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:title: BBN Meeting
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:author: Will Ruddick
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:date: Feb 15, 2013
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:slug: bbn-meeting
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:summary: After two small business meetings and several focus group sessions, the Bangla Business Network (BBN) had it's first large group meeting...
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After two small business meetings and several focus group sessions, the Bangla Business Network (BBN) had it's first large group meeting on February 9th 2013 at the St. Patrick Hall.
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Based on previous meetings 5 facilitators were chosen, representing Community Health Works, Youth, Elders and Men's and Women's businesses. Moblization for this meeting was done by these facilitators.
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The 165 Business that attended the meeting consisted of:
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* Water - 6
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* Transportation - 2
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* Hardware - 1
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* Soap - 1
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* Services - 17 (including tailoring, clobbering, manual laborer, house builders, salons, mechanical and electronic repairs, and porting)
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* General Shops - 23 (Selling a variety of local and non-local items)
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* Food Services - 49 (Selling cooked or processed food, on the road or in restaurants)
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* Raw Food - 21 (Including fish, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and grains)
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* Farming - 3
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* Energy - 21 (including charcoal and lamp oil)
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* Education - 1 (Primary and nursery school)
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* Clothes - 4
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* Drinks - 3 (including alcohol, soda and fruit drinks)
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The Agenda included:
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* Plenary
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* Welcome and introductions
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* Warm-ups.
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* Brief Introduction to the program.
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* Reading of an information sheet. (`Here in swahili .pdf <http://grassrootseconomics.org/sites/koru.or.ke/files/BBN-meeting-flyer-swahili.pdf>`_ )
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* Discussing design of vouchers.
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* Open for initial thoughts and questions.
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Small group demonstrations and discussion
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* People were broken into five groups. Each facilitator described the program and facilitated a demonstration.
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* Each demo participant was given 200/= of Bangla Pesa (represented by colors paper 2-5's, 3,-10's, 3,-20's 2,-50's)
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* Each demo participant was also given white cards where their goods and services were listed along with the cost.
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* 1. They should try to buy and sell as much as possible but stay within trading limits
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* 2. When they have less than 200 they should sell more
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* 3. When they have more that 400 Banglas they should buy more.
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Plenary Discussion.
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* Registering the BBN. It was decided that the current 5 facilitators should continue as an interim board and register the network.
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* Moving forward. Business registration would start in the next month with a launch after the National Presidential Elections.
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* At the launch each business will be given vouchers representing 400/= Bangla Pesa and half of this will be retained as a membership fee.
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* Membership fees will facilitate the 5 board members with a monthly allowance.
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TheBoard of Directors (5 people): 1 Youth Representative, 1 CHW Representative, 3 Business Representatives (1 man 2 women) will perform the following functions:
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* 1. Accounting and Administration
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* 2. Networking
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* 3. Care Taking
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* Organizing Community Service Work
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* Security printing of the vouchers for businesses will take place in March 2013, and distributed publicly at the Launch event.
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`#complementarycurrencies <https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/blog/hashtags/complementarycurrencies>`_ `#bangla <https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/blog/hashtags/bangla>`_
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