African
Business Incubation Model
The lack of
infrastructure is usually viewed as a detriment to industrial
development in
Central Africa. The unique nature of the markets in the east of
the DRC
and other locations in Central Africa have the potential of yielding
significantly better returns on investment but only if the unique
characteristics
of this market are developed in a uniquely different manner.
Our African
Green Footprints approach
views the
development of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) business community
in
Central Africa as an important component of our investment
strategy. We
will not only foster closer cooperation between the foreign investor
and the
SME business community but will invest in profitable local business
activities
as an additional avenue of increasing the return of our investment
portfolio. Consistent with this policy will be an active
involvement in
large scale infrastructure development projects that will utilize the
local SME
business community as our partners.
An
example of our unique approach is the direction of our current
plantation
effort. African
Green Footprints is
currently growing plantation forests
on a large scale basis. We are also working with the local
communities
and Partner Organizations to explore the feasibility of working with
the local
population to grow several small scale commercial forests that together
will
equal the area of a large scale plantation. Additionally our same
forest
infrastructure will be used to also develop agriculture, micro finance,
and
carbon offset finance to provide the economies of scale necessary to
also
organize cooperative based agriculture production for the export
market.
This will allow the local communities and our Partner Organizations to
develop
a substantial competitive advantage and increase the standard of living
of a
larger portion of the population and allow our organization to realize
additional
income.
Our unique African
Business Incubator Model
approach will develop business skills as quickly as possible in our
community
and SME partners by demonstrating practical skills that will more
quickly increase
income. The normal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) strategy that
is so
common in other more parts of the world will be replaced by our ABIM
that
focuses on strengthening the local business community. Together
with our
community and business partners we will develop our joint capacity to
engage in
larger development and infrastructure projects while we increase the
regions
ability to absorb higher levels of FDI in an organized and transparent
manner.