour of the Month for July 2011: Telecentres at the Margins
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Seuwandi Yapa left a comment for Kiringai Kamau"Thank you Kiringai.. Sure .. I hope we will be able to meet again. Hope you had a wonderful tour to India. Lots of love all the way from Colombo.
Best "
Seuwandi Yapa left a comment for Kiringai Kamau"Hi Kiringai...
Many thanks for the blogposts on your Indian tour. Visit Sri Lanka as well. We are located close to India :D
Best,
Seu"
Dr. Kenneth Kirenge muchiri left a comment for Kiringai Kamau"I acknowledge my short stint at VACID AFRICA in enabling me apply Value addition in Livestock and Livestock products marketing at Samaritan's Purse International Relief in Kenya's South coast. I have witnessed networked marketing fetch as…"
Dr. Kenneth Kirenge muchiri left a comment for Kiringai Kamau"I acknowledge my short stint at VACID AFRICA in enabling me apply Value addition in Livestock and Livestock products marketing at Samaritan's Purse International Relief in Kenya's South coast. I have witnessed networked marketing fetch as…"
Seuwandi Yapa left a comment for Kiringai Kamau"Hi Kiringai...
Many thanks for the blogposts on your Indian tour. Visit Sri Lanka as well. We are located close to India :D
Best,
Seu"
Kiringai Kamau posted a blog postSocial Enterprise Programme (SEP) 25th August 2011
The SEP was designed to have a short Thursday when people could visit the historical sites in Chennai, visiting the historical touristic sites that unfortunately were hit hard by the Tsunami. The workshop was however was not without its interesting discussions on social enterprise as we had this discussion on the education system in India and how own social entrepreneur has impacted on the education system in the country influenced the legal structure and the practice of teaching. We also…See More
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- Value Chain Analyst
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- About Kiringai,
Kiringai is a Telecentre enthusiast, a Rural Finance and Cooperative Business Consultant, an Agricultural Products Value Chain Analyst, a Commonwealth Certified Company Director and a trainer in corporate governance; he sits on the board of a number of companies. He is also a development consultant using his strength in corporate governance in public and private organizations to promote probity in the management of such institutions. He is well versed with the integration of ICT and Value addition to community owned SME institutions at the grassroots level. He spearheads the integration of agricultural value chains optimization with value addition and cottage industry development for which he has launched an Africa-wide NGO, VACID Africa, to promote value addition and cottage industry development. He is skilled in community based financial systems delivery through microfinance and cooperatives and has designed a national community finance model which was adopted by the Kenya Parliament to become a Constituency Development Fund for Kenya. He has also designed the mechanism for the creation of public funds starting with the Water Services Trust Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, and Women Development Fund. His value chain focus has culminated to the creation of Value Addition and Cottage Industry Development (VACID –Africa) Initiative for which he is the Board Chair.
Kiringai is a process consultant and ICT-Business integration expert currently working to create a Kenya-wide e-marketplace websites one for the agricultural sector and the other for the country’s development in general, which will promote international trading for African value added produce.
As international consultant in SMEs, Kiringai is always keen in the promotion of governance systems that deliver support to all stakeholders. He registered as a CGAP IS Fund Consultant promoting the use of ICT in the microfinance sector. He has offered consulting in Donor Programme formulation that seeks to mainstream SME in their effort to focus on pro-poor initiatives. He is a social entrepreneur in his own right with his exploits visibly demonstrated in the businesses that he has founded that touch on start-ups/incubatees, communities, and rural development at www.willpower.co.ke and www.octagon.co.ke.
About VACID Africa
VACID Africa is a non-governmental organization (NGO) created in 2007 in order to spearhead the development of value addition and cottage industries at the grassroots level. In doing this, the key objective is to contribute to employment creation in the rural areas and income generation for farmers and other rural people. Value addition includes any activity that leads to an increase in the price a farmer receives for what he sells or to a decrease in the cost of the inputs and services he buys. Value addition therefore includes activities before and post-harvest that result in higher value for the farmer’s produce. Typically one thinks of activities such as cleaning, grading, packaging, storage and processing as adding value to farmers’ produce. However, the term covers much more.
Value Chain Approach
In the context of VACID programmes, the starting point for value addition processes is the activities farmers are already engaged in. The idea is to support farmers improve from their level (bottom-up) rather than force ideas onto them (top-down). Given that different farmers and communities are active with different products, there are varieties of opportunities for value addition and cottage industries for different farmers/communities. Farmers do not operate in a vacuum but depend on the support of a variety of service providers, both public and private, from pre-production to post-harvest. VACID works along a commodity’s value chain and interacts with the relevant actors along the chain, from production of raw produce to the marketing of the final valued added product and the final engagement of payment systems and processes.
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Social Enterprise Programme (SEP) 25th August 2011
The SEP was designed to have a short Thursday when people could visit the historical sites in Chennai, visiting the historical touristic sites that unfortunately were hit hard by the Tsunami.
