Good, to Great to Very Significant – Session 1

1. Good, to Great to Very Significant – Session 1

2. Introductions Tom - Southern Programme Director, SIFE UK Jim – Executive Director, SIFE UK Alice – Ex Team Leader, SIFE Warwick Phil – Ex Team Leader, SIFE Nottingham Calum – Ex Team Leader, SIFE Sheffield

3. And you… The Leadership of SIFE in the UK

4. 2010 – 2011. From Good to Great, to Very Significant

5. The Agenda Next 45 mins – Team legacy Next session – Projects

6. The Survival Team Vs. The Legacy Team

7. Team Index Ratings • Quality University Advisor • Quality University Support • Team Leaders/Success • Overall Projects • Financial Stability • Engaged with Community • Representation at SIFE event/competition

8. Team Legacy Alice – Ex Team Leader, SIFE Warwick Phil – Ex Team Leader, SIFE Nottingham Caum – Ex Team Leader, SIFE Sheffield

9. Your Legacy. 1. What’s your vision?

10. Your Legacy. • 2. How will you reach your vision? • Write down one thing you’ll have achieved in the next month that will move you towards achieving your vision • Exchange this with a partner, along with your email and phone number • In one month time, get in contact to see how you have got on.

11. There is no try. There is only Do or Do Not.

12. Good, to Great to Very Significant – Part 1.

13. The Agenda Next 30 mins – The World Class SIFE Project Final hour – Reaching new heights

14. How do you create a project that has a very significant impact?

15. Numbers project World class SIFE project Scale – no. of people empowered Quality project New Project Depth of empowerment (quality of project) Very Sig. Great Great Good

16. Strategy 1 – the Numbers strategy

17. Numbers Scale – no. of people empowered New Depth of empowerment (quality of project)

18. World class Numbers Scale – no. of people empowered Depth of empowerment (quality of project)

19. Strategy 2 – the Quality strategy

20. World class Scale – no. of people empowered New Quality Depth of empowerment (quality of project)

21. World class Scale – no. of people empowered Scale – no. of people empowered New Quality Quality Depth of empowerment (quality of project) Depth of empowerment (quality of project) • The SIFE Criterion • Project Selection • Scaling current Projects • Adding new Projects

22. 1. The SIFE Criterion

23. Needs What is the point in your project? What are you trying to achieve? Start with the end in mind.

24. Empowerment Knowledge: what to do and why. E.g. supply and demand + Skills: how to do. E.g. Set prices + Motivation: wanting to. E.g. Realising that there is a need to reduce costs and wanting to in order to increase profits =

26. Planning your project: 3 I’s Empowerment

27. Creating the Situation

28. 2. Project Selection

29. World class Scale – no. of people empowered Quality Depth of empowerment (quality of project) Quality to World Class

30. 1. How will you scale your project? What are the main barriers/challenges to growth? How can you overcome them? How do you ensure you keep the quality of your project?

31. 2. Adding projects Calum

32. So there’s the strategy… How do you implement? i.e. how do you get things done? Phil

33. Part 2 – Jim

34. Old Judging Criteria How effectively did the SIFE team measure and demonstrate that it created economic opportunity by helping others to understand more about: • Market economics • Personal success skills • Entrepreneurship • Financial literacy • Environmental sustainability • Business ethics

35. New Judging Criterion Considering the relevant economic, social and environmental factors, which SIFE team most effectively empowered people in need by applying business and economic concepts and an entrepreneurial approach to improve their quality of life and standard of living?

36. Comparing Old vs. New • From topics to CAUSES, with a focus on purpose and outcome • Balances this outcome with method • More specific identification of target audience need • REQUIREMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS • Quality of Life and Standard of Living = long-term • How are they measured? • How do they relate to the NEED?

37. Standard of Living Standard of Living (SOL) is a measure of the quantity and quality of goods and services available to people. It measures such aspects as: Income Life expectancy Literacy levels % income spent on education % income spent on health For the most part: Tangible results Quantitative measures

38. Quality of Life Quality of Life (QOL) is the product of the interplay among social, health, economic and environmental conditions which affect human and social development. For the most part: Intangible results Qualitative measures

39. Beware of Superficiality Can changes in QOL/SOL be assessed against the same set of measures for all projects? Different starting point

40. Types of projects • Consultancy ) • Community ) UK • School ) • International/Development For the most part, International = Necessity UK = Opportunity Can changes in QOL/SOL be assessed against the same set of measures?

