From risk to resilience: Incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses (day 1)
Channel: IIED
Date: 2022-02-04

This virtual Forest and Farm Facility training-of-trainers event took place over five days from 10-14 January 2022. 

It provided a refresher course on two toolkits that have been developed to support practitioners in improving business incubation and risk management processes – plus adding a new module on 30 practical options to climate-proof your business.

Day 1. ForBInc – Forest business incubation by and for forest and farm producer organisations:

12:22 - Module 1: Business incubation by FFPOs themselves – the ForBInc approach

The ForBInc: Forest business incubation toolkit by and for forest and farm producer organisations (FFPO) has been designed to provide a logical process for thinking about how to design and manage a business incubation unit that can be built into different types of institutions. 

After this session participants will understand what business incubation is, why it is something that every FFPO should aspire to, and how the different needs of men and women need to be taken into account in its design.

47:08 - Module 2: Define the scope, types of clients, their needs, skillsets and how to source them

In this session we discuss the geographical scope of the incubator, the types of clients they need, and other value chain actors with whom they will need to interact. 

After this session participants will be able to prepare data collection material and conduct a quick survey of potential enterprise clients and create the organisational structure and identify staffing needs and resources for a forest business incubator. 

1:36:54 - Module 3: Understand what services to offer, how to deliver them and follow-up

In this session we introduce the mixture of service types you can deliver through a pool of specialised staff and decide which services to develop internally and which ones to outsource to other actors in your network. 

By the end of this session participants will be able to assess the cost and benefit of different delivery options and be able to develop a management plan for running an incubator.