Consolidated sustanable development plan

To engage the unemployed youth in agro-based development using low cost methods and sustainability principles. To create jobs for the Zimbabwean youth through small scale agro-based projects which do not exceed $1000 in starting up bit can generate twice the amount per season or per turn. The idea is to engage the local community and empower them through greenhouse farming, small scale gardening, animal husbandry, online marketing and sustainable development in energy use and other aspects life water conservation and efficient production.  These activities are to be done on geographically separate places and maximum effort to be put on reducing reliability on arable land and rather the economics of space and knowledge of technology to reduce wasting space and resources. These sites will be development sections

The project seeks to address the unemployment of the youth, especially those who recently graduated from University. It provides a partnership approach to creating cooperatives with high intensity production which is agro-based and does not rely heavily on arable land to deliver results. Each small group will be given a $1000 start-up and expected to produce double in returns after the season. Records of their sustainability efforts in terms of water usage, energy, innovation and technology will be produced. The marketing and selling of produce will also be a cooperative under the fund which markets all the produce and are expected to make a return of double the invested amount. In Zimbabwe, more than three quarters the graduates are unemployed making a number of approximately 23,000 per annum of unemployed graduates for the past decade which gives 230,000 people (ZimStat; 2019). The economic state of the country and the unavailability of fund capital contributes to the challenge. 

This solution is a cooperative based approach to solving unemployment in young graduates. The solution seeks to reach out to graduates through an online platform and engage them in agro-based production of small scale projects which generate twice the amount of money invested as revenue. This project will look into the sustainability concepts of the developments and how the use of water, energy, innovation and technology is being implemented and at the end of a period the projects are reviewed and furthered. It will be a competition based projevt where the winners of the small scale projects get more shares of the profits to further the more sustainable project and the lesser projects are given the more competent members to further their sustainability objectives. The aim is to employ the youth especially graduates and teach them how to sustainably work and create wealth. The profits will sustain the livelihood of the youth and the sustainability will generate wealth and as they develop more they will become independent of the scheme and go their way to sustainably develop on their own.

The project seeks to help the unemployed youth especially university graduates. These youths have a need for income to sustain their livelihoods and employment to guarantee their security as they are seeking to get lives of their own without dependence on their parents/guardians. In that respect, this project seeks to address the employment and income needs of the youth by establishing local cooperatives which will produce agro-based products in their local environment for commercial purposes and they will compete amongst other cooperatives within the scheme. This pushes creativity towards sustainable development and innovation. The desired outcome is to achieve high income projects with the least input costs and to employ the youth with tangible profits. This will liberate the youth from seeking employment in the harsh economy and will push towards sustainable ideas for the greater good of the economy. 

The solution seeks to produce agro-based products in the most sustainable way regarding to use of land, energy, water, innovation on production and technology on sales and distribution. 

The solution seeks to enhance creativity in agro-based competitive cooperation setups where the participants have to exhibit qualities of sustainability and sustainable development in their production. This aligns with the desires of the competition because of the focus on sustainably solving agro-based production and doing it for income generation. 

This solution is innovative because it takes a community based approach at attempting to solve the unemployment problem through utilizing the natural advantages of land and availability of good climate for championing agro-based production initiatives in the modern day Zimbabwe. This is an innovative way of creating employment for the graduating youth who are full of energy, knowledge and competitive business ideas but are at a disadvantage of opportunity to showcase their talent and competence. Through this solution, the opportunity to solve food, land and economic problems is being presented in the form of competitions which heightens the ability to understand the sustainability need and to achieve the SDGs in a new fashionable model. This model presents the competition based on creating a web page on the Purpose Consultancy servers and uploading progress reports of the innovations each team is using in their project, there will be exam-based reporting procedures which will show the innovative water conservation and productive methods that the teams are employing. The produce is to be sold by a marketing team which will also be part of the competition and they will be involved in digital marketing and their innovation and use of technology to market will be tested as well. Adjudication will b through trusted bodies and NGOs. Criteria for the competition is mainly innovative agro-based development on small pieces of land beneath a hectare in size and from a low capital base. 

