Social Enterprises Asia has emerged as a leader in social entrepreneurship.

People today we call social entrepreneurs.

Figure 2 below shows the distribution of the project proposals by emission sector.

(i) To review the commodity sector assessment and project profiles

In 2000, the micro enterprises training sector promoted training courses for small and medium entrepreneurs.

(f) Small and Microenterprise Training (SMET) (Gaza Strip only)

Projects financed by MASPFE

(b) Provision of business training courses in the Gaza Strip to support small businesses and encourage entrepreneurship

The fisheries sector occupies an important place in the socio economic development of India.

Most of the enterprises that have internationalized are large firms in resource and finance industries.

Experts emphasized the importance of the SME sector for economic development.

While emerging markets are already significant and growing further, there is still a large potential to be tapped in developed country markets.

African Parties submitted 75 per cent of the project proposals in the agricultural sector.

Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs all over the world.

Appropriate policies for internationalizing the SME sector in developing countries are therefore needed.

In addition, requirements for project activities have increased sharply, particularly in the Gaza Strip.

We have elected around 3,000 top social entrepreneurs to be Ashoka Fellows

The Africa Asia Business Forum aims to stimulate trade and investment between countries in both regions, bringing together business representatives to discuss possible joint ventures, bilateral agreements, enterprise exchanges and a variety of business instruments.

The success of social entrepreneurship, which applies a business approach to a social concern, is identified as one underutilized solution for addressing youth unemployment.

The CECEs are instruments permitting improvements in standards of quality and relevance in training and linkage measures offered to the entrepreneurial sector.

UNICEF provided a coordinator for the social sectors, oversaw the water and education sector reviews and contributed to the health sector review.

The proposed centre for the southern area of the Gaza Strip targeted women who were registered as hardship cases with the Ministry of Social Affairs.

Parties in this region proposed 50 per cent of all forest sector projects.

The requirement that entrepreneurs must register their training plans and programmes with the STPS would also be abolished.

Ashoka Hub is a new kind of tool that is going to help social entrepreneurs interact with each other and collaborate

Major projects in the transport sector included improving the efficiency of Maputo port and rehabilitating the Limpopo, Nacala and Beira railway lines.

In the case of Mongolia, UNICEF support to key social sectors would be elevated from the project to programme level.

The Workshop explored the effect of the decentralization of forest sector processes on social, cultural, economic, and environmental conditions around the world.

The UNESCO education sector includes the development of national plans and programmes on human rights education through national and subregional projects.

There is a great variety of projects, which are fairly evenly spread over all sectors of desertification control, except for the specific forestry sector and the energy sector.

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The manufacturing sector. The service sector.

In the Philippines, crime prevention policies include a mandate to all city governments to develop integrated area community public safety plans with the community, police and other agencies.

Ashoka works with many social entrepreneurs around the world, people like Julia, Thomas, Anna and you.

It supports the development of the microenterprise and small scale business sector by providing working capital and capital investment loan products.

It caters for the requirements of the entrepreneurial sector in skilled personnel and for those of job seekers in those sectors of the population which have access to the Internet.

The successes of social businesses such as Grameen Bank and BRAC in Bangladesh have contributed to renewed thinking about how social objectives can be fused with revenue generating practices.

Stability will require the accelerated disbursement of pledged financial resources, more rapid implementation of social and economic project activities, and peacebuilding initiatives.

In 2004 general social services will start preparing a number of pilot projects on domestic violence case management.

The objectives and activities of the project must be in conformity with the priority topics announced at the project competition of the Ministry of Social Affairs and should contribute to the reduction of gender inequality and promotion of equality.

Promotion of awareness in the entrepreneurial sector of the principle of non discrimination in employment against older and handicapped persons and persons with HIV AIDS.

The project for promoting the development of small and medium sized enterprises sought to foster individual entrepreneurial capabilities and build institutional capacity for establishing a dynamic private sector and internationally competitive small and medium sized enterprises.

Saudi Arabia is boosting its spending on social and infrastructure investments substantially, as well as expanding oil sector capacity.

Recently, privacy consciousness has been rapidly rising and there have been related changes in the social environment, even in the business sector.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy continually supports such activities of the NGO sector and actively participates with its representatives.