This document discusses social entrepreneurship and poverty reduction through social entrepreneurship (PRESENT) in the Philippines. It provides background on social entrepreneurship as a global phenomenon in response to economic crises. It then discusses social enterprises with the poor as primary stakeholders (SE-PPS) and their role as innovative change agents. The document outlines the PRESENT initiative to develop SE-PPS as partners of the poor in strategic economic subsectors. It discusses the proposed PRESENT Bill and Coalition to institutionalize support for social entrepreneurship and poverty reduction. Key points include codifying incentives, support programs for SE-PPS, and potential areas of collaboration with government agencies.
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Why go co-op? How do co-ops strengthen our regional food system and economy? Co-ops are an effective model for business succession, retaining jobs, and rooting businesses in communities. Learn about the process of start-up, conversion and operation, and share your ideas for a co-op in your community.
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Learn how Real Pickles made the decision to convert from a sole proprietorship to a worker co-op and explore the process that led to the conversion, including a successful community investment campaign.
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This presentation by Erbin Crowell, Executive Director, Neighboring Food Co-op Association and Roger Noonan, President, New England Farmers Union, covers how co-operatives benefit their member-owners, farmers, consumers, and the food system. Learn how your operation could benefit by being part of a producer/marketing co-operative, and discover the steps involved in setting one up.
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This presentation from the 2016 Northeast Organic Farming Association conference gives an overview of how the co-operative enterprise is a powerful tool for farmers seeking more efficient marketing and a more sustainable food system. It covers examples from our region, steps to establishing a co-op, advice for effective governance and collaboration, and opportunities to access grant resources to support your ideas.
Presenters: Roger Noonan of New England Farmers Union (NEFU) and Erbin Crowell, Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA).
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As part of its mandate to guide and define the role of the private sector in poverty reduction and inclusive development, the UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) produced the “Barriers and Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid” foundational report. Developed by an interdisciplinary team of 18 leading poverty experts, the report leverages an ecological approach to understanding barriers to poverty reduction. The report presents poverty as a complex web of accumulating and interacting disadvantages facing people living in poverty, which in turn, sustain and perpetuate a life of socioeconomic exclusion. The barriers are clustered into five broad categories: Early Developmental Barriers, Health Barriers, Skill Barriers, Social Barriers, and Decision-making Barriers.
How to Start or Convert to a Co-operative BusinessNFCACoops
This presentation from the 46th NOFA Summer Conference is for folks interested in establishing your food/farm business as a legacy and retaining jobs using the co-operative business structure. Co-ops root business in communities, strengthen buy-in, build a resilient & sustainable economy. Learn how co-ops work, the start-up process, benefits of conversion & track record. Hear from those who’ve converted their business to the co-op model, members from worker co-ops, and co-op developers.
Presenters:
Bonnie Hudspeth, Co-op Developer, Neighboring Food Co-op Association.
Adam Trott, Executive Director, Valley Alliance of Worker Co-ops & Shared Capital Co-operative, Member Relations Director.
Co-ops and Their Role in the Collaborative Economy and Growing a Conscious Bu...NFCACoops
Co-operative businesses offer unique models for collaborative entrepreneurship—an effective tool for economic development that roots infrastructure in the community through member ownership and democratic governance. Whether you are interested in starting a new business, considering converting an existing business to co-op ownership, or want to learn about alternative models for food system development, this presentation from the 2017 Slow Living Summit is for you. This presentation includes perspectives from worker, farmer, and retail food co-ops on how co-operative business provides a vehicle for collaborative entrepreneurship and the role that co-ops play in building more sustainable, resilient and participatory food systems and economies.
With Erbin Crowell, Neighboring Food Co-op Association; Sabine Rhyne, Brattleboro Food Co-Op; Kristin Howard, Real Pickles Co-op & Tony Risitano, Sales Manager at Deep Root Organic Co-op
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John Restakis, executive director of the British Columbia Co-op Association and author of “Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital,” asserts that it is the disconnection between conventional economics and social ends that lies at the heart of our economic crisis, and that co-operatives offer a powerful economic model to reconnect and relate social goals with economic practice.
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- Bonnie Hudspeth, Co-operative Development, Neighboring Food Co-op Association.
- Ruth Garbus, Brattleboro Food Co-op
- Sarah Kanabay, Outreach and Communications Manager, Franklin Community Co-op.
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This presentation was part the Co-op Track at the 2019 NOFA Summer Conference. Looking to start a business or for a business succession plan that retains jobs and builds economic sustainability? Co-ops root business in communities, strengthen buy-in, and build resilient and sustainable economy and food systems. Learn how co-ops work, the startup process, benefits of conversion, financing, and history. Presenters will shares stories of the process of converting businesses to the co-op model, starting worker co-ops, food co-ops and producer co-ops.
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-Larisa Demos, Worker/member-owner Green Mountain Spinnery, Board of Directors, Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives.
