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The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) launched the Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund (AWEF) in 2019 with support from the Visa Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The overall goal of AWEF-funded projects is to address the gender financing gap for women-owned small and growing businesses (SGBs) in developing economies. The first round of grantmaking, AWEF Asia, funded eight entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) in Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, Pakistan, and India, as well as programs serving the region as a whole. This report summarizes the lessons learned from these grants.

Through in-depth conversations with 21 successful women social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, this report looks at the varying pathways to success, success factors and challenges that are specific to them, and outlines recommendations for business development services to better respond to the needs of women leading early-stage social enterprises in the region. The report also includes profiles of successful women social entrepreneurs in the region.

This report presents the main messages of the Second ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit that took place on 1 November 2019 in Bangkok. As a result of efforts to promote inclusive business at the ASEAN and national levels, the majority of ASEAN Member States are engaging actively in inclusive business policy development. ASEAN leaders have commended and encouraged governments and private sector actors to continue promoting inclusive business, as stated in the ASEAN Chairman’s Statement of the 35th ASEAN Summit. A framework for the development of effective inclusive business policy instruments has emerged through the experience of frontrunner countries, highlighting eight strategic areas of inclusive business promotion.

The Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture Vietnam (PSAV) was set up to strengthen partnerships among government and the private sector. This brief outlines goals and key activities of the taskforce that has been facilitated by Grow Asia.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation's work in Southeast Asia continues to prove that social entrepreneurs are at the forefront of driving change and creating social impact. The legal structure that social entrepreneurs choose for their venture can have a significant bearing on their ability to achieve social change. The guide identifies the advantages and disadvantages of each structure and sets out the relevant registration procedures, regulatory and governance considerations, tax treatment as well as finance and fundraising options – an understanding of all of this is so crucial to ensuring the sustainability, good governance and success of a social venture. 

Este documento describe el programa la implementación de un programa de fortalecimiento económico en la cadena de valor de la sericultura para poblaciones rurales desfavorecidas de la provincia de Nghe An en Vietnam.

The evaluation showed that TYM’s integrated risk management and microinsurance client training had the strongest effect on the financial attitudes of clients, especially on planning attitudes and on attitudes related to savings. The percentage of clients in the target compared to the control group that agreed to be able to put money aside for emergency expenses increased by a remarkable 22 per cent and the attitude towards planning household budgets for longer than a year improved by 17 per cent. Impact on client risk management behaviour was also strong by contributing to improving a number of situations that clients face. For example, clients who had access to the training less often ran out of money before making income than clients who did not have access to the training (decrease of 13 per cent). Interestingly, the observed change in financial attitudes regarding savings and planning already reflected in changed financial behaviour related to the same as we saw a 17 per cent increase in the ability to set aside money for emergencies as well as a 13 percent increase in clients with longer planning horizons. The analysis also showed some insignificant and some unexpected results for other outcome variables, which may be due to some issues with the experimental design of the research and the survey instrument. It is therefore possible that the innovation may have had a stronger impact than actually measured.