SEG - Social Entrepreneurship Grant Programme is a business plan competition for social entrepreneurs where the best plans receive seed capital. The Programme offers the opportunity to students after graduation to go back to their community, be self-reliant and develop a career path by building a business that also helps their community (including elements such as innovation, revenue generation, employing people from their community, etc.)

Areas of impact: Education and social enterprises in Mekong sub-Region (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam)

Photo by George M. Groutas: Arakan Organic Model Farm - Htet Kyaw, Social Entrepreneurship Grand (SEG) Programme, Child's Dream, Arakan State, Myanmar, 2013 

Resources and Training Centre for Women's Cooperatives in Kathmandu offers paying training classes to members of its co-operatives, as well as outside participants, on topics such as micro-finance, saving, accounting, gender rights, etc.

Areas of impact: Women's co-operatives and income generation activities, micro-credit, economic empowerment and capacity building in Nepal

Photo courtesy of WACN: Award Ceremony, New Resources and Training Centre for Women, Prativa Subedi, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2012

The Career Pathways Training Programme provides extremely disadvantaged Cambodian women and youth with training and employment opportunities that will enable them to achieve economic independence.

Areas of impact: social rehabilitation for women and children, social enterprises, capacity building, self-reliance, economic empowerment in Cambodia

Photo courtesy of Hagar International: Career Pathways Training Programme, Hagar International, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2008

The project was about finding water to support the income generation activities for a school of young girls in Dedougou, Burkina Faso. The construction of a well was necessary to irrigate the fields for their plantations, where they grow fruits and vegetables. Farming allows them to be more independent and generate income when selling their harvests in the neighbouring local markets.

Areas of impact: water, sanitation, farming and income generation, education, project management in Burkina Faso and Finland

Photo courtesy of Lyra Capital Pty: Sustainable Water Solution for a school of young girls, Dedougou, Burkina Faso, 2011

The concept was to build an incubator of socially-minded ideas and create an ecosystem that would allow the launch and financial support of social innovations and of social enterprises in Finland

Area of impact: Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Finland

Photo by Jonathan: Light strands in Asia,October 2008