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Social Enterprise Innovations (Sei) Program: Natalia Agapitova Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit, T&C
Social Enterprise Innovations (Sei) Program: Natalia Agapitova Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit, T&C
INNOVATIONS (SEI)
PROGRAM
Natalia Agapitova
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit, T&C
SEI RATIONALE
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SEs as opportunity for inclusive growth
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Legal Definition of SEs
Country Examples
Feature of the
Italy South Korea United Kingdom
definition
Any legal form
Broad pre-defined list of forms
Specifically defines the activities to be
Enterprise is to fulfill Provides vulnerable groups with
covered, unless the social enterprise Benefits social and/or
a specific purpose social services or jobs or
employs a certain percentage of environmental aims
contributes to local communities
underprivileged workers
Restriction on
Restriction of 0 percent: no distribution Restriction of 33 percent Restriction of 50 percent
distribution of profits
possible
Economic activity 70 percent turnover from activity Employs paid workers and
75 percent turnover from activity
conducts business activities
Stakeholder
participation in
X
governance
Absent from the working
Some form of asset
definition but features in the CIC
lock
legal form
Transparency of
activities
Source: WBG (2016), Legal Frameworks for Social Enterprise. Lessons from a Comparative Study of Italy, Malaysia, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States
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Improving Last Mile Healthcare
Example of SE: Living Goods Empowers Community Health Workers
Challenge Solution
Rural poor • Recruit and train CHWs
lack effective • Inventory loan at below market
drug interest rates
• Supply drugs at wholesale prices
treatment
Incentives
• Shortage of
healthcare • Door-to-door sale of health
workers products and services:
• Counterfeit
Community • Paid on performance + 15-20% of
drugs Health Workers margin from sales
Low-cost drug
• Part-time $15-20/month
• Free public procurement and
healthcare is Evidence from Uganda
distribution systems
geographically • 1,200 self-employed CHWs serve 1M patients
distant and • 25% decrease in child mortality, for less than
$2/year per person
unreliable, so it
is NOT free for Results • 15-18% decrease in sales of counterfeit
medicine
the poor • Decrease in price of anti-malarial drugs by 15-
20%
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SEI PROGRAM
Products, Services and Operational Engagements
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Snapshot of SEI Program
Objective: Expand low-income markets and inclusive jobs opportunities by
supporting growth of the social enterprise sector to realize its potential to
generate economic, social and environmental results for the poor
Products and
Beneficiaries Outcomes
Services
Diagnostic
■ Diagnostic toolkit
■ SE Survey tool
■ Ecosystem diagnostics from 19 countries in
SAR, AFR, MENA
■ Database of ecosystem diagnostics from
partners
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Design ■ Catalogue of policy instruments to support the
Operations SE sector
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■ Policy dialogue, public-private dialogue
Capacity – Research on rationale for Government
Building support to SE sector
– Analysis of SE policies in 40 countries
(with 14 case studies)
■ Database of Business Model Innovations
and social enterprises with proven results
■ Course for public sector officials on how to
engage social enterprise sector in SDGs
■ Training for implementation agencies
■ Capacity development of SE enablers
■ Training for social entrepreneurs (F2F or e-
learning)
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Systematize ■ Collect and aggregate evidence and lessons from
social enterprise innovations
Last Mile
Access to Access to
Quality Health
WASH Energy
Access
Affordable Improving
Agricultural
Health Educational
Productivity
Services Outcomes
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DISCUSSION
What can we do to support the Human-Centered Business Models?
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Inclusive Support livelihoods opportunities and
job creation for marginalized poor
Economic – Scale SE innovations for upskilling
Opportunities – Improve policies for SE support
– Increase entrepreneurship opportunities
by providing training at scale
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Private Sector Solutions for Skills Building – Examples from India
Yuva Parivartan: Vocational training for schools dropouts
Learning Avanti Learning Centers: Science/math training to prepare low-income youth for
Centers college entrance
Center for Digital Inclusion: ICT courses and Internet access for marginalized poor
TARA Akshar: Interactive Hindi literacy program for women in rural India using
laptops
Skills iMerit (India): provision of Human-Assisted computing services, while also helping
Outsourcing raise people above the poverty line through upskilling and the creation of digital
jobs
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Improve Nurturing SE sector to uproot sources
of violence
resilience to – Support community-based solutions to
conflict prevent conflict and violence
– Mobilize SEs for service delivery
(sustainable, clean, low-cost)
– Cultivate young businesses in fragile
markets
– Support replication and scale of inclusive
innovations in low-income markets
– Build inclusive value chains through SE
support
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Improving Agricultural Productivity
Example of SE: Esoko Extension Service Model Empowers Farmers