Business Plan Consultant for Social Enterprise

About Welthungerhilfe:

Deutsche Welthungerhilfe is a German non-denominational and politically independent non-profit and non-governmental aid agency working in the fields of development cooperation and humanitarian assistance. Welthungerhilfe's goal is to end hunger and poverty. Following the basic principle of help towards self-help, it works with local partner organizations to support the efforts of people in developing countries to free themselves from hunger and poverty and to provide for themselves on a sustainable basis. In Lebanon, Welthungerhilfe -WHH has started its operation in 2016. Since then, the main objective of the country programme has been to fight hunger through strengthening local agriculture, essential food value chains and resilience building.

WHH Lebanon is currently looking for a business plan consultant:

Under a value chain project funded by GIZ, our implementing partner will realize a post-harvest unit for cereals and pulses (short: cereals unit) as part of an agro-industrial incubator. The incubator is designed as a social enterprise aiming to support the farmers community in Baalbek and North Beqaa Region. This unit will offer a wide range of services for farmers (planting, cleaning, separating grains from straw, polishing and grading, metal detecting, and packaging).

Service Description

In order to ensure the sustainability of the project, WHH needs to develop a business plan that take into consideration the financial as well as the technical and the social aspects of the agro-industrial incubator.

The consultant will develop a wholistic business plan based on the social business model canvas covering the following:

1. The related challenge / need and suitability of our response
2. Market analysis (target market and trends, competitive environment)
3. Business case in order to assess the number of potential customers and projected sales volumes
4. The value proposition / competitive advantage
5. The main activities (service supply chain) and needed resources
6. Key partners and (including stakeholder analysis)
7. Cost analysis
8. Pricing strategy
9. Financial analysis (profitability, break-even point analysis, etc.)
10. Surplus (where do the business tends to reinvest profit / surplus)
11. Marketing strategy

In addition, the consultant is expected to conduct a technical feasibility and to develop a risk management plan and to guide us on the appropriate governance model (org chart, how it should be managed, how decisions are taken)

The consultant is expected to develop a roadmap and guidelines on how to structure, run, maintain, grow, and sustain the center in the best interest of its community (wheat and cereal farmers). The draft business-plan will be presented and discussed with WHH and the local implementing partner.

The consultant has to adopt WHH guidelines and templates for the business plan.

It will be necessary to travel at least one day to Baalbek and to meet with the organizers of the incubator there.

Tasks:

• Understanding the system of an agricultural industrial incubator
  • Understanding the situation of potential users
  • developing a viable business model and a competitive value proposition  (the services portfolio of the incubator)
  • Understanding the management structure and  the governance model of the incubator
  • Identification of the potential suppliers of the incubator
  • Identification of the potential clients of the incubator
• Understanding and advising on efficient management systems for the agricultural industrial incubator
• Calculating the costs of an agricultural industrial incubator
  • Estimating the required investment costs
  • Estimating the running costs (including the needed staff)
  • Identification of the related risks
  • Developing risk mitigation plan
  • Estimating the number of users
  • Estimating the income of the incubator
  • adopting 3 different scenarios
• Producing a report where all the necessary calculations are documented, and where different feasible scenarios are elaborated.

Deliverables:

1. Business Plan filled in according to the provided tool
2. Report where all the necessary calculations are documented, and where different feasible scenarios are elaborated.

Budget and schedule for study

Start: As soon as possible. Estimated duration of the task: 15 working days. The schedule shall later on be agreed on together before the actual implementation.

WHH’s budget is limited, please stick to local fees.

Expenses for necessary travels will be covered applying the WHH reimbursement scheme.