{"id":1068,"date":"2014-08-26T00:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2014-08-26T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:12:18","slug":"philippines-social-enterprises-future-global-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/philippines-social-enterprises-future-global-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines and Social Enterprises: a future global hub?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common trait of emerging markets lie in the high share of people living in the <strong>\u201cbase of the pyramid\u201d (BoP)<\/strong>, with <strong>less than $8 per day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Social enterprises are usually defined as <em>\u201corganisations that applies commercial strategies to maximise improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximising profits for external shareholders\u201d (<a title=\"Social enterprises\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_enterprise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/em>, and they address in most cases the BoP targets.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-base-of-the-pyramid-4.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-base-of-the-pyramid-4-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-base-of-the-pyramid-4.png 533w\" alt=\"geeks on a beach social enterprise in the philippines gawad kalinga rags2riches RIIR hapinoy innovation is everywhere social business base of the pyramid 4\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-base-of-the-pyramid-4-3.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1070\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-base-of-the-pyramid-4-3.png\" alt=\"geeks on a beach social enterprise in the philippines gawad kalinga rags2riches RIIR hapinoy innovation is everywhere social business base of the pyramid 4\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Said differently, social enterprises innovate in the way they manage to <strong>target poor segments<\/strong> of the population, while <strong>solving issues<\/strong> in the same time. You may remember how <a title=\"Wecyclers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/nigeria-startup-scene-can-africas-india-make\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wecyclers, in Nigeria<\/a>, helps to solve the waste collection issue while empowering city dwellers and making money with recycling plants.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Filipinos at the base of the pyramid: 25m people living with less than $1\/day<\/h2>\n<p>The Philippines, with <strong>75% population unbanked and 62% below the poverty line<\/strong> is a large BoP market. During the <a title=\"GOAB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksonabeach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geeks on a Beach<\/a> conference, speakers agreed that <strong>social enterprises could be a possible strong asset of the startup ecosystem<\/strong>. Tech-enabled social enterprise both solve issues, scale, and make money.<\/p>\n<p>Some stats show the gap and inequalities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>25m people live with less than $1\/day<\/strong>, or 25% of the population<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>top 40 families control up to 76% of the GDP<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>From 2006 to 2012, there was <strong>no improvement in poverty rate<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-bottom-of-the-pyramid-manila-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1072\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-bottom-of-the-pyramid-manila-3.jpg\" alt=\"geeks on a beach social enterprise in the philippines gawad kalinga rags2riches RIIR hapinoy innovation is everywhere social business bottom of the pyramid manila\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The economy is booming, but the <strong>benefits haven\u2019t been flown down to the population<\/strong>. There\u2019s no real philanthropy as well, with oligarchic families not sharing much of the empires they create.<\/p>\n<p>Social enterprises may be part of the solution. The Philippines seem to have part of the ingredients, such as a large market size and a lot of issues to solve, but may be lacking capital and entrepreneurs to become a global hub on this topic.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Three social enterprises from the Philippines: Gawad Kalinga, Rags to Riches and Hapinoy<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Gawad Kalinga\" href=\"\/\/www.gk1world.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gawad Kalinga<\/a> is the most famous social enterprise in the Philippines. Founded in 2003 by Tony Meloto, their mission is to <em>\u201cend poverty for 5 million families by 2024\u201d<\/em>. Several programs are helping farmers, child development, reconstruction of houses after natural disasters. They are both socially invested and they \u201cbuild the nation\u201d, although it is hard to assess the actual impact of the programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-2-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1069\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-2-3.jpg\" alt=\"geeks on a beach social enterprise in the philippines gawad kalinga rags2riches RIIR hapinoy innovation is everywhere social business 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rags2Riches\" href=\"http:\/\/rags2riches.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rags to Riches<\/a> works in a different way. A <strong>marketplace for craft made with local discarded fabric<\/strong>, it gives a better source of revenue to about <strong>300 women from the Patayas community<\/strong> while fitting into the eco-fashion philosophy. Founded in <strong>2007<\/strong>, it has recycled usefully about 50 tons of waste and have increased the revenues of the women from a few pesos per day to about 12 000 per month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-3-3.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1071\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-3-3.jpeg\" alt=\"geeks on a beach social enterprise in the philippines gawad kalinga rags2riches RIIR hapinoy innovation is everywhere social business 3\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hapinoy\" href=\"http:\/\/hapinoy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hapinoy<\/a> is taking advantage of the mom and pop\u2019s shop, known as Sari Sari in the Philippines. This NGO, founded by Gawad Kalinda founder\u2019s wife in 2007, is now <strong>a network of 3 000 women-entrepreneurs managing these stores.<\/strong> Through mobile technologies, the NGO helps them to better manage their accounts, get access to micro-finance as well as to new products and services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-1-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1073\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/geeks-on-a-beach-social-enterprise-in-the-philippines-gawad-kalinga-rags2riches-RIIR-hapinoy-innovation-is-everywhere-social-business-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"geeks on a beach social enterprise in the philippines gawad kalinga rags2riches RIIR hapinoy innovation is everywhere social business 1\" width=\"538\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the social enterprise sector is one of two with digital currencies where the Philippines could lead the way, as stated in the conversations from Geeks on a Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common trait of emerging markets lie in the high share of people living in the \u201cbase of the pyramid\u201d (BoP), with less than $8 per day. Social enterprises are usually defined as \u201corganisations that applies commercial strategies to maximise improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximising profits for external shareholders\u201d (Wikipedia), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,49,51,118],"tags":[46,256,252,257,102,244],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-innovators-category","category-markets-category","category-social-enterprises","tag-asia","tag-bop","tag-geeks-on-a-beach","tag-social-enterprise","tag-south-east-asia","tag-the-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}