Re-framing Global Development
Ashoka partners with transformative INGOs, UN Agencies, and Funders who strive to make global development inclusive, localized, and co-created. We are on a mission to place system-changing social entrepreneurs – proximate leaders – at the centre of the world´s global development effort.
A supportive environment for partnerships between INGOs and social entrepreneurs can be built. We aim to call attention to the largely untapped potential of collaborations between social entrepreneurs and big International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to scale impact and drive systemic change. INGOs and social entrepreneurs bring unique and complementary value to their collaborations. Partnerships between them can advance the international development sector toward more inclusive, localized, and co-created action.
New Allies: How INGOs and Social Entrepreneurs collaborate to transform Global Development
How can social entrepreneurs and INGOs collaborate to drive systems change? | What barriers do they face in the attempt to work together? | What are the critical success factors for these partnerships?
Our brand-new report calls attention to the largely untapped potential of collaborations between social entrepreneurs and big International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to scale impact and drive systemic change. INGOs and social entrepreneurs bring unique and complementary value to their collaborations. Partnerships between them can advance the international development sector toward more inclusive, localized, and co-created action.
The report showcases successful collaborations, how partnership challenges can be overcome, and a range of recommendations for key actors in the ecosystem to catalyze more such partnerships.
What we do: We accelerate innovation, changemaking, and co-creation cultures in global development.
Deep dive and how to join
We have identified 14 action points that INGOs, social entrepreneurs, funders, and intermediaries (i.e., organizations that support social entrepreneurs) can take to unlock the potential of these collaborations and systemic social innovation.
We aim to build communities of global development leaders powered by Ashoka’s unrivalled network of social entrepreneurs to accelerate their organizations transformation and impact and enable a cultural shift within global development organizations in which everyone develops the skills, confidence, and agency to drive social innovation and changemaking.
Meet the Initiative Lead
Georg Schoen