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1. Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
Marie Lisa Dacanay
President, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
PRESENT Multisectoral Forum Series Launch; June 29, 2012
2. ABC of Poverty Reduction
through Social Entrepreneurship
PRESENT as Aspiration
The PRESENT Bill
The PRESENT Coalition
Convergence for PRESENT
4. “Social entrepreneurship entails innovations
designed to explicitly
improve societal well-being,
housed within
entrepreneurial organizations,
which initiate, guide or
contribute to change in society”
(Perrini, 2006)
5. Social Entrepreneurship:
GLOBAL PHENOMENON: RESPONSE TO CRISIS
US:
◦ economic downturn in 70s and 80s huge cutbacks of
federal funding to NGOs
Europe:
◦ crisis of welfare states in 80s retreat from public services +
phenomenon of structural unemployment WISE
Countries in the South/Philippines:
◦ continuing crisis of development in 90s: massive
poverty and inequality
SE-PPS: Social Enterprises with the Poor as
Primary Stakeholders
6. Social Enterprise with the Poor as Primary
Stakeholders (SE-PPS):
social mission- driven wealth creating organizations
Private enterprise Social enterprise
Stockholders/ Primary Poor /Marginalized sectors:
proprietors: owners of stakeholders/ engaged as suppliers, workers,
capital beneficiaries clients and/or owners; partners
in poverty reduction
Single bottom line: Primary Double or triple bottom line:
profit objectives poverty reduction, (social),
environmental; financial
sustainability as supportive
objective
Accumulative: enrich Enterprise Distributive: positive benefits
individual owners of philosophy accrue to society specially
capital oftentimes with among broad segments of poor
negative social and
environmental costs
7.
8.
9.
10. Social Enterprises with the Poor
as Primary Stakeholders (SE-PPS)
AS INNOVATIVE CHANGE AGENTS
provide the poor a combination of
transactional and transformational services:
‘Poverty as deprivation of basic capabilities’(Sen,1999; 2009)
not just low income
positively contribute to creation of economic
and social value: much of value created not
recognized by mainstream market economy
use combination of principles as actors in
economic development: market, redistribution
reciprocity, solidarity, sustainability
11. PRESENT: Developing SE-PPS as Partners
of Poor in Strategic Economic Subsectors
Single social enterprise interventions limited
in terms of impact and sustainability
Importance of interventions at the level of
economic subsectors network of related
actors and enterprises performing various
functions in competing value chains; may be
identified by major raw material source,
finished product or final service provided
12. PRESENT: Developing SE-PPS as Partners of
Poor in Strategic Economic Subsectors
Strategic Economic Subsectors
◦ have a potential for growth
◦ large numbers of the poor are players or could
become players
Examples of strategic economic subsectors
where SE-PPS are already playing key roles:
coco coir, muscovado sugar, organic rice, essential oils,
bamboo, educational toys , school chairs, brewed coffee
13. Pilipinas Ecofiber: Social Enterprise Value
Chain Intervention in Coco Coir Subsector
Coco fiber Coir ropes Geonets,
Coconut plant liners, Final
& &
husks trays, etc. sale
cocopeat mats
Engaged in the extraction of fiber & peat from coconut husks, and the
processing of fiber into high quality stitched & woven coir products for
sale in the Philippines and abroad.
Weavers &
Plant
Husk Rural workers Edgers Traders
Rural coops workers Associat’ns
collectors Twining
direct
Plant
agents workers
buyers
Organized to link input providers, small producers & processors, with
traders & distributors of various coir products, and to coordinate the
activities of the former in order to meet the requirements of final users.
14.
15. Poverty Reduction through
Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT)
◦ Aspiration of SE-PPS to scale
up impact through innovative
partnerships with government
16. THE PRESENT BILL
Partnership with Congress to
institutionalize Poverty
Reduction Through Social
Entrepreneurship
17. PRESENT Bill: Main Features
Objective:
◦ Provide a nurturing environment for the
development and growth of social enterprises as
major vehicles for poverty reduction
Enacts:
◦ planning and implementation of a National Poverty
Reduction Through Social Entrepreneurship
(PRESENT) Program
◦ led by a Commission on Social Enterprises under the
Office of the President
18. PRESENT Bill: Main Features
National PRESENT Program:
◦ Development of strategic economic subsectors with
potentials for growth and where the poor are
concentrated or could be major players
◦ Benefits to the poor: increased incomes and
capability to improve their means of living
as workers, suppliers, clients and/or owners of SEs in
strategic economic subsectors
as partners in economic and social development
◦ Overall Outcome: substantive poverty reduction
19. PRESENT Bill:
Support Programs for SE-PPS
Provision of accessible non-collateralized
loans thru special credit windows with a
Guarantee Fund Pool
Comprehensive insurance system to reduce
vulnerability to climate change/calamities
Resources for comprehensive capacity
