Date: 29/04/2025
Time: 15:00 – 16:00 (BST)
Location: Online
The role of social enterprises in aiding developing nations in attaining the UN SDGs: The Jamaican context
In this webinar, Commonwealth Alumnus Edward Dixon will discuss the role of social entrepreneurship in addressing third sector challenges in the development aid landscape and the third sector’s contribution to national development objectives in Jamaica.
The webinar will focus on the role of social entrepreneurship in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Vision 2030 National Development Plan. Edward will discuss some of the key developments that have taken place in the field over the past 15 years and debunk myths often associated with the social entrepreneurship.
The webinar will also examine some current legislative, policy and structural changes in the sector, including establishing a social stock exchange, social enterprise working group, Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), and entrepreneurship policy and legislation to give social enterprises a legal status.
This webinar will address the CSC development theme, Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
The CSC’s Development in Action webinar series provides an opportunity for Commonwealth Scholars and Alumni to present on their work and contribution to development across a range of contemporary global challenges and provide insight into ongoing research and action.
Open to all Commonwealth Scholars and Alumni, the monthly webinars will address one of the CSC’s six development themes and provide an opportunity for attendees to engage in real-time Q&A discussion on the topic presented.
You can watch previous webinars on the CSC’s YouTube channel.
Edward Dixon is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Five Islands Campus. He coordinates the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Unit in the School of Business and Management. He is also Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Thinking and Practice at UWI, Mona Campus, with responsibility for strategic direction, operations and research.
His research interests include social and solidarity economy, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. Â He is passionate about understanding and researching sustainable youth and community development, and micro-, meso- and macro-level challenges and critical success factors that impact entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs.
Edward Dixon is a 2015 Commonwealth Scholar from Antigua and Barbuda. He completed his PhD in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London.
