#MiercolesDeMigrantes & #Parnership
This is my report of my participation in Multi-year Expert Meeting on Investment, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Productive Capacity-building and Sustainable Development, seventh session. - from the 17 to the 19 of july in Palais des Nations, Geneva Room XXVI.
Summary : During two and half days, various experts from different regions across the globe, attended to the invitation from the Entrepreneurship Section, Enterprise Branch, Division on Investment and Enterprise, the aim of the meeting was around Responsible and Sustainable Business Practices and Corporate Social Responsibility and Enterprise Development.
In general, the contributions from the experts focused mainly on the following points. New partnership is much need in order to empower entrepreneurs., Women's, Childers, migrants ,and minorities still need more efforts from public-private partnerships., Global dialogues about trade and supporting entrepreneurs need more accountability in international platforms., A legal framework with update definitions of inclusive business need to be provided by the UN and Member states are aware that budgets, incentives, and funding are
highly needed to achieve the SDG’s.
Overall the meeting was an excellent platform to keep the dialogue open and keep improvements update. Experts and member states shared their experiences and suggestions.
Meeting
Opening remarks by Ms. Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD
Introduction by Mr. James Zhan, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD.
After the opening remark, the Director of Investment and enterprise Mr. James Zhan. asked to the Experts to answer the following questions.
● What concrete policy initiatives have proven effective in your country in breaking new ground and creating a more conducive environment for inclusive business and entrepreneurship? What are the key lessons learned in this regard?
● What are good practices that could be considered for the further promotion of
responsible and inclusive businesses at all levels?
● How can the entrepreneurship policy framework of UNCTAD be adapted to meet the needs of underrepresented entrepreneurial groups?
Adding to those questions he present tow contributions:
● How much you would say that strong and big state, like the USA or China, or Russia is engaging in this type of initiative to encourage, minority entrepreneurs?
● I will go further, the evidence doesn’t only suggest, but it shows that migrants are a key to a grow economy, therefor the inclusion of migrants in the host country must be accepted. this type of action can be applied to integrational programs.
Informal session.1 - Responsible and sustainable business practices and corporate social responsibility and enterprise development.
Mr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Senior Vice-president World Bank.
- Governments are not going to achieve the SDG, they are not prioritizing them in their agendas.
- Beyond NGO and non-profit, we need social media to keep empower society.
- Fintech - regulation need to be achieved with high standards and sophisticated
framework.
- The government is responsible to provide the adequate environment to handle big data - creating an ecosystem to exists
- society needs to know the best practices and what to do to benefit from in and the risk from it.
- Corporate social responsibility - is limited to charity, social relation and minimum effort.
- partnership with World bank, the long term investment has to be taking more
seriously. Bring the community with media and enterprises.
Mr. Markus Dietrich - Inclusive Busines Action Network Germany.
- Triple impact on SDG’s. with the program - ASEAN IB Policy Development.
- Inclusive business should promote sustainable development in all its dimensions – economic, social and environmental.
- UN ESCAP Landscape at the local level and for the policymakers.
- There is no need to create a new silo, but instate incorporate silos. - Public-Private Policy and set the minimum table to start a Dialogue.
Ms. Felicitas Agoncillo-Reyes, Assistant Secretary, Board of Investments, Philippines .
- Philippine Board of Investments (BOI), the country’s lead industry promotions agency (IPA) recently conducted a roundtable meeting with representatives from
Swiss-based Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) along with government and private stakeholders from the coconut, forestry, chemical, furniture, footwear, tannery, and construction industries, to discuss the potential commercialization of cocoboard (fiberboards made of coco coir) and tannin products and its key role in further boosting agricultural output in the country.
- Inclusive business, by mentoring is a solution to start a change.
- tax incentives - innovation, (5 years for fiscal and no fiscal investment), and reach & debt. focus on local communities.
- direct contact with the beneficiaries. Mainstream the policy and the programs through advocacy.
Ms. Jessy Petit-Frere- Haití. Research professor and coordinator entrepreneurship Program, Université Publique du Sud au Caye, Haïti.
- building policy capacity is growing to poverty.
Mr. Crispin Conroy, Permanent Observer to the UN at Geneva International Chambet of Commerce .
- Paris- declaration of social issues , refers that states should make more efforts to make a trade system inclusive for small enterprises and create a policy framework to assure no one it's left behind.
