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Joao Roberto Munch Carneiro
My Business Consultant Training
Collaborated With A Business In The Developing World
Our team reviewed the economic, social, political, and environmental factors that impact our partner business to design a launch plan and identify how to bridge the gap between our business partner’s current and desired conditions.
Earned a Development Grant to Enact Solutions
In order to fund the proposed business, our team composed a detailed plan and pitched our proposal to request seed funding from the Leadership Initiatives Grant Committee.
Collaborated With Business Development Experts
After researching the socio-economic conditions facing our business partners, our team worked with the Nigerian development staff to create effective solutions to the challenges our business partner was facing.
Jibrin Babangida
About Jibrin
For a long time, Jibrin had been passionately curious about the interlock making business. One day, he was introduced to a master in the interlocking crafting world and Jibrin was able to convince the master of his devotion to the craft and eagerness to learn. Jibrin was able to learn the business with his master's close observation.
For 7 years time he practiced under this mentorship, excelling in making different types of interlocks, flower vase and chairs. After Jibrin's apprenticeship, the interlock business owner decide to employ him as one of his employee due his skills and excellent performance.
Jibrin Babangida
Business Goals
Jibrin hope to establish his own business, and one day the business would grow up enough that he will get a good income, and support interlock industries across the country.
Jibrin believe that getting employing such a number of people will significantly transform and support a lot of lives, many individual will have food to eat, many children will go to school. The business partner will want to bring hope to those people that believe they will never escaping cycle of poverty, those that believe they are born to live their life as poor people.
Jibrin Babangida
Obstacles
The business partner's least favorite aspect of their work is managing weather-related challenges. Rainy conditions consistently delay their operations. The products they manufacture require significant drying time, which is exacerbated by wet weather. Typically, the drying process takes several days, but rain can extend this to 3 to 4 days. This prolonged drying period demands continuous supervision.
The necessity for active oversight during these extended periods is particularly demanding. These weather-induced delays not only affect production schedules but also increase operational costs. Consequently, adverse weather conditions present a significant challenge to their overall efficiency.
Jibrin Babangida
Home & Family
Jibrin is a 30 years old man who lives with his parents and siblings in a small rented house in Gobba Nasarawa street Bauchi. He is married and has one boy child. Jibrin is the 3th child of six children, his father is a retired civil servant and his mother is a full time housewife. He close by in the evening at 6pm, he take his bath and went straight to his part time job which he do from 7pm and close by 10 pm. The business partner is trying his best to support himself and his family.
Jibrin typically spends more of his income on food for his family, and some of his income goes to his mother medication who is suffering from diabetics and hypertension disease. The business partner save some of his income to pay for the electrical bills and yearly house rent and save some of his income to send his child to school.
Jibrin Babangida
Our Partnership
Jibrin's was not able to get a qualitative education this make it difficult for him to get a better job, most of the income he received from the interlock business is been spend for food and his mother's medication because for quit sometime his mother had been suffering from serious diabetic and hypertension disease.
In his words, "I am very happy when I receive the good news of working with the Leadership Initiatives and interns, I am honored to be honored, I believe that through this partnership I can achieve my goals of become a successful interlock business owner."
My Grant
Proposal
JARMMA is an interlocking business that produces high-quality bricks for a reasonable price and convenience. Jibrin has a 7-year experience in making tiles, solely for the purposes of individuals buying, and being relieved for replacing their floors with high quality products.
The products are interlock tiles of high quality, reasonable price, and of three different options. There are 30 tiles per meter squared, costing 4500 naira. The main purpose of the product is to be used for flooring, although installation will only be possible through third party or individually. The flooring will be available for ~365 days per year, each having ~10 hours.
Our mission is to help Jibrin make the best interlocking business in his town, Bauchi Nigeria. Using his core values of sincerity, trustworthiness, and integrity, he will make high-quality, yet reasonably priced tiles that will improve the flooring of any house of which installed. Jibrin will strive to make the product as available as possible, working for 365 days per year.
My Grant Proposal
Presentation
In the International Leadership and Business Internship, I worked directly with some of the world’s leading developmental experts in order to build my partners business and brand.
At the conclusion of this internship, our team pitched the final proposal to a panel of esteemed judges from the Leadership Initiatives Nigerian Development Team and the Leadership Initiatives Grant Committee. This formal pitch allowed our team to practice our skills and utilize our entrepreneurial toolkit, all while showcasing our efforts to transform the business we partnered with.
At the end of the pitch, we were able to receive feedback on our proposal for our business partner. Over the next year, our business partner’s venture will be made into reality and monitored for sustained success and growth.
Internship Highlights
- Business Meeting
- Egyptian Embassy
- Embassy of Mali
- Expert Assistance
Our team began the business development process by having a one-on-one Zoom call directly with our business partner,Jibrin Babangida, and our Nigerian project coordinator to ensure productive collaboration.
We learned more about their life, family, and desires for the proposed business venture, as well as the challenges they were facing. By discussing first-hand the challenges our partner faced, our team successfully and efficiently began to brainstorm solutions to launch her business.
Each morning we held constructive discussions about our ideas, the advice we received the day before, and the timeline necessary to begin implementing our ideas in real-time.
The on-staff project coordinators and business development experts helped facilitate the ideation process and ensured our team asked the right questions to produce tangible results.
I had the unique opportunity to visit the Egyptian Embassy, where I learned about diplomatic relations between Egypt and the United States.
The embassy serves as a hub for collaboration with partner countries and international organizations, which facilitates the creation of solutions to address global issues, such as poverty, gender inequality, and climate change.
Egyptian diplomats and officials work closely with local communities to identify needs and design programs that empower individuals and enhance overall societal well-being. This community-centered problem-solving is something my team and I aspired towards while crafting our business proposal.
I also visited the Mali’s Embassy to learn about the role that Mali plays in domestic and international development work. We discussed critical topics including investments, international trade, and human rights.
While touring the embassy, I learned about the wide range of policy issues and gained a better understanding of the embassy’s role in international development through sustainable and inclusive initiatives.
My visit to the Mali’s Embassy was not only educational, but inspiring. It allowed me to see Mali’s pivotal role in advancing international development and how I can implement their ideals into my own work.
Our team met with leading experts in the fields of business and economic development from Johns Hopkins University, the State Department, and GlobalGiving.
One such expert was Carla Brooks, Business and Development Officer at Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Program. She provided us with a crash course in advertising and marketing, in which we learned essential components of an effective marketing campaign.
Our work with Ms. Brooks was essential in preparing us for our culminating pitch deck presentation. With her and other expert guidance, we streamlined our initial ideas to further our efforts in launching the venture our business partner envisioned.
By the end of the week, we had incorporated the advice of leading experts from across the globe for our business proposal to empower and transform the life of our business partner.