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Context & Proposal for ADBs Strategy 2030
For ADB to be a bank that really matters to more than half of the
worlds population, Strategy 2030 needs to impact
on the poor and women in Asia contribute to resolving development
paradox of ECONOMIC GROWTH with
CONTINUING POVERTY
RISING INEQUALITY
LOW PROSPECTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
MAIN PROPOSAL:
INCORPORATE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN STRATEGY 2030:
as an engagement principle
as a strategic business area
What is social entrepreneurship?
What are social enterprises?
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES: hybrid
SOCIAL ENTRERPENEURSHIP organizations transformational
recognizing, growing & partners of the poor and women
mainstreaming social enterprises as in the economy
key partners in multi-stakeholder Social Mission Wealth Distributive
Driven Creating Enterprise
innovation platforms to enable the Philosophy
poor and women at the grassroots Main reason for Generate Much of value &
(a) to become stakeholders in being positive social, wealth created
developing inclusive, sustainable improve quality environmental & accrues to,
of life of economic value benefits or
economies; marginalized distributed to the
(b) to partake of the value & wealth contribute to % or all of poor and
created in ways that transform their poverty revenues are marginalized as
lives, communities and living reduction or generated primary
alleviation through sale of stakeholders
environments.
products or
services
WEE SERVE ASIA CONFERENCE (April 20-21, 2017)
OPERTIONALIZED A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP-FRAMED MULTISTAKEHOLDER
INNOVATION PLATFORM IN AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAINS
BENCHMARKS FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS THAT IMPACT ON
WOMEN AND MEN SMALL SCALE PRODUCERS IN AVCs
Pin (Thailand) heads the fish processing and slicing group of the Association of Thai
Fisherfolk Federations Fisherfolk Enterprise, assisted by Oxfam to develop the Blue
Brand of responsibly-fished, formalin- free seafood that allows fishers to earn up to 100%
more. Pin trains women fishers to ensure they produce quality and standardized Blue Brand
products marketed through Fisherfolk Shops and Lemon Farm, a Bangkok-based social
enterprise chain of groceries.
Ly Thi Dung (Vietnam) is part of an Interest Group that DRAGON organized among the
Hmong people. Exporting fresh and processed ginger carrying the Global G.A.P Standard,
DRAGON has enabled indigenous women like Dung to diversify their farms to sustainably
cultivate ginger, making them earn 5-10 times more compared to their income from corn.
Wasti (Indonesia) is the chairperson of ISM Sinar Abadi Cooperative, organized by Dompet
Dhuafas KMM, to serve as vehicle for enabling assetless mussel strippers to become owners
of bagans, the means of production for mussels, and to engage in processing and trading
green mussels. Wasti and the women she leads have been transformed from being receivers
of alms or zakat (mustahik) to givers of zakat (muzzaki).
Concluding Remarks
The social enterprise sector is prepared to partner with the ADB
and its member governments to incorporate
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP in Strategy 2030
as an engagement principle
as a strategic business area