As the Enterprise Africa Summit begins in Accra, Ghana, we take a look at a trio of inspiring social entrepreneurs who are developing resilient solutions to some of Africa's challenges.
It’s time for social enterprise to move from the margins to the mainstream across a region which is home to two-thirds of the world’s population. A partnership between the British Council and the UN aims to make this happen.
As the British Council launches a landmark study on the state of the social enterprise sector in South Asia, Tristan Ace argues that such data is urgently needed to realise the vision of a world where business delivers social as well as financial impact.
In the first of a series of British Council films showing social enterprises in action around the world, we see how oils, infusions and super foods from the moringa tree are changing lives in Ghana.
There are currently no formal legal structures or a national membership body for social enterprises in Bangladesh. However, organisations such as the British Council are working to increase understanding about the sector.
If the United Nations member states are to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, actors from all walks of life are going to have to do their bit. Ellie Ward looks at the role of social enterprises in this historic pact.
In this issue of Pioneers Post Quarterly the social enterprise spotlight is placed on Southeast Asia, a region in which momentum around the sector is increasing at rapid pace.
Divine chocolate are one of the UK’s flagship social enterprises – but while we often hear from its HQ in London, it is less often we get to hear from the cocoa frontline in Ghana. Lee Mannion meets farmer Esther Mintah Ephraim.
Who needs teachers? Fergal Byrne talks to Akshay Saxena about the social enterprise that is taking an unconventional approach to providing high quality education to low-income school students in India.
