1. Confianza
You need to invent ideas of process, tools or programs for trust
to be built and developed between the local community and the
Bel Ya’ Social Business. Invent ways for the Bel ya’ and the
local community to develop :
- A shared vision
- Conviviality
- Reliability
constraints : Voices of the women should be heard

2. Business
You need to invent ideas of process, tools, funds or programs
for the business relationship between the local community and
the Bel Ya’ Social Business. Invent ways for the Bel ya’ and the
local community to be scalable. For this your ideas need to
address those key questions :
-How to insert informal communities into taxation system ?
- How to back up variations in the amount of production and
sales?
- Which production organization for the women to allow
flexibility in the production ? ( constraint : it’s not their
fulltime Job )

3. Impacto
You need to invent ideas of process, tools, funds, programs for the
collaboration between the local community and the Bel Ya’ Social
Business to have a real positive impact on the communities. Here
are the different impacts that Bel Ya’ wants to achieve :
- preserving the identity of the community
- develop the voice of the wormen in the community
- make people in the community autonomous ( ser informado para
tomar buenas decisiones por su vida / increcimiento de su nivel
economico )

4. Inspiration 1 : The Red River
a Sample unit
creating a sample production unit
with some of the women from the
village to prototype the new models.
Then the women goes to teach in
the village production.
Christian met the red river in India
contact him on facebook or via email
christian@makesense.org

5. Inspiration 2 : Gawad Kalinga
Community vision 1st.
the product or activity you will bring to the community
to generate revenues comes only after the community
has agreed on a common mission and vision on how to
improve their life/environment and which are the social
links to improve. The product activity comes to serve
that mission. GK does workshop in the villages during a
month until they are sure they have opened up the
discussion with all and engaged in a community vision
leila was an intern @ Gawad kaling
contact her on facebook or via email
leila@makesense.org

6. Inspiration 3 : Carine Zi
Good Business = Good productivity + Accounting
keep it simple and short but track (productivity and
margin control are keys for the success or failure of
a social business) . I guess that informal
communities still have some kind of accountability
system (even though its not excel). they have their
own way, try to copy that?
Carine worked with Social Businesses in Albania
contact her on facebook or via email
carine@makesense.org

7. Inspiration 4 : Fundacion espave
Good business partnerships comes
w/ transparency + trainings
From my experience with espave in colombia : good business
relationships come from transparency from the social entrepreneur.
even on topics you think are not relevant to them : like who are your
investors, who is the team, which are your objectives in 5 years,
what you split the money.
Also espave would ensure a series of trainings of the farmers to
guarantee the quality and understanding of the product. and
trainings were done by peers when some of them were trained
enough
leila traveled in colombia to meet fundacion espave
contact her on facebook or via email
leila@makesense.org

8. Inspiration 5 : Amrit
A cooperative + a fund for people
not to feel excluded.
It is an excellent initiative to diversify income sources of local informal
communities, increase their livelihood opportunities and provide them
with access to formal markets. However, it also has the potential to
disrupt the social cohesion in these communites assuming not all
members in the community will be engaged in producing the high-end
fashion products. While this would benefit some it would also increase
income disparities among them. In order to address this challenge and to
institute a viable collaborative model I suggest forming a cooperative and
induce all members of the community to become members of this
cooperative. All business transactions then should be routed through the
cooperative such as payments to artisans, weavers, etc. This would also
help address the problem of billing etc. as the cooperative would be a
separate legal entity other than the individual members. The cooperative
should also set up a "Community Development Fund" and 15-20% of all
remuneration received could go towards this fund that is used for
providing infrastructure in primary and secondary schools, primary health
centers, sewage and sanitation facilities, household water pipe
connections and alternative environment friendly energy sources. This
way there will be an equitable development for all and no one will feel
excluded even if they do not actively participate in the project, keeping
the social fabric of the community intact.