Mr. Michele Clara. Senior Industrial Development Officer, UN Industrial Development Organization.
- Program FOR COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP - six countries, with implementation
advancing in Ethiopia, Peru and Senegal, with programming finalized in Morocco and ongoing in Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan.
- New business ideas need to keep coming, especially with innovation.
- Global cooperation is highly need it, the agenda requires communication beyond silos.
- Elements of inclusiveness more industrialize and more operational and practice.
- Evaluating and supporting to empower minorities or marginalized groups. to make more inclusive.
Informal session 2 - Creating a supportive environment for youth entrepreneurship
Ms. Cristiana Benedetti Fasil, Head and Co-founder, Social Venture Africa,
Belgium.
- They are a nonprofit organization registered in Sweden that promotes women
empowerment, renewable energy and entrepreneurship in Africa.
- Renewable energy competence center trains marginalized youth as electricians and solar power specialists.
- Stated should focus on environment trusting more on the partnership with the private sector.
- high-quality level for entrepreneurs
- empower repower for the women
Mr. Mika Valitalo. Señior Specialist on Innovation, Digital DEvelopment and
Transparency, Plan International Finland.
- Plan International is an independent non-profit development and humanitarian
organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
- We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.
- supporting the environment in order for the youth to feel safe.
- From the beginning is to empower them with trust and feeling valuable. eventually, they become mentors.
- Little girls needs more inclusion and being taking into account in the technologies field.
Mr. Charles Ocici, Director, Enterprise Uganda. - Law of entry - the solution needs to meet the buyer standard. meet the demands of the seller. In order to remind them, they need to create the environment for them to grow.
Ms.Victoria Peace, Director, Nyeri-Toolpoultry from, Uganda. - innovation and practice for those who are experimented with.
Mr. GIlbert Ewehmeh, Managing Director, The youth Employment service in Canada - Entrepreneurship education is one of the keys to intent impose a challenge
Ms. EmmanuLa Benini, Senior adviser, youth issues agency for development
cooperation . - Children and women are the main groups that must be empower directly by member states.
- as Experts we need also to work on the redefinition of words for a more inclusive entrepreneurship system.
Informal Session 3. - Empowering Women Entrepreneurs .
Ms. Charlotte Aspeheim-Scmidt, Europe, Middle East and Africa Program Manager, Dell for Entrepreneurs , Dell, Denmark.
● Mentorship program
● investor for womans.
● Policy for opening up the markets and think big.
● Offering to manage data.
Mr. Peter Bamkloe, Enterprise Development Center, Nigeria.
● Create safe space for women to network.
● Programs for funding.
● Acceptance for the middle force is managed by women.
● Rule model and mentor for other women.
● Religion and traditional culture are a challenge in the area.
Ms. Christine Low, Director, Laison Office Geneva, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Switzerland.
● Women only program is more perfectly to reach women.
● persuade companies to empower women.
● Facilitates women to skills and technologies.
Ms. Lama Sha’sha’a, and Chair, International Robotics Academy, Jordan .
● private institution that specializes in Robotics & STEM Education.
● committed to constantly improving the educational process in the MENA region through close partnerships with private schools, informational seminars, training programs, ad-hoc scholastic STEM curricula, as well as extra-curricular activities.
● Youth Women and migrants - awareness on the community level.
● engage stakeholders, access to new education models.
● Expert programs that focus on creating Tech, social impact and more.
Mr. Arif Zaman, Executive Director, Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network, UK.
- Works with women in business by connecting Governments and the private sector to encourage and enable women’s economic empowerment.
- Systematic barriers. equal participation in developed and promote. break gender barriers and create opportunities for women to trained international.
- From the government, if no budget with the specific label, then no action is really taking into action.
- Develop new curricula. the type of context also is a challenge.
Ms. Yolanda Gibb, Research Lab, Women’s Economic Imperative , U.K
- We are no trying to find equality but equity.
- Context matters in every single case and you definitely need sate holders to engage in the informal and formal mechanism.
- Redefinition of terms and the specific social contract. hunting.
- Empower means to feel it also.
Ms. Dina Nziku, Lecturer, the University of the West of the Scotland United Republic of Tanzania.
Informal Session 4 - #MigrantEntrepreneurs: Accelerating integration and economic development.
Ms. Janette Uhlmann, Senior Operations Officer, World Bank/ Centre for
Mediterranean Migration. France.
