A workshop in Nairobi in June brought together three agribusiness enterprises (KCSEED, Kieni Dairies and Nyabon Enterprises), experts from SIB and B-Lab East Africa, and 2SCALE staff from Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria. The three private sector partners work with 2SCALE on technology transfer, farmer training and financial innovation in different sectors: KCSEED in potatoes, Kieni in dairy and Nyabon in rice.
2SCALE has developed simple CSR guidelines to assist our private sector partners. The workshop was the beginning of the next phase, which is to strengthen the framework for designing, monitoring and reporting, and develop pilot CSR programs tied to 2SCALE partnerships, beginning with these three enterprises.
Each enterprise articulated its goals and business model, and identified specific CSR opportunities it could pursue. This included a self-assessment of impacts and impact potential of its current activities to identify areas for improvement. The three enterprises are now using techniques learned during the workshop to complete a more detailed assessment, using a structured format with about 200 questions on various areas.
Once completed, this analysis will help identify key metrics to measure progress, establish benchmarks and best-practices, and develop a CSR roadmap to strengthen impacts on welfare and inclusiveness at community level.