This presentation was presented by Selyna Peiris, representive of WFTO Asia during the APFSD Side Event on "SE-SDG Platforms: Towards Building Back Fairer in Asia and the Pacific" on March 25, 2021.

1. Selyna Peiris
Representative - World Fair Trade Organization Asia (WFTO Asia)
Director Business Development – Selyn Sri Lanka
Decent Work for All in
Sustainable Value Chains
Platform
Multi Stakeholder Platforms for Ensuring the
Recovery and Development of Social
Enterprises towards Leaving No One Behind in
Building Back Fairer

2. Decent Work for all in Sustainable Value
Chains (DW4AinSVCs) Platform
• Enable Social Enterprises working in sustainable value chains to seek help
building their enterprises in the post-Covid world
• Emphasis on building sustainable value chains with Covid exposing the gaps in
our current value chains.
• Enable bridging those gaps while furthering our mission to provide decent work.
• Enable partnerships, access up-to-date information, further market access and
create benefit for the participating organizations.
• Harness social entrepreneurship and social innovation as a pathway to ensure the
recovery of the social enterprise sector in Asia as partners in leaving no one
behind towards building back better

3. Decent Work for all in Sustainable Value
Chains (DW4AinSVCs) Platform
• Showcase case
studies of strong
SE models
• Venue for sharing (real)
experiences
• Initiate and support
research on decent
work, sustainable
production, and
consumption
• Documenting best practices
and cutting-edge practices
• Education mechanism
for decent work and
sustainable production
and consumption
• Accelerator Program that
would help prepare
SMEs/SEs to become full-
pledged Fair Trade
Enterprises
• Capacity-building
for SE/FTE Market
access and linkage

4. We are the global
community of social
enterprises that practice
Fair Trade. Our Guarantee
System verifies that our
members are truly Fair
Trade Enterprises. This
means they pioneer
models of business that
put people and planet first.

5. We are an Asian collective of
producers, trade and development
organizations, and advocates in the
region, commits itself to build
sustainable and resilient livelihoods of
disadvantaged producers through Fair
Trade and to speak out for greater
trade justice.

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Timeline

10. Fair Trade
COVID-19
Response
We Care. We Protect.
We are Fair Trade.
People’s Mask
Distribution Map
Malaysia
Cambodia
Bangladesh
Armenia
India
Nepal
Philippines
Thailand
Sri
Lanka
Indonesia
Hong
Kong
APPROX 700,000 MASK
PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED
TO DATE
2% recovery funds (stimulus funds)

11. SELYN IS A SUCCESSFUL WOMEN-LED FAIR TRADE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE THAT IN
OPERATING FROM AND WORKING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS SRI LANKA AND
EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS.
ACCESS TO WORK
• Flexible working model
• Nurturing entrepreneurs
• Committed to paying a fair
wage and providing consistent
work
• Child-care facilities
SKILLS TO EMPOWER
• Health & Wellness
• Financial management
• Leadership &
Entrepreneurship
development.
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD
DEVELOPMENT
• 10 workshops in the rural
outskirts
• 200+ homeworkers
• 200+ directly employed
• 90% women

13. THANK YOU
#PeoplesMask
#FairTradePPE
#FairTradeCares
#WFTOAsia
#WFTO