Presented at: Asia Policy Dialogue, Regional Dialogue Group 2. Northeast Asia, Seoul 2018

Organisation: Philippine Social Enterprise Network (Philippine PhilSEN)  

Date: July 6th, 2018 

Presenter: Mr. Gomer Padong (Advocacy Director) 

Contact: gomerpadong@gmail.com

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Summary: 

• Regarding the social enterprises in the Philippines, there has been a lot of engagement from the youth, there is a growing number of incentivizing social economy actors, and there is an estimate of 164,473 social enterprises in the Philippines.
• The top three constraints of social enterprise in our country are finance, human resources, and policy.
• Many corporations and even government banks often prefer to pay sanctions rather than support the social economy.