Cities as centers for Social Entrepreneurship

City of Belgrade, SerbiaBuilding the ecosystem of social entrepreneurs

Anđel Bošković

Communications & Marketing Manager at Impact Hub Belgrade

Belgrade as an ecosystem for social entrepreneurship with successful and insightful

practices.

What is social entrepreneurship?

Social entrepreneurship is a type of venture that draws upon business

techniques while solving social problems.

Key stakeholders?

How do they work together?

How does that look like in Belgrade?

•NGO’s

•Private sector

•Public sector

•Social enterprises

Challenges social enterprises face generally

•Marketability

• Pioneer’s Gap – what happens between seed and scaling stages enterprises

• Policy and practice gaps

Practices of social enterprises

•Kitchen on wheels

•Daj Daj Dipers

•Municipality of “Savski venac”

•Smart Kolektiv

•SENS Network

Kitchen on wheels

Kitchen on wheels

• Donor oriented

• Grant dependent

• Subsidized

• Inconsistent relationship between welfare and employment measures

Kitchen on wheels - Challanges

• Space for improvement on what the public sector(LSG) can further do

• Facilitated conditions for parafiscal taxes

• Business planing and business modeling

• Market orientation

Daj Daj - Bamboo Diapers

Daj Daj - Bamboo Diapers

• registered as a limited liability company

• not recognized by public sector as a social business and thus it is not supported from public stakeholders in Serbia

• competition on the market is not based on fair grounds in Serbia since the social mission is not asknowlledged

• validation from international recognized business actors and stakehoders; international markets access

Daj Daj - Challenges

• Market targeting in Serbia

• Access to distribution channels in Serbia and the Balkan region

•Access to investment resources and mentorship in Serbia

Municipality of Savski Venac

• Revitalization of the Municipality

• Municipality space for “business incubator”

•Partnerships between Municipality and private sector

Municipality of Savski Venac -

• From good practice to policy

• Mainstreaming Savski Venacpractices into recommendations for the City, Serbia

Dobra Torba-

•Innovative product replicated in Serbia

• widespread image and PR

•Based on CSR

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Dobra Torba- Challenges

•Market entrance and acquisition

•Based on CSR

• Management

SENS network

• Alliance of NGOs working on advocacy for the promotion and development of social entrepreneurship

• mapping of potential and good practices of social enterprises in Serbia

SENS network Challenges

• Interest of individual NGOs in SENS

• Time factor

• Practices are not promoted, rather they are mapped on the basis of existing legal and strategic framework

Recommendations to strengthen the role of public sector/Municipality/City

• solve within the existing legislation the gap between profit and non-for-profit social enterprises• support the creation/strengthening of socilaentrepreneurial ecosystem•adopt policy that promote the practice of social enterprises• Prafiscal taxes alleviation (time-limited)• municipal spaces devoted on favorable conditions to social enterprises

The Impact Hub as a global network and local entity

• Making and Strengtthening of the social/impact entrepreneurship ecosyste

•Providing feasible models for social enterprises to be sustainable, successful and scale impact and business