For Argie Aguas, Program Coordinator, Voice PH, the Enterprise pathway was conceived during the pandemic because of the Voice community’s struggle on economic sustainability. Some grantees experienced challenges in keeping their manpower; communities were also financially unstable. Some grantees re-strategized their enterprise to be able to cope with the new normal. This COP gave them the opportunity to be a social entrepreneur to assist their organization’s economic struggles. The objective of this pathway is primarily to provide an understanding about the social enterprise model as an economic empowerment initiative. To assist the grantees in the learning journey, YGOAL partnered with DGY Academy and provided a special series featuring social enterprises in the Philippines and the stories of social entrepreneurs. It deepened their knowledge on entrepreneurship by featuring such topics as business canvas, resource mobilization, product development marketing, sales finance, operations, production management, basic financial management, and practice business idea pitching.
The result is a business idea using a business model canvas to have a stronger and relevant enterprise to pursue.
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The whole business model canvas was very helpful in designing strategies for advocating indigenous wisdom. The result of the social enterprise is a lifestyle product that promotes indigenous knowledge through sustainable and unique handicrafts.” - Maria Elena Regpala, PIKP The Linking and Learning Enterprise pathway taught us how to keep our business afloat. We were even able to expand the coverage of our products and services, which won us an innovation award. We are building a fair-trade alliance of all social enterprises who are engaged with indigenous people.” - Timothy Salomon, Bukluran
The relevance and timeliness of the Safety and Security pathway is best captured by Chantal Crisostomo of MMPride:
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The political landscape in the Philippines is getting more dangerous by the day, not only for human rights defenders but also for average Filipinos who dare to express dissent or dissatisfaction. The Safety & Security Pathway is very timely as it oriented them on the risks and tools to keep communities safe.”
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