There are several challenges we are facing with our minor project there but also with what we intend to do with it after.
As a group we have done a risk analysis by setting our two most important values against each other to explore the possible alternative scenario situations if our project fails both or one of the value propositions. To do this we primarily, went back to the beginning of our project and asked ourselves why we started this project? What were our intentions and what motivates us.
We reflected and came to the conclusion that we are doing this to create opportunities for Kenyans that are less fortunate and have limited opportunities to get them out of their socio-economic circumstances.
Our first core value was therefore equal opportunities. Secondly we want to create a project that has the capacity to run on its own and sustain itself. Our second value therefore is to create a sustainable business in a socio-economic sense. We are creating more opportunities by setting up a business that employs streets youths and we are making it sustainable by letting run on its own and not by westerns.
If you set these two values on an axis you can measure 4 possible scenario of things that could happen.
1. Sustainability and equal opportunities:
An ideal scenario, we have created a business that sustains itself and expands to create more equal opportunities continuously.
2. Sustainability but no opportunities:
In this scenario, a company will be created and it sustains itself but doesn’t expand and no new jobs opportunities are created.
Problem solving: This is not the worst case scenario, because it would be very positive that the project managed to empower a small group of people that now have a stable income. To avoid this situation the company in Kenya as well as the company in Europe keeps expanding at a sustainable level but expanding the market for the belts and increasing sales. This approach needs constant to innovative ideas to keep the belts an interesting product.
3. Equal opportunities but no sustainability:
In this scenario the company might grow to quickly create many opportunities for many people but not be able to sustain itself.
Problem solving: This scenario could have very bad consequences because although opportunities were created, employees losing their job can have a very bad effects on them and make them fall back into old patterns. Nevertheless, there is also the possibility that even though the company would fail, the employees have better chances of getting a different jobs based on their new skills. To avoid this scenario, our company in Europe doesn’t grow too quickly and that the managers and owners of the production company in Kenya don’t mismanage the finances and the scale of production.
4. No equal opportunities no sustainable business:
In this case our project would not be successful no company would be created and no there is no improvement in the equality of opportunities.
Problem solving: This scenario would imply that our business idea is not realisable: either there is no market for the belts, we won’t find youths working for the company or we miss the facilities and funds required for our project are not available. In this case, we either have to plan a completely new business plan, aim at a different group at people and search for a different project.