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EVE-olution Fondation. Going global challenges & opportunities Nancy V. Gomez Gerard E. Stein. EVE-olution Fondation. Is an independent, international, not for profit organization.
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EVE-olution Fondation Going global challenges & opportunities Nancy V. Gomez Gerard E. Stein (c) EVE-olution Foundation
EVE-olution Fondation • Is an independent, international, not for profit organization. • The foundation will never engage in any political, partisan, national, ethnic, religious, activities or interests. • Mission • Empowering women entrepreneurs in • developing & emerging countries • Because • “Women should be fully involved in decision-making and the • implementation of sustainable development activities” • (Rio 92, Agenda 21, Chapter 24) (c) EVE-olution Foundation
EVE-olution Fondation’s challenge “ Women must have a say on issues related to their children such as: the soil on which they play, the air they breathe, the water they drink, the food they eat.” (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global, but “ Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Gro Harlem Brundtland (1987) (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global We all share the same planet 80% of the population 80% of the land Emerging & Developing countries = (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global The successful trend of women entrepreneurs 208% = women entrepreneurs 38% = men entrepreneurs more than 45 % will be owned by women In Canada this last 20 years In USA at the end of 2005 (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global The successful trend of women entrepreneurs Why not everywhere ? +80% are owned by women In Senegal In the informal sector (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Our process INCREASE THEIR TURN-OVER ROLE MODELS, INFLUENCERS (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global In Developed countries By 2030 in the USA retired at 65 years will triple Retired executives are still active and powerful They are ready to reactivate their resources (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global Mobilizing under-utilized resource Retired successful executives from developed countries Motivating under-recognized potential Women entrepreneurs in developing & emerging countries (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global Women entrepreneurs from starting where they are and build on what they have without donating money, but coaching no teaching, no consulting, … How ? (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global Coach, ex-executives • Profile selected by the foundation: • - successful and results oriented • experience up to date • an alive network of friends around the world • a “daring spirit” still powerful • used to developing countries environment • … • Target of the coach: • - Maximizing performances of women entrepreneurs (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global Sustainable Development • New empowered women entrepreneurs are: • leaders for a new « deal » • role model to women and families of their community • mine for new jobs • participating on the reversal of rural exodus • participating of the stabilization of their regions • positive influencers to the authorities • ….. • are implementing • Sustainable Development activities • in their country (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global with our partners (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global Most large companies : - are serving at best 1/3 of the world population. - are competing over saturated markets 2/3 of the planet’s people are in developing countries How to be present everywhere ? (First is the winner) (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global • Most large companies: • would like to conquer the all Planet • are searching opportunities to be alive next century Become our partners Lets’s share the same challenge. (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global, so We all need to change the way we are used to do business (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Going Global EVE-olution Foundation « Never sell, help the people to buy » « With internet, you can be small and look big » « How to be present, without being there » « Limit its business on the domestic market is suicide. « Export-fever strategy, the only way to be sustainable » (c) EVE-olution Foundation
EVE-olution Fondation A.St Exupery “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (c) EVE-olution Foundation
EVE-olution Fondation Going Global “If girls from around the World hold hands across the sea, they would close the circle” Paul Fort foundation@eve-olution.org (c) EVE-olution Foundation
Special thank you to Irene Natividad: Global Summit of Women Gaëlle Monteiller: LAFARGE (c) EVE-olution Foundation