The Social Enterprise/IB landscape in South East Asia

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The Social Enterprise/IB landscape in South East
Asia

• IB Forum Manila

• 17th February, 2016

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Social Enterprise/Inclusive Business landscape by
country
Financial services (non MFI)
Agriculture livestock
Retail
Tourism
Energy
Water sanitation
Housing
Healthcare
Education Vocational training
Environment
Proximity
Indigo Energy
Yangon Bakehouse
Pensook
Hilltribe
Local Alike
New Heaven Reef Conservation Program
A-cheive
Go Went Gone
Sugruvi
Rags2Riches
Route 63
OREE
Hiraya Water
Sidlakpinoy
Hapinoy
AHCHP
Backstreet Academy
Ecolink
Tri Duc Joint Stock Company
Tohe
Tirta Marta
Zo Project
Kakao
Silversmiths Collective
Kotagede Conservation
Tinamitra Mandiri
Reaktor Cacing
About Asia Travel
Sahakreas Cedac
Mekong Quilts
Hydrologic
Naga biofuel
Legend

• Source Dalberg analyses

Evolved
Nascent
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These enterprises face a range of challenges on
their path to scale, from securing financing,
through to managing talent and regulations
Degree of difficulty

• A generally nascent funding ecosystem makes
  securing financing (esp. for seed and growth
  stage) difficult. SEs can also find it difficult
  to attract private-sector investment, even after
  receiving initial round(s) of patient capital.

Securing Financing

• The intrinsically lower profit levels of SEs
  limits access to professional new talent, and the
  ability to train and upskill available talent.
  SEs who do make this investment in people are
  more competitive.

Talent Management

• Given a lack of unique legal structures for SEs,
  as well as generally bureaucratic registration
  procedures for start-ups, SEs exist across legal
  forms increasing search costs for investors and
  the difficulty of accessing financing for SEs.

Managing regulations

• The market failure an SE is attempting to address
  is often linked to other market failures
  therefore partnerships are important to SE
  success. SEs also serve less-documented customer
  segments. This requires upfront investment in
  establishing an understanding first.

Delivering product/service

• The lack of standardized impact measurement
  metrics complicates an SEs understanding of how
  to become investment ready and attract capital.

Measurement Communications