At the sidelines of the British Council’s conference on social entrepreneurship, SEDPI and CSIP signed a partnership agreement in Yangon, Myanmar on May 21, 2012. The partnership aims to strengthen the capacity of CSIP to deliver training courses on social entrepreneurship in Vietnam. Under the agreement, SEDPI will provide training of trainers, training design, training manual development and pilot testing to CSIP. The cooperation will cover two training topics on social entrepreneurship.
“We are banking on the expertise and experience of SEDPI to enable CSIP to deliver quality training courses on social entrepreneurship in Vietnam,” says Kieu Oanh Pham, CSIP’s director. SEDPI’s CEO, Mariel Vincent A. Rapisura responds, “We are honored to be of service to social entrepreneurs in Vietnam through CSIP. We hope that this initiative will also be replicated in other parts of Southeast Asia as we tap the vast network of the British Council.”
The Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP) is a Vietnamese non-governmental and non-profit organization. It contributes in building up an equitable, prosperous, and sustainable society by promoting high impact social innovations. CSIP directly supports social entrepreneurs in their early stages and mobilize the participation of state agencies, other enterprises, and surrounding communities; with the hope of the further development of social entrepreneurship in Vietnam.
The Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) is a leading capacity building institution in providing innovative and excellence-driven services on microfinance, financial education and social entrepreneurship. It has reached 1,750 development organizations that have a combined outreach of ~4.2 million households worldwide. SEDPI’s capacity building services provide stakeholders – practitioners, policy makers, donors organizations and networks – with practical and readily applicable tools that lead to better institutional and operational policies.
Both CSIP and SEDPI are participants to the British Council’s program on establishing a network for social enterprises. The program started in Bangkok, Thailand continued in Yangon, Myanmar and will culminate in Hanoi, Vietnam.