The workshop was however was not without its interesting discussions on social enterprise as we had this discussion on the education system in India and how own social entrepreneur has impacted on the education system in the country influenced the legal structure and the practice of…
ContinuePosted on August 26, 2011 at 9:08am
Social Enterprise Programme 24th August 2011
I have learned that there is reason to trust every day to bring a new opportunity, a new challenge and dimension to issues that face us...this came live today when the visit to the second of the host organization site took longer than everybody expected. We were to visit the site which we understood was only 100km meaning in our mind that it would take an hour. It took 3 hours going and 3 hours coming back. You can imagine how much exasperated some of the team members in my group…
ContinuePosted on August 25, 2011 at 1:32am
Social Enterprise Programme 23rd August 2011
fWhen you are in a new country and exposed only to the new things that a community you know may be keen to know about regarding what you are doing, then you cannot help but tell the story of the day every day.
Again it is a promise I made to many of you my community network colleagues, both in India and in…
ContinuePosted on August 24, 2011 at 1:30am
Social Enterprise Programme 22nd August 2011
I arrived this morning in Chennai, India, courtesy of a programme that is being facilitated by resource personnel from Harvard University and the Great Lakes Institute of Management of Chennai.
The basis behind this programme is to explore whether what we do at community level can be rejuvenated by looking at it from the sustainability perspective of a social enterprise.
The first session started in the afternoon by looking at two social…
ContinuePosted on August 23, 2011 at 12:00am
Making telecentres work as Shared Services Organizations (SSOs)
I recently interacted with a social network at corporate level that has now geared their focus in promoting what they call Shared Services Organizations. The model of SSO seeks to make organizational management more efficient and effective by cutting off the operational fat that makes the organizations sluggish in responding to customer and market needs, thereby making them easy prey for the competition who would then reign in their realm.
As I participated in that forum, it…
ContinuePosted on July 10, 2011 at 6:00pm
Comment Wall (12 comments)
- At 12:43pm on August 29, 2011, Seuwandi Yapa said…
Thank you Kiringai.. Sure .. I hope we will be able to meet again. Hope you had a wonderful tour to India. Lots of love all the way from Colombo.
Best
- At 2:32pm on August 24, 2011, Seuwandi Yapa said…
Hi Kiringai...
Many thanks for the blogposts on your Indian tour. Visit Sri Lanka as well. We are located close to India :D
Best,
Seu
- At 4:55pm on July 13, 2011, Dr. Kenneth Kirenge muchiri said…
I acknowledge my short stint at VACID AFRICA in enabling me apply Value addition in Livestock and Livestock products marketing at Samaritan's Purse International Relief in Kenya's South coast. I have witnessed networked marketing fetch as much as KES 10,000 for one Galla goat in a place where goats used to fetch a low of KES 1500. I believe in progressive community Change via information dissemination and resource management.
Thumbs up Kiringai. Muchiri Kirenge ( Program Coordinator, Samaritan's Purse international relief Kwale.
- At 8:59pm on November 1, 2010, Constant Immanuel Adeya said…
- Mr. Kiringai am very proud to be associated with you in especially through your innovative programs that have changed my life to better.In early 2002 your institution (Willpower) offered me scholarship to study Microfinance and Community Development which opened doors for me in development work.The study enabled me to secured employment with World Bank for 6 Months contract and currently with CARE international in Kenya.It has also enabled me to take a degree course( Agricultural and extension program) from University of Nairobi.When my history is written the name Kiringai Kamau and Wiilpower institute has to feature in.May God bless you and give you more innovative approaches to change the lives of many youths as you did to me.
- At 2:08pm on October 15, 2009, Seuwandi Yapa said…
- Dear Friends,
Hope you have received my message :))
Best,
Seuwandi
- At 10:05pm on May 16, 2009, Rabson Mwale said…
- Glad to be on the telecentre we have started the value chain concepts and in January the whole we were in Mozambique. Need more information on how best i can utilise this system.
- At 10:00pm on May 16, 2009, Rabson Mwale said…
- Glad to hear join the telecentre ah we have already started implementing the value chains and in January we were in Mozambique. I need more information on how best i can utilise this system. What are the does and dontsneed more information.
- At 5:15pm on May 7, 2009,
Dr Ashish Kumar Verma said… - hi
- At 5:14pm on May 7, 2009, Dr Ashish Kumar Verma said…
- Hello Kiringai, I am doing MBA in development & sustainable finance. presently I am working on a project "Alternate channels of credit(micro) delivery"and I have to use ICT for this purpose.
I am very much curious about your community based financial model could you please tell me something more about that
- At 3:24am on May 5, 2009,
simon pierre YONTU said…
merci pour les gentils mots de bienvenues en kiswahili it is a great pleasure for me to joindyou in this huge opportunity to help peoples to really understandtheir selves by our discussons
and eschanges
thanks once more
merci beaucoup
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