African social enterprise workshop | 4th summer edition

Innovating your commercial model for sustainability: Strategies, tools and support mechanisms for African social enterprises

Social enterprises are known to use business means—such as trading products and services—to tackle societal problems. Faced with a myriad of social-economic issues and dwindling charitable funds, new and existing African social enterprises need to develop innovative ways to generate income that can support and sustain their activities in a self-sufficient manner. So, how can social enterprises in Africa do that and address societal issues in a commercially sustainable and scalable way?

This workshop for African entrepreneurs will focus on the enterprise bit in ‘social enterprise’ and explore how alternative businesses can innovate the commercial aspects of their organisations to achieve social goals in Africa.

Participants will benefit from a rich panel of speakers who will be sharing their expertise in running, supporting and researching social enterprises and sustainable business models in key sectors such as health, education, waste management and circular economy, energy, and agriculture. Practitioners and academic experts will be coordinating the sessions on business model innovation for sustainability, guiding participants through the processes of developing new or enhancing existing sustainable business models, with a view also to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Do you self-identify as a social entrepreneur or are you interested in starting a social enterprise in any country in Africa? Do you have a core social and/or environmental purpose alongside commercial objectives? Are you interested in sustainable business models for social enterprises in an African context? Then this workshop is for you.

For all details, registration and updates, please see the workshop website: https://aseworkshop.com

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