Social entrepreneurship is an emerging concept in Nepal that aims to solve social problems through innovative business solutions. Several organizations have emerged that exemplify social entrepreneurship, such as Maiti Nepal which works to prevent human trafficking, and the Nepal Ambulance Service which provides free ambulance services. While social entrepreneurship is gaining momentum in Nepal, it still faces challenges such as limited funding options and difficulties measuring its social impact.

1. Whenever society is stuck or has an
opportunity to seize a new opportunity, it
needs an entrepreneur to see the
opportunity and then to turn that vision
into a realistic idea and then a reality and
then, indeed, the new pattern all across
society. We need such entrepreneurial
leadership at least as much in education
and human rights. This is the work of
social entrepreneurs.
-Bill Drayton Founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
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2. Presentation on “Emergence of
Social entrepreneurship in
Nepal”
Presented By:
Anushuya Dahal
Bishal Khanal
Dinesh Adhikari
Ganesh Neupane
Gyanesh Bajracharya
(MBA , IV ‘B’, Group-1)

3. Introduction
▪ Social entrepreneurship is innovative, social value creation activity
that can occur within or across nonprofit, business, and public
sectors.
▪ Social entrepreneurship is defined the way of using resources to
create benefits for the society through innovation and risk taking .
▪ Social entrepreneurship is the field that allows observation of how
social problems can be solved in a sustainable way.
▪ Conventional entrepreneurs typically measure performance in
profit and return, but social entrepreneurs take into account a
positive return to society.
▪ In the field of social affairs, there has been demonstrated the
importance of social entrepreneurs to solve social problems in
relation to the state, having the role to endorse social
entrepreneurship.
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4. Social Entrepreneurship in Nepal
▪ Nepal is suffering from many problems, the most visible being widespread
poverty and inequality.
▪ The political realities are not pretty, and yet the people of Nepal go about their
lives with hard work and dignity.
▪ Only by putting all the people to gainful employment can the nation turn a
page.
▪ Creation of employment, as is widely accepted, needs able entrepreneurs.
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▪ The culture for social entrepreneurship in Nepal lacks strength and
vigor.
▪ Nepal needs a movement that provides entrepreneurs with avenues to
fight for their dreams and to showcase to everyone that their journeys
create livelihoods for others, leading to prosperity.
Solution….?????
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Channel of Social entrepreneurship
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8. ▪ A group of socially committed professionals
like teachers, journalists and social workers
together formed Maiti Nepal in 1993 to fight
against all the social evils inflicted upon our
female populace.
▪ Maiti's focus has always been on prevention of
girl trafficking, a burning issue for Nepal.
▪ Rescuing girls forced into prostitution and
helping to find economic alternatives have
been key struggle of Maiti Nepal.
▪ It has highlighted the trafficking issue with its
strong advocacy from the local to national and
international levels.
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9. The Nepal Ambulance Service (NAS) is a non-profit initiative
dedicated to the establishment of an emergency medical response
system (EMS) in Kathmandu and Patan municipalities, later to be
expanded nationwide.
This system provides rapid ambulance transport to hospitals
along with life-saving medical care by trained emergency medical
technicians (EMTs) for sick and injured people regardless of their
ability to pay.
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10. Nepali Host Family is a Non-profit volunteer organization,
Founded in 2006.
 Nepali Host Family has been providing volunteering and
internships programs in Nepal since many years.
Nepali Host Family also offers cultural exchange
program, home-stays in Nepal, Nepali language classes
and Nepali cooking classes to make sure that visitors
get the taste of the authentic things Nepal has to offer.
Nepali Host Family’s program is available from one week to
five months and any individual from 18 to 65 years of age
can apply. No specific experience is required.
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11. Change Fusion Nepal was established in 2008
The organization focuses on creating successful social enterprises that impact the daily
lives of underprivileged youth in Nepal.
The organization’s mission is to support and empower young social entrepreneurs in
Nepal with original ideas, solutions, dedication and vision for social change, in order
to transform their dreams into reality.
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12. Biruwa was established in 2011.
 Biruwa provides business consulting services, mentoring for those who need to overcome
business challenges and financing under a venture via a competition called Udhyami Seed Fund.
It helps create and setup shared office spaces at minimum costs, it provides business
consulting services, mentoring for those who need to overcome business challenges and
financing under a venture that provides seed funding to the aspiring entrepreneurs via a
competition called Udhyami Seed Fund.
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13. Environmental Camps for
Conservation Awareness [ECCA]
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o ECCA was established in 1987 as a non
profit, non political, non government
organization. affiliated with Social
Welfare Council.
o Environmental Camps for Conservatio
Awareness (ECCA) has been a leading
organization in the sector of social
mobilization and community
development.
o It implements various programmes so as
to raise the quality of life through wise-
use of available local resources and
application of alternate and renewable
technologies.
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14. “Social Entrepreneurship is Gaining Momentum”
▪ The concept of social entrepreneurship is fairly
new, but is gaining momentum lately
▪ Surya Nepal Asha Social Entrepreneurship
Award (SNASEA) was conceived in the year
2011 to recognize such hidden heroes of Nepal.
▪ In the first year of SNASEA in 2011, 66
applications were received, five hidden heroes
were awarded for their achievements.
▪ In 2012, 84 applications from 13 zones and 29
districts. In 2013, there were 119 applicants from
14 zones and 40 districts.
▪ The number of awardees has been increasing
each year, which shows increasing trend of
participation and the emergence of social
entrepreneurs.
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Funding
oSocial enterprises can be run as for-profit or non-profit and sit somewhere in the middle of
the traditional corporation and a purely charitable organization.
o Some organizations are able to generate sufficient income through the sale of socially
beneficial goods or services, but many are not.
oOther funding opportunities include corporate investment, donations and government
funding.
Communicating Value Objectively
The social enterprise delivers more than commercial value, and it is the additional social
value that often ignites the passion of the social entrepreneur.
This in combination with the fact that social value is not easily measured can make it difficult
to communicate the bottom line to investors, donors or the community at large.
 It is important to stay objective to remain convincing, and to make the right decisions in
moving the enterprise toward its goals.
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Strategy and Long-Term Focus
It is important to any business to
identify a long-term strategy, define
appropriate goals and drive growth in
a sustainable manner.
Difficulties for social enterprises again
stem from the fact that the purpose of
the organization is to create social
benefits.
Remaining True to the Mission
Establishing a good strategy for the
social enterprise will help to mitigate
the possibility of mission creep.
It is often easier to fight fires and not
focus on the long-term goals of the
organization, but this could result in
an undesirable shift in the social value
provided.
A successful organization will
continuously review strategy and
work to improve it, but changes in the
mission can cause confusion and
dilute the organization's impact.
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17. ▪ Social entrepreneurship is emerging concept for Nepal.
▪ Social entrepreneurship has recently emerged as a field of academic inquiry.
▪ Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society's most
pressing social problems.
▪ Invest revenue is a social and environmental goal as part of bottom line.
▪ Target long term change rather than single-instance effect.
▪ It promote development of entrepreneurial skills.
▪ There has been developed various social entrepreneurial activities at Nepal.
▪ Social entrepreneur is gaining momentum recent years.
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