Beyond the Blueprint: Grassroots Lessons from Malaysia’s Social Enterprise Movement
Fringe Event @ SEWF 2025 | Taipei
About the Event
Malaysia has launched several blueprints and frameworks to guide social enterprise development—but the real momentum has come from the ground up. From impact procurement to state-level ecosystem building, changemakers have been driving progress often ahead of, or around, government-led efforts.
This session will highlight grassroots innovation, trust-building across silos, and creative hacks used to move forward with limited resources. Expect stories that provide practical inspiration for regions building their own ecosystems from the bottom up.
Who Should Join?
Ecosystem enablers, policymakers, and funders
Social entrepreneurs scaling in challenging ecosystems
Delegates from countries with nascent or unsupported SE ecosystems
Academics and researchers exploring the policy–practice gap
Anyone curious about bottom-up systems change
What You’ll Gain
By attending, you will:
✅ Learn how ecosystem builders collaborated with government, intermediaries, and communities despite resource constraints
✅ Reflect on Malaysia’s models of grassroots innovation and apply lessons to your own context
✅ Hear directly from leaders who have been “in the trenches” of SE ecosystem building
✅ Explore how corporates and state actors can strengthen community-first models
✅ Join an open dialogue on building trust and shared ownership in fragmented ecosystems
Event Format
Interactive 2-hour session
10 mins – Welcome & context-setting
30 mins – Snapshot stories from 4 speakers
50 mins – Moderated dialogue
30 mins – Audience Q&A + reflection
This is not a sit-and-listen panel. Come ready for conversation, learning, and co-creation.
Speakers
Redza Shahid (ASB & CSED) – Incubation & accelerator specialist; advocate for bottom-up innovation
Uliantie (SCENIC) – Championing SE through state-level support with grassroot first approaches in Sabah
Khair Yusuf (INSKEN) – Championing SE capacity-building through public–private partnerships
Nur Atiqah (SDEC) – Driving state-level SE support with grassroots-first approaches in Sarawak
👉 Reserve your spot now and be part of shaping the future of grassroots social enterprise ecosystems!