Our Bottomlines for Partnerships Foundation for a Sustainable Society Advocacy Framework
Our Vision Sustainable Economic Development of Marginalized Poor Communities in the
Our Mission
To be the leading eco-enterprise resource institution for the empowerment of marginalized communities in the Philippines
Our Core Values • Social Justice • Stewardship • Gender Equality • Environmental Sustainability • Good Governance • Culture of Excellence
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Our Roots Just and sustainabl e society!
Product of a debt relief program as a result of a participative, cross-sectoral, multi-level campaign
50% Payment Cancelled
Philippines Debt to the Swiss Government
50% Counterpart Fund
FSSI Endowment Facility
The Story of the Elephant
Our Approach Market-led development • local economies to •
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adjust to macroeconomic reforms emphasizes the goals of promoting selfreliance expansion of the market, competitiveness reduction of unemployment and sustainable growth
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Participator y LED a bottomrepresents up approach goals of achieving local self-reliance, empowerment emphasizes local control, using potentials of human, institutional and physical resources participation, local cooperation and environmental
Our Approach
BUT… sustainable development is BEYOND economic values…
Our Approach Growth that closes inequities.. ..poor grows faster than the rich… ..without impeding the rights of future generations to live
Economic Viability
Social Equity
Ecological Soundness
Our Approach
3BL in Context • Poverty is multi-dimensional; needs to be understood in its context and complexities • Most imminent form of poverty is economic poverty • Other forms of poverty goes beyond income levels such as gender inequality, environmental injustice, political repression, forced migration, landlessness, malnutrition, illiteracy and
Framing 3BL as Rights
Our Scenario Role:MSMEs stimulate local economic development, increases social equity and a potential force for sustainable development. Situation: Constitutes 99.7% of business firms Generates 70% of all employment but only 30% of value (GDP)
Our Scenario • Compared with our Asian neighbors, the country's MSME productivity is low
Our Scenario • Further challenged by technology, capital, and more vulnerable to external shocks in a globalizing world • Greater task to meet social and environmental obligations when not linked to the overall goal of sustainability • THUS, building eco-enterprises for sustainable development and poverty alleviation requires improvements in both micro and macro levels
How we do Advocacy? • Advocacy is the process by which individuals and organizations attempt to influence public policy decisions through representation, mobilization or empowerment • Citizens's capacity as decisionmakers, builds more accountable and democratic institutions • Social marketing: applying principles of marketing for behavior-change
Our Advocacy Goals • Increase capacities of MSMEs • Strengthen consumers’ capacities to demand environmentally-friendly, fair labor and gender-sensitive enterprise practices • Contribute to an Improved policy environment • Mobilize support among media, academe, donors and large corporations • Facilitate partnerships among large
Our Advocacy Agenda • Genuine development financing reduction of external debts participatory planning and resource allocation assertion for fairer economic systems
• Environmental sustainability Climate change Sustainable waste management Sustainable natural resource management
Our Advocacy Agenda •Promotion and protection of human rights Fair and humane labor practices Transnational and internal migration Asset Reforms
•Mainstreaming of gender concerns Women in all aspects of society are in the disadvantaged
Our Advocacy Strategies • Conducting media advocacy
Our Advocacy Strategies • Building partnerships for consensus, campaigns and capacity-building Micro, small and medium enterprises Advocacy and empowerment groups (environmentalists, human rights, labor and cooperatives) Big corporations and business support organizations Policymakers and policy-making bodies
The Story of the Elephant
• Engaging in consumer awareness and education
Points for programs • Policy coherence – organizationally, programming, financing • Improving 3BL as an MVR, not to be stuck as a vision • Knowledge-building on advocacy areas affecting subsectors • Impact reporting
Telling our Story
Questions?
Contact Us:
# 46 E., Samar Avenue corner Eugenio Lopez St, South Triangle Quezon City 1103 Tel No: [632] 928-8671 [632] 9288422 [632] 4114702-03
www.fssi.com.ph
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