1. Suresh Babu Program Leader & Senior Research Fellow IFPRI
Developing Capacity for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Reduce Poverty and Hunger
Suresh Babu
Program Leader & Senior Research Fellow
IFPRI

2. Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Promising approaches to international development that could speed up the process of hunger reduction and poverty alleviation
Entrepreneurial spirit improves innovation, effectiveness and impact of intervention programs
Social and policy entrepreneurs are unfortunately in very short supply

3. Capacity for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship and innovations do not replace public sector interventions but rather help improve their effectiveness and increase their impact.
Global Level:
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
National & Local Level Success Stories:
Regular mobilization of parliamentarians on poverty issues
Bangladesh: micro-financing for poor rural women
Tanzania: Integrated nutrition program to reduce infant mortality and child malnutrition

4. Paradigms of Capacity Development for Social Entrepreneurship
Policy Entrepreneurship:
Scaling up local program successes to large scale national programs
Influence policies of multilateral aid agencies
Guide the national systems towards developing specific strategies through innovation or adoption
Program Entrepreneurship:
Design and implement innovative poverty and hunger reduction programs
Youth and youth leaders / leaders of farm organizations
Business Entrepreneurship:
Use business principles to implement social innovations
Three sets of social business entrepreneurs

5. Approaches to Developing Capacity for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
University-Wide Approaches:
Blends real world experience with classroom education – Cornell University
Application of knowledge for sustainable development & policy analysis
Business School Approaches:
Approach problems of poverty and hunger from the perspective of large scale entrepreneurship for and among the poor – Duke and Oxford
Developing Local Leadership:
Decentralization increases the need for skilled and innovative local leaders and program managers
Panchayat Academy

6. Challenges for Building Capacity for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Re-orient education systems toward problem solving and entrepreneurship education
Identifying and encouraging policy entrepreneurs at national levels
Scaling up of innovative interventions using social entrepreneurship

7. Concluding Remarks
Achieving poverty and hunger reduction goals of MDGs and beyond requires new approaches, skills, innovation and new set of players
Emerging models of capacity development for social innovation and entrepreneurship need to be scaled up and mainstreamed
Capacity building and nurturing can make a difference
Thank you!