- Entrepreneurs in the Middle East, specific in the good of the people who have there.
- they dedicate to researching organic building and developing skills.
- Syrian Refugee Crisis, it is still an ongoing situation. the highest number is in Turkey and Lebanon.
- 74% are in municipalities, they are middle-income countries with not a lot of
resources.
- Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Irak, and turkey have a municipality network (29) that works together.
- The last survey showed a more positive vision. they focus on assets in the region to demonstrated and be replicable.
- Private sector partnership is a must to engage with the local government.
- Municipal Leadership should be encouraged to generate changes.
- create a better understanding of inclusion and integration.
Mr. Jerry Allen, Professor, and Director for Entrepreneurship, University College
London, Innovation, and Enterprise. University College London, UK.
- Strategic planning needs to be fit when we are empowering entrepreneurs.
- the funding to Universities is not aggression to encourage entrepreneurs. and should be education and business.
- accountability to university plans and funding.
- Entrepreneur refugees network in London. women and families.
- pilots to bring them together, technologies have to be more engage in blending
learning.
Mr. Giordano Neuenschwander, Head of Office, Singa Geneva , Switzerland.
- Improve support from the private sector to migrants.
- buffer period is a basic but not put a stop on it.
- impact evaluation and accountability.
Ms. Elisa Pasquali, Founder, Arcadia Blockchain Tech and Arcadia Blockchain for Refugees, Switzerland.
- Regularization to population and the financial transaction with the government.
Ms. Martina Venzo, Humanitarian Programme Officer, Help Code , Italy.
- In Africa and Asia are working with migration.
- Database on cellphone information and web, GPS in case of emergency, natural disaster, or conflict.
- https://helpcode.org/en/projects/towards-a-sustainable-migration
- Public-private partnerships are one of the best allies.
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Ms. Maria Elo. Associate Professor, the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.
- not a lot of information about the reason why people are migrating. Pre-migration.
- Long transition periods are affecting the children in the IDP’s and Migrants.
- Low tech and not quality skills are only a short term solution, we need more long term solutions for entrepreneurs.
- Less bureaucracy and simplification in transactional activities.
- The neutral platform that is beyond silos.
Informal Session 5 - Growing inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems in the digital
world.
Mr. Antoine Fatio, Director, Fondetec , Switzerland.
- They give and promote funding for entrepreneurs.
Ms. Fatou Ndiaye, Co-founder of The Gate Village , France.
- Drive or dream?
- Academy of entrepreneurs - Brazil
Mr. Coline Lee. Chief Execitive, Cemvo Scotlan , UK.
- Starting new companies reducing inequalities.
- Social enterprises.
Mr. Alistair Munro, Director Avocet Natura l Capital UK.
- The agricultural sector and the use of goods and utilities.
- Renovation of disruptive full, with raw material
- Local and regional levels and help for the communities.
Ms. Raveig Strom, Entrepreneurship. Development Officer, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland.
- programs for entrepreneurship, especially woman
- external funding is needed.
- partnership.
Informal session 6. - Moving beyond corporate social responsibility towards corporate social engagement.
Mr. Philipp Aerni, Director, Center for Corporate Responsibility
- Inclusive economy, and sustainability creating an economic ecosystem in developing countries.
- more investment and high risk its as fact and implicit bias.
- an inclusive culture and local business need to collaborate, between big and small companies need to be included
- local business benefits need to receive something in the back.
Mr. Jonathan Normand, Founder, and Executive Director B Lab . Switzerland.
- Is a tool that helps the companies to invest in the region,
- Create social value and stakeholders. engaging the community.
- B. pact provides an assessment tool that generates a social free platform,
- Swiss triple impact by 2019.
Ms. Caroline Seow, Head of Sustainability, Family Business, New York International, B. Market Builder, Singapore.
- business and companies need from one to another.
- Bel Group France, Pacari Ecuador, Chopard Switzerland
- they dedicate to challenge the stereotypes, going beyond profits,
Mr. Antonio Carrillo, Lafarge Holcim Group , Switzerland.
- the construction company, are not a long term solution for new entrepreneur
severalized in the bottom
- Social engagement have to be developed from the municipality of the community.
Ms. Vanina Farber, Professor, International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland.
- Innovation we need redefinition of the term and plenty of others.
