Last February 22, ISEA and its partner organizations conducted an Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) Side Event titled, “Enabling Social Enterprises towards Innovative Solutions to Eradicate Poverty and Reinforce the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific” in a hybrid format where face-to-face participants joined in Bangkok, Thailand and via Zoom for online participants.
The participants learned some social enterprise policies in Thailand and the Philippines with the resource speakers and reactors namely:
Dr. Marie Lisa Dacanay (Moderator)
President, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
Convener, Catalyst 2030 SouthEast Asia Chapter
Focal Point, Social & Community Enterprise Constituency, APRCEM
Ms. Ayaka Matsuno (Opening Remarks)
Director, Gender Investment and Innovation Program, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Hon. Jose Manuel Alba (Keynote Speaker)
House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines
Champion, Poverty Reduction through Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT) Bill
Mrs. Napa Setthakorn (Speaker)
Director, Office of Social Enterprise Promotion (OSEP), Thailand
Undersecretary Ma. Cristina Roque (Speaker)
MSME Development Group, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Philippines
Ms. Tarlapraporn Punyorin (Reactor)
General Manager, SE Thailand
Mr. Arjun Bhattarai (Reactor)
National Coordinator, Nepal Development Initiative (NEDI)
Ms. Buyoung Cho (Reactor)
Country Director, CAMP International
Mr. Jonathan Wong (Closing Remarks)
Chief of Innovation, Enterprise and Investment, United Nations ESCAP
In case you missed it, here’s the full video of our session: https://youtu.be/OVDA9wkl3fs
This hybrid event is organized by the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA), Catalyst 2030, and the Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism – Social and Community Enterprise Constituency in partnership with the Office of Social Enterprise Promotion (OSEP) Thailand, DTI Philippines, Poverty Reduction Through Social Entrepreneurship Coalition (PRESENT Coalition), Social Enterprise Thailand, and Sasakawa Peace Foundation.