Are you a policymaker, researcher, intermediary, or specialist working on the key topics of the Policy Labs? If yes, SEED invites you to join them to explore policy best practices, share your expertise and participate in co-creation of policy adaptation for your country.
Sponsoring Agency: SEED
Type of Fund: Program
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/09/2021
Size of the Fund: Not Available
Are you a policymaker, researcher, intermediary, or specialist working on the key topics of the Policy Labs? If yes, SEED invites you to join them to explore policy best practices, share your expertise and participate in co-creation of policy adaptation for your country.
The GO4SDGs & SEED (promoting entrepreneurship for sustainable development) Regional Practitioner Labs for Policy Prototyping (Policy Labs) showcase break-through replicable policies and policy programmes.
The Labs stimulate the development of innovative policy instruments that create enabling environments for green and social impact enterprises. The process facilitates the replication and adaptation of nationally designed & tested policy solutions in the region, based on the theory of change that replication is an effective and efficient way to solve similar problems across geographies. Stakeholders in the policymaking process are engaged through design-thinking tools that facilitate the synthesising of elements and conditions critical for replication and adaptation.
Objectives
• Deepen understanding of SDG relevant policy challenges faced by green and social micro-small and medium enterprises
• Share national policy instruments to fuel green and social entrepreneurship as well as circular economies regionally
• Offer design thinking tools that encourage cross-sharing, localisation and up-take of proven policy instruments in other countries
• Facilitate collaboration and networking opportunities
• Share outcomes from policy labs to other GO4SDG stakeholders to learn, build and scale green economy relevant solutions
Policy Labs Format: The policy labs will take place as 2 half-day virtual workshops, facilitated by interactive and collaborative SEED prototyping tools, and making use of the expertise of participants. A toolkit for policy prototyping will be provided to guide discussions and co-creation which will take place over Zoom and Mural.
Key Topics
• Role and Contributions of MSMES in CE Transition and single-use plastic reduction: Sustainable Consumption & Production and Circular Economy
• Leveraging MSMEs potential in boosting reduction of post-harvest loss: Food security and Sustainable agriculture
• Boosting eco-tourism and supporting MSMEs to adopt sustainable measures: Biodiversity conservation and Conscious / eco-tourism
Why Replication?
• Shortens consultation cycles and saves internal resources
• Minimises political downside if solution is not working
• Provides ideas & minimises risks for policymakers in other countries
• Encourages knowledge transfer & peer learning
Who do SEED engage?
• Policy Champions: Ministries and departments, agencies, development organisations, intermediaries who developed relevant and proven policy solutions and might be keen to share them regionally.
• Enterprises: Green & social enterprises as users to ensure correct targeting and relevance in replicated concepts.
• Policy Actor Replicators: Policymakers or other actors keen to replicate tried and tested policy solutions locally. Those interested in understanding in adaptation strategies and find replication drivers and partners critical in replication.
More information at: https://seed.uno/articles/events/go4sdgs-seed-regional-policy-labs
Eligible Countries:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