1. Web and Internet usage. The solution relies on the use of web-based data-capturing and internet based advertising, communication and marketing. This includes the creation of an online shop and a door-to-door delivery mechanism in order to counter the effects of Covid-19 and to increase efficiency in the production chain

2. Irrigation and smart farming. This project relies heavily on the use of technology in order to come up with the most economic way of high yields. The technologies and models involved in this project are to ensure that there is adequate water usage and conservation, counter-measures to erosion and climate change, address to afforestation and greenhousing to utilize soil, less reliance on arable land through innovative planting or animal rearing methods. 

3. Research and development. This project seeks to gather data on new production mechanisms being discovered in the process of the competitions. This will also include manufacturing of fertilizer from human and animal waste, the use of solar for irrigation and the value addition of product from the projects before hitting the market.  

The web-based record-keeping and marketing is popular technology in developed countries. This is the business model by Alibaba and Ebay. The difference is that the project will have a grocery shop which will have the same shipping facilities for the produce from the agro-based sites.

The irrigation schemes are common practice in horticulture and the harvesting of rain-water is common practice for the projects of such a smaller size in terms of land. The use of solar energy and other agricultural technologies like smart irrigation are common in Zimbabwe. 

The production of bio-gas and fertilizer from human waste and animal waste is technology in existence and being practiced although in small scale and with less intensity. 

In the short-term, the solution seeks to employ the unemployed graduates and involve them in productive agro-based projects in a competition setup. This will address the unemployment problem that the youth are facing in Zimbabwe. This will also see the production of agro-products. 

in the middle-term, the project will generate an income stream for the competitors and at the end the profits from the projects are reimbursed to the project teams and reinvested into the sustainability of their projects. This will ensure the continuity of their employment. The winners of the projects will be assisted in creating companies which will focus on the wining projects Those who do not win will remain under mentor-ship until their projects reach a sustainable level and the profits can sustain the projects. This creates job security and a permanent source of income for the project teams. 

In the long term, the project seeks to address unemployment and create decent work for the graduate youth. The project seeks to address the food shortage problem through producing agro-based products. The project will also aid in the innovation, industry and technology aspects of community through championing online shopping and reliance on technology for products. 

Current: 20

One year: 200

Five years: 200,000

1. The solution aims at reducing the number of unemployed youths and creating jobs through engaging them in competition-based projects which will generate income to sustain the project and to further develop and earn an income. The continued success of this project will see to the creation of jobs for the graduate youth in Zimbabwe. 

2. The solution seeks to make grocery farming a luxurious activity because people will be able to purchase things from the online store through online shopping which will increase the quality of life and embrace technological advances. 

3. The discovery of production technology and the efficiency in the production cycle is aimed at improving the nature of production and the newer methods will be introduced to small scale farmers who seek to grow their efficiency and thus the whole population of farmers will have access to training programs and will have the production technology at their disposal. 

1. The political involvement in the acquisition of large pieces of land to allow for many projects to use the facilities during the competition phases.

2. The economic capacity to afford the acquisition of material and the experienced personnel to mentor the contestants.

3. The logistical operations to allow for the competitors to be accommodated and fed and remunerated during the periods when the projects are not yet returning an income. 

1. To legally acquire land with title deeds through the assistance of lawyers in order to avoid disputes. If this fails, to enter a rental agreement with a farm to use as the base of operations for the period of 5 years whilst the project runs with an opportunity to renew the loan. 

2. To obtain grants and use profits from small scale project already running under the project in order to secure economic capacity to carry out the competitions

3. After obtaining the land to engage in a single season intensive crop farming in order to raise adequate capital to finance the projects and the challenges which follow. This will also see to the time to create and market the online shop which will be used as a selling point for the produce. With the revenue from the intensive farming, adequate finance to see the sustainability of the project will be achieved. The plans will be laid and the project will commence as planned. 

Full time : 5 people

                 These include the Project proponent and director (who is an accountant professionally), the computer expert, the agronomist, the marketing and business intelligence liaison officer and the engineer.

