FOR IMPACT ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACCESSIBLE TO ALL

Considering that in order to better fulfil our social vocation, we also needed to seek to improve the SSE ecosystem as a whole, focusing in particular on the gaps identified and the solutions we believe in, PULSE launched its first advocacy campaign in 2022.

It focuses on the accessibility of impact entrepreneurship and has been designed using a collective approach within PULSE. In fact, our advocacy is based on our global theory of change, the issues common to each of our incubators, and by setting up an editorial committee bringing together expertise from the field in each of our locations.

Launched at the World Impact Summit in December 2022, this first text aims above all to lay the foundations for an advocacy strategy to make impact entrepreneurship more accessible, particularly in Africa and Europe. Through this position paper, PULSE aims to propose concrete solutions to encourage the development of impact entrepreneurship in its areas of intervention, particularly for so-called marginalised groups. PULSE’s advocacy aims to make the association’s actions more visible and understandable to its stakeholders (entrepreneurs, donors, ecosystem partners, etc.). PULSE’s advocacy also aims to change practices, legislation and support mechanisms for the social and solidarity economy by initiating a dissemination strategy in 2023 aimed at political decision-makers.

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OUR PROPOSALS

impact entrepreneurship for all audiences

  • #1

    Bring together the public, voluntary and private sectors to carry out joint awareness-raising initiatives aimed at audiences far removed from the impact entrepreneurship ecosystem

  • #2

    Develop tailored programmes, particularly for people who are under-represented in traditional entrepreneurship, to enable them to set up their own business and acquire new skills in the process

  • #3

    Raise the profile and widen the scope of impact entrepreneurship by highlighting success stories, whether in the formal or informal sector

 

impact entrepreneurship more firmly rooted in the regions

  • #1

    Multiply the deployment of support programmes in a cross-border dynamic to encourage the sharing of good practice and the emergence of international impact entrepreneurship ecosystems

  • #2

    Relocate support structures from major cities to the regions to encourage the multiplication of entrepreneurial initiatives in the regions

  • #3

    Strengthen networks of support professionals at local level to better respond to the needs of entrepreneurs, as close to home as possible

 

fairer access to financing

  • #1

    Encourage better collaboration between support providers and financiers to give entrepreneurs easier access to financing opportunities at all stages of their development

  • #2

    Securing the legislative framework for loans of honour, with easier conditions for companies demonstrating a positive social and/or environmental impact

  • #3

    Raise awareness of the impact entrepreneurship ecosystem among Business Angels, key players in the financing process, and provide them with training so that they can target their investments more effectively, particularly at projects in the seed phase

 

impact entrepreneurship that unites and strengthens local players

  • #1

    Encourage multi-stakeholder working – at national and international level – so as to promote the sharing and transmission of know-how to better meet the needs of project leaders

  • #2

    Build more bridges between players in the impact economy and social workers, so as to raise awareness of the opportunities offered by entrepreneurship

  • #3

    Build the capacity of local players (impact economy operators, integration structures, universities, civil society organisations) to provide better guidance and support for would-be impact entrepreneurs