Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka is coordinating the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Social Enterprise Acceleration Group (SEAG) Meeting on the 17 - 18 January 2018.

In 2015, IPPF established a Social Enterprise Acceleration Program (SEAP) that aimed to strengthen Member Associations (MA) capacity to apply entrepreneurial best practice in the health sector whilst delivering social value and improving lives. Its purpose is to suggest the establishment and growth of social enterprises to increase and diversify their funding base and provide greater sustainability.

FPA Sri Lanka was selected for the period of September 2017 - December 2018 by IPPF to function as the SE Hub and to ensure the successful implementation of SEAP which would enable IPPF's MA's to increase their financial resilience.

Objectives of the meeting:

1. To discuss vision for social enterprise at IPPF beyond 2018

2. To consider SEAP activities in 2018

3. To share information among SEAG members

A big welcome to the participants, Ms. Snjezana Bokulic(Director, Performance Division), Mr. Richard Ledbury (Director of Resource Mobilisation) and Ms. Ngozi Oyediya Kalu (Researcher, SEAP) from the Central Office,  Mr.Meradith Leebrick (Associate Director Social Enterprise, IPPF WHR),

Ms.Lisa Locke( Senior Technical Advisor, IPPF ARO), Mr Jameel Zamir (Director Institutional Delivery and Bid Development, SARO), Mr.Mustapha Kemayel (Assistant Regional Director, IPPF AWRO), Mr.Tiamiyu Opeyemi Sunmonu (Manager, Finance & Special Projects, Nigeria), Mr.Abadi Kalayo (Head of Organizational Development, Ethiopia), Mr.Youssef Mohamed Hassen Abdelnaeem (Finance Advisor, Egypt), Ms Suchada Thaibunthao ( Executive Director, Thailand), Ms Satyawati Mashudi (Executive Director, Indonesia), Mr Vijay Kumar (Head of Finance and Operations, ESEARO), Ms. Fadoua Bakhadda (Executive Director, Morocco) and Ms Thushara Agus ( Executive Director),  Mr Rishikeshan Thiyagaraja (Manager - Social Enterprise Hub), Devmi Dampella (Project Coordinator) from FPA Sri Lanka.