development for SEs and poor as partners
20. PRESENT Bill:
Support Programs for SE-PPS
Mainstream SE content in formal
educational system
Proactive SE market development program
promoting principles of fair trade
R&D on strategic economic subsectors;
appropriate technologies; and innovations
to democratize access of poor to quality
basic social services
Recognition and support for LGUs in
developing social enterprises
21. PRESENT Bill:
Incentives for SE-PPS
Preferential treatment in government
procurement including coverage of
performance bonds
Tax exemptions and tax breaks for SE-PPS and
social investors
Cash incentives (i.e. at least 25% of minimum
wage for social enterprises employing PWDs)
22. PRESENT Bill Initiative: Strategic Rationale
◦ PRESENT Bill as a codification of agenda for
change to assist poor overcome poverty resulting
from state and market failures thru their effective
participation in SE-PPS
◦ PRESENT Bill as codification of incentives and
support for SE-PPS as major partners of
government in poverty reduction
24. PRESENT Coalition: main actors
Co-Convenors: FSSI & Ateneo Sch of Gov’t
Members of Steering Committee include
◦ PhilSEN
◦ WFTO-Asia/Philippines
◦ INAFI-Philippines
◦ Eagle’s Wings Dev’t Foundation
◦ Bote Central/ Philippine Coffee Alliance
◦ Pilipinas Ecofiber Corporation
◦ Hapinoy/MVI
◦ Foundation for TheseAbled
◦ PRRM
◦ ISEA
25. PRESENT Coalition: initiative to unite
what was once a fragmented sector
Basis of Unity:
o Push for the enactment and implementation of the
PRESENT Bill
o Undertake a nationwide education campaign on
SE
as vehicles for poverty reduction
o Develop standards and benchmarks for self-
regulation and development of sector
26. PRESENT Coalition: Microcosm, Voice and
Action Network of Emerging SE Sector
Informed estimate of Philippine SE sector: +/- 30,000
Various Actors:
◦ Fair Trade Organizations (crafts, agri-business, processed food)
◦ CSO-initiated SEs serving various segments of the poor (agri-based
processing; trading and marketing in upland, lowland, coastal
communities; important players in sustainable agriculture and forestry-
related enterprises)
◦ Cooperatives (agriculture/agri-business; savings and credit; social
services)
◦ Faith-based organizations espousing a solidarity economy
◦ Social welfare-oriented enterprises serving disadvantaged groups (PWDs,
women and children)
◦ Micro Finance Institutions
◦ SEs initiated by young professionals (fashion, processed food, services to
micro-enterprises)
◦ SMEs with double or triple bottom line
◦ Management and consulting services for SEs/micro-enterprises
◦ SE Service, Resource and Advocacy Institutions/Networks
28. Possible Action Points with NGAs:
Invest in strategic PRESENT research
Undertake a comprehensive study to define
the most strategic economic subsectors to
undertake PRESENT programs. (NEDA)
Undertake a national profiling of the social
enterprise sector to better ground
government-social enterprise convergence
initiatives. (NAPC)
29. Possible Action Points with NGAs:
Begin the paradigm shift towards PRESENT
Explore the reconfiguration of existing
resources or develop new programs with ODA
donors to
◦ Undertake initiatives to address bottlenecks
negatively affecting social enterprise growth
◦ Evolve structures and systems that would inform the
IRR (Implementing Rules and Regulations) of the
PRESENT Bill
30. Possible Action Points with NGAs:
Evolve best practices in PRESENT
Develop social enterprise-government
convergence initiatives
◦ As part of the socio-economic component of government’s
thrust in 609 poorest municipalities identified by NAPC
◦ As a key component of priority industries for national
convergence identified by DTI
◦ To strengthen/enhance the thrust of DA in organic/
sustainable agriculture
coco coir; organic rice; muscovado; coffee; school chairs;
educational toys; bamboo
31. Possible Action Points with NGAs:
Pursue PRESENT innovations
Establish a planning, monitoring, evaluation body
and system to evolve effective, transparent,
corruption-free public procurement schemes and
mechanisms involving SEPPS
◦ coco coir, organic fertilizer, community-based processing
equipment for coffee, educational toys, school chairs
In cooperation with bank and non-bank-financial
institutions, pilot risk-based lending with a
Guarantee Fund Pool for SEPPS
Pilot the development of insurance schemes to
address the vulnerability of SEPPS and the poor to
natural disasters and climate change
32. Possible Action Points with NGAs:
Pursue PRESENT innovations
Set up a pilot Social Enterprise Development Fund
to support capability building of social enterprises
Evolve a market development program promoting
the principles of fair trade in partnership with SEPPS
Pilot social enterprise-based social protection
schemes and the efficient/ effective delivery of
quality basic social services in preparation for a
post-CCT scenario
Explore appropriate tax incentives for SEPPS
33. Concluding Remarks:
PRESENT COALITION’s ASPIRATION
STRONG, PROACTIVE & INNOVATIVE SE SECTOR with
a SIGNIFICANT CITIZEN BASE
+
GOVERNMENT PLAYING DEVELOPMENTAL ROLE thru
SUCCESSFUL CONVERGENCE EFFORTS
+
RELEVANT SUPPORT from SOCIAL INVESTORS
SE-PPS as MAJORITY OF VIBRANT SME SECTOR in
the COUNTRY
SUBSTANTIVE POVERTY REDUCTION