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Building the ecosystem

AVPN is building the ecosystem for social investors with an active presence in Thailand - from foundations and impact funds to corporations, intermediaries and beyond.
 
A middle-income country with strong collective values and proud history of independence, Thailand is an emerging economy, heavily export-dependent, with exports accounting for more than two-thirds of gross domestic product (GDP). Thailand is a pivotal market in SEA owing to the concentration of multinationals in Bangkok. It is a hub for investment companies and NGO’s in SEA. Famous for tourism and hospitality, Thailand has difficulties ahead for sustainable tourism and reducing harm to the environment and could sustain more healthy domestic tourism.

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Steps Social Enterprise: Providing Vocational Training for the Neurodivergent Community in Thailand

By Steps Social Enterprise

Steps Social Enterprise is working on providing access to appropriate and meaningful vocational training for the neurodivergent community in Thailand

Education, Employability

Compassionate Communities: Strengthening Community End-of-life Care in Thailand

By Compassionate Community Research and Development Institution Foundation

Compassionate Communities aims to educate communities in Thailand about life and death, better preparing individuals for situations involving death, loss, and care.

Ageing, Education, Health

Issara Institute: Expanding Workers’ Rights and ending Exploitation in Southeast Asia

By Issara Institute

Issara Institute aims to end labour exploitation, including forced labour and human trafficking, by transforming the systems and behaviours perpetuating labour exploitation, and empowering rights-holders in Southeast Asia.

Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation

Care and Medical Equipment for Elderly Individuals in Thailand

By Help Without Frontiers Thailand Foundation

The forOldy project aims to provide community care and access to second-hand medical equipment for elderly individuals in Thailand to increase their quality of life.

Ageing, Health, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation

Ocean Material Group: Tackling Ocean Plastic Pollution through Circular Economy

By Ocean Material Group

Ocean Material Group works to prevent ocean plastic pollution through an impactful solutions platform for circular materials, upstream solutions like infrastructure and educational projects, and its network of stakeholders committed to ending ocean plastic pollution.

Climate Action and Environment, Education, Livelihood and Poverty Alleviation

Telemedica Co.: Ooca – Telehealth App for Accessible Mental Health in Thailand

By Telemedica Co., Ltd.

Ooca works to eliminate stigmatization associated with mental health conditions and to provide people with direct access to mental health professionals through online mental health platforms and video-call counseling services.

Health

Mapsea: Job Matching Platform for Marine Recruiters and Talent

By Mapsea Corp.

Mapsea Corp.’s job matching platform SEASON is a specialised marine recruitment platform, utilising technology to link marine jobs to the right talent. The returns generated will be directed towards building a marine forest.

Employability

Aflouton: Empowering Children with Social and Financial Education

By Aflatoun International

We aim to ensure access to high quality, inclusive, and youth-centred life skills and financial literacy for all children and young people worldwide, especially to the most vulnerable.

Education, Employability, Financial Inclusion

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ChangeFusion – Mutually building the mutual fund

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Health

Preparing for the Next Health Crisis

Health

Three Response Areas for Holistic, Equitable Impact Against COVID-19

Climate Action and Environment

Can ESG be the Silver Bullet for the Agriculture sector?

Affordable Housing, Agriculture, Climate Action and Environment, Health, Nutrition

The Power of Collaboration

Health

Investing in Technology to Enhance Impact in a Post-COVID World

Climate Action and Environment, Health

10 Opportunities to Build Resilience to Climate, COVID and Economic Crises in Asia

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Meet the ‘solutionists’: Asia’s new generation of social problem-solvers

Social Investors in Asia embark on a new era to revive global and national economies through collaboration

Social Investors in Asia embark on a new era to revive global and national economies through collaboration

First-of-its-kind impact platform dedicated to address urgent youth issues in Asia

Social Investors in Asia embark on a new era to revive global and national economies through collaboration

Asia: Chevron, J&J Foundation and more back AVPN’s US$1m Healthcare Pooled Fund

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Building strategic social investment

Thailand has a strong export and agricultural sector, and growing social investment markets, ranked first in healthcare in Southeast Asia, and with many social enterprises operating at scale. They have invested in a good healthcare system which showed resilience in the face of COVID-19.

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UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency
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East West Seed Knowledge Transfer Foundation
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FHI 360
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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UNICEF
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AWR Lloyd Limited
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Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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Plan International

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Olaf Tchongkrak

UNHCR, Regional Manager for Private Partnerships and Philanthropy

Niall O'Connor

SEI, Director, Asia

Savinda Ranathunga

UNDP, Regional Youth Project Manager

Brad Denig

AWR Lloyd, Managing Director - Innovation & Sustainability

Sunit Shrestha

ChangeFusion, Managing Director

Hoa Piyaka

EWS, Senior Strategy Adviser

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Building strategic social investment

Thailand’s social economy is transitioning to the growth stage, driven by collaborative philanthropy and creative approaches to social funding such as pooled CSR funds.

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Prae Sunantaraks

Mekong Region Director at AVPN

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