Mr. Abdullah Mohammed Al Mahruki, Chief Executive Officer, Industrial Innovation
Center, Rusayl Industrial Estate, Oman
- Disproportionality in policy making, funding and government, they are working in their own silos without any type of structure.
Informal Session 7 - Harnessing impact investment.
Ms. Nataly Alejandra Ortiz Cárdenas, Director of Investment Policy Ecuador .
- The prioritized sector in the new budgets is the private sector and accountability.
- Institute to support exports.
Ms. Karen Wilson, Senior Consultant, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development .
Ms. Taynaah Reis, Founder, and Chief Executive Officer, Moeda, Brazil.
- Microcredit and accelerator program.
- labor the cooperation and creating hubs for export products, the partnership with the government is crucial.
- working in silos is a big problem, especially for lesson learns.
Ms. Kali Tylor, Programme Officer, Sustainable Development Goals Lab, UN Geneva .
- is regular to find the lack of sources for the entrepreneurs.
- Microcredit works but not enough.
- Concrete partnership for international development.
- is about to bring more SDG’s to finance - blind center for financial markets and
structure with the new ones. investment
- pipeline build education
Ms. Monica Mariño. Technical Officer, Social Finance Programme, International Labour Organization.
- inclusion, impacting insurance and sustainable investment ecosystem.
- A decent job it refers to quality, income, social protection, and freedom, health,
guaranteed equal opportunities and safe.
- potential in creating works along with capacity building and involving local experts towards education.
Mr. Dawid Jarosz, Lectire, Sustainable Development Goal Investing Graduate Institute of International Development Studies.
- Regulation and retail rute.
- overspecified in defining what an investment is.
Informal Session 8 - Balancing risk and opportunities: The Future of entrepreneurship policies.
Ms. Angelique Antat, Principal Secretary, Department of Industry and
Entrepreneurship Development, Seychelles.
- Mitigation to economies, promoting research and incentive to the financial center, a knowledge base business. blue economy.
- MSME's medium, small, micro enterprises.
- Youth, civil society and government must work together.
- The partnership is key.
Ms. Paola Albé, Director, Empretec Uruguay.
- They work with designers and the population incarcerated.
- the population should be treated as partners, not as patients.
- innovation need to include population since the beginning.
- open better space and designed better strategies.
- the challenge is the population who adapted and the population who want to adapt, and the dialogue needs to be open, just to start the conversation.
- admin bureaucracy is always a challenge.
- changing the system from the inside.
- budget is always a challenge.
- an inclusive project with the intention from the beginning, then the fact that they
agree with and the impact that wants to be achieved, then the actual, in the position of a decision they need to keep open the dialogue.
Ms. Monica Canafoglia, Legal Officer, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Austria.
- only 60 member states are part of it.
- the decision is only achieved by consensus.
- simplify the legal form, for MSME’s for the informal environment.
- Traditional models are partnerships and have many required with bureaucracy and expensive. most of the time they don’t provide protection with the entrepreneur.
- the new proposals have good faith in the partnership.
- Formation and information for the startup and the new business. (geographic location and name of the manager, that must of the time are the owners of the business.
- the business is responsible for what the business does, nor the directly limited
liability.
- No minimum capital required to start the business.
- No formal contribution in the setup, is only with what the partners are willing to
contribute.
- Default law, for illiterate owners and protection for investors.
- individual and Small businesses in the informal environment.
- a small business that wants to grow with good strategies, products and service and they want to scale up.
- young entrepreneurs the startup.
- this provides you a legal identity and you join a global value chain, possible to higher your own staff, social security.
- simple and with an easy language, you don’t need a special lawyer for it, take into account technologies.
Mr. Paul Dembinski, Professor, The University of Fribourg, Switzerland. International strategies and competition.
- Cocouses- Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.
- time matches the statistics with the necessity to update definitions.
- The majority of entrepreneurs are survivors.
Ms. Lore Vanderwall, Professor Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies .
- The gender gap has an impact on entrepreneurs from men and from women.
- Civil law and social norms need also to update especially in entrepreneurs.
- Education and preparation for women, need to spread more.
Women business and the world -
Ms. Loson - Argentina bank.
- inclusion is not only a minimum of social aid.
- financial inclusion is to prepare the youth and believe in them, microcredit is a
solution but try to be out of the box and stop asking a grantee.
- start the dialogue.
