In the last 40 years, Development Alternatives has been empowering micro-entrepreneurs to create dignified jobs locally, through its social innovation approach, which unleashes entrepreneurial energies, activates entrepreneurial ecosystems and transforms micromovements of change.
JobsWeMake envisions to create spaces for connecting voices from the ground to meso and macro level stakeholders and identify opportunities for ‘relational’ collaborations with individuals and organizations having a similar vision to drive innovation and impact for entrepreneurship at scale.
Jobs We Want 2017 connected voices of rural entrepreneurs and their challenges, with development practitioners, businesses, aggregators, and policy makers. It initiated the processes of knowledge-sharing and collaboration, building synergies among stakeholders and discussed the potential of systemic approaches to job-creation.
Jobs We Want 2019 created a space for sharing and discovering knowledge on systems change for entrepreneurship-led job creation providing insights on unlocking support services such as finance and marketing to enable a local culture of entrepreneurship, empowering women and youth-led enterprises for greater participation and inclusivity, fostering collaborations for strengthening the enterprise development ecosystem and building platforms for exchanging learnings and knowledge.