Contractors: 5

                 These are the people who assist in the harvesting of produce be it crop, fruit, vegetable or animals and birds. They offer services at the end of a production cycle. 

The accountant sees to the financial capacity of the project with his expertise. The business  intelligence and marketing liaison officer sees to the competitive positioning and securing of the market for the product. She accesses the market for the projects and competitions. The computer expert sees to the development and maintenance of the online functions, the storage of data and the progress and data capturing functions. The agronomist is an expert inspects, monitors and evaluates the progress of the small projects. She ensures the competence of all the projects and to ensure that they all fit within the criteria being required and are constantly in pursuit of the SDGs. The engineer is there to ensure that the innovation being made is feasible and correct. He is the think-tank for the project on the innovation from proposing the most economic methods and the best ways to economize on water conversations, energy use, climate action and green-efficiency. 

This team is uniquely compatible to undertake the effective pursuit of the  goals of this project. This gives us the enthusiastic energy to handle the situations presented to us easily because there is an expert in the fields of the project which need most attention and care. 

1. Market X; a marketing agency which works with the market and business intelligence liaison officer in coming up with the breaking markets.

2. Amigo Solutions PBC; a start-up tech company in Zimbabwe which we consult from and engage in accessing research material on trending sustainable development. 

The business seeks to create value from producing agricultural produce of animals and plants from small scale cooperative farming in a competition-like setup where project teams of unemployed graduates are formed and they work together in addressing the use of technology and innovation to create agro-based products. This will create the product which will be sold. The selling process is to be facilitated through an online shop run by a project-team focused on marketing and a door to door delivery service. We will nourish the community family diet with cheap and accessible natural diet. This will boost good health and reduce hunger in the community and with time in the global environment. The unemployed graduates who form part of the production cycle are in need of income and employment which the solutions will provide and the local community are in need of accessible online markets because of Covid-19 and the need for efficiency, with a need for healthy meals and nourishment. This business model seeks to make profits through the engagement of unemployed youth and creating jobs for them to produce agro-based products and provide the local community with quality food as an ed-product through a technologically efficient production delivery chain involving an online store for fresh farm produce to counter the effects of Covid-19. 

The application to solve is so that we can get the assistance technologically from the most competitive university in technology in the world. The application to become a solver also facilitates for the networking capacity beyond measure because the goal of Purpose Consultancy is to pursue SDGs in the period to 2030 and beyond, we feel that becoming Solvers will better position us to tackle the challenge with competitive mentor-ship. We seek to implement common technologies to solve everyday problems in a noble way, this helps to set examples to other community-oriented projects and as thus, becoming Solvers will help us to gain the much needed exposure which will further the cause for other people to become part of the pursuit for SDGs. 

We need technology solutions in our business model in order to handle the innovation capacity which we intend to harness in the course of the project-life cycle. 

The project to be a success requires a lot of start-up capital in terms of infrastructure and as such we need exposure to funding in order to secure the starting of the project. However the sustainability of the project is ensured by the revenue-generating nature of the project. Although there might be need for additional capital for asset development and technological investments resulting from the research and development nature of the project. As newer methods surface, so will stronger capital needs which may not be met with the operational profit made from the project.

There is need for assistance in marketing, media and exposure especially in exporting the produce and breaking into foreign markets (going global). 

1. MIT faculty - for innovation and technological advancements in agro-based production

2. UNDP (United Nations Development Plan)- for guidance on the implementation of the SDG pursuit agenda. 

3. FAO (Food Aid Organisation)- for the pursuit of the zero hunger sustainable development goal and how best our project can assist in this

4. US Embassy in Zimbabwe- for marketing and going global because of their reach and influence across the globe.  

This project seeks to address the unemployment problem of university graduates. In Zimbabwe, the most affected are female graduates and as such this project will consider greatly the female participants and grant them equal chances to compete with the male participants in the quest of efficiency and the pursuit of SDGs in an agro-based approach. This prize will be used in the acquisition of a farm and separate production site for competitions dedicated to female participants and this will be the sole purpose of this competition site. The project will then seek to understand how the ability of women to genetate sustainability solutions will impact the community and consider all the SDGs concerned in the project.