1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network:Private Enterprise and Inclusion12-13 December 2019 Presentation by Anastasia Seferiadis, Sarah Cummings and Bénédicte Gastineau

1. Can we measure female social
entrepreneurship?
Anastasia Seferiadis, Sarah Cummings and Bénédicte
Gastineau
1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network:
Private Enterprise and Inclusion
12-13 December 2019
@sarahcummings @anastasia_sfrds

2. INTRODUCTION
1) Private sector and development
• Dominance of pro-private
sector perspective in the
SDGs and development
policy
• Huge diversity =
conceptual value?
• Leverage development-
relevance
Cummings, Seferiadis and de Haan 2019 Getting down to business?
Critical discourse analysis of perspectives on the private sector in sustainable
development. Sustainable Development

3. INTRODUCTION
2) Social entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation

4. INTRODUCTION
3) A novel mode of economic action

5. INTRODUCTION
4) The performative capacity of indicators

6. INTRODUCTION
5) Female social entrepreneurship

7. RESEARCH QUESTION
What are the different norms and values
characterizing female social
entrepreneurship and how can we
measure the performance of female
social entrepreneurship?

8. CASE-STUDIES

9. CASE-STUDIES
1) PRIDE
Jessore, Bangladesh,
Agroecology

10. CASE-STUDIES
2) THE JOYOTI SOCIETY
Jessore, Bangladesh,
Micro-credit

11. CASE-STUDIES
3) THE BAREFOOT COLLEGE
Tilonia, India,
Solar energy

12. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

13. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
1) Quantifying the impact
EXAMPLE TOOL:
Social return on
investment (SROI)
framework for social
change
(Roberts Enterprise
Development Fund)

14. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
2) A plurality of rationalities
EXAMPLE TOOLS:
Zero sum game
(Triple Bottom Line)
VS
Blended value
(Emerson, 2003)

15. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
3) The scope of impact
EXAMPLE TOOLS:
Broaden production
(Mertens & Marée, 2012)
SAC framework
(Lane & Casile, 2011)

16. DISCUSSION

17. DISCUSSION
1) The responsibility of providing social value
The reproductionsphere of their family
The productionsphere of their enterprises
The community sphere to which social entrepreneurs
contribute through added social value
Destremau, 2013 Au four, au moulin et à « l’empowerment ». La triple
captation et exploitation du travail des femmes dans le développement

18. DISCUSSION
2) Marketization, social protection, empowerment
Polanyi1944 The Great Transformation
Fraser 2011 Marketization, social protection, emancipation: toward a neo-Polanyian conception of capitalist crisis.
Verschuur 2017 Une économie solidaire peut-elle être féministe?: homo oeconomicus, mulier solidaria. Graduate

19. CONCLUSION
GRASSROOT KNOWLEDGE
Chambers1983 Rural Development—Putting The Last First
Cummings et al 2013 Proposing a fifth generation of knowledge management for
development: investigating convergence between knowledge management for development
and transdisciplinary research

20. Thank you!
anastasia.seferiadis@gmail.com
sarah.cummings@wur.nl