41. Development Projects • Quality of life is an important concept in the field of international development, since it allows development to be analyzed on a measure broader than standard of living. • Organizations such as the World Bank declare a goal of "working for a world free of poverty” with poverty defined as a lack of basic human needs, such as food, water, shelter, freedom, access to education, healthcare, or employment. • Poverty is defined as “a low quality of life” (not just monetary)

42. Types of Development Projects • Against this wider definition of “poverty”, international development projects are often grouped into sectors against the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). • The aim of the MDGs is to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world's poorest countries. • Established at the Millennium Summit in 2000 • All 192 UN member states and many international charities/NGO’s agreed to achieve goals by 2015 • 8 goals/ 21 targets/indicators for each target

43. Types of Development Projects Livelihood (MDG1) - Ensuring that all people are able to make a living for themselves and provide themselves with an adequate standard of living, without compromising their human rights and while maintaining dignity. Education (MDG2) - A lack of access to education is one of the primary limits on human development, and is related closely to every one of the other sectors. Almost every development project includes an aspect of education as development by its very nature requires a change in the way people live. Human rights (MDG3) - issues relevant to international development projects include rights associated with gender equality, justice, employment, social welfare and culture. Health (MDG4,5,6) - Provision of access to quality healthcare to the population in an efficient and consistent manner and according to their needs. Environmental Sustainability (MDG7) - Provision of water and sanitary facilities, reduce biodiversity loss and ensure a healthy environment of sufficient quantity and quality to supply an acceptable standard of living. Finance (MDG8) - providing financial systems and frameworks which allow people to organise or purchase services, items or projects for their own development.

44. Types of Development Projects Linking of technical and business skills will become increasingly important. CAUSES: Environmental Sourcing Global Warming Hunger Land Management Nutrition Recycling Agriculture Waste Renewable Energy Rural Development Sanitation Sustainable Development Sustainable Tourism Technology Water Issues Recruit technical specialist students to your SIFE team!

45. Development Concepts • Modern poverty reduction and development programmes often have Dignity as a central theme - “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” • Participation is concerned with ensuring that the intended beneficiaries of development projects and programmes are themselves involved in the planning and execution of those projects and programmes. This empowers the recipients of development projects to influence and manage their own development - thereby removing any culture of dependency. • The concept of something being Appropriate is concerned with ensuring that a development project or programme is of the correct scale and technical level, and is culturally and socially suitable for its beneficiaries. A project is appropriate if it is acceptable to its recipients and owners, economically affordable and sustainable in the context in which it is executed. • A Sustainable approach to development is one which takes account of economic, social and environmental factors to produce projects and programmes which will have results which are not dependent on finite resources. It will not use more natural resources than the local environment can supply; more financial resources than the local community and markets can sustain; and will have the necessary support from the community, government and other stakeholders to carry on indefinitely. • Capacity building is a parallel concept to sustainability – it is concerned with increasing the ability of the recipients of development projects to continue their future development alone, without external support, and to function independently in its own microcosm.

46. Project Examples • EGYPT – Purigation • CHINA – Ginseng • INDIA – Tree Tappers

47. UK Projects Standard of Living – Economic indicators, based primarily, but not solely, on income. Quantitative results measured in: Real income/Profits Poverty rate Life expectancy Access to education Access to employment It is the ease by which people living in a time or place are able to satisfy their needs and/or wants. Quality of Life – Social indicators. Qualitative results include: The natural environment The built environment Physical and mental health Quality of education Recreation and leisure time/culture Social belonging Literacy Also frequently related are concepts such as freedom and human rights. Happiness Happiness is subjective and hard to measure - it has also been shown that happiness, as much as it can be measured, does not necessarily increase correspondingly with the comfort that results from increasing income. Opportunity projects v Necessity projects

48. Quality of Life Basic social rights • Civil - right to acceptance into society • Political • Right to education • Right to work • Right to safe and healthy environment • Cultural • Diversity - sexual orientation, gender equality, disabled • Safety • Pollution • The right to private family life and the right to property • “Quality-of-life crimes“ – graffiti, vandalism, public drunkenness - send a subliminal message that disorder in general is being tolerated.

49. Quality of Life – what is important to people? • Human Development Index - life expectancy, adult literacy rate, schooling and Gross Domestic Product • Global Peace Index - ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbouring countries and the level of respect for human rights. Also levels of democracy and transparency • Gender Equality - Salaries and economic participation, access to better jobs, political empowerment, educational attainment, • Life expectancy - overall cultural health, including diet, the health services systems, attitudes to exercise and well being, and also family structure and caring • Quality of Life - health, freedom, unemployment, family life, climate, political stability and security, gender equality and family and community life • Economic Freedom - factors such as the access to funds, legal structures and property rights, freedom to trade and the government's regulation of markets • Gay Rights • Obesity - dangers of childhood obesity are great, and their effects become a heavy burden on societal health and welfare spending. • Asylum Seeker Acceptance Rates - affected by tolerance and politics mostly, but also by the level of checks done and by what countries the recipient country considers to be areas of emergency, political instability or danger from which asylum seekers may need to escape • Aid to Developing Countries • IT: Networked Readiness Index

50. Types of projects • Consultancy ) • Community ) UK • School ) • International/Development For the most part, International = Necessity UK = Opportunity