On May 2020, ISEA President, Dr. Marie Lisa Dacanay, who is also the 2019 Social Innovator Thought Leader Awardee of Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Focal Point of the Social and Community Enterprise Constituency of the Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (AP-RCEM), introduced the COVID-19 Social Enterprise Response and Visioning Effort (SERVE) in Asia. She also shared a pilot in the Philippines to scale up vegetable seed-to-table systems for food security.
This was her Catalyzing Change session as part of Catalyst2030, a global initiative of social innovators collaborating in this urgent moment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Catalyst 2030, a global movement of social entrepreneurs and social innovators wanting to contribute to accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has initiated a global round table discussion on various themes towards influencing the UN High Level Political Forum and the World Economic Forum in defining ways forward amidst the challenges of COVID19.
In addition to this, Dacanay was also invited as a panelist on the RTD on Food Security and Agriculture conducted on May 27, 2020. In this RTD, she shared perspectives on scaling up and policy recommendations for mainstreaming our evolving 3S for Food Security Platform (Sustainable agriculture and fishery, Social entrepreneurship, Seed-to-table systems).