Fall Week 4

Part 1

Step 1:

Facts

  1. 35% kid in east Africa are stunted
  2. Maize and banana used for infants
  3. Mother believes gruel work, science says it doesn’t provide what they need
  4. HIV is prevalent in the region
  5. If children nurse beyond 6 months great chance of HIV from positive mother
  6. You have received a grant to establish a woman’s cooperative
  7. Grant to make food for infants and young children from locally grown ingredients
  8. With the goal of weaning kids of breast milk by 6 months of age
  9. 500 woman are interested in working on this, but not sure people will use it
  10. Cash crops are grown in the area, use pesticides known to hurt infants

Step 2 & 3:

Stakeholders

  1. Woman looking to join
    1. They want to make money
    2. Feed their young children the right foods
    3. The social aspect of people to be with and have a job
    4. Not give children HIV if they don’t have too
  2. Your team
    1. Has money from grant at stake
    2. Reputation professional
    3. Research publication
    4. Money to be made?
    5. Fewer kids with HIV
    6. Resources at stake
  3. Farmers
    1. Pesticides yield better crops are more money
    2. Money/livelihood
  4. Children
    1. They don’t want to be malnourished
    2. They don’t want to have HIV
    3. They have better food thus will have better lives
  5. Mothers looking to buy the product
    1. They don’t want their kids to be malnourished
    2. They don’t want their kids  to have HIV
    3. Their kids will have better food thus will have better lives
  6. WHO
    1. Wants kids to live healthy lives
  7. Foundation giving grant
    1. Have money on the line
    2. Looking to see the impact
    3. Resources at stake
  8. Government of country
    1. Hoping to find a way to get more healthy kids food-wise, and less HIV Cases.

 

Step 4:

Potential Solution  (All could be a part of the solution)

  1. Only use vegetables they don’t have pesticides on them
    1. Pros: Won’t have had chemicals in the food that would affect the children
    2. Cons: Extremely expensive, also might have troubles getting a supply
  2. Use pesticides
    1. Pros: Supply would be better and the product would be much cheaper
    2. Cons: You have the chemical problem with feeding children a product that could harm them
  3. Make a product for 0 to 6 months
    1. Pros: You could bridge the gap so that children don’t have to drink the mother’s milk thus less of a chance of getting HIV
    2. Cons: Expensive, have to convince mothers to buy it, have to make a product
  4. Find a way to provide Formula to children
    1. Pro: help cut the number of transmissions from parent to child, also will provide them with nutrients they need
    2. Getting them the product manufactured somewhere else would be expensive, also would be extremely unpractical from a logistics point of view
  5. Provide the product for free to HIV positive mothers
    1. Pros: Once you have figured out who has HIV the product could reduce the spread of HIV to kids
    2. Cons: Figuring out who has HIV will be tough, expensive
  6. Test mother for HIV with test strips
    1. Pros: Could be extremely valuable for other groups and the government
    2. Cons: Expensive, extremely difficult to figure out
  7. Don’t sell the product
    1. Pros: Won’t have to sort any of the solutions above cheap
    2. Cons: You won’t actually be helping anyone and people are dying

 

Step 5

Research

https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-programming/testing

 

Step 6 & 7

In this case, I think the best course of action would be to use a product that is made of fruit that has pesticides, work to provide children with formula for the 0 to 6 range, as well as provide the product at a discount to those who are proven to be tested and come positive for HIV. So the reason I thought they should use with fruits with pesticide contamination is that the cost of getting fruits without chemicals on them would be extremely expensive, also supplying un chemical used fruits would be extremely tough if they were trying to mass-produce this product. Though it is true that these fruits can result in adverse health issues in infants, I think that the number of kids who would receive adverse effects would be less than the amount who would be affected would probably be less than the amount who wouldn’t be affected. I also feel that the effects of HIV in the long wrong are most likely worse than the affects of pesticides on children as the effects are most likely short term from the chemicals and long term from the HIV. To make sure that the effects aren’t getting too many children though I would train the woman in the cooperative the signs and symptoms of the pesticide overdose for children.

