Our Bottomlines for Partnerships

Foundation for a Sustainable Society

Advocacy Framework
Our Vision

Sustainable
Economic
Development
of
Marginalized
Poor
Communities
in the
 Our Mission

To be the leading eco-enterprise

resource institution for the
empowerment of marginalized
communities in the Philippines
Our Core Values

• Social Justice
• Stewardship
• Gender Equality
• Environmental
Sustainability
• Good Governance
• Culture of Excellence
 Our People

• AF • NASSA
• APPEND • NATCCO
• CONVERGENCE • NCCP
• FDC • NCSD
• FPSDC • PBSP
• GREEN FORUM • PHILDHRRA
• HELVETAS • PHILNET-RDI
• HEKS • PHILSSA
• MASS-SPECC • VCF
• MINCODE • WAND
 Our Roots
Product of a debt
Just and relief program as
sustainabl
e society!
a result of a
participative,
cross-sectoral,
multi-level
campaign
50% Payment
Cancelled

Philippines Debt
to the Swiss FSSI
Government 50% Counterpart Endowment
Fund Facility
The Story of the Elephant
 Our Approach
Market-led Participator
development
• local economies to • y LED a bottom-
represents
adjust to macro- up approach
economic reforms • goals of achieving
• emphasizes the goals local self-reliance,
of promoting self- empowerment
reliance • emphasizes local
• expansion of the control, using
market, potentials of human,
competitiveness institutional and
• reduction of physical resources
unemployment and • participation, local
• sustainable growth cooperation and
• environmental
Our Approach

BUT…
sustainable
development is
BEYOND economic
values…
 Our Approach
Growth that
closes
inequities..
Economic
..poor Viability
grows
faster than
the rich…

..without
impeding Social Ecological
the rights Equity Soundness
of future
generations
to live
Our Approach
 3BL in Context

• Poverty is multi-dimensional; needs to

be understood in its context and
complexities
• Most imminent form of poverty is
economic poverty
• Other forms of poverty goes beyond
income levels such as gender inequality,
environmental injustice, political
repression, forced migration,
landlessness, malnutrition, illiteracy and
Framing 3BL as Rights
 Our Scenario

Role:MSMEs stimulate local economic

development, increases social equity and
a potential force for sustainable
development.
Situation:
 Constitutes 99.7% of business firms
 Generates 70% of all employment
 but only 30% of value (GDP)
 Our Scenario

• Compared with our Asian neighbors, the

country's MSME productivity is low
 Our Scenario

• Further challenged by technology, capital,

and more vulnerable to external shocks in a
globalizing world
• Greater task to meet social and
environmental obligations when not linked
to the overall goal of sustainability
• THUS, building eco-enterprises for
sustainable development and poverty
alleviation requires improvements in
both micro and macro levels
How we do Advocacy?

• Advocacy is the process by which

individuals and organizations attempt
to influence public policy decisions
through representation, mobilization
or empowerment
• Citizens's capacity as decisionmakers,
builds more accountable and
democratic institutions
• Social marketing: applying principles
of marketing for behavior-change
 Our Advocacy Goals

• Increase capacities of MSMEs

• Strengthen consumers’ capacities to
demand environmentally-friendly, fair labor
and gender-sensitive enterprise practices
• Contribute to an Improved policy
environment
• Mobilize support among media, academe,
donors and
large corporations
• Facilitate partnerships among large
 Our Advocacy Agenda

• Genuine development financing

 reduction of external debts
 participatory planning and resource
allocation
 assertion for fairer economic systems

• Environmental sustainability
 Climate change
 Sustainable waste management
 Sustainable natural resource
management
 Our Advocacy Agenda

•Promotion and protection

of human rights
Fair and humane labor
practices
Transnational and internal
migration
Asset Reforms
•Mainstreaming of gender
concerns
Women in all aspects of society
are in the disadvantaged
Our Advocacy Strategies
• Conducting media advocacy
 Our Advocacy Strategies

• Building partnerships for

consensus, campaigns and
capacity-building
 Micro, small and medium enterprises
 Advocacy and empowerment groups
(environmentalists, human rights, labor and
cooperatives)
 Big corporations and business support
organizations
 Policymakers and policy-making bodies
The Story of the Elephant
• Engaging in consumer awareness
and education
 Points for programs

• Policy coherence –
organizationally, programming,
financing
• Improving 3BL as an MVR, not to
be stuck as a vision
• Knowledge-building on advocacy
areas affecting subsectors
• Impact reporting
Telling our Story
Questions?
Contact Us:

# 46 E., Samar Avenue

corner Eugenio Lopez St,
South Triangle Quezon City
1103

Tel No: [632] 928-8671

[632] 9288422
[632] 4114702-03

www.fssi.com.ph
fssi@fssi.com.ph