Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) is now an accredited professional service provider for the projects under the Program Beneficiaries Development (PBD) of the Department of Agrarian Reform. The department posted the result on their website last March 13, 2012.
The accreditation includes SEDPI to the pool of development service providers eligible to bid for projects that will provide services to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) of DAR. The components of PBD include the Social Infrastructure and Local Capability Building (SILCAB), Sustainable Agri-Business and Rural Enterprise Development (SARED), and Access Facilitation and Enhancement Support (AFAES). In addition, DAR recently launched the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCESS) project. Through developing synergy between entrepreneurship and social responsibility, this project aims to create an environment that will transform ARB organizations into sustainable agricultural enterprises.
The services SEDPI is accredited to provide nationwide are the following; Production and Technical Management Services, Financial and Organizational Management, and Progress Monitoring. Through this opportunity SEDPI will share its knowledge on rural finance and social entrepreneurship for the benefit of the ARBs.