In regards to providing parents who have tested positive with discounted formula, providing a discount would be subsided by the cost of the product to mothers who don’t know they have it. This also would encourage mothers who aren’t tested to get tested because then they can get this product at a discounted cost. Though there is the problem that people who don’t get the discounted price will probably not buy the product because they see that other people get it for a lower price, which is a problem if they don’t see the value in the product though then we need to work with the corrapetive to find a way to motivate people to buy the product. 

As for dealing with children who are too young, I would like to find a way to provide the formula to those who have tested positive, as for how to do this I am not sure yet, but by providing formula we could prevent 0 to 6-month kids from initially getting HIV.

In regards to the impact, this venture could be extremely impactful. The venture will provide jobs for women, give farmers money to form their crops, and allow kids to not get a disease that could kill them.

 

Part 2

step 1

Facts:

  1. 35% kid in east Africa are stunted
  2. Maize and banana used for infants
  3. Mother believes gruel work, science says it doesn’t provide what they need
  4. HIV is prevalent in the region
  5. If children nurse beyond 6 months great chance of HIV from positive mother
  6. You have received a grant to establish a woman’s cooperative
  7. Grant to make food for infants and young children from locally grown ingredients
  8. With the goal of weaning kids of breast milk by 6 months of age
  9. 500 woman are interested in working on this, but not sure people will use it
  10. Cash crops are grown in the area, use pesticides known to hurt infants
  11. 6 months down the line
  12. Make 3 dollars a day roughly
  13. Can sell their own crops at market rate
  14. After the woman makes money she had to turn it over to here male superior
  15. Then the money is spent on like alcohol and things they don’t need.
  16. You don’t have direct say in the functioning of the cooperative
  17. One of seven in leadership have 6 months left

 

Step 2 & 3:
Stakeholders

  1. Board members
    1. Professional: They want to leave the coop in a better position than they left it, they also don’t want to have the coop go badly as it would look at bad on them professionally. 
    2. Personal: There money stream is based on this business, they are also in charge of a woman who lives with them, they are all woman so they are incentivized to keep more money to themselves and actively are probably annoyed by this problem.
  2. Yourself
    1. Professional: You don’t want the coop to fall apart as it has been your job, by trying to fix this man might boycott the coop thus driving down business and making it harder to succeed.
    2. Personal: Has an incentive to help the locals on the ground as probably has personal relationships with them, may not like the way the money is being treated from a personal aspect, as the whole point of the coop was to provide money to a woman so they could feed there children not buy booze for their husband
  3. Cooperative members
    1. Professional: The entire coop is a woman thus, they all most have this problem, so they all may not see any value to making this money if it won’t be spent the right way anyone, so what is the value to them.
    2. Personal: They want to keep more money to themselves and don’t want it being used for beer money
  4. Men taking money
    1. Professional: Networking from sitting at the bar and having more money, more clout 
    2. Personal: They get to have more money in their pockets and thus get to enjoy themselves more often and too a great length, thus they have no incentive to end this.
  5. Other women in the area not apart of the coop
    1. Professional: Might encourage more woman to work if they know they would get the money
    2. Personal: They want to keep more money to themselves and don’t want it being used for beer money


Step 4

Solution 1:

  1. Potential Solution: You establish a bank where all the wages for women go too.
  2. How does it solve the problem?
    1. Pros: It makes it so the woman has no physical money to give to the male in charge, at least in physical form. They also will get away to store their money safely, and might even make interest
    2. Cons: The males might be annoyed knowing that the woman have this money but they can’t touch it, might cause more grief than the other solution, might make it dangerous for a woman as they are holding money from the men
  3. How does it save face of those involved?: It limits the woman from having to turn in the money in person, and they can just say it is the bank, thus allowing the man to have access but it makes it harder for them to get at it.
  4. Implications on relationships:
    1. Short-term: Might make couples or males mad based on the change of money situation
    2. Long-term: Might help a woman keep more money to spend on food, but men might just figure out who to get the money out of the bank, really just making it a pain in the ass for them, not really a solution
  5. Implications on the venture:
    1. Short-term: Might make males at the company thus protest might happen
    2. Long-term: Might make the company image look bad, but more woman might want to work for them.

