RAP publication: 2000/10
Poverty alleviation through market generated rural employment
ESCAP/FAO Inter-country project
Bangkok, July 2000
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How Success Case Replication works
Evaluation
Conclusions
Case No. 1. Oversize bricks
Philosophy
The trainer
In harmony with prevalent apprenticeship training systems
Constrained by market limitation
Who chooses the enterprise
Comprehensive training
Supports and accelerates other methodologies
Field worker role
Successful farmer role
Field worker essential as catalyst
Organizational support
Technology and strata neutral
Potential users
Strengths of SCR methodology
Limitations of SCR methodology
Nine steps for income earning enterprises and groups, with case studies
1. Locate success cases1.1 Consult those who should know
1.2 Socially acceptable models
Case No. 2. Kerosene reading lamps
1.3 Extension worker age and status
Case No. 3. Farmer housewives organizations
1.4 Successful organizations
Case No. 4. Philippine member savings organizations
1.5 Duration of success cases
1.6 Variety of success cases2. Assess success replicability (Profit and marketability)
2.1 Overcoming success person’s fear
2.2 Assessing market capacity
Case No. 5. Pickled cabbage
Case No. 6. Chinese steamed buns
Case No. 7. Puffed rice cakes: A market oversupply problem
Case No. 8. Linchee fruit orchards
Case No. 9. Wheat production
2.3 Assessing net income
Case No. 10. Economic evaluation of soya milk venture
2.4 Appropriate net income
2.5 Incorporating depreciation
Case No. 11. Motorcycle taxis: Eating the enterprise
2.6 Deductions for family labour
Case No. 12. Economic evaluation of betel leaf cultivation
Case No. 13. Economic evaluation of oversize brick making
2.7 Raw material supply
Case No. 14. Bamboo furniture: A raw material problem
Case No. 15. Bhutan onions: A seed supply problem
Case No. 16. Mushroom growing on rice straw
Case No. 17. Rubber tree fungicide
2.8 Evaluating production
Case No. 18. The puffed pig skin case
2.9 Review of evaluation process
Case No. 19. A local bakery in the Philippines
Case No. 20. ‘Diamond’ polishing in rural Thailand
Case No. 21. Coir rope making in Sri Lanka3. Assess farmer willingness to become a trainer
3.1 Three types of success case persons
Case No. 22. ‘Diamonds’ revisited
Case No. 23. Pickled cabbage - Change of heart
3.2 Compensation of trainers4. Establish practical training programme
Case No. 24. Spoiled milk
Case No. 25. A sustainable organic rice system
Case No. 26. Poor quality rubber reduces bulk price
4.1 Training schedules
Case No. 27. Strawberry cultivation in ThailandCase No. 28. Bhutan mushroom culture: A credit problem
Case No. 29. Mat weaving in Nepal7. Arrange follow-up support services for trainees
8. Achieve secondary multiplications after first level successesCase No. 31. Mrs Nilmini’s mushroom replication project
Case No. 32. Women’s credit in Mongolia
History of the methodology
United Nations experience with SCR methodology
Incorporating national diversity
Annex II - Agencies and project participants
SCR seeds... from Bhutan, to Mongolia, from Nepal and the Philippines to Viet Nam... and beyond
