Applying Social Entrepreneurship in Nanoenterprise Financing
Course Overview:
This course challenges the label of “delinquency” in microfinance by exploring the systemic vulnerabilities of nanoenterprises. Using Social Entrepreneurship (SE) principles, participants will rethink risk, resilience, and financing strategies, and discover inclusive models rooted in social protection, climate justice, and community solidarity.
Course Objectives:
- Define key concepts such as nanoenterprise, delinquency, and the Social Entrepreneurship (SE), and differentiate them from conventional microfinance terminologies and frameworks.
- Analyze the systemic causes of delinquency among nanoenterprises, including the impacts of climate risks, health shocks, and lack of social protection.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing microfinance practices in supporting poverty alleviation and resilience, particularly in relation to social safety nets and inclusive finance strategies.
- Compare and contrast traditional for-profit financial products with social enterprise-based mechanisms such as damayan, preventive health care, and climate-adapted housing finance.
- Design innovative financing models that integrate SSE principles and promote justice-oriented approaches to nanoenterprise support, including roles for government and international cooperation.
Course Sessions:
- Microfinance and Poverty: What Went Wrong, What Went Right
- Defining Social Entrepreneurship (SE) vs. Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)
- Inside the Nanoenterprise: Profile and Realities
- Understanding Delinquency: Vulnerability, Loss, and the Human Cost – From “Delinquent” to Disaster-Recovering Clients (Recurrent, Recovering Disaster-Vulnerable Clients)
- Embedding Social Safety Nets in Nanoenterprise Financing
- Financing Climate-Resilient, Socialized Housing
- Damayan vs. Commercial Insurance: A Question of Purpose
- Preventive Health Care as a Financing Priority
- The Government’s Role in Financial Protection and Resilience: Social Security, Universal Health Care, and Disaster Insurance
- Beyond Aid: The International Community’s Role in Advancing Climate Justice
Program Dates:
Webinars:
11 September 2025 – Why Microfinance Falls Short
25 September 2025 – Beyond Microfinance
Onsite Course:
17–18 Sept 2025 | Ateneo de Davao
Who Should Apply:
- Microfinance practitioners
- Policymakers
- Researchers and advocates looking to reframe delinquency not as failure, but as a call to structural formation
RETHINKING DELINQUENCY
Equip yourself to design and advocate for inclusive financing models that center dignity, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship principles
Learning investment:
Registration Options:
a) Full Program: Onsite Courses and Online Webinars – P 10,000
b) Online Webinars only – P 1,000 each
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📩 acsent.jgsom@ateneo.edu
DEADLINE OF REGISTRATION: 5 September 2025