Interlife Toolkit: A Winning Development Model for Africa - Quotidiano Nazionale
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- Jun 26
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We share with you the article from Quotidiano Nazionale that delves into the contents of the presentation on Thursday 11 April at the Chamber of Deputies, speaking about the results of the Interlife development model, 90% compatible with the 17 objectives of the UN Agenda 2030.
Interlife Toolkit: A Winning Development Model for Africa
Results presented of the micro-enterprise start-up tool 90% compatible with the 17 goals of the UN Agenda 2030
Rome, 12 April 2024 – Food security , increased income for families, schooling for children, social cohesion and entrepreneurial dynamism, environmental sustainability and optimization of resources. These are some of the results of the Interlife development model , 90% compatible with the 17 objectives of the UN Agenda 2030, which emerged from the report produced by the Etisos Foundation and presented yesterday in Rome at the Chamber of Deputies.
Interlife has created a concrete and innovative development model to create job opportunities in contexts of extreme poverty and vulnerability and to offer populations an alternative to migration: the Interlife Toolkit. A winning model for the development of low-income countries .
What is Toolkit Interlife
Toolkit Interlife is a tool for the start-up of micro-enterprises capable of generating regular income with comprehensive programs that provide training, equipment, raw materials, professional skills - in cultivation, breeding and marketing of products - and all the support to start, from scratch, a business capable of supporting the beneficiaries and their families and triggering a chain effect of solidarity for the entire community.
The main feature of the Interlife Toolkit is its replicability and the multiplicative effect of the initial investment: after starting his own business, the beneficiary undertakes to package a new Toolkit to be allocated to another person in difficulty. Sustainability and scalability are the fundamental and intrinsic characteristics of the model, which not only allows to guarantee, over the years, continuity to the project actions, but also to increase the number of beneficiaries while simultaneously reducing the cost per beneficiary/person.
The percentage of passage of the Toolkit from one beneficiary to another is 100%, with a consequent strengthening of community ties, the reduction of discrimination and the growth of spontaneous community initiatives of solidarity, public health and collective well-being.
The Interlife model is also environmentally sustainable : 100% of the Rural Toolkits are organic and promote soil regeneration and reforestation of areas at risk of desertification.
Some examples
For example, in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso , Interlife has provided training and work opportunities to a total of 4,000 unemployed young people, aged between 18 and 40, through the distribution of 4,000 Toolkits. These have improved the future prospects of work and well-being for thousands of families, allowing many people who wanted to stay and live in their country. At the same cost, the beneficiaries have then doubled thanks to the passage of the Toolkit from one beneficiary to another person in difficulty.
The results achieved
Among the results achieved: increased food security with 84% of beneficiaries going from just one meal a day to 3 ; increased schooling for children with 100% of children from families benefiting from the Toolkit now going to school; access to higher education for 78% of beneficiary families who have the opportunity to invest in their children's education, compared to the previous access figure estimated between 5 and 10%; increased revenue with a +108% increase in income thanks to the Interlife Toolkit. Great entrepreneurial dynamism is also noted with 67% of beneficiaries declaring that they have reinvested their income after the passage of the Toolkit to grow their business.
Fondazione Etisos based its analysis on the SDG evaluation, taking into account reference indicators (Key Performance Indicators) and collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data of Interlife's activity and its Toolkit model. Specifically, the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals were taken as a reference to investigate the sustainability in the SDG context of the Interlife Toolkit model methodology, used for the implementation of various projects that, although contextually and geographically distant from each other, maintain a structural coherence that justifies their overall evaluation. Overall, the score obtained is high, being above 80%. Furthermore, the results obtained for each of the 17 SDG objectives demonstrate how Interlife has fully understood the relevance of the interdependence of the different dimensions of sustainability.
“Even where poverty and unemployment seem impossible to eradicate, the Interlife model allows us to multiply benefits and beneficiaries and at the same time progressively reduce the project cost with an important leverage effect. It is precisely because of these peculiarities that we believe our model can represent a great example for a development plan for the African continent and we are very pleased with the interest shown by the Mission Structure for the Mattei Plan , which we recently met at Palazzo Chigi”, said Giorgia Gambini , president of Interlife ETS. “There is no doubt that it is necessary to create a development plan for Africa and that all countries must commit to promoting it and contributing to resolving the dramas linked to the migration issue by implementing sustainable and long-lasting actions”, she added.
“We are extremely proud to have produced the report for such an important project as the Interlife Toolkit. The data speaks for itself: the Interlife project is 90% compatible with the 17 points of sustainable development of the UN Agenda 2030. This result demonstrates Interlife's concrete commitment to contributing to a more sustainable and inclusive future for all. Etisos Foundation is committed to promoting the culture of sustainability and supporting organizations on their path towards a more responsible future and the collaboration with Interlife is a concrete example of our commitment in this field”, stated Giada Storti , general manager Etisos Foundation.
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