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Youth with Hope is the first large-scale vocational training program implemented in Mexico. The program aims at increasing educational engagement and attainment, employability and labor market mobility among 15-30 year olds. The situation of youth education and employment in Zapopan, located in the state of Jalisco in Western Mexico, resembles the national crisis.
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law’s (CDDRL) Program on Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce a partnership with the Haas Center for Public Service, where the administrative functions for the program will be housed starting in September.
In response to increased student interest in this field, the program is partnering with the Haas Center to expand its impact and reach at Stanford. CDDRL will continue to inform the design and delivery of this important program.
“This partnership with the Haas Center is an important step forward for the Program on Social Entrepreneurship,” said Faculty Director Deborah Rhode. “We have already benefitted from the collaboration and support of the Haas Center and this institutionalized partnership will allow the program to magnify its impact and realize its potential.”
The Haas Center brings a deep understanding of community engaged learning and reaches a diverse student population who are committed to public service. The Program on Social Entrepreneurship will benefit from interacting with a more student facing institution on campus that values engagement with the practitioner community.
“The Program on Social Entrepreneurship sits at the intersection of two public service pathways we hope students will explore while at Stanford – social entrepreneurship and community engaged scholarship, “ said Tom Schnaubelt, the executive director of the Haas Center for Public Service. “We look forward to working with CDDRL to engage practitioners with students.”
Maxwell Matewere, Spring 2013 SEERS fellow, congratulates one of the student groups on their presentation.
Founded in 2011, the Program on Social Entrepreneurship brings three social entrepreneurs –SEERS Fellows – to Stanford each year for a quarter-long residency to teach a course, pursue research projects and deepen their professional networks. The SEERS Fellows are pioneering innovative organizations that work to advance the rights of marginalized groups in communities in the U.S. and across the developing world.
SEERS Fellows are working to help refugees realize their rights in Latin America, improve literacy for children in underprivileged communities in the U.S., and train women to use sustainable water technologies in Africa. To date, 12 social entrepreneurs have participated in the program.
The program offers a service-learning course (IR 142) that allows students to work together with SEERS fellows on projects that enhance their organizational development and provide students with practical experience inside non-profit organizations. The course – which has received an overwhelming response from the student participants – is one of the few on campus that provides students the opportunity to work first-hand with a practitioner from the social sector.
The program will welcome a new cohort of SEERS Fellows in January and offer the course again during the winter quarter.
For more information on the Program on Social Entrepreneurship, please click here.
Ongoing upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia since the 2011 revolutions indicates high levels of dissatisfaction with the political order, and expresses a deep desire for a drastic remodeling of the economic system. Well-educated young men and women still find themselves marginalized and excluded from the political and economic order in their countries. Their initial demands for freedom and social justice have hitherto gone unheeded. At the heart of the ongoing political turmoil lies the demand for a sweeping socio-economic reform that may eventually create an economy that offers inclusive-growth, higher levels of productivity and competitiveness, and more job creation. However, unless certain complex and long-term questions are tackled, it is unlikely that political reform will lead to the creation of stable democracies.
Entrepreneurship is one of the most dynamic approaches to socio-economic transformation and development. It is intimately related to private sector development, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise policies, job creation, innovation, and competitiveness. However, unlike the study of static policy and of regulatory areas or institutions and structures, analyzing the entrepreneurship ecosystem captures a picture in motion. Tackling the question of entrepreneurship links micro-level analysis that touches upon direct barriers to entry and growth with macro-level analysis that attempts to explain the lack of dynamism, low productivity, undercapitalization and the weak prospects of growth of the broadest base of the private sector in the region. Moreover, it may provide a way out of the spiral of failed development in which Egypt and Tunisia have been caught for decades.
This report wishes to answer two questions: Why has private entrepreneurship in Egypt and Tunisia remained that underdeveloped despite decades of economic liberalization and private sector-friendly incentives and reforms? And how can the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the two countries develop to meet the high expectations of the people of having a productive and just socio-economic order?
See the following link to view the feature service article from the two sponsoring institutions: http://www.cipe.org/publications/detail/understanding-entrepreneurship-ecosystem-tunisia-and-egypt
Pamela Hawley is founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, a social entrepreneurship nonprofit organization whose vision is to “create a world where giving and volunteering is a natural part of everyday life.” UniversalGiving is an award-winning, web-based nonprofit allowing people to give and volunteer with the top performing projects and volunteer opportunities across the world. UniversalGiving Corporate is a customized version for companies, which helps launch corporate global philanthropy and volunteer programs across the world for companies such as Cisco and BEA.
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Why has private entrepreneurship in Egypt and Tunisia remained underdeveloped despite decades of economic liberalization and private sector-friendly incentives and reforms? And how can the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the two countries develop in order to meet the people’s high expectations of having a productive and just socio-economic order? These are the research questions that will be addressed by the CIPE/Stanford upcoming joint report "Reforming entrepreneurship ecosystems in post-revolutionary Egypt and Tunisia. This feature service article sets the stage for the answering of these questions by critically engaging with the conventional wisdom we have on MENA and by developing a concept of entrepreneurship that best fits the post-revolutionary contexts of Egypt and Tunisia.
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Marcel Fafchamps is the Satre Family senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and a member of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Fafchamps is a professor (by courtesy) for the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His research interest includes economic development, market institutions, social networks, and behavioral economics -- with a special focus on Africa and South Asia.
Prior to joining FSI, from 1999-2013, Fafchamps served as professor of development economics for the Department of Economics at Oxford University. He also served as deputy director and then co-director of the Center for the Study of African Economies. From 1989 to 1996 Fafchamps was an assistant professor with the Food Research Institute at Stanford University. Following the closure of the Institute, he taught for two years for the Department of Economics. For the 1998-1999 academic year, Fafchamps was on sabbatical leave at the research department of the World Bank. Before pursuing his PhD in 1986, Fafchamps was based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for five years during his employment with the International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency overlooking issues of employment, income distribution, and vocational training in Africa.
He has authored two books, Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence, published by MIT Press in 2004 and Rural Poverty, Risk, and Development, published in 2003 by Elgar Press and has published numerous articles in academic journals.
Fafchamps serves as the editor-in-chief of Economic Development and Cultural Change. Previously he had served as chief editor of the Journal of African Economies from 2000 until 2013, associate editor for the Economic Journal, the Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and the Revue d'Economie du Développement.
He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an affiliated professor with J-PAL, a senior fellow with the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, a research fellow with IZA, Germany, and with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, UK, and an affiliate with the University of California’s Center for Effective Global Action.
Fafchamps has degrees in Law and in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California Berkeley.
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Gemma Bulos was a social entrepreneur in residence during the spring 2013 quarter with CDDRL's Program on Social Entrepreneurship. She will be spending the 2013/14 academic year as a practitioner-in-residence with the Program on Social Entrepreneurship.
Gemma Bulos is a multi award-winning social entrepreneur and director of the Global Women’s Water Initiative (GWWI). GWWI is building a cadre of women trainers in East Africa versed in a holistic set of water, sanitation, and hygiene strategies capable of building various appropriate technologies and launching social enterprises.
Before GWWI, Bulos was founding director of A Single Drop for Safe Water, Philippines (ASDSW). ASDSW developed training programs to support underserved communities to be able to identify, design, and manage their own water and sanitation solutions as a social enterprise. ASDSW's innovative model garnered Bulos national and international social entrepreneur awards including: Echoing Green, Ernst and Young, and Schwab Foundation. Her programs also won the Tech Museum Equality Award and Warriors of the U.N. Millennium Goals.
Additionally, Bulos has been recognized as one of the Most Influential Thought Leaders and Innovative Filipinas in the U.S. by Filipina Women's Network; and one of the top 10 Water Solutions Trailblazer by Reuters/Alertnet.
As a result of Bulos' innovative work, over 200,000 people now have access to clean water and sanitation in Asia and Africa.