10th APFSD Associated Event: Fourth Social Enterprise Advocacy and Leveraging Asia Conference Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Partnerships: Towards Inclusive Recovery and Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals

Welcome Remarks: 

Pak Rahmad Riyadi, Chairperson of Dompet Dhuafa and Co-Chairperson, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia

Keynote Addresses:

ESCAP (TBC)
Office of Social Enterprise Promotion, Thailand

Moderator:

Marie Lisa Dacanay
President, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia

Photo Session

This plenary is co-organized by the Women’s Empowerment, Livelihoods and Food in Agricultural Value Chains (WE LIVE FOOD) Platform co-convened by Bina Swadaya (Indonesia) and Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (Vietnam) which was launched during the 3rd SEAL Conference. The Platform promotes a set of Benchmarks and Guidelines for Transformational Partnerships and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agricultural Value Chains as part of Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South-East Asia (GRAISEA) implemented by Oxfam and supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok.

Panel of Speakers featuring representatives of SMEs/SEs and Corporate Agribusinesses that have adopted/adopting the Benchmarks:

Charlene Tan, Founder and CEO, Good Food Community (Philippines)

Yustina Erna Widiastuti, Director, Toko Trubus

Ho Thu Phuong Anh, Director, Vien Minh Company

Moderator: Pham Oanh Kieu, Founder and CEO, CSIP and Co-Convener, WE LIVE FOOD Platform

Perspectives from representatives of government, multilateral agencies and corporate agribusiness on the Guidelines and Benchmarks:

Maria Katrina Bayog-Mercado, CSR Manager, PILMICO & Gold Coin Group

Maria Pamela Castro, Manager, Pilipinas Shell

Miguel Musngi, Asst Director, Poverty Eradication and Gender Division, ASEAN

Sudha Gooty, Programme Manager, Social Development Division, UNESCAP

Moderator: Sohail Aziz, Programme Management Lead, Oxfam GB

Gustaff Harriman Iskandar, Common Room, Indonesia
Carlos Rey-Moreno, Co-Lead Local Networks, Association of Progressive Communications

Launch of the Technological Innovations for Sustainable Development Platform co-convened by the Association of Progressive Communications, Angels of Impact and ISEA

MOA Signing Ceremony between the Association of Progressive Communications and Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia

This plenary is co-organized by the Rural Revitalization, Youth and Social Entrepreneurship Platform that was launched in July 2022 and co-convened by Sources for Action (China), Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (Philippines), Rural Reconstruction Nepal (Nepal). It shall feature young social entrepreneurs and enabling programs for youth towards rural revitalization and sustainable development.

Ganyong Wei, Program Manager, Sources for Action (China)

Ronnel Acio, Manager, Vizcaya Fresh (Philippines)

Moderator: Marlon Palomo, Executive Director, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement/ Co-Convener, RR, Youth and SE Platform

This plenary is co-organized by Decent Work for All in Sustainable Value Chains Platform co-convened by World Fair Trade Organization-Asia and the Asia-South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education

This plenary is co-organized by Health for All Platform co-convened by Yayasan Dompet Dhuafa (Indonesia) and Sustainable Healthcare Advancement or SUHAM (India)

Keynote Address:

Jason Jacobs
Co-Chairperson, Catalyst 2030 Australasia Chapter
Director, Te Mana Consortium

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This session is co-organized by Social Enterprise Thailand and shall feature significant social enterprise initiatives and the opportunities and challenges faced by the sector in engaging government to implement the new Social Enterprise Law as an enabling policy for social enterprises as partners in inclusive recovery and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the situation and context of social enterprises. Many SEs faced drastic cuts in revenues, slowed down or even shut down their operations even as a significant number innovated their way towards ensuring they were able to sustain their services and partnerships with the poor and marginalized sectors who were affected the most. A number of social enterprises pivoted to other value chains or diversified their services. Meanwhile the ranks of the poor and marginalized have swelled and new needs have surfaced during the pandemic creating an even bigger demand for social enterprises to expand their coverage and for new social enterprises to be set up. COVID-19 CRESCENT initiative was conceived to address the major challenges brought about by the pandemic and to help develop new and assist existing social enterprises to recover, reposition, pivot and innovate. This plenary aims to share the evolving CRESCENT initiative co-developed by SE stakeholders in Asia Pacific and explore the opportunities and potentials for partnership with key stakeholders in the region towards inclusive recovery, building back fairer and accelerating the SDGs.

Panelists:
Jonathan Wong, Chief of Technology and Innovation, TIID UNESCAP
The role of social enterprises in addressing the challenges and gaps of SDG implementation in the Asia Pacific region

Marie Lisa Dacanay, President, ISEA
CRESCENT: An Asia Pacific response towards inclusive recovery and accelerating the SDGs,

Jeroo Billimoria, Founder, Catalyst 2030
Financing social entrepreneurship initiatives towards inclusive recovery and accelerating the SDGS: Opportunities and challenges

Moderator: Laina Greene, Founder, Angels of Impact

Highlights:
Conference Declaration
Commitments from practitioners and enablers
Closing Messages
Oxfam in Asia
Catalyst 2030
APC
SE Thailand
ISEA