Seventh ASEAN
Inclusive Business Forum
23 - 24 September 2024
Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane, Lao PDR
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Seventh ASEAN
Inclusive Business Forum
Under Lao PDR’s ASEAN Chairmanship 2024 theme “ASEAN: Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience”,
the Seventh ASEAN Inclusive Business Forum initiates dialogues and explorative sessions to share knowledge and good practices for promoting Inclusive Business.
Series of workshops providing enterprises with tools and insights to assess and enhance their social impact. Participating enterprises will explore means to self-assess how inclusive their business is, measure and manage impact, become investment ready and access finance, and innovate for low-income groups.
Event Highlights
High-level panel on promoting inclusive business in ASEAN
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Government officials will provide detailed updates on the progress and execution of the Plan of Action for the Promotion of Inclusive Business in ASEAN.
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CEOs from leading inclusive businesses will share their insights and experiences on how they are driving the promotion and development of inclusive business models across ASEAN countries.
Workshops for Enterprises
Multi-stakeholder Dialogues
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IB self-assessment
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Becoming impact investment-ready
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Impact measurement and management
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Promoting Gender Equity in Businesses
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Accreditation of inclusive business models
Becoming impact investment-ready
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Providing IB coaching services
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Beyond ASEAN – Other experiences promoting inclusive businesses and the social economy.
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About ASEAN Inclusive Business Forum 2024
Inclusive businesses (IB) provide goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis, to people living at the base of the pyramid making them part of the value chain of companies as suppliers, distributors, retailers, or customers.
ASEAN has been promoting IB as an integral part of its economic agenda since 2017 when its Economic Ministers endorsed the ASEAN Inclusive Business Framework urging member states to create an environment conducive to inclusive practices by businesses.
Since then, ASEAN has organized six ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit. More importantly, in 2023, ASEAN at the 55th ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) Meeting, endorsed the Plan of Action for the Promotion of Inclusive Business in ASEAN (2023-2027), outlining priority areas to strengthen regional cooperation on IB, covering (i) policy advisory support to mainstream IB promotion in national economic development policies and the design of specific policy instruments identified in the Guidelines for the Promotion of Inclusive Business in ASEAN.
INCLUSIVE BUSINESS SUMMIT GALLERY
