Good Life X Garage SMES become catalysts of new economy
Good Life X (GLX) Garage was very much an innovative experiment to take the best of Sri Lanka to the world!
Good Life X brought together 5 sustainable SMES in the food, agriculture and design sectors who were seizing opportunities to be different, innovative and wanted to take on the global ‘conscious consumers’ by storm.
As part of a larger programming portfolio of the Good Life X, the Garage focuses on personalized coaching and interventions for SMES to seize opportunities in order to infuse innovation, update their approaches or refocus their strategies, and further entrench themselves along ethical and sustainable missions and practices to deliver to the growing global market of conscious consumers.
This round of the programme initiated in October 2020, was facilitated by GIZ SME Sector Development project, with the special funding received from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the Small and Medium scale enterprise sector in Sri Lanka.
The specialty of this programme was its nature and approach to problem solving and how it brought together 9 experts from 5 continents, representing diverse fields of expertise to work together in a 5-month period to ignite innovation in the participating enterprises. This ignited exciting, proactive discussions in strategizing, best practice sharing, actionizing for resilience in the face of the contextual uncertainty, andsteering implementation of each SMES specific goals. The success of Garage is today well represented in the positive disruptions courageously undertaken along with global business growth of each enterprise.
The GLX Garage’s 2020 cohort comprised of five enterprises from design and agro/food sectors. House endipol, Target Agriculture, and Ceylon Exports and Trading benefitted from the international knowledge sharing, and customized strategies in building shortterm resilience and long term growth, while creating opportunities for their cutting edge solutions to come in to global markets.
The GLX garage programme is scheduled to conclude its first successful cohort on April 01st, where they will take the stage at the special GLX Splash Event “The Future of Asia: Leading the way through sustainability”.