Solution 2:

  1. Potential Solution: Don’t give salary as currency give it as food
  2. How does it solve the problem?:
    1. Pros: They won’t get any money thus males won’t be able to take it away, plus the food they get will have to be eaten so the kids will get fed
    2. Cons: They may want the money instead of food for other things that are more necessary, then food like health needs or such… Food cost changes, thus salary  would have to adjust very often
  3. How does it save face of those involved?: The woman won’t have to bring home money thus the situation won’t happen.
  4. Implications on relationships:
    1. Short-term: Men will be mad that they were cut off, plus if a woman were relying on the money they no longer have it, which could be a problem
    2. Long-term: Might cause money problems down the line if they need it, also men might get annoyed and just start selling the food for beer money.
  5. Implications on the venture:
    1. Short-term: It could be hard to find quantities of food to give out, thus making it really tough to actually do it and expensive.
    2. Long-term: Could make more women and other people want to work for you because they know that they would have a steady supply of food, but because of that those who need money will not be incentivized to work with you.

Solution 3:

  1. Potential Solution: Give half as money with bank or without, half as food
  2. How does it solve the problem?
    1. Pros: It allows some of the money to be accessed in the bank by males, so the problem of not having beer money is fixed they just don’t get as much, the food also means that they will have to either use it or sell it, but they have money so they probably won’t try and sell the food. 
    2. Cons: Males still might be mad that they have less beer money, they also might not be happy that they are receiving food and not money.
  3. How does it save face of those involved?: Males still get money, so they feel ok, but the kids get fed in the process, the only downside is that the males still get beer money that could be used more effectively in a better manner.
  4. Implications on relationships:
    1. Short-term: Men get money which makes them happy, and the children get fed which makes the mothers happy, might make the males jealous that they could have gotten more though.
    2. Long-term: The mothers make sure the kids get enough while the males get too feed, they also will have money, if the males don’t use it if need be.
  5. Implications on the venture:
    1. Short-term: Hard to supply that much food, also has to keep money safe. Males still might get mad at the business.
    2. Long-term: Hard to supply long term, but should motivate employees to stay on if they need money and food, thus keeping a strong workforce and membership

 

Step 5:

https://www.coop-africa.org/

https://www.co-opbank.co.ke/

https://www.grocer.coop/articles/membership-ownership-cooperative-advantage

 

Step 6: 

 

I think the best solution to the problem is half as money in the bank, and half as food. I think this is the best because it takes all of the best parts of the bank and food concept and puts them together. You have less of a chance of having males get at the money if it’s in a bank, plus if they want it they can get it but it makes it harder from them to do this. The food fixes the inital problem that is had which is the money being made is spent on beer, not on food the commodity that is needed. Though it would be hard to find enough food for the company to pay out, on top of the fact it would probably get stolen, I think that it allows the company to solve the initial problem the employees face, it just cost them to do it, but at the same time it is a coop, not a corporation so the rules on how the money should be spent is a little different. On the front of males getting mad because their money is being taken away, they are going to do that anyway, so I think it is a game of making it as little as possible, so by still sort of allowing them access to some of the money you piss them off but not too a crazy extent.

 

Step 7:

  1. Talk to board to implement a plan
  2. Talk to people and see if they like it.
  3. See how to set up bank accounts for them
  4. Find food/enough of it
  5. Set up accounts for people, pay them in food and in money through the account
  6. See if it works and reevaluate.

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