About PIE
Platform for Inclusive Entrepreneurship is built to help farmers and artisans improve their economic and social well-being. By leveraging open-source technology, knowledge resources and deep hand holding support from pools of professionals, PIE enables enterprises to directly access national and global markets and reach scale.
Catalysing Systemic Change
Active in India and Ethiopia, PIE is a Societal Platform*. There are 1.33 million farmers and artisans on the platform, built on the principles of cooperation and collaboration, between civil society, government and business.
KNOWLEDGE
Curriculums, SOPs, designs, across multiple value chains accessible to the first mile at minimal costs, affordable to them.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology is used to create, communicate, deliver, and monitor the adoption of products and services
EVANGELISATION
Collaborators co-create, provide access to innovative ideas and develop a shared ownership of the platform.
NETWORKS
The platform facilitates interactions between civil society,government bodies and the marketplace.
AGENCY
Built on first mile needs, empowerment, transparency and data ownership restores agency to primary producers.
SCALE
Intuitive app design, built on 6C system services provide the basic framework for rapid & decentralized scaling.
First mile driven ecosystem building approach to catalyse social change
6C Ecosystem
The 6C framework is the backbone of PIE’s first mile solutioning. It presents an ecosystem vantage to map crucial interactions across the value chain. Each ‘C’ is a core component critical for enhancing socio-cultural empowerment, self sustainability and environmental balance.
Through enabling deep hand holding, PIE allows for collectivisation of marginal farmers and artisans, largely women, via Construct, with access to professional management services. This increases empowerment enabling producers to enhance competitiveness and produce within sustainable frameworks, move up the value chain supplying to organised markets, and aware consumers. Thus the engine of a next Regenerative Economy is powered, by allowing the most vulnerable primary producers to live in their communities, and become economic actors without migration, working with processes that are not harmful to the planet.
By adding on Capacity (training, skill enhancement), Create (value addition and design), Channel (access to markets), Capital (working capital financing at substantially lower than micro-finance rates) the 6C ecosystem completes itself with Connect, technology as an enabler.
A multi-channel, multi-partner inputs and outputs marketplace instance was implemented for 1,150 zero-budget natural farmers in eight clusters in Andhra Pradesh. Farmers realized a 75% increase with cumulative transactions of USD 4 million through direct trading on PIE.
An instance of advisory integration for zinc application for 300 farmers in a single cluster of Tamil Nadu led to a 12% increase in Paddy output and resulted in a 20% increase in income for targeted farmers.
The implementation of PIE concepts in the state of Bihar is ongoing where thousands of artisans are being aggregated for distributed manufacturing and unified marketing under a single brand, to enhance livelihood opportunities in the state.
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