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Accelerating Impact with Catalytic Capital
Asia sees a growing number of untapped opportunities to support underserved populations, early-stage innovations, and underfunded sectors.
Trust-Based Philanthropy
In the face of increasingly complex and, sometimes rapidly, changing needs on the ground, it is crucial to take a step back and reconsider the status quo.
APAC Sustainability Seed Fund 2.0
By leveraging the success of the first round of the APAC Sustainability Seed Fund, AVPN continues to mobilise continuum of capital into supporting climate solutions in the region.
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We are a leading ecosystem builder that is increasing the flow of financial, human, and intellectual capital from Asia and around the world into the social sector in Asia. We provide a network of peers, rigorous learning programmes, and innovative capital mobilization opportunities that make sure resources are more effectively deployed.
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Atoot: Sports for Development (S4D) Programmes for Holistic Development of Girls in Nepal
Education, Gender, Health
ReCircle: A Clean-tech Innovator on a mission to Create a Circular Economy
Water and Sanitation and Hygiene
Banka Bio: Sustainable solutions for WaSH needs in India
Water and Sanitation and Hygiene
Fair Employment Foundation: Transforming Recruitment System for Migrant Workers in Asia Pacific
Employability, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation
Cool Australia: Supporting Educators Globally through Cool+
Education
HOT-Open Mapping Hub (Asia- Pacific): Transforming Disaster Response, Humanitarian Action and Community Development through Open Source Technologies and Maps
Climate Action and Environment, Gender, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation
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AVPN Global Conference 2024
As AVPN counts down to the 12th edition of the Annual Global Conference, which will take place against the backdrop of a world in great flux, it is imperative that we provide the social investment community with the most extensive opportunity yet, to learn, connect, and unite in action for Asia.
23 April 2024
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25 April 2024
Signature Event
Upcoming Events
Nominations for the 2024 Yidan Prize
31 March 2024
AVPN Monthly Member Meet-ups in Bangkok
29 February 2024
Regular Event
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More than 350 dams are in the pipeline for power sector development in Laos and Cambodia's portions of the Mekong Basin, and neighboring Vietnam is planning a massive expansion of thermal coal plants into its power mix through 2050. How these dams are built out over time could undo the underpinnings of food security and economic stability in downstream countries like Cambodia and Vietnam. Overinvestment in coal in will lead to unnecessary levels of air pollution and a significant increase of disease and health effects in Vietnam. By supporting the renewable energy transition and the development of climate-friendly energy systems that optimize tradeoffs between energy generation, food security, and water use, a development pathway that protects the core ecology of the river system, reduces carbon emissions, helps countries implement NDCs, and meet U.N. Sustainable Development Goals is in reach.
Mekong Basin Connect conducts capacity building programs to promote and teach to technical line agencies in Mekong countries how system scale water and energy planning techniques can reduce future buildout of hydropower and coal. Through workshops with various levels of stakeholders, publications, and media engagement, Mekong Basin Connect demonstrates how deeper incorporation of solar, wind, and biomass into a country's energy mix can lead to optimized environmental and social outcomes and preserve critical ecological systems. Our discourse and activities also promote appropriate levels of cross-border power trade which will stimulate deeper incorporation of non-hydropower renewable energy in well-endowed zones and shift business as usual trajectories away